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Competing for Colonies

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

___________________ nailed his 95 Theses to the walls of the Church and started the Reformation

a)

Henry Hudson

b)

King Henry VIII

c)

John Cabot

d)

Martin Luther

2.

This European country got along with Natives and traded with them

a)

English

b)

Spanish

c)

French

d)

Dutch

3.

The POPE is the leader of

a)

The Catholic Church

b)

The Reformation

c)

Protestants

d)

Christians

4.

Henry Hudson, who sailed for the Netherlands and England, discovered ______________.

a)

Montreal, Canada

b)

A River and a Bay

c)

The Northwest Passage

d)

the Pacific Ocean

5.

The Dutch gave the Manhattoes people _____________.

a)

spices

b)

the choice to become citizens of New Netherlands

c)

the right to be tenant farmers of Manhattan Island

d)

trade goods for Manhattan Island

6.

Tenant farmers _____________.

a)

worked on very large plantations that raised mainly one crop

b)

worked for a lord and paid rent to him

c)

hired Spanish Colonists to help them

d)

lived in cities

7.

The "Royal Mountain" was discovered by which french explorer?

a)

John Cabot

b)

Henry Hudson

c)

Jacques Cartier

d)

Giovanni de Verrazano

8.

The discovery of the St. Lawrence River, Hudson Bay, and the Mississippi River were each the result of ______________.

a)

a search to find the Northwest Passage

b)

searches for a river that cut across South America

c)

competition between religious groups in Europe

9.

A new form of Christianity in Europe was ___________.

a)

Protestantism

b)

Reformation

c)

Germanism

d)

Catholicism

10.

The colony in North America set up by the Dutch and run by the Dutch West India Company was called _____________.

a)

Manhattan

b)

New York

c)

New Netherland

d)

New Colony