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WorksheetsUnit 2 Exploration & Colonization
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Money that remains after the costs of running a business is called a _____.
profit
import
export
cash crop
A journey with a special purpose is a(n) _____.
field trip
vacation
expedition
Northwest Passage
A _____ is a region controlled by a distant country.
import
colony
mestizo
expedition
The ________ was the movement of animals, plants, and disease across the Atlantic Ocean after 1492.
Columbian Exchange
expedition
export
import
A ______ is a person who tries to persuade people to accept new religious beliefs.
mestizo
cash crop
missionary
pilgrim
The ______ are people who were both Spanish and Native American.
missionary
mestizo
colony
pilgrim
The ______ was a water route which many Europeans in the 1500s believed connected the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Silk Road
Columbian Exchange
Northwest Passage
Indies
To send goods to another country is to _______ them.
export
import
cash crop
Columbian Exchange
A _______ is a crop grown to be sold for profit.
colony
profit
mestizo
cash crop
A _____ is someone who travels to a special place for religious reasons.
pilgrim
colony
profit
expedition
Prince Henry started a school for _____.
merchants
sailors
traders
rulers
_____ were the first Europeans to reach North America.
The Portuguese
Muslims
The Norse
The Spanish
Traders went to West Africa to _____.
become hunter-gatherers
go to war with African kingdoms
learn new languages
do business with wealthy African kingdoms
Norse sailors were also called Vikings, which meant _____.
raiders
pirates
north people
traders
The ____ gave Europeans greater contact with Asia.
horses
Crusades
Mayflower
diseases
Christopher Columbus was trying to get to _______ by sailing west.
Spain
the Indies
Africa
the New World
Which country backed Christopher Columbus's voyage?
England
France
Spain
Portugal
Why do historians believe that Columbus kept two logs of his voyage?
in case he lost one
to send back to Spain
to mislead other explorers
to make sure he could find his way home
Many Native Americans dies because of _____ brought by Europeans.
diseases
farming methods
wheat
ploughs
The Columbian Exchange provided Europeans with _____, which led to healthier diets.
tomatoes and corn
wheat and onions
coffee and pineapple
bananas and rice
Montezuma II was the leader of the ______.
Taino
Iroquois
Inca Empire
Aztec Empire
The Aztec Empire included more than _____ people.
100,000
1 million
600,000
6 million
Which of the following helped the Spanish conquer the Inca Empire?
The Spaniards outnumbered the Inca.
Horses gave the Spanish an advantage.
The Inca did not know how to fight.
The Inca Empire had no leader.
Cortes was able to defeat the Aztec after _____ killed more than 100,000 people within the empire.
smallpox
a flood
tuberculosis
a terrible fire
What happened to most of the artifacts from the Inca Empire?
Pizarro melted them and sent gold bars back to Spain.
Pizarro sent the artifacts back to Spain.
They were ruined in a fire.
They were lost in a flood.
The rulers gave _____, or large areas of land, to loyal colonists.
encomiendas
La Florida
conquistadors
Indios
Bartolome de Las Casas was a famous ________.
explorer
king
Native American
missionary
What led Juan Ponce de Leon to Florida?
He was looking for gold.
He was searching for Cuba.
He was looking for the "Fountain of Youth."
He had been told about a beautiful place filled with flowers and orange groves.
Escaped Native Americans and Africans created _____.
missionaries
maroon communities
encomiendas
mestizos
People who were both Spanish and Native American were called _______.
mestizos
Criollos
viceroys
Indios
Which of the following did John Cabot hope to discover?
Newfoundland
the Northwest Passage
New York
Virginia
Colonists from Newfoundland sent _____ back to Europe.
bananas
cows
fish
cotton
The Dutch East India Company hired _____ to find the Northwest Passage.
Henry Hudson
Giovanni de Verrazano
Christopher Columbus
Bartolome de Las Casas
Henry Hudson believed that North America was _____.
only 70 miles wide
not a suitable place for a colony
rich with spices
too violent
Which explorer discovered what is now known as the Hudson River?
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Giovanni de Verrazano
Christopher Columbus
______ became a trading post for furs.
Spain
France
Quebec
Jamestown
How were French missionaries different from Spanish missionaries?
they lived among the Native Americans
they brought new religious ideas
they were European
they came to the New World for religious reasons
_____ became the governor of New France.
Henry Hudson
Samuel Champlain
Giovanni de Verrazano
Sir Walter Raleigh
King Louis XIII preferred that ______ settle the colony of New France.
Presbyterians
Jews
Catholics
Mormons
Which European explorer was the first to see Lake Michigan?
Cartier
Brule
Nicolet
Champlain
_____ was the first English colony.
Jamestown
Plymouth
Roanoke
Quebec
Squanto helped the Pilgrims by _____.
giving them money to buy supplies
keeping other Native Americans from attacking them
building homes for them
teaching them how to farm and hunt
Why did the colonists of Roanoke Island return to England?
They found gold.
They didn't know how to live off the land.
They had smallpox.
The fur trade was too slow.
The Jamestown colony succeeded because colonists began ____.
growing tobacco
fighting with the Native Americans
trading with the French
growing cotton
Why did Pilgrims die after landing at Cap Cod?
They drowned in a flood.
They died from starvation and disease.
They were killed by Native Americans.
Civil war broke out among the colonists.
