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Unit 2.1 Colonization Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a colony?

a)

Any European town or city

b)

A settlement controlled by a far away country

c)

A Native American village

d)

Any place conquerors destroyed

2.

Who led the colony of Jamestown?

a)

Samuel de Champlain

b)

Hernán Cortez

c)

John Smith

d)

Christopher Columbus

3.

What did conquistadors do?

a)

Tried to help Natives who were sick with disease

b)

Mapped the route from Santa Fe to Monterrey

c)

Conquered Native American empires and established Spanish colonies

d)

Established the southern English colonies and set up first tobacco plantations

4.

In which colony would you most likely find Europeans trading with Native Americans for furs?

a)

A Spanish colony

b)

A Dutch colony

c)

An English colony

d)

A French colony

5.

In which colony would you likely find Native and Black slaves cultivating sugar?

a)

A French colony

b)

A Spanish colony

c)

A Dutch colony

d)

An English colony

6.

In which colony would you likely find Black slaves cultivating tobacco alongside white indentured servants?

a)

A Dutch colony

b)

A Spanish colony

c)

An English colony

d)

A French colony

7.

In which colony might you find a Catholic man, a Protestant woman, and a Native American discussing trade?

a)

A French colony

b)

A Dutch colony

c)

A Spanish colony

d)

An English colony

8.

What cash crop made Jamestown profitable?

a)

Cotton

b)

Tobacco

c)

Sugar

d)

Maize (corn)

9.

Which place used to be a French colony and is now a city famous for jazz music, the French Quarter, and Mardi Gras?

a)

New Orleans, Louisiana

b)

Los Angeles, California

c)

Boston, Massachusetts

d)

Orlando, Florida

10.

Which place used to be a Dutch colony and is now famous for its thriving businesses, busy streets, and diverse population?

a)

New York City, New York

b)

Portland, Oregon

c)

San Francisco, California

d)

Atlanta, Georgia

11.

Which placed used to be a Spanish mission and is now a city with adobe houses, Catholic churches, and Mexican and Native American cuisine?

a)

Boston, Massachusetts

b)

Walla Walla, Washington

c)

Santa Fe, New Mexico

d)

Williamsburg, Virginia

12.

These English colonies were racially homogeneous (all the same) because citizens were mostly white people who came over for religious freedom.

a)

The New England colonies

b)

The Middle colonies

c)

The Southern colonies

13.

These English colonies were racially diverse because citizens emigrated there from many different countries

a)

The New England colonies

b)

The Middle colonies

c)

The Southern colonies

14.

These English colonies were biracial (two races) because its people were either white farmers or African slaves

a)

The New England colonies

b)

The Middle colonies

c)

The Southern colonies

15.

What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America?

a)

The Mayflower

b)

The White Lion

c)

The Niña

d)

The Red October

16.

What year did colonists establish Jamestown?

a)

1607

b)

1620

c)

1492

d)

1776

17.

What year did the Pilgrims arrive in America?

a)

1607

b)

1620

c)

1492

d)

1776

18.

Who founded Pennsylvania colony as a "holy experiment"?

a)

William Penn

b)

Hernán Cortez

c)

John Winthrop

d)

Samuel de Champlain

19.

What is a joint-stock company?

a)

A joint-making company where carpenters sold stock to investors

b)

A business owned by investors who sent colonizers to the New World to make a profit

c)

A company where shareholders vote to merge the existing business with a competitor

d)

A business where the board voted to dilute stock holdings of Englishmen

20.

Who were the criollos (creoles)?

a)

Spanish colonists with Spanish parents

b)

Spanish colonists with African parents

c)

Spanish colonists with mixed-race ancestry

d)

Spanish colonists with Native parents

21.

Who were the mestizos?

a)

Spanish colonists with Spanish parents

b)

Spanish colonists with African and Spanish parents

c)

Spanish colonists with Spanish and Native parents

d)

Spanish colonists with African parents

22.

Which of these describes Catholics?

a)

They worship Jesus and are led by the Pope.

b)

They worship God and pray in mosques.

c)

They worship many gods and are led by Brahmin.

d)

They worship God and eat kosher food.

23.

Which of these describes Protestants?

a)

They worship God and pray in mosques.

b)

They worship Jesus and don't drink coffee.

c)

They worship Jesus and belong to churches that separated from the Catholic Church.

d)

They worship many gods and belong to churches that still practice paganism.

24.

Which North American regions did the Spanish dominate?

a)

Northeast and southeast

b)

Midwest

c)

Midwest and northwest

d)

South and southwest

25.

Who took New Amsterdam from the Dutch and made it New York?

a)

The French

b)

The English

c)

The Spanish

d)

The Portuguese

26.

In order to be a French colonist, you had to be...

a)

Catholic

b)

Protestant

c)

Poor

d)

Wealthy

27.

Which of these was NOT a reason Englishmen became colonists?

a)

To flee poverty and war in England

b)

To find a route to the Indies

c)

To practice their religion in peace

d)

To make money as a farmer or businessman

28.

Who was ultimately in charge of the English colonies?

a)

The King of England

b)

The colonial assemblies

c)

The royal governors

d)

The colonial councils

29.

Which English colonists were allowed to make laws for their colony?

a)

Royal governors appointed by the king

b)

Colonists appointed by the governor to serve on colonial councils

c)

Colonists elected by other colonists to serve on colonial assemblies

d)

Only the king of England made laws for colonies

30.

How did British colonists treat natives?

a)

They often traded with them

b)

They often intermarried with them

c)

They joined their tribes

d)

They fought them for land

31.

What joint-stock company funded Jamestown?

a)

The Virginia Company

b)

The Massachusetts Bay Company

c)

The Plymouth Company

d)

The East India Company

32.

Which group first arrived in Virginia in 1619?

a)

African slaves

b)

Indentured servants

c)

Women

d)

Gentry

33.

Which of these is NOT something that happened during Bacon's Rebellion?

a)

Rebels burned Jamestown

b)

Colonists attacked Indian tribes

c)

Women wrote a declaration of rights

d)

An armed mob threatened the governor

34.

Which of these happened as a consequence of Bacon's rebellion?

a)

John Rolfe decided to marry Pocahontas

b)

The Virginia company sponsored John Smith's voyage to Jamestown

c)

The capital of Virginia changed to Richmond

d)

Indentured servitude disappeared and race-based slavery increased

35.

How did Europeans justify their enslaving of Africans?

a)

They argued slavery was natural and condoned by God

b)

They argued that Columbus had slaves so they should, too

c)

They only enslaved people who wanted to be slaves

d)

Europeans never owned any slaves