7th grade NCFE practice

What were some fears of pirates and explorers?

• Fighting enemy ships

• No place to land, sickness

• Bad weather, sea monsters, getting lost, falling off the side of the earth

• Terrible dreams

. . . reason . . . teaches all mankind, who would but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

Second Treatise on Civil Government by John Locke, 1689 Which concept of the Enlightenment would the passage most likely support?

• Truth can be discovered through reasoning and logic

• Truth can be discovered through reasoning and logic

• People have a right to equality and freedom

• What is natural is also reasonable

The exportation of laborers and capital from old to new countries . . . adds to the joint wealth of the old and the new country . . . There needs be no hesitation in affirming that Colonization, in the present state of the world, is the best affair of business, in which the [wealth] of an old and wealthy country can engage.

Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill, 1848 Based on the excerpt, what was Mill’s perception of colonialism?

• Colonization expands the power of European churches.

• Colonization benefits both the colonizer and the colonized.

• Colonization introduces diseases to Europe that sicken entire populations.

• Colonization encourages European countries to create democratic governments.

What item traveled from the old world to the new world?

• pumpkin

• sunflower

• Disease

• fish

What item traveled from the old world to the new world?

• pumpkin

• sunflower

• Horses

• fish

What happened to Sir Walter's brother?

• He was lost at sea.

• He decided to disappear.

• He was captured by Indians.

• He stayed hidden on the island of Foray.