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WorksheetsQuarter 1 Review
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which European country colonized the green shaded regions of the Americas by 1750?
France
Spain
Portugal
Great Britain
France, Spain, Portugal, England, and ________________ were all European nations involved in international colonial expansion i n the 17th & 18th centuries.
India
China
America
Dutch/Netherlands
This map illustrates Magellan's trade patterns. For which country did Magellan Sail?
France
Spain
Portugal
Great Britain
Which was an immediate impact of the European 'Age of Exploration'?
Britain controlled the western part of Africa
For short time, the Aztec Empire ruled the world
Islamic culture spread throughout Asia and North America
European economic, political, and social influence spread throughout the Americas
Which of the following inventions contributed most to the European military domination of foreign nations?
Caravel
Catapult
Compass
Gunpowder
Which of the following statements regarding scientific advances best explains why global trade developed during the16th century?
Many countries resisted the influence of others
Europeans wanted to share their technology with everyone in the world
Global trade had always existed, and these new technologies just made it easier
The new technology made it possible for the European nations to sail farther and longer, allowing them to reach places they had never been able to before.
Which device helped sailors find the latitude of the ship by determining the altitude of sun or stars?
Rudder
Compass
Astrolabe
Gunpowder
Mercantilism can best be described as the idea that:
A colony should be independent and self-sufficient
The religion of a colony should differ from the religion of the mother country
A nation's power is related to its wealth and a favorable balance of trade with its colonies
A nation needs to strongly equip its colonies to defend themselves against foreign attack
What did colonies provide to support the European policy of mercantilism?
A market for selling goods
Finished products to sell to Europe
A way to get rid of excess silver and gold
A place to store raw materials for future use
Which of the following best describes Capitalism?
A political system in which the king has all the power
A political system based on governmental control of resources and goods
An economic system based on private ownership of resources and production
An economic system based on international control of production of goods for profit
Which term is best used to describe the system in which individual buyers and sellers interact to exchange goods and services?
Colonization
Entrepreneurship
Market Economy
Favorable balance of trade
Growing international trade, the end of fuedalism, and an increase in individual private businesses all led to which of the following?
Fall of Capitalism
Growth of the Middle Class
Increase in mercantilist policies
decrease in merchants and ship owners
What did France, Spain, and Great Britain have in common during the colonization of the Americas?
Need for fur
Friendship with natives
Communication with each other
A desire for greater wealth and resources
How did the French lose power and influence in the Americas?
The French invested in the plantation system and gave up the fur trade
The French lost most of their territories to the British after being defeated in the French and Indian War.
The French returned colonized territories to the Native Americans following the French and Indian War.
The French maintained strict control over their colonies dominating all aspects of French colonial society.
Which nation set up mostly settler colonies in North America rather than trade colonies?
Dutch
French
English
Spanish
After the enslavement of Native Americans failed, the British relied upon the labor of ____________ to support the plantation system
Women
Africans
The Ottoman
Indentured servants
What types of colonies did Spain and Portugal set up in Central and South America?
Trade Colonies
Settler Colonies
Native Colonies
Plantation Colonies
Which country set up short-term trading posts in North America to exchange furs with Native Americans?
Spain
France
Portugal
Great Britain
When a country takes political and economic control over an area or territory and allows people to report to a Mother Country, what have they established?
Capitalism
Colonization
Imperialism
Exploration
What was the most important outcome of European exploration of Asia?
New colonies were started
Europeans became Buddhist
The slave trade became an important source of wealth
Trade and new markets opened between Europe and Asia
What enabled the Spanish to exert strong political control over areas they claimed in the New World?
The Spanish built strong trade relations with Native leaders
The Spanish appointed Native American rulers to head Spain's colonies
The Spanish abolished the encomienda economic system which utilized Native American labor
The Spanish established viceroys and other royal representatives to maintain watch and control over the colonies they conquered.
According to the map, what products or resources were traded from Europe to Africa?
Guns
Sugar
Cotton
Slaves
Depopulation of African regions, increased tribal warfare, Africans losing self-rule, and African cultural values disappearing were all:
Effects of European Imperialism
Causes of European Colonization
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade
What is the similarity between the European treatment of peoples of the Americas and those of Asia?
Both were forced to work on plantations
The natives peoples fought with Europeans and kept them out of their country
Europeans respected the cultures of both groups and admired their way of life
Christianity was brought to both places and missionaries tried to convert native people.
During the 17th & 18th centuries, where did the Chinese do as a result of increasing European influence on Chinese culture?
Created additional trading ports
Returned to a policy of isolationism
Embraced western ideas and customs
decreased production of goods for export
Which of the following are policies governments excercise to exhibit unlimited authority?
Raising taxes and suspending legislature
Raising taxes and increasing individual freedoms
Increasing individual freedoms and creating constitutions
using the military to enforce governmental polices and instituting a democracy.
What is the term used to describe the idea that he power of the king comes directly from God?
Divine Right
Church Rule
Holy Leader
Monarch Power
Which of the following is an example of an unlimited government?
Anarchy
Democracy
Absolute Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
Which of the following items is a practice used to restrain a ruler's power and limit governmental control?
Establishing a democracy
instituting an authoritarian form of government
reducing citizens rights and government participation
Concentrating governmental powers in one person or body
What is the process of gathering and analyzing information to conduct an experiment?
Reasoning
Natural Law
Descartes Theory
Scientific Method
What was the term used to describe the idea that the sun, not earth is the center of the universe?
Gravity
Geocentric
Heliocentric
Rotational
Which laws were developed by Sir Isaac Newton?
Electricity
Astronomy
Human Biology
Motion and Gravity
Which of astronomer was put on trial by the Catholic church for arguing that the Earth revolved around the Sun?
Bacon
Galileo
Newton
Ptolemy
Why did the Catholic Church feel threatened by scientific discoveries?
Church officials were becoming scientists
Church teachings were being challenged by reason
The teachings of the church were being backed by science
Experimentation required the Bible to be translated into more languages.
Who said that???
" For we can not abuse power, must by the arrangement of things, power checks power".
Locke
Hobbes
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Which Enlightenment figure believed in the idea of a Social Contract?
Locke
Hobbes
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Who said that???
"Man in born pure, it is society that corrupts"
Hobbes
Voltaire
Rousseau
Locke
What legislative body limited the power of England's Government?
Senate
Congress
Parliament
Monarchy
The Glorious Revolution is significant to British history because it:
Kept the power in the hands of the monarch
Freed political prisoners locked up in the Bastille
Ended religious division between the Catholics and Protestants
Limited the Monarch's power by establishing a Bill of Rights
