The Americas

Question 1

John Rolfe planted what in jamestown

Answer 1

Tobacco

Question 2

Which settlers arrived at Plymouth, seeking religious freedom?

Answer 2

Pilgrims

Question 3

While the Irish, German, and swedish were pushed to the frontier, which group established New york

Answer 3

The dutch

Question 4

Before the French and Indian, the most of the interior part of North America was claimed by

Answer 4

The French

Question 5

Which group controlled the 13 colonies and the land around Hudson bay

Answer 5

England

Question 6

As the result of the French and Indian war, which group lost most of its territory

Answer 6

The French

Question 7

What territory stretched west to the Mississipi River

Answer 7

England

Question 8

Renaissance

Answer 8

Intellectual interest ; a rebirth

Question 9

Who rounded the tip of Africa in 1498 to India?

Answer 9

Vasco de Gama

Question 10

Who were the crusades

Answer 10

Military expedition to claim the Holy land

Question 11

Who led a search for a all-water route to the Far east

Answer 11

Prince Hencry the navigator

Question 12

Who reached the tip of Africa in 1488

Answer 12

Bartholodew Diaz

Question 13

What were English pirates called

Answer 13

Sea dogs

Question 14

Who was the Dutch Governor that purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians

Answer 14

Peter Minuit

Question 15

What was the result of the Spanish-American war on spain

Answer 15

Reduced Spain’s power and influence after the defeat

Question 16

Who were the Pilgrims

Answer 16

They left England and settled in Plymouth, they wanted to worship God in their own way

Question 17

Who were the separatists?

Answer 17

Anyone who broke from the Anglican church of England

Question 18

Who were the Puritans

Answer 18

A group that established the Massachussets Bay colony who wished to purify the Anglican church

Question 19

Theocracy

Answer 19

Rule of state by the clergy

Question 20

What was the first written constitution in the colonies

Answer 20

Fundamental orders of Connecticut

Question 21

Colony found for the purpose of removing the Dutch

Answer 21

New york

Question 22

Colony found to give pennsylvania a coastline

Answer 22

Delaware

Question 23

Founders of the colony of Rhode island

Answer 23

Anne Hutchinson & Roger williams

Question 24

Colony found for religious and political freedom

Answer 24

Pennsylvania

Question 25

Colony established as a haven for persecuted Roman Catholics

Answer 25

Maryland

Question 26

War that gave England dominance in the New world

Answer 26

French & Indian war

Question 27

First permeant British settlement established in North America in 1607

Answer 27

Jamestown

Question 28

Cooperation between Church and state is called

Answer 28

New England way

Question 29

The middle colonies

Answer 29

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware

Question 30

Agreement made pilgrims to abide by majority rule

Answer 30

Mayflower compact

Question 31

Law making body for the colony of Virginia

Answer 31

House of Burgalasses

Question 32

Colony started as a refugee for debtors and buffers between the English and Spanish

Answer 32

Georgia

Question 33

Colony found by fleeing persecution by Puritans in Masschusetts

Answer 33

Rhode island

Question 34

A form of democracy through group meetings

Answer 34

Direct democracy (Puritans practiced)

Question 35

Who were the cavaliers

Answer 35

Early Virginia settlers

Question 36

What two factor caused the development of a slave labor system

Answer 36

Plantation economies & labor shortage

Question 37

In what region of the colonies was shipbuilding, fishing and lumbering most important economically

Answer 37

The New England colonies

Question 38

Religious tolerance and the development were most tolerant where

Answer 38

The middle colonies

Question 39

Cash crops developed the economy of what region

Answer 39

The southern colonies

Question 40

What religious movement that swept both Europe and the colonies during the mid-1700

Answer 40

The Great awakening

Question 41

What was the middle passage

Answer 41

The path a large amount of slaves were forcefully brought through

Question 42

The territory both the British and French claimed

Answer 42

The Ohio valley

Question 43

What made the french deal with the natives?

Answer 43

Trading

Question 44

What did the six nations control

Answer 44

The fur trade

Question 45

What was the purpose of the Albana plan of Union?

Answer 45

To promote defense but parliament rejected the plan

Question 46

Why was the french and Indian war different from other wars

Answer 46

The war had began in the colonies

Question 47

Who made up the Ohio company

Answer 47

A group of virginian and british

Question 48

The treaty of Paris: Spain lost

Answer 48

Florida to british

Question 49

The Treaty of Paris: Spain gained

Answer 49

Louisiana territory

Question 50

The Treaty of Paris: ended

Answer 50

Hospitality between North America and awarded territories

Question 51

The Treaty of Paris: The British gained

Answer 51

Canada and all french holdings east of the Mississippi river except new orleans

Question 52

Which group acquired large quantities of gold and silver from the Indians

Answer 52

Spain

Question 53

Which country came to dominate North America

Answer 53

England

Question 54

First country to reach North America

Answer 54

Spain

Question 55

Which country had the largest amount of land

Answer 55

Spain

Question 56

This Empire was located in the midst of the English colonies

Answer 56

Dutch

Question 57

Which country's territory was only on the South American continent

Answer 57

Portugal

Question 58

Which country took over the Dutch Empire

Answer 58

England

Question 59

Which three empires were the dur trade an economic activity for

Answer 59

France Dutch Sweden

Question 60

Which country took over the French empire

Answer 60

England

Question 61

What two countries fought for control of North America

Answer 61

Spain & England