MID-TERMS

Question 1

The line of demarcation was drawn to separate the lands to be claimed by Spain from those to be claimed by what other country?

Answer 1

Portugal

Question 2

What religion did the Spanish spread as they explored the New World?

Answer 2

catholocism

Question 3

The reformation turned which country to Protestantism?

Answer 3

England

Question 4

Who was the first governor of New Sweden?

Answer 4

Peter Minuit

Question 5

In what ways did mercantilism encourage intense competition between the major European powers?

Answer 5

The people believed that in order to be wealthy you had to have a lot of gold, silver, or other precious metals. They were very strict on the trading. They also believed they had to have more gold and silver than the other traders. They thought this would increase their wealth and power.

Question 6

Which country competed with Spain for reaching the far east and making early claims to new lands?

Answer 6

Portugal

Question 7

During the late 1400’s where did Europeans greatly desired spices from?

Answer 7

the orient

Question 8

Which people built a capital on the site of modern Mexico city?

Answer 8

the Aztecs

Question 9

Which factor most determined the type of housing used by the various Indian tribes?

Answer 9

geographic environment

Question 10

Which explorer circumnavigated the earth?

Answer 10

Sir Francis Drake

Question 11

The activities of which man were most responsible for encouraging European exploration of the new world?

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus

Question 12

What name is given to the land bridge across which some historians think people migrated from the orient to north America?

Answer 12

Beringa

Question 13

What collective name is given to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes that inhabited the southwest?

Answer 13

five civilized tribes

Question 14

What was the major business activity of the Frenchman who came to north America?

Answer 14

fur trade

Question 15

Where was the lost colony?

Answer 15

Raleigh, north Carolina

Question 16

Who were the Huguenots?

Answer 16

part explorers and part soldiers of fortune

Question 17

Did the defeat of the Spanish armada left England free to colonize north America without a serious Spanish threat?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

New Sweden was an early name for what colony?

Answer 18

Delaware

Question 19

what was the primary motivation for the settlement of Massachusetts?

Answer 19

religious freedom

Question 20

Why did the pilgrims leave Holland?

Answer 20

the dutch culture was harming their children

Question 21

What was a major reason for the quick growth of Massachusetts?

Answer 21

the great migration

Question 22

what document of self government did the pilgrims sign when they first arrived in America?

Answer 22

mayflower compact

Question 23

what did Connecticut differed from Massachusetts?

Answer 23

they didn’t need a church membership for voting

Question 24

what was the dutch system of settlement?

Answer 24

patron system

Question 25

which section, middle colonies, southern colonies, or new England colonies had the greatest cultural diversity?

Answer 25

middle colonies

Question 26

what was the house of burgesses?

Answer 26

the first self governing assembly in America

Question 27

Besides tobacco, what other major crop was grown in the Carolinas?

Answer 27

rice

Question 28

before the English came, who was new jersey was settled by?

Answer 28

Swedes and Dutch

Question 29

how did the pilgrims and the puritans differ?

Answer 29

staying in the Anglican church, pilgrims came to worship in freedom, puritans stayed in the churches.

Question 30

describe the heresy that Anne Hutchinson of Massachusetts expounded in 1634?

Answer 30

antinomianism; obedience is not necessary for a relationship with God

Question 31

Who was the Dutch governor who purchased Manhattan island for $24?

Answer 31

Peter Mensuit

Question 32

Who was the puritan minister who set up communities in Connecticut's river valley?

Answer 32

Thomas Hooker

Question 33

Who was banished from Massachusetts for believing in separation of church and state?

Answer 33

Roger Williams

Question 34

What was the first document of self government in America?

Answer 34

Mayflower compact

Question 35

What was the first written constitution in America?

Answer 35

fundamental orders of Connecticut

Question 36

Who were the pennsalvania dutch?

Answer 36

german imagrants who settled in pennsalvania

Question 37

Why di the middle colonies and the south lagged behind New England in education?

Answer 37

the population was scattered in rural areas

Question 38

What was the best access to the back country?

Answer 38

the great wagon road

Question 39

Who were settlers from ulster?

Answer 39

the scots-irish

Question 40

What were dame schools?

Answer 40

village schools in the new england

Question 41

What new technique did cotton mather use against smallpox?

Answer 41

inoculation

Question 42

What city established the first public library used in America?

Answer 42

Charelston, South Carolina

Question 43

What were the two largest non England groups in amercia?

Answer 43

scots-irish and german

Question 44

Growing rice was common in what region?

Answer 44

the south

Question 45

Scots-Irish and German settlers mostly occupied what territory?

Answer 45

the back country

Question 46

Why did the puritans emphasize education for their children?

Answer 46

to study the bible

Question 47

Where did the colonial style architecture originate from?

Answer 47

was barrowed from tutor England `

Question 48

What was the main reason the scots-irish and germans came to America?

Answer 48

to excape religious intolerance

Question 49

Why were epidemics more common in the eighteenth century colonies?

Answer 49

crowded cities helped spread diseases

Question 50

Why did women in America marry earlier than Europe?

Answer 50

There were more men than women