Colonial America Review

Columbus was motivated by all of the following except:

• Finding Gold

• Spreading Christianity

• Finding new trade routes to Asia

• Helping native people

Columbus searched for many years for someone to give him money to sail to the west. Which leaders and country finally gave him money?

• Marco Polo of China

• King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Italy

• Leif Erikson of Britian

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

What ocean did Columbus cross?

• Indian

• Arctic

• Atlantic

• Southern

How did the Tainos, the local native tribe, treat the Europeans?

• Were kind to Columbus and his men

• Argued a lot with Columbus and his men

 Why did Columbus call the Taino natives Indians?

• Because they asked him to

• Because he liked the name Indians.

• Because Columbus thought he landed in the West Indies.

• Because he did not understand what they were trying to say.

Which of the following choices was not a reason that England started a colony in Jamestown?

• Increase wealth and power

• Find raw materials

• Trade with other countries

• To get a new King

Who said, "If you don't work, then you don't eat!"?

• Chief Powhatan

• Christopher Newport

• Lord De La Warr

• Captain John Smith

Jamestown was located on a peninsula in ...

• Virginia

• North Carolina

• Florida

• New York

What became Jamestown's "gold"?

• cars

• tobaccco

• water

• tomatoes

Which of the following was the first permanent English colony in the Americas?

• Jamestown

• Roanoke 

• Georgia 

• Virginia