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Quizizz Practice: Exam 1 – Chapters 1–4

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first peoples arrived in the Americas by crossing what land bridge?

a)

Silk Road

b)

Sahara Crossing

c)

Bering Strait

d)

Amazon Route

2.

Which Mesoamerican civilization is considered the “mother culture” of later societies?

a)

Aztec

b)

Maya

c)

Olmec

d)

Inca

3.

Which Mesoamerican group developed advanced astronomy and a calendar system?

a)

Olmec

b)

Maya

c)

Pueblo

d)

Hopewell

4.

The Aztec capital city was:

a)

Cahokia

b)

Chichen Itza

c)

Tenochtitlán

d)

Jamestown

5.

The Pueblo (Anasazi) are best known for:

a)

Building pyramids

b)

Cliff dwellings

c)

Sailing canoes

d)

Domesticated llamas

6.

The Hopewell people are remembered for:

a)

Cliff dwellings

b)

Chinampas (floating gardens)

c)

Mound building and trade

d)

Large stone heads

7.

The Iroquois Confederacy was unusual because:

a)

It had kings

b)

It used written laws

c)

Women had power in choosing leaders

d)

It relied on fishing alone

8.

Cahokia, a Mississippian site near St. Louis, is famous for:

a)

Totem poles

b)

Large earthen mounds

c)

Underground cities

d)

Castles

9.

Which was a main reason Europeans began exploring in the 1400s–1500s?

a)

Escaping dinosaurs

b)

Learning from Native Americans

c)

Finding new trade routes to Asia

d)

To join the Iroquois Confederacy

10.

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided new lands between:

a)

France & England

b)

England & the Netherlands

c)

Spain & Portugal

d)

Spain & France

11.

Spanish conquistadors like Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro are remembered for:

a)

Building Jamestown

b)

Conquering large Native empires

c)

Creating the fur trade

d)

Discovering Canada

12.

Spain’s first permanent settlement in North America was:

a)

Santa Fe

b)

Plymouth

c)

St. Augustine

d)

Cahokia

13.

The English colony of Jamestown (1607) was started by which group?

a)

The Puritans

b)

The Pilgrims

c)

The Virginia Company

d)

The Jesuits

14.

Early Jamestown settlers survived largely because of:

a)

Gold mines

b)

Native allies

c)

Tobacco farming

d)

Horses

15.

The Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay mainly for:

a)

Rich farmland

b)

Religious freedom

c)

Gold

d)

Fur trade

16.

Anne Hutchinson is remembered for:

a)

Leading a slave rebellion

b)

Fighting the French

c)

Challenging Puritan religious leaders

d)

Founding Georgia

17.

The “headright system” was designed to:

a)

Punish criminals

b)

Divide up Native lands

c)

Give land to settlers who paid passage to Virginia

d)

Train ministers

18.

The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were conflicts between:

a)

England & France

b)

Dutch & Iroquois

c)

Virginia colonists & Native peoples

d)

Spain & Portugal

19.

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) was caused partly by:

a)

French invasion

b)

Anger over land, Natives, and elite rule in Virginia

c)

Desire to abolish slavery

d)

Religious conflict

20.

The Middle Passage refers to:

a)

Route across Canada

b)

Journey enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic

c)

Fur trade system

d)

Pilgrim journey to America

21.

The Stono Rebellion (1739) was:

a)

A Native revolt against Spain

b)

A major slave rebellion in South Carolina

c)

A fight between Puritans

d)

A colonial protest against taxes

22.

The Columbian Exchange refers to:

a)

A peace treaty

b)

Transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Old & New Worlds

c)

A slave market

d)

A trade law

23.

Triangular Trade included:

a)

Canada, Mexico, Brazil

b)

Europe, Africa, Americas

c)

China, India, Europe

d)

France, Spain, Portugal

24.

The Navigation Acts required:

a)

Colonies to trade freely with anyone

b)

Colonies to trade mainly with England

c)

Colonists to join the British navy

d)

Native Americans to become merchants

25.

“Salutary Neglect” describes:

a)

Harsh British rule

b)

Britain’s loose enforcement of colonial laws

c)

Native policy toward Europeans

d)

Puritan religious laws

26.

The First Great Awakening was a movement of:

a)

Enlightenment science

b)

Religious revival and emotional preaching

c)

Slave revolts

d)

Native alliances

27.

The Enlightenment encouraged:

a)

Superstition and fear

b)

Reason, science, and individual rights

c)

Magic rituals

d)

Blind obedience

28.

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was part of a larger struggle between:

a)

Spain & Portugal

b)

Britain & France

c)

England & the Netherlands

d)

Pilgrims & Puritans

29.

The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended the French and Indian War by giving Britain:

a)

Spain’s colonies in South America

b)

Control of land east of the Mississippi River

c)

Control of the Caribbean

d)

Canada to Spain

30.

John Smith is remembered for:

a)

Writing Common Sense

b)

Preaching the Great Awakening

c)

Helping organize and save Jamestown

d)

Starting Bacon’s Rebellion

31.

John Rolfe is important because he:

a)

Invented the headright system

b)

Fought the Iroquois

c)

Developed tobacco cultivation in Virginia

d)

Led a slave revolt

32.

Jesuits (French missionaries) focused on:

a)

Gold mines

b)

Converting Native Americans to Christianity

c)

Building Jamestown

d)

Slave trade

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