U.S. History 1st Six Weeks Test

Which characteristics describe the motivations behind European exploration? Select THREE correct answers. 

• Expand empires

• Promote self-government

• Locate a new labor source

• Spread Catholicism

• Economic development

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8.1B

8.2

Match the Mother Country with its primary focus in the New World.

• Spread Catholicism

• Spain

• Fur Trade

• France

• Cash Crops

• England

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8.2

8.2A

Christopher Columbus's mistake was believing that the Earth was ​ (a)   ​ than it actually was.

• smaller
• larger
• flatter

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8.2

Match each mother country to its landing place in the New World.

• Canada

• England

• The Caribbean (Cuba)

• France

• Virginia

• Spain

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8.2A

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A document that allowed the Native Americans to live on the colony.

• A document that allowed women to vote.

• A document that listed a set of rules that 41 male passengers agreed to follow in the colony.

• A document that allows for colonists to trade amongst each other.

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8.1B

8.3B

8.3C

8.15A

Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies.

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• charter

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8.3A

8.3

8.3B

What were the expectations of Europeans traveling to the New World? How were their expectations different from the reality?

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8.2

Reorder the following

• Jamestown, Virginia is established for profit

• Virginia House of Burgesses is created due to distance from the King

• Pilgrims are Persecuted in England

• The Mayflower Compact is written and signed by 41 male passengers on Mayflower ship

• Plymouth, Massachusetts is established

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8.3A

8.3

8.1B

8.3B

• A

• B

• C

• D

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8.3A

8.3

• A

• B

• C

• D

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8.3A

8.3