Midterm 2021

Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?

• in search of food

• to locate fertile farmland

• to flee from hostile tribes

• in search of a better climate

How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the last ice age?

• they sailed across a narrow strait

• they traveled south from Canada

• they traveled across a land bridge

• the sailed to Mexico and then drifted North

Which of these enabled American Indians to settle in permanent villages?

• trading

• hunting

• herding

• farming

Which of these was most important to the survival of the American Indians?

• land and home ownership

• trade to meet their daily needs

• ability to use natural resources

• warm and mild climate conditions

How did the Columbian Exchange affect many American Indian groups?

• they grew in number

• they died from diseases

• they became prosperous

• they were forced to move

Which of these was a major motivation for European exploration?

• profit

• leisure

• freedom

• education

Which of these describes the experience of the first Jamestown settlers

• they were challenged by their environment

• they found the area already settled by the Dutch

• they were welcomed by the American Indians

• they quickly established prosperous settlement

Which Native American group was attacked by the colonists at Mystic?

• Powhatan

• Cherokee

• Pequot

• Iroquois

The belief that the colonies exist to make the mother country rich.

• mercantilism
• nationalism
• sectionalism
• patriotism

This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World

• Plymouth
• Jamestown
• Ronaoke
• Albany