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1 Unit 1 Test Review

2 Essay Questions I will pick 2 from the 4 provided essay questions to put on the test and then you select one to answer. Explain the significance of the Columbian Exchange and discuss what the products of trade were. How has that trade affected us today? Compare and contrast the 4 regions of the colonies. Include specific details on the economies, reasons for settlement, and people who are there. Some of the first colonies in North America were founded by people looking to practice their religion freely. But instead of creating one large community open to all faiths, the first settlers created a number of different religious communities. Explain why and describe these different communities. The 1700s, brought economic and population growth to the colonies. Describe this growth, the reasons why, and how England begins to interfere in colonial affairs. Be specific!

3 Which early American civilization was the largest?
Aztec Inca Maya Olmec

4 Aztec

5 Which colonies made up the New England colonies?

6 Mass, Conn, New Hamp, Rhode Island

7 Which of these resulted from the Maya’s study of astronomy?
365 day calendar Colorful cave paintings The first globe Discovery of Neptune

8 365 day calendar

9 Which of these powerful empires was conquered by Hernan Cortes?
Inca Maya Aztec Dakota

10 Aztec

11 Which colonies made up the Middle Colonies?

12 Penn, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware

13 Which country’s colonists maintained a profitable fur trade in North America?
Denmark England France Spain

14 France

15 In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Nina, Pinta, and the
Cortes Isabella Dona Marina Santa Maria

16 Santa Maria

17 What kept John White from returning to Roanoke for nearly three years?
The collapse of the English economy The defeat of the Spanish Armada Fighting between England and Spain His poor health

18 Fighting between England and Spain

19 Which of the following is an example of a joint-stock company?
The Drake Company The England Company The Roanoke Company The Virginia Company

20 Virginia Company

21 Which crop saved Jamestown by making money for the settlement’s investors?
Corn Tobacco Rice wheat

22 Tobacco

23 The Mayflower Compact was a
Pledge to obey the laws of the colony. Promise to keep peace with Native Americans. Pledge to the other colonies. Religious loyalty contract

24 Pledge to obey the laws of the colony

25 Where in America was religious tolerance first practiced?
Boston Cape Cod Plymouth Rhode Island

26 Plymouth

27 Which of these was originally called New Amsterdam?
New Jersey Philadelphia Rhode Island New York City

28 New York City

29 ______ were servants who were settlers who paid for their passage to America by working without pay for a period of time.

30 Indentured servants

31 Founded in 1732, _____ was the last English colony established in North America.

32 Georgia

33 Which colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion?
Georgia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina

34 Maryland

35 What was Jamestown’s legislative assembly called?

36 House of Burgesses

37 Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called
Anglicans New Anglicans Puritans Separatists

38 Separatists

39 Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern colonies?
Farmers Merchants Plantation owners teachers

40 Plantation owners

41 The main reason for population growth in the colonies was
Epidemics Immigration Health care Large families

42 immigration

43 The American who best exemplified the Enlightenment way of thinking was
Thomas Hobbes William Penn John Locke Benjamin Franklin

44 Benjamin Franklin

45 In 1700, the major powers in North America were

46 British and French

47 What is the policy that directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies?

48 Mercantilism

49 What were the two largest cities in the colonies?

50 Boston and Philadelphia

51 There is no stealing if a question is answered incorrectly
True or False There is no stealing if a question is answered incorrectly Sorry!

52 Explorers searched the coast of North America looking for the Northwest Passage to Asia.

53 True

54 Pizarro was able to conquer the Inca after executing the Inca’s ruler.

55 True

56 Christopher Columbus was an Italian sailing for the English.

57 False Sailed for the Spanish

58 The Pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower were Puritans.

59 False They were separatists.

60 The Pilgrims founded Jamestown.

61 False They founded Plymouth.

62 A group of Puritans led by John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

63 True

64 A lack of religious tolerance by the Puritans led to the formation of colonies elsewhere (i.e. Rhode Island).

65 True

66 By 1750, The Dutch colonies stretched for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast.

67 False

68 The word “Pennsylvania” means “Penn’s experiment”.

69 False

70 After the Navigation Acts were passed, colonial merchants could not use foreign ships to send their goods.

71 True

72 The idea of representative government was introduced by the colonists.

73 False

74 The colonists resisted the Navigation Acts because they wanted to manufacture their own goods.

75 False

76 Compare and contrast the economies of the New England and Southern Colonies.
Natural resources, etc.

77 Industrial north vs. agricultural south.


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