Unit 1 Test: Exploration and Colonization

Which best describes European Technology advancement during European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries?

• The mariner's astrolabe determined latitude at sea
• Gutenberg's printing press spread ideas about the New World.
• Gutenberg's printing press spread ideas about the New World.
• Gutenberg's printing press spread ideas about the New World.

Which technological advancement was the MOST important during exploration in the 15th and 16th Centuries.

• Navigational Compass
• Printing Press
• Steam Engine
• Paper Currency

The astrolabe, an example of improved technology of the 15th and 16th centuries, had the greatest impact on...

• Literacy Rates
• artistic techniques
• building methods
• navigation

Why was the "Line of Demarcation" created in the late 1490's?

• to set up boundaries for the Jamestown settlement
• to divide the land owned by Great Britain and America
• to set up boundaries for Spain and Portugal which referred to newly discovered territories
• to outline the land that native people would have rights to compare settlers

True or False: An indentured servant must work for a "master" for a certain number of years before he or she is allowed to work for themselves.

• True
• False

Use the following quote to find the best word below that describes what Thomas Mun is describing.... "The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade, wherein wee must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than wee consume of theirs in value." Thomas Mun England's Treasure by Foreign Trade In this 1664 quotation from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade.

• Capitalism
• Mercantilism
• Columbian Exchange
• the factory system

True or False: A tariff is a physical barrier set up to make sure no one is allowed to trade.

• True
• False

During the age of Exploration, which country list below would more than likely be a mother country.

• England
• Cuba
• San Salvador
• Brazil

What was part of the goal of mercantilism after the 1600s? 

• a negative balance of trade
• an equal balance of trade
• prosperity through the balance of power
• a positive balance of trade

The problem of raising money to settle the New World led English merchant-capitalists to create the institution of 

• mercantilism
• primogenture
• the land lottery
• the joint-stock company