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WorksheetsA Young People's History of the U.S.: Chapter 1
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 2hrs 20mins
What year did Christopher Columbus got lost and ended up in the Indigenous Lands of what would later be called the Americas
1492
1776
1864
1601
What was the Name of the Indigenous people that met Columbus with friendliness and hospitality?
The Aztecs
The Incas
The Arawaks
The Cherokee
Howard Zinn describes the Arawaks and mainland Indigenous people as.....
People who were lazy and stingy.
People who believed in war and cheating.
People who believed in sharing and hospitality.
People who believed in trading and selling good and resources
Columbus's main intention and goal was to....
Make peace and spread Christianity
Find new trade routes and establish trade with Native Americans
To find gold, valuable resources, and to claim new lands for Spain
To bring new technologies and civilization across the world
What was the Arawak "impossible task"
To convert to Christianity and change their old ways of living
To find enough gold to satisfy the greed of Columbus and Spanish.
To make enough food to feed their villages
To advance technologically and become more Spanish like.
As a result of not being able to accomplish the "impossible task" Arawak's were.....
Hunted down by the Spanish who would then cut off the Arawak's' hands, ears, and noses for not making quotas in finding the gold.
Made to offer up more prayers and services to the Spaniards' god and church.
Sent to Spain as servants for the King and Queen
Banished from the Spanish colonies
The man who documented the atrocities of Columbus and Spaniards against the Arawaks was.....
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Hernan Cortez
Father Bartholomew de Las Casas
The King and Queen who supported Columbus's voyages were....
King Philip and Isabella of Spain
King James of Great Britain
King George of Great Britain
King Louis of France
The Island that Columbus would land on and meet the Arawak's was the...
Hawaiian Islands
Cuba
Haiti
Bahamas
What happened when Columbus's men were left on Haiti to wait for him to return.
They partied the whole time drinking, eating, and dancing with the local Indigenous people
They converted the Indigenous people to their religion, Christianity, showing them the ways of Christian life.
They roamed the islands looking for gold, taking women and children as slaves.
They were killed by ruthless Indigenous people who were not hospitable or willing to let them wait on their island.
What did Arawak's do as result of the brutality and suffering they faced being enslaved by the Spaniards and the "Impossible Task"?
Arawak's converted to Christianity and accepted their inferior position to the Spanish.
Arawak's continued to work harder to prove their worthiness to the Spaniards.
Arawak's began to commit mass suicide with poison, runaway, and hide in the mountains from the Spanish.
Arawak's protested and fought for equal rights as new citizens under the Spanish crown.
What is the term, "Genocide"
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
The study of how one group dominates another group.
A process of moving a people to another location who do not believe in or value your ways of life.
A system that is develop to keep groups segregated from each other.
What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
Boston, Massachusetts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New York, New York
Jamestown, Virginia
The Indigenous nation that ruled the region of Jamestown, Virginia was.....
The Powhatans
The Aztecs
The Iroquois
The Cherokee
The winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown, Virginia was known as the......
The Great Awakening when English settlers had a great religious revival in Christianity
The time of the first Thanksgiving where pilgrims and Indians sat together in thanks giving for friendship and peace.
The winter of the first Christmas in the new world.
When Jamestown went through a terrible food shortage due to the settlers ignorance of hunting and growing food. Eventually they would roam the woods scavenging for food and even eating dead human corpses
Who were the Pilgrims?
The first English settlers who left Great Britain to escape religious persecution. They settled in the North of the colonies at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
The first Spanish settlers that landed in Florida. They left Spain to escape the Spanish Inquisition.
Pilgrims lived in Massachusetts and brought friendship and civilization to the Indigenous people called the Pequots
Missionaries who were determine to convert the Native Americans.
How was the relationships between the English settlers and the Indigenous peoples they came across.
The English settlers were often very hospitable and sharing to the Indigenous people they came across.
The English settlers were very afraid of the Indigenous people and avoided them at all costs
The Powhatans and Pequots were at first very willing to befriend and teach the English settlers how to survive; however, eventually the English would start wars burning Indigenous villages and committing genocide.
The Powhatans, Pequots, and other Indigenous nations constantly attacked and brutalized the English settlers
Approximately how many Indigenous people lived in the Americas before the lost Arrival of Christopher Columbus?
Approximately 75 million
Approximately 25 million
Approximately 500,000
Approximately 1 million
One of the most powerful Indigenous nations in America was the northeastern tribe called.....
the Aztecs
the Powhatans
The Iroquois
The Cherokee
What BEST describes Iroquois society?
land belonged to the community, people shared the work of farming and hunting, they shared food, women were respected and shared powered with the men, and children were taught to be independent.
Iroquois society was simple, people shared everything, and life was filled with hunting, gathering food, and recreational activities.
Their society was corrupt and in perpetual war with other tribes
Iroquois society was democratic and all people were equal.
What was one event that pushed white settlers toward the enslavement of Black people?
The American Revolution of 1776
The need for more settlers to come and clear the wilderness to build more villages and towns.
After the "Starving Time" white settlers and more arrivals wanted to grow more than just corn. They wanted to grow the cash crop of tobacco to make a lot of money.
The constant battles with Indigenous people forced them to buy slaves and use them for cheap labor
Why couldn't the settlers enslave Indians and have them do the hard labor of growing tobacco?
The Indians were lazy and not able to do that type of hard labor
The Indians wanted to be paid too much money to that type of labor.
The Indians were on their home lands and would fight back and outnumbered the whites
The Indians were too few to do all this hard labor
In what year did the first 20 African slaves arrived in the colony of Jamestown, Virginia?
1776
1492
1861
1619
What made American Slavery the most evil of all forms of slavery in World History
It was the most evil because it was based on Racial Hatred and Making Money
It was the most evil because it was based on Fear and Prejudice
It was the most evil because it was based on Superiority and Inferiority
It was the most evil because it was based on Religion and Racism
Racism is best defined as.....
The belief that their is only one race, the human race
The belief that races are all equal and similar in their qualities and abilities
The belief that humans are different in their abilities and qualities.
The belief that one race believes it is superior and a person from another race is inferior.
What made keeping Black people as slaves easy for settlers.
Blacks were kidnapped from their homes and stripped of their identity, language, family, culture, and religions.
Blacks were inferior and lazy.
Blacks were easy to enslave because they wanted to come to America
Blacks were happy and willing to be taken from their homelands of Africa and become slaves to white settlers.
What best describes the experience of Africans being enslaved before boarding slave ships and then sailing to the Americas?
It was like a Carnival Cruise ship with all the best services and amenities for a comfortable ride.
It was a very difficult journey; however, the crew and slaves helped each other to survive and make the journey.
It was a horrible situation! Slaves were packed into cages on the coast, branded, and cramped into tiny spaces in the bottom of the ship. They were chained up, and were stacked on top of each other. There was blood, mucus, and human waste all over the dark and smelly holding. It was a human nightmare.
The journey was rough and many people died.
What is the name of the part of the voyage from Africa to the Americas that was the most horrible part for the slaves.
The Middle Passage
The Triangular Trade Route
The Yellow Brick Road
The Silk Road
