Topic #1 & 2 Test Study Guide

Question 1

Native Americans all learned to _____ to their environments and were sometimes a resource when Europeans came as explorers and colonists.

Answer 1

adapt

Question 2

The ____________, Dutch, and French all tried to find the Northwest Passage as a route to Asia, but later settled in colonies and or trading posts to get furs.

Answer 2

English

Question 3

A big reason England started Georgia was so it would provide a defensive _________ to other colonies.

Answer 3

buffer

Question 4

Maryland was a colony founded by George and Cecil Calvert for ________________ to be free to worship.

Answer 4

Catholics

Question 5

“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. the eyes of all people are upon u. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, Wee shall be made a story and by-word through the world.”

The quote from John Winthrop’s speech tells the puritans that they have God’s ______ on them and must set and example for the ________ to follow.

Answer 5

eyes, world

Question 6

What are the names of all the New England Colonies?

Answer 6

Massachusetts, Maine (part of Massachusetts), Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire

Question 7

What are the names of all the Southern Colonies?

Answer 7

Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina,

Question 8

What are the names of all the Middle Colonies?

Answer 8

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware

Question 9

Who started Georgia and why?

Answer 9

James Oglethorpe to give English debtors a fresh start. The colony also served as a defensive buffer.

Question 10

Who started Rhode Island and why?

Answer 10

Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams started Rhode Island. Originally they were two separate settlements, Anne started a settlement called Portsmouth and Roger Williams started Providence. They both dissent from the puritans.

Question 11

What was the geography and economic activities of the New England Colonies?

Answer 11

The New England Colonies were the coldest, rockiest, and very hilly. There was lots of trees and water so they made ships, fished, and did whaling.

Question 12

What was the geography and economic activities of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 12

The middle colonies were just right so they could grow wheat for food, they focused on lumber, iron works, and ship building

Question 13

What was the geography and economic activities of the Southern Colonies?

Answer 13

The Southern colonies were the warmest with many coastal plains. So they could grow cash crops.

Question 14

What were the cash crops of the southern colonies?

Answer 14

rice, indigo, tobacco

Question 15

What were the key contributions Native Americans had on the colonies?

Answer 15

The colonists got agricultural techniques, learned to trap, and how to get fish.

Question 16

What was the impact European settlements had on Native American Settlements?

Answer 16

They spread diseases that the indigenous had no immunity to, took their land, and enslaved them. However they also introduced new weapons, tools, and resources. Pushed them to the west.

Question 17

Why did Spain settle in the Americas?

Answer 17

They settled to find gold

Question 18

What were Spanish ex-soldiers who took land and resources, usually through violence called?

Answer 18

Conquistadors

Question 19

All English colonies had some form of representative _______________ with different names and different powers.

Answer 19

government

Question 20

In New England a common way to make a living was _______ in the ocean with ______ made from the region’s trees.

Answer 20

fish/whaling, ships

Question 21

What was the name of the explorer who sailed for the Dutch?

Answer 21

Henry Hudson

Question 22

Colombian Exchange

Answer 22

The transfer of people, products, and ideas between Europe and the Americas.

Question 23

What were the English, Dutch, and French looking for?

Answer 23

The Northwest Passage as a route to Asia

Question 24

The Pilgrims wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact which was the first agreement of self-______________ in the Americas

Answer 24

government

Question 25

What did Thomas Hooker do?

Answer 25

Thomas Hooker started Connecticut and dissented from the Puritans

Question 26

Who was the leader of the pilgrims?

Answer 26

William Bradford

Question 27

Who is John Smith? What did he do?

Answer 27

He created logs of the events that happened in Jamestown. He didn’t start Jamestown he was one of the people that came later on. He also helped Jamestown succeed.