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Quarter 1 Review

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which European country colonized the green shaded regions of the Americas by 1750?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

Portugal

d)

Great Britain

2.

France, Spain, Portugal, England, and ________________ were all European nations involved in international colonial expansion i n the 17th & 18th centuries.

a)

India

b)

China

c)

America

d)

Dutch/Netherlands

3.

This map illustrates Magellan's trade patterns. For which country did Magellan Sail?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

Portugal

d)

Great Britain

4.

Which was an immediate impact of the European 'Age of Exploration'?

a)

Britain controlled the western part of Africa

b)

For short time, the Aztec Empire ruled the world

c)

Islamic culture spread throughout Asia and North America

d)

European economic, political, and social influence spread throughout the Americas

5.

Which of the following inventions contributed most to the European military domination of foreign nations?

a)

Caravel

b)

Catapult

c)

Compass

d)

Gunpowder

6.

Which of the following statements regarding scientific advances best explains why global trade developed during the16th century?

a)

Many countries resisted the influence of others

b)

Europeans wanted to share their technology with everyone in the world

c)

Global trade had always existed, and these new technologies just made it easier

d)

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.

7.

Which device helped sailors find the latitude of the ship by determining the altitude of sun or stars?

a)

Rudder

b)

Compass

c)

Astrolabe

d)

Gunpowder

8.

Mercantilism can best be described as the idea that:

a)

A colony should be independent and self-sufficient

b)

The religion of a colony should differ from the religion of the mother country

c)

A nation's power is related to its wealth and a favorable balance of trade with its colonies

d)

A nation needs to strongly equip its colonies to defend themselves against foreign attack

9.

What did colonies provide to support the European policy of mercantilism?

a)

A market for selling goods

b)

Finished products to sell to Europe

c)

A way to get rid of excess silver and gold

d)

A place to store raw materials for future use

10.

Which of the following best describes Capitalism?

a)

A political system in which the king has all the power

b)

A political system based on governmental control of resources and goods

c)

An economic system based on private ownership of resources and production

d)

An economic system based on international control of production of goods for profit

11.

Which term is best used to describe the system in which individual buyers and sellers interact to exchange goods and services?

a)

Colonization

b)

Entrepreneurship

c)

Market Economy

d)

Favorable balance of trade

12.

Growing international trade, the end of fuedalism, and an increase in individual private businesses all led to which of the following?

a)

Fall of Capitalism

b)

Growth of the Middle Class

c)

Increase in mercantilist policies

d)

decrease in merchants and ship owners

13.

What did France, Spain, and Great Britain have in common during the colonization of the Americas?

a)

Need for fur

b)

Friendship with natives

c)

Communication with each other

d)

A desire for greater wealth and resources

14.

How did the French lose power and influence in the Americas?

a)

The French invested in the plantation system and gave up the fur trade

b)

The French lost most of their territories to the British after being defeated in the French and Indian War.

c)

The French returned colonized territories to the Native Americans following the French and Indian War.

d)

The French maintained strict control over their colonies dominating all aspects of French colonial society.

15.

Which nation set up mostly settler colonies in North America rather than trade colonies?

a)

Dutch

b)

French

c)

English

d)

Spanish

16.

After the enslavement of Native Americans failed, the British relied upon the labor of ____________ to support the plantation system

a)

Women

b)

Africans

c)

The Ottoman

d)

Indentured servants

17.

What types of colonies did Spain and Portugal set up in Central and South America?

a)

Trade Colonies

b)

Settler Colonies

c)

Native Colonies

d)

Plantation Colonies

18.

Which country set up short-term trading posts in North America to exchange furs with Native Americans?

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

Portugal

d)

Great Britain

19.

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?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Colonization

c)

Imperialism

d)

Exploration

20.

What was the most important outcome of European exploration of Asia?

a)

New colonies were started

b)

Europeans became Buddhist

c)

The slave trade became an important source of wealth

d)

Trade and new markets opened between Europe and Asia

21.

What enabled the Spanish to exert strong political control over areas they claimed in the New World?

a)

The Spanish built strong trade relations with Native leaders

b)

The Spanish appointed Native American rulers to head Spain's colonies

c)

The Spanish abolished the encomienda economic system which utilized Native American labor

d)

The Spanish established viceroys and other royal representatives to maintain watch and control over the colonies they conquered.

22.

According to the map, what products or resources were traded from Europe to Africa?

a)

Guns

b)

Sugar

c)

Cotton

d)

Slaves

23.

Depopulation of African regions, increased tribal warfare, Africans losing self-rule, and African cultural values disappearing were all:

a)

Effects of European Imperialism

b)

Causes of European Colonization

c)

Causes of the Industrial Revolution

d)

Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade

24.

What is the similarity between the European treatment of peoples of the Americas and those of Asia?

a)

Both were forced to work on plantations

b)

The natives peoples fought with Europeans and kept them out of their country

c)

Europeans respected the cultures of both groups and admired their way of life

d)

Christianity was brought to both places and missionaries tried to convert native people.

25.

During the 17th & 18th centuries, where did the Chinese do as a result of increasing European influence on Chinese culture?

a)

Created additional trading ports

b)

Returned to a policy of isolationism

c)

Embraced western ideas and customs

d)

decreased production of goods for export

26.

Which of the following are policies governments excercise to exhibit unlimited authority?

a)

Raising taxes and suspending legislature

b)

Raising taxes and increasing individual freedoms

c)

Increasing individual freedoms and creating constitutions

d)

using the military to enforce governmental polices and instituting a democracy.

27.

What is the term used to describe the idea that he power of the king comes directly from God?

a)

Divine Right

b)

Church Rule

c)

Holy Leader

d)

Monarch Power

28.

Which of the following is an example of an unlimited government?

a)

Anarchy

b)

Democracy

c)

Absolute Monarchy

d)

Constitutional Monarchy

29.

Which of the following items is a practice used to restrain a ruler's power and limit governmental control?

a)

Establishing a democracy

b)

instituting an authoritarian form of government

c)

reducing citizens rights and government participation

d)

Concentrating governmental powers in one person or body

30.

What is the process of gathering and analyzing information to conduct an experiment?

a)

Reasoning

b)

Natural Law

c)

Descartes Theory

d)

Scientific Method

31.

What was the term used to describe the idea that the sun, not earth is the center of the universe?

a)

Gravity

b)

Geocentric

c)

Heliocentric

d)

Rotational

32.

Which laws were developed by Sir Isaac Newton?

a)

Electricity

b)

Astronomy

c)

Human Biology

d)

Motion and Gravity

33.

Which of astronomer was put on trial by the Catholic church for arguing that the Earth revolved around the Sun?

a)

Bacon

b)

Galileo

c)

Newton

d)

Ptolemy

34.

Why did the Catholic Church feel threatened by scientific discoveries?

a)

Church officials were becoming scientists

b)

Church teachings were being challenged by reason

c)

The teachings of the church were being backed by science

d)

Experimentation required the Bible to be translated into more languages.

35.

Who said that???


" For we can not abuse power, must by the arrangement of things, power checks power".

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Rousseau

d)

Montesquieu

36.

Which Enlightenment figure believed in the idea of a Social Contract?

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Voltaire

d)

Montesquieu

37.

Who said that???


"Man in born pure, it is society that corrupts"

a)

Hobbes

b)

Voltaire

c)

Rousseau

d)

Locke

38.

What legislative body limited the power of England's Government?

a)

Senate

b)

Congress

c)

Parliament

d)

Monarchy

39.

The Glorious Revolution is significant to British history because it:

a)

Kept the power in the hands of the monarch

b)

Freed political prisoners locked up in the Bastille

c)

Ended religious division between the Catholics and Protestants

d)

Limited the Monarch's power by establishing a Bill of Rights