Exam 1, Section 1 & 2

Question 1

Columbian Exchange

Answer 1

Exchange of goods, ideas and people between Europe and America

Question 2

Charter

Answer 2

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

Question 3

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 3

Sailed to present day South Africa

Question 4

Leif Eriksson

Answer 4

Son of Erik the Red; Leif discovered Vinland

Question 5

Berengia Land Bridge

Answer 5

A land bridge (Bering Strait) into present day Alaska

Question 6

Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

An Italian navigator who came up with a daring plan to get to Asia

Question 7

Roanoke

Answer 7

Island off of the cost of North Carolina; a group of English colonists by Sir Walter Raleigh sailed for North America, they disappeared mysteriously so it become known as the “Lost colony”; first island settled on

Question 8

John Smith

Answer 8

A soldier and explorer who saved Virginia. He forced the settlers to farm and managed to get corn from Native Americans.

Question 9

Pocahontas

Answer 9

Contributed largely to the early survival of the Jamestown colony

Question 10

John Rolfe

Answer 10

Saved Virginia by discovering tobacco

Question 11

House of Burgesses

Answer 11

Was patterned after the English Parliament and voted on laws for the Virginia colony. It set an example for representative government

Question 12

Powhatan Confederacy

Answer 12

A Native American group that went on a revolt that nearly destroyed Virginia

Question 13

Jamestown

Answer 13

The first town of a new colony called Virginia; was named after King James I

Question 14

Pilgrim

Answer 14

Group of Separatists that decided to go to America to worship freely

Question 15

Plymouth

Answer 15

Town in eastern Massachusetts, first successful English colony in New England

Question 16

Mayflower Compact

Answer 16

A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

Question 17

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Answer 17

Made by settlers led by Thomas Hooker. Was the first constitution in America

Question 18

Constitution

Answer 18

A formal plan of government

Question 19

Toleration Act of 1649

Answer 19

An act where all people can worship freely

Question 20

Triangular Trade

Answer 20

A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa

Question 21

The Great Awakening

Answer 21

A religious revival

Question 22

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 22

Massachusetts preacher and philosopher

Question 23

Representative Government

Answer 23

People elect delegates to make laws and conduct government affairs for them

Question 24

Limited Government

Answer 24

The power of the monarch, or ruler, was limited, not absolute

Question 25

The English Bill of Rights

Answer 25

A document that stated that the monarch could not suspend Parliament’s laws, could not create special courts, impose taxes, or raise an army without Parliament’s consent; also declared that members of Parliament would be freely elected and be guaranteed free speech during meetings, that every citizen would have the right to a fair trial by jury in court cases, and that cruel and unusual punishments would be banned

Question 26

Magna Carta

Answer 26

Limited royal power and protected nobles from unlawful loss of life, liberty, and property