The Colonial Period Unit 2 Review

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.
• They sailed to Mexico and then drifted north.

Which of these best explains why different cultural regions formed in North America?

• Groups settled in the areas at various times.
• Groups chose where they lived based on their special skills.
• Groups needed to distinguish themselves from other groups.
• Groups adapted to the environments in which they settled.

Which of these characterizes an Indigenous cultural region?

• People migrated together.
• People have the same leader.
• People share a similar language.
• People come from the same family.

Which of these was a major motivation for European exploration?

• profit
• leisure
• freedom
• education

Which of these was a goal of the first European explorers?

• to establish trading posts
• to find a water route to Asia
• to exchange ideas with native peoples
• to explore North and South America

How did the Columbian Exchange affect many Indigenous people in the Americas?

• They grew in number.
• They died from diseases.
• They became prosperous.
• They were forced to move.

Which statement is true about slavery in North America?

• Enslaved Indigenous people were treated with dignity.
• European explorers rejected slavery in the Americas.
• Europeans introduced slavery to the Americas.
• Enslaved Africans took the place of Indigenous workers.

What is mercantilism?

• an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies
• an act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch's power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens
• a people's identity and way of life, including customs, food, dwellings, family structure, ethics, and health/medicine
• a power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government

What was an effect of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas?

• a reduction in the European population
• a delay in future Spanish explorations
• a war between the Spanish and the French
• a transfer of foods between Europe and the Americas

Select all the regions in the original 13 colonies.

• New England
• Southern
• Middle
• New Netherlands
• Western