UNIT 1 MEGA HISTORY TEST

Question 1

silk road

Answer 1

the central asian routes linking china and the middle east

Question 2

weather

Answer 2

atmospheric conditions at a specific point of time

Question 3

vegetation

Answer 3

all of the plants or plant life from a specific area

Question 4

cultivate

Answer 4

to grow

Question 5

nomad

Answer 5

people that wanted from place to place to find food

Question 6

topography

Answer 6

the arrangement of the physical resources of an area

Question 7

climate

Answer 7

atmospheric conditions over a long period of time

Question 8

first global age

Answer 8

the long distance trade and travel that grew in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the 1400s

Question 9

democracy

Answer 9

government ruled by the people

Question 10

demographics

Answer 10

statistics relating to a part of the population

Question 11

migrate

Answer 11

to go from one country, region, or place to another

Question 12

imperialism

Answer 12

extending the rule of a nation over a weaker nation

Question 13

neolithic revolution

Answer 13

people who learned how to plant crops, train animals, and settle down

Question 14

paleolithic revolution

Answer 14

lived as hunters and gatherers; depended completely on the environment.

Question 15

Describe the Headright System and explain its purpose.

Answer 15

A way of distributing land to the settlers; gave incentives to settlers by giving land to those who paid for passage to North America.

Question 16

Identify the reasons why europeans came to north america.

Answer 16

God, Gold, Glory, and spices.

Question 17

Explain the difference between indentured servants and slaves.

Answer 17

Indentured servants worked out a contract; slaves were considered property for life.

Question 18

Name the New England Colonies.

Answer 18

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire.

Question 19

Name the Middle Colonies.

Answer 19

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

Question 20

Name the Southern Colonies

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Where did the first Americans come from?

Answer 21

From Asia-over a land bridge by the Bering Strait.

Question 22

What is a cash crop?

Answer 22

A crop grown and sold for profit so that that the Colonists could buy manufactured goods.

Question 23

What was the most important cash crop in colonial Virginia?

Answer 23

Tobacco.

Question 24

In which group of colonies were lumber and shipbuilding a major industry?

Answer 24

New England Colonies.

Question 25

Explain the importance of the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 25

First form of SELF GOVERNMENT in the colonies.

Question 26

Explain the importance of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Answer 26

First example of Representative Democracy.

Question 27

What happened in Bacon’s Rebellion?

Answer 27

Distrust between rich landowners and poor Frontiersmen led to an increase in slavery.

Question 28

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 28

Trip that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas.

Question 29

What was the main export item from Africa to the Americas?

Answer 29

Slaves

Question 30

Describe to voting requirements in most English colonies.

Answer 30

White, male usually Land-owners.

Question 31

What was the first permanent English settlement on North America?

Answer 31

Jamestown.

Question 32

Explain how a joint-stock company worked and give an example of a colony that was settled because of one.

Answer 32

Investors bought ownership and paid to help get a colony started. In return, they had a share in the profits. (Virginia)

Question 33

Describe a royal colony.

Answer 33

A colony under direct control of the King.

Question 34

Explain how a proprietary colony worked and give an example of one.

Answer 34

Colony ruled by individuals or groups to whom Britain had granted land. (Maryland, Pennsylvania)

Question 35

What food from the New World had a positive impact on Europe?

Answer 35

potatoes.

Question 36

Describe the Colonial Class system.

Answer 36

Creoles-people born in American by Spanish parents. They are more important than Metizos.
Metizos-people born with Spanish and Native American parents.

Question 37

What part of the United States was most densely populated in 1990?

Answer 37

Northeast, Southern California.

Question 38

Was the encounter between the New World and the Old World positive or negative in effects? Cite evidence.

Answer 38

The encounter was positive because of the exchange of food and healthier diets. It was negative because of the exchange of diseases.

Question 39

What motives led the English to colonize the New World?

Answer 39

The were motivated by religious freedoms and economic reasons, money cash crops, tobacco and land.

Question 40

How did geography affect the settlement of the colonies?

Answer 40

The geography effected the people in the North had trees and rocky soil so they fished. The people in the south had vast fields to farm and grow crops. So their jobs and what the did was directly effected by the geography of where they lived.