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WorksheetsDCUSH 1491 - 1750
Total questions: 78
Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins
What was the most significant effect of the mass death of Native Americans?
Native Americans were forced to marry Spaniards
Spanish and other Imperial Powers were able to control massive areas of land in the New World
Some Native Americans captured other Natives and sold them as slaves to the Spanish landowners
Native tribes successfully organized a network of various tribes to provide a common defense against the Spanish
What led to the importation of African slaves in the New World?
The resistance by Natives to work in agriculture
The need to establish a lower class than Natives
The development of an agriculture-based economy
The outlawing of the use of Native American labor
Why were early English settlements near natural bays and navigable rivers?
Establish ports to ship raw materials back to England
Fear of encountering Native Americans
Limits placed on the borders of colonies in the New World
Respect for Native American land claims
What was the key effect of English colonies spreading into the interior of the east coast of North America?
Natives were forced onto government operated reservations
Increased conflict between settlers and Native Americans
Forced migration of Natives Americans west of the Mississippi River
Native Americans adopted the cultural characteristics of the English
Which of the following made up the labor force in the southern colonies 1607-1700?
Native Americans
Enslaved Africans
Family Members
Indentured Servants
What was the primary motivation for the growth of plantation agriculture in the New World?
Popularity of ideas that emerged with the European Enlightenment
Demand for New World crops
Civil unrest in Europe
The popularity of New world furs and pelts
How did the Pueblo Revolt (Pope's Rebellion) change Spanish colonial policy?
Great reduction of the Spanish presence in the New World
Increase of warfare between Native Americans and the Spanish
Forced migration of Natives onto reservations
A greater acceptance of some Native American cultural characteristics
Which of the following is an accurate depiction of English colonial patterns compared to the Spanish?
More English families settled which made marrying Native Americans less common
English had more peaceful relations with Native Americans than the Spanish
English relied more heavily on Native American slave Labor
English settlers were more accepting of the Native Americans' more equal views of women in society
Which of the following most accurately describes social relations between the Spanish and the Natives in the New World?
A fluid racial class system
Emergence of racially mixed populations
Cooperation between Native Tribes and the Spanish
Homogeneous society based on agriculture and shipping
Which of the following describes the exchange of goods, people, illness, and culture between the Old World and New World
Middle Passage
Great Awakening
European Enlightenment
Columbian Exchange
How did the Columbian Exchange affect European populations?
Increased cooperation among European nations
Population growth and economic development in parts of Europe
a decline in religious fervor in Europe
Widespread epidemics caused by American diseases diminished the European population
How did most Europeans justify the negative impact of the Columbian Exchange?
It was proof of the higher level of civilization in Europe
Denial of its existence
It showed the need to provide social and economic equality to all people in the New World
It is evidence of the need to protect the rights of Native Americans
Which of the following best describes the development in Jamestown?
Family-centered towns
Plantation agriculture
Warfare with French and Dutch military forts
Shipbuilding and trade
Which of the following colonies could be described as having lower life expectancy, a larger population of indentured servants, and a greater gender imbalance
Massachusetts Bay and Rhode Island
Quebec
New Amsterdam
Virginia and Maryland
How did Bartolome de Las Casas' criticism of the Spanish treatment of Native Americans change Spanish policy?
Led to the importation of African Slave labor
Natives throughout Spanish New World held a large-scale rebellion
New crops were introduced to improve Native American diets
Remaining native groups formed alliances with Spanish colonists
What was the purpose of the encomienda system in Spanish America?
Forced Natives into Spanish Military service
Improving trade relations with Native Americans
organizing and regulating Native American labor
Condemned intermarriage between Spaniards and Native Americans
What was the primary reason for the establishment of colonies in New England?
Practice their religion without interference
Convert Natives to Christianity
Trade with other country's colonies
Experiment in Democracy
Which of the following was an effect of settlements in New England?
Cash crop exportation to England
Rejection of all forms of forced labor
A successful homogeneous society
A welcome and tolerant society for newcomers
Which of the following best contributed most significantly to the success of the New England colonies?
Friendly relations with Native Americans
Diversity of the population and leadership
Good environmental conditions and a large amount of available natural resources
Strong support from the English Crown
Which of the following best describes the economic contributions of the New England colonies?
Used long growing seasons and slave labor to grow staple crops
Export economy based on shipping of food products and raw materials
Focused on growing tobacco
Exportation of mainly furs and manufactured goods
What were the motivations behind the settlement of the New England colonies?
The dissented from the government supported Church of England
Troubles with the Dutch led many to seek a new land of their own
King James I viewed them as threat and wanted them out of England
They wanted England to be in closer association with the Roman Catholic Church
The Middle Colonies included all but one of the following
Maryland - Established as a haven for Roman Catholics
New Jersey - Originally split off from new York
New York - Originally a Dutch colony taken by England
The Carolinas - Lightly settled and run by eight nobles
Quakers were radically different from the other colonizers in all ways but what?
They had a Charter of Liberties
They were dependent on a cash crop economy
They treated the Indians of the territory fairly
They believed in the equality of all men and women
What was Mercantilism?
The process of controlling the supply of money in an economy, often conducted by central banks.
The trade, colonies, and wealth as the basis for a country's strength
A political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic.
Emphasizes the role of governments in controlling the amount of money in circulation.
The main points of the Acts of Trade and Navigation were
Colonial control of the cargo on ships traveling to England
Trade only on English ships
All exported goods pass through English ports
Certain items were exported to England only
Reasons that there were and increased demand for slaves in the colonies were the all of the following except
Plantation owners wanted a stable labor force under their control
Not enough emigration from England to fill labor demands in the colonies
Use as inexpensive field hands for cash crops
Use as cheap labor in the early factories of New England
The influences of the Puritans include all but one of the following
Independent thought
Conformity and a strict moral code
Sacrificing individuality for the common good
A stress on individual rights
At the time of its first colonization efforts, England was
struggling under the political domination of Spain
undergoing rapid and disruptive economic and social transformations
enjoying a period of social and economic stability
experiencing increasing ethnic and religious diversity
England's first colony at Jamestown
was an immediate economic success
was saved by the Powhatan Indians
depended on the introduction of African slave labor
was saved by John Smith's leadership and John Rolfe's tobacco
Representative government was first introduced to the Americas in the colony of
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Bermuda
What was the name of the lost colony?
Roanoke Island
Croatan
Virginia
Jamestown
What led to the Powhatan Wars?
Indians and settlers did not agree on trade routes.
Powhatan punished all colonists by blocking trade routes.
Tensions increased as colonists pushed the Powhatan from their land.
Indians and colonists were able to work alongside each other.
Which of the following was the forerunner to the modern day corporation?
Joint-Business venture
East India Tea Company
Joint Stock Company
Both A and B
Jamestown is located between which two bodies of water?
Chesapeake Bay and James River
James River and Chesapeake River
James Bay and Chesapeake River
James Bay and Chesapeake Bay
What rule was established by John Smith so that the colonists of Jamestown would survive the first winters?
If a colonist did not work they did not get to eat
All colonists had to be peaceful towards Powhatan and his peoples and to trade for food
Curfew was at sundown and everyone had to work on creating a stockade
All men had to mine for gold while the women and children worked on the agricultural areas
What did the Mayflower compact established?
A constitutional government
A charter to create a colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts
The three branches of government; executive, legislative, & judicial
An agreement among the settlers to obey the laws they would establish together in the colony
Puritans that broke with the Massachusetts Bay Colony such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson went to...?
New York
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
What was the intention of the Puritan's Half Way Covenant of 1662?
They wanted the Indians to meet half way with the natives regarding ownership of land
To allow the children of the baptized in the Puritan Church to be baptized themselves
To allow the male half of the Puritan church to vote and participate in the government if they had been baptized.
To allow people that could only pay for half of their passage to America to find a sponsor in the colonies for the other half
What was the headright system?
A system that gave 100 acres to every adult in the family and 50 acres to every child
A system where every town formed by settlers had to establish a school that provided basic education to the children
A system that allowed settlers to work the land of a colonist for 4 to 7 years and after that time was up they could keep 100 acres for themselves
A system where the English payed settlers for each Indian head they collected
When did Pennsylvania stopped being a proprietary colony?
When they established the city of Philadelphia
When it was given to William Penn and the Quaker religion was established
When they established an elective legislature with the Charter of Liberties
When the English took it fro the Dutch without any resistance
What was the deciding factor in separating North and South Carolina?
The fact that poor farmers lived in the North while the planting of rice made the South a rich colony
The fact that the governors and local gentry lived on the North while the poor lived in the South
The fact that the North followed the plantation style of Barbados while the south did not
The fact that slaves were mixing with indenture servants and the local gentry wanted to put an end to that practice
The only colony that did not accept Catholics was...?
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Georgia
Delaware
The peoples of the Mississippi River Valley were best known for
The amount of fishing they were able to obtain from the rivers in the area.
Their agricultural methods to feed large populations
Their burial structures
Their ability to hunt buffalo and bison
The Iroquois Confederacy was different than most other Native American tribes because...
they quickly learned English in order to deal with the Europeans
they were the one's with the largest population in North America
they were able to do what all others tribes could not; they had fishing, hunting, and agriculture developing the largest population in this way
they had a matriarchal structure and a government based on alliances with other tribes
What was the estimated population of the Americas when the Europeans arrived
10- 20 million
50-70 million
30-40 million
80-100 million
Name of a Mississippian culture
Iroquois
Perce Nez
Pueblo
Cahokia
As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences arose, most notably
the use of indentured servants
the breaking of the Atlanta economy
the continuing rigidity of Puritanism
loyalty to England
Bacon’s Rebellion was supported mainly by
young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
those protesting the increased importation of African slaves.
the planter class of Virginia
people from Jamestown only.
By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom
rarely returned to work for their masters.
often gained great wealth as more land opened for settlement.
almost always found high-paying jobs in the cities.
had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters.
Over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants
devolved into slavery
faced increasingly harsh circumstances
managed to escape the terms of their contracts
became landowners
During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the
following reasons except that
African slaves cost too much money.
the Indian population proved to be an unreliable work force because they died in such large numbers.
Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies.
in some areas families formed too slowly.
For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following except
a headright
at times a small parcel of land
a few barrels of corn
passage to America
Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the
abor they needed from
African slaves
white servants
West Indian natives
captured Indians
Pueblo Indians lived in what is now:
the eastern United States
Mexico
the southwestern United States
the northeastern United States
Leg of the Triangle Trade that involved shipping slaves from Africa to the Caribbean and North America.
Northwest Passage
Middle Passage
Central Route
Southern Route
Wealthy Quaker that founded Pennsylvania.
William Penn
Roger Williams
John Smith
Jonathan Edwards
The British policy of allowing the American Colonists to rule themselves early in the Colonization period.
English Indifference
the Navigation Acts
Mercantilism
Salutary Neglect
An armed revolt in Virginia involving indentured servants.
King Philips War
Sausage's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion
War of Jenkins Ear
This term describes a collection of British laws that regulate trade to and from the American Colonies.
Navigation Acts
Atlantic Trading Agreement
Stamp Act
Boston Port Bill
A religious group that settled in Pennsylvania and is also known as the Society of Friends.
Separatists
Quakers
Puritans
Methodists
This was the capital of the Dutch American Colonies until it was captured by the British.
Philadelphia
New Jersey
New Amsterdam
New Netherlands
A conflict between New England Colonists and native American led by Metacomet.
Bacon's Rebellion
King Philips War
Metacomet's revolt
Jamestown Massacre
Area of the Colonies with the most navigable rivers that was settled by the most diverse European population.
Middle Colonies
Canadian Colonies
Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
The area of the colonies that developed a plantation based economy focusing on tobacco and indigo production.
Middle Colonies
Caribbean Colonies
Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
What allowed the Spanish to sponsor Christopher Columbus in 1492?
The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella which strengthened the Catholic faith in Spain
The achievements accomplished under 800 years of Muslim rule
The Reconquista of Spain
Spain had captured other countries in war and had taken their resources to pay for Columbus trips.
Pilgrims/Separatists
Anne Hutchinson
Headright System
City on a Hill
Roger Williams
1490s
1520s
1570s
1620s
Trade and Navigation Acts
Bacon's Rebellion
King Philip's War
Salutary Neglect
Halfway Covenant
1620s
1670s
1720s
1770s
__________ was a puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
William Penn
John Winthrop
Lord Baltimore
Roger Williams
The English settlement, _________, was where Pocahontas met John Smith, and married John Rolfe.
Roanoke
Charles Town
Jamestown
Philadelphia
Bacon's Rebellion was initiated by a group of farmers who felt most directly threatened by
an increase in royal taxes
the power of large planters
the growth of the slave trade
conflicts with American Indians
As a result of England's policy of salutary neglect, the colonies developed
A desire for greater self-sufficiency
A desire for fine British goods
A self-sufficient economy
A disloyal attitude toward Britain
Why is King Philip's War important ?
Indians converted to Christianity and became U.S. citizens.
The English King James would change his name to King Philip.
Colonists would continue to take Indian lands for the next 200 years.
Colonists would name their towns after Indian tribes.
What did Bacon’s rebellion and King Philip’s War have in common?
Both were fought because colonists wanted more land
Both were revolts by colonists against a royal government
The french supported the leaders of both conflicts.
Both were revolts led by rich and powerful colonists.
________ an uprising by frontier settlers who were angry with Virginia Gov. William Berkeley.
Stono Rebellion
King Philip's War
Bacon's Rebellion
Glorious Revolution
Edwards delivered his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" during what period?
salutary neglect
Great Awakening
Bacon's Rebellion
Enlightenment
In the years after the ___ of 1688, England turned its attention away from the colonies, adopting an overall colonial policy that became known as ___.
Glorious Revolution and Salutary Neglect
French and Indian War and Salutary Neglect
French and Indian War and mercantilism
Glorious Revolution and mercantilism
Spanish friar who argued for the protection of Native Americans under Spanish control.
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Vasco de Gama
Juan Sepulveda
Francisco Pizarro
Which of the following tribes was encountered by English settlers and best known for their highly evolved system of government?
the Pueblo
the Sioux
the Iroquois
the Chinook
