FINAL EXAM UNIT 1 REVIEW

How do scientists think people first arrived in North America?

• After the Ice Age, glaciers melted and people came in small boats.
• During the Ice Age, the sea froze and people crossed the ice.
• After the Ice Age, glaciers melted and people crossed land.
• During the Ice Age, the sea level dropped and people crossed land.

Why were the many searches for a Northwest Passage significant?

• They caused France and Italy to claim land.
• They raised European interest in North America.
• They led French, Italian, and Dutch sailors to sail for other nations.
• They resulted in better maps of South America.

What was the significance of finding a sea route to Asia?

• It gave Europeans the opportunity to hold political positions in foreign lands.
• It allowed Europeans to bypass merchants who monopolized trade.
• It introduced Europeans to new investors who would support exploration.
• It showed Europeans that interactions with Asians were nothing new.

What type of document gave English settlers permission to start a colony?

• deed
• title
• lease
• charter

Why did colonists in need of cheap labor turn to slaves from West Africa?

• West African slaves had already built up immunity to European diseases.
• Sugar plantation owners and tobacco farmers needed slaves familiar with agriculture.
• The pope had promoted the use of West African slaves in Catholic lands.
• The Portuguese government had legalized the sale of slaves in its colonies.

The term African Diaspora refers to the

• harsh voyage taken by slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
• forced labor of West Africans in mines and on farms and plantations.
• scattering of enslaved Africans all across the New World.
• regulation of slave treatment and behavior by colonial lawmakers.

Why did the population of Jamestown plummet between 1609 and the spring of 1610?

• The Algonquian Indians attacked and burned down much of the colony.
• The London Company closed the settlement because it wasn’t making a profit.
• A combination of famine, disease, and a harsh winter killed many in the colony.
• Infertile soil caused many settlers to seek better farmland in the middle colonies.

Many English Catholics came to America in the 1600s to

• escape a kingdom that did not allow them to worship freely.
• protest England’s separation from the Roman Catholic Church.
• provide assistance to Catholic countries such as France and Spain.
• found a proprietary colony in a southern region of the New World.

Who proposed the Toleration Act of 1649, and why?

• the British, to restore order in Massachusetts after the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.
• Nathaniel Bacon, to prevent Jamestown’s indentured servants from rebelling against the Algonquian Indians.
• the Puritans, to allow men to vote in their colonies even if they did not belong to God’s “elect.”
• Lord Baltimore, to outlaw the restriction of the religious rights of Christians in Maryland.

Which statement is true of the Southern colonies in the late 1600s?

• There were many large plantations and some small farms.
• African servants lived separately from white indentured servants.
• Skilled craftspeople were essential to the economy.
• The important cash crops were tobacco, rice, and indigo.