US History (1st Sem) - Unit 1(*New)

What technical innovation enabled sailors to determine the location of their ship at sea based on the position of the stars?

• caravel

• astrolabe

• compass

• telescope

What innovation did the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands use to prepare land for planting crops?

• digging canals to bring water to crops

• building earthen dams to collect water

• slash-and-burn to clear land for planting

• reservoirs and terraces to control water flow

What was the first successful English colony in America?

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Hudson Bay

• Newfoundland

Who was Atahualpa?

• Portuguese explorer who mapped the Atlantic coast of America

• Algonquian chief who sold land to the Dutch in 1640

• Incan emperor conquered by Francisco Pizarro

• Aztec emperor conquered by Hernán Cortés

Which religious leader taught that people had to answer directly to God for their actions, not to the church?

• John Calvin

• Thomas Hooker

• Anne Hutchinson

• Roger Williams

According to the New England Way, who was allowed to vote?

• men who were members of the church

• men who owned land and paid poll taxes

• any member of the church, male or female

• any property-owning adult, male or female

How was the colony of Delaware established?

• It was part of New Jersey until that colony was divided.

• Quaker settlers were granted a charter by King Charles II.

• Settlers in southern Pennsylvania broke away from William Penn’s colony.

• It was founded by the Dutch West India Company as a base for trade.

For what offense was John Peter Zenger put on trial?

• libel

• theft

• sedition

• plagiarism

Who was James Oglethorpe?

• an English settler who introduced a new, less bitter variety of tobacco to Virginia

• a reformer who sought to found a colony that gave a new start to the very poor

• a Scots-Irish farmer who led others to settle in the Appalachian Mountains

• the politician who established Maryland as a haven for Roman Catholics

Who or what were overseers?

• supervisors who used whips and other harsh methods to drive enslaved people to work harder

• enslaved people who were forced by their owners to push other enslaved people to work harder or longer

• members of the crew of trading ships who were in charge of moving captives from West Africa into the hold for the Middle Passage

• enslaved people who worked in the planter’s household who would secretly watch out for the families of those who worked in the fields