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WorksheetsAge of Discovery and Colonialism STAAR Terms
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 36mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is meant by religious tolerance?
a)
People are free to worship as the please
b)
The state is required to adopt a religious position on major events
c)
The tstae has no religious position on major events
d)
The state is free to encourage religion generally but not specific denominations
2.
A group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country.
a)
Empire
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Protectorate
d)
Colony
3.
A group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country.
a)
Empire
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Protectorate
d)
Colony
4.
Settling among and establishing political control over the indigenous people of an area.
a)
Empiricize
b)
Colonize
c)
Conquer
d)
Secede
5.
The condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash
a)
Geographic Apocalypse
b)
Over Population
c)
Popular Sovereignty
d)
Population Saturation
6.
Money accepted in exchange for labor
a)
Profit
b)
Capital
c)
Debt
d)
GDP
7.
The action of buying and selling goods and services.
a)
Commission
b)
Commerce
c)
Tariff
d)
Trade
8.
The wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making possible an increasingly larger population.
a)
Commercial Revolution
b)
Scientific Revolution
c)
Neolithic Revolution
d)
Industrial Revolution
9.
Religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the religion in the modern era.
a)
Renaissance
b)
Reformation
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Progressive
10.
A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries
a)
Catamaran
b)
Mayflower
c)
Santa Maria
d)
Caravel
11.
A compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant
a)
Compass
b)
GPS
c)
Stern
d)
Astrolabe
12.
A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
a)
Explorer
b)
Soldier
c)
Sailor
d)
Conquistador
13.
A name for the Americas, especially during the time of first exploration and colonization of the Americas by Europeans.
a)
New World
b)
Old World
c)
Europe
d)
Asia
14.
The Eastern Hemisphere; Europe, Asia, and Africa
a)
New World
b)
Old World
c)
Antique
d)
Classical
15.
An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns.
a)
Monarchical Government
b)
Aristocratic Government
c)
Oligarchic Government
d)
Rep. Government
16.
Government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
a)
Self government
b)
Democracy
c)
Theocracy
d)
Kleptocracy
17.
An agreement reached by the Pilgrims in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. It bounded them to live in a civil society according to their own laws.
a)
Connecticut Compromise
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
Fundmaental Orders of Connecticut
d)
Declaration of Independence
18.
The highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.
a)
Parliament
b)
Congress
c)
House of Burgesses
d)
Senate
19.
Refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Benign Tumor
c)
Democratic Apathy
d)
Salutary Neglect
20.
A document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges drafted in 1215 and signed by King John of England
a)
Magna Carta
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
English Bill of Rights
d)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
21.
an estate on which crops such as cotton, indigo, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated often by slave labor.
a)
Plantation
b)
Farm
c)
Mega Agriculture
d)
Industrial Harvesting
22.
Produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
a)
Garden
b)
Crop
c)
Cash Crop
d)
Indisutrial Harvest
23.
A condition of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.
a)
Indentured Servitude
b)
Servitude
c)
Indentured Slavery
d)
Slavery
24.
A tax on imported goods
a)
Tariff
b)
Monopoly
c)
Lease
d)
Rent
25.
The biggest deportation in history and a determining factor in the world economy of the 18th century.
a)
Trans-Pacific Slave Trade
b)
Trans-Mediterranean Slave Trade
c)
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
d)
Trans-Siberian Slave Trade
26.
Multilateral trade in which country A's purchases from country B are paid for by earnings from country A's sales to country C
a)
Rectangular Trade
b)
Spherical Trade
c)
Triangular Trade
d)
Angular Trade
27.
Primary source for slaves in the New World
a)
East Africa
b)
West Africa
c)
North Africa
d)
South Africa
28.
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
a)
Prosecution
b)
Perspiration
c)
Persecution
d)
Predation
29.
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
a)
Emmigration
b)
Immigration
c)
Indigenous
d)
Extroversion
30.
Relates to the country from which a person migrates. It is generally some problem which results in people wanting to migrate
a)
Push Factor
b)
Pull Factor
31.
Something that attracts people to go and live in a particular place
a)
Push Factor
b)
Pull Factor
32.
Catholic safe haven colony
a)
Maryland
b)
Massachusetts
c)
Pennsylvania
d)
Delaware
33.
First successful English colony in North America.
a)
Plymouth
b)
Massachusetts Bay
c)
Roanoke
d)
Jamestown
34.
Quaker colony with a cosmopolitan population.
a)
Delaware
b)
Virginia
c)
Connecticut
d)
Pennsylvania
35.
Successful colony established by the pilgrims in 1620. Location where the Mayflower Compact was drafted and adopted.
a)
Massachusetts Bay
b)
Jamestown
c)
Roanoke
d)
Plymouth
36.
A contract to construct a colony
a)
Charter
b)
Contract
c)
Indenture
d)
Deed
37.
a body or system of teachings relating to a particular religion or denomination of a religion.
a)
Charter
b)
Denomination
c)
Doctrine
d)
Creed
38.
Something providing shelter.
a)
Refute
b)
Refuge
c)
Refugee
d)
Refuse
39.
A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
a)
Catholic
b)
Pilgrim
c)
Puritan
d)
Quaker
40.
A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
a)
Pilgrim
b)
Saint
c)
Sinner
d)
Puritan
41.
Member of the society of friends who supports pacifist ideals and refuses to swear oaths.
a)
Pilgrim
b)
Puritan
c)
Jesuit
d)
Quaker
42.
included connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts BayColony, and Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies.
a)
New England Colonies
b)
Restoration Colonies
c)
Plantation Colonies
d)
Middle Colonies
43.
The most successful of the British colonial attempts.
a)
Jamestown
b)
Georgia
c)
Massachusetts Bay
d)
Plymouth Plantation
44.
Colony settled by religious exiles such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchison.
a)
Rhode Island
b)
Massachusetts Bay
c)
Plymouth Plantation
d)
Connectic
45.
Colony established by James Oglethorpe as a debtor colony. The last English colony founded.
a)
Rhode Island
b)
Massachusetts
c)
New Hamshire
d)
Georgia
46.
An actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each
a)
Declaration of Independence
b)
Doctrine of Separation of Power
c)
Social Contract
d)
Charter
47.
a meeting of the voters for the transaction of public business. Most associated with Puritan New England.
a)
Social Contract
b)
Charter
c)
Town Meeting
d)
Vech
48.
Expelled from Massachusetts for his tolerant religious views,
a)
Roger Sherman
b)
Roger Moore
c)
Roger Staubach
d)
Roger Williams
49.
Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 14, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.
a)
Anne Hathaway
b)
Anne of Green Gables
c)
Annie
d)
Anne Hutchison
50.
Early colonial constitution that established a rule of law that governed the towns of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford, beginning in 1639.
a)
Magna Carta
b)
Plymouth Statement
c)
Conneccut Accords
d)
Fubdamental Orders of Connecticut
51.
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
a)
John Smith
b)
James Oglethorpe
c)
Roger Williams
d)
William Bradford
52.
Princess who befriended the English colonists at Jamestown and is said to have saved Capt. John Smith from execution by her people. She married the colonist John Rolfe (1614) and later traveled to England, where she died.
a)
Powhattan
b)
Squanto
c)
Rebecca
d)
Pocahontas
53.
A member of an American Indian people of eastern Virginia.
a)
Pocahontas
b)
Powhattan
c)
Squanto
d)
Tenskawatawa
54.
The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. Established in 1619.
a)
House of Representatives
b)
House of Burgesses
c)
International House of Pancakes
d)
House of the Rising Sun
55.
A prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage.
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Thomas Hooker
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Thomas the Tank Engine
56.
In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch. He argued that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, that have a foundation independent of the laws of any particular society.
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Thomas Paine
c)
John Locke
d)
John Adams
57.
English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England.
a)
William Blackstone
b)
William Holden
c)
William Penn
d)
William and Mary
58.
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
a)
William Blackstone
b)
William Holden
c)
William and Mary
d)
William Penn
59.
Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism.
a)
First Great Awakening
b)
Second Great Awakening
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Reformation
60.
In what years was Jamestown founded
a)
1492
b)
1607
c)
1619
d)
1620
61.
In what years was slavery introduced to the New World?
a)
1492
b)
1607
c)
1619
d)
1620
62.
In what years was the House of Burgesses founded?
a)
1492
b)
1607
c)
1619
d)
1620
63.
In what years was the Mayflower Compact drafted?
a)
1492
b)
1607
c)
1619
d)
1620
64.
A colony owned by an individual or business interest
a)
Royal Colony
b)
Self Governing Colony
c)
Proprietary Colony
d)
Joint Venture
65.
A colony owned by a king, Queen or Royal Governor
a)
Royal Colony
b)
Self Governing Colony
c)
Proprietary Colony
d)
Joint Venture
66.
A colony where the people draft their own laws and generally own their own land
a)
Royal Colony
b)
Self Governing Colony
c)
Proprietary Colony
d)
Joint Venture
67.
A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country.
a)
Slave
b)
Servant
c)
Indentured Slave
d)
Indentured Servant
68.
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
a)
Atlantic Passage
b)
Pacific Passage
c)
Northwest Passage
d)
Middle Passage
69.
A sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through northwestern America, often sought by early explorers.
a)
Atlantic Passage
b)
Pacific Passage
c)
Northwest Passage
d)
Middle Passage
70.
An armed conflict in 1676 by Virginia settlersagainst the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
a)
Bacon's Rebellion
b)
Shay's Rebellion
c)
Turner's Rebellion
d)
The great Rebellion
71.
Changed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops.
a)
Abigail Adams
b)
Dolley Madison
c)
Martha Washington
d)
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
72.
An unofficial agreement shared by everyone in a society in which they give up some freedom for security. Most associated with John Locke.
a)
Social Contract
b)
Separation of Power
c)
Checks and Balances
d)
Division of Power
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