APUSH Unit 1 Test Review

European contact with Native American's led to the

• European's acceptance of the horse into their culture.

• Death of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European disease.

• Introduction into the New World of such plants as potatoes, tomatoes, and beans.

• Increase of the Native American population.

European explorers introduced __________ into the New World.

• Syphilis

• Maize

• Tobacco

• Smallpox

The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by

• Starvation, disease, and frequent Indian attacks

• economic prosperity

• constant fear of Spanish invasion

• major technological advancement

The true discoverers of America were the

• Vikings

• Spanish explorers

• Ancestors of present day Native Americans

• Portuguese sailors

England's defeat of the Spanish Armada

• led to a Franco-Spanish alliance that prevented England from creating American colonies

• allowed England to take control of Spain's American colonies

• demonstrated the Spanish Catholicism was inferior to English Protestanism

• helped ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic

The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadors can be described

• as at times brutal and exploitative

• as firm but fair

• as unmotivated by greed

• as scornful of intermarriage

The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except

• the destruction of the soil

• a great demand for controlled labor

• soaring prosperity in the colonies

• diversification of the colony's economy

A major reason that England founded Maryland was to

• establish a defensive buffer against Spanish colonies in the South

• create a refuge for Catholics

• help the Protestants

• allow Lord Baltimore to keep the land for himself

The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it

• failed

• was abolished by King James I

• was the first of many miniature parliaments to convene in America

• forced King James I to revoke the colony's royal charter and grant it self-government

The colony of Georgia was founded

• by a joint-stock company

• as a defensive buffer for South Carolina and a haven for criminals

• by eight proprietors chosen by Charles II

• in the seventeenth century