WorksheetsEuropean Impact on Native Americans
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the most influential good that the Native Americans received in return from the French during the fur trade?
a)
Pigs
b)
Guns
c)
Currency
d)
Gold
2.
Horses enabled Native Americans to do all of the following EXCEPT?
a)
Hunt more efficiently
b)
Mobilize settlements quicker
c)
Live a more sedentary life
d)
Gain an advantage in war
3.
Honeybees arrived in the Americas during the Columbian exchange
a)
True
b)
False
4.
Which of the following diseases did the Europeans not bring to the New World devastating the Native Americans?
a)
Smallpox
b)
Syphilis
c)
Yellow Fever
d)
Malaria
5.
The Europeans dominated the Africans who were later forced into slave labor especially in the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of southern colonies
a)
True
b)
False
6.
How were the Native Americans affected by the arrival of the Europeans?
a)
Forced religions
b)
Loss of culture
c)
All answers
d)
Enslavement
7.
Where was the first attempt of colonization by the English made?
a)
Chesapeake Bay
b)
Rhode Island
c)
Roanoke
d)
South Carolina
8.
How did the Europeans justify their treatment of the Native Americans?
a)
Divinity
b)
Their duty to God and their country
c)
Both A and B
d)
None of the above
9.
What was created to prohibit the direct enslavement of the Native Americans?
a)
The council of the Indies
b)
New Laws of the Indies
c)
Indie Slavery Act
d)
Dum Diversas
10.
What event caused the ending of the Powhatan Chiefdom?
a)
The death of Pocahontas
b)
John Rolfe's agriculture industry
c)
The murder of Openchancanough
d)
The marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas
11.
What did the French gain by becoming an ally to the Native Americans?
a)
Trade
b)
Expansion
c)
Democracy
d)
Answers B and C
12.
Which country was the most influential in converting Native Americans to Christianity?
a)
France
b)
England
c)
Spain
d)
None of the above
13.
What was the primary reason that the English came to the New World?
a)
Spices
b)
To convert Natives to Christianity
c)
Population overload in England
d)
Gold
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