Exam Pracitce Question Preview (ID: 62214)

a) they are in the middle of Europe

b) they are between Washington D.C. and California

c) they are located between the New England and the Southern colonies

d) they are located between Massachusetts and Rhode Island

a) the Mayflower Compact

b) the Magna Carta

c) the English Bill of Rights

d) the Articles of Confederation

a) showed the Pilgrims how to use weapons to protect themselves

b) helped the Pilgrims survive by teaching them to farm, hunt, and fish

c) shared their oral traditions and histories

d) taught the Pilgrims about vaccinations to prevent disease

a) to leave England and create new settlements in North America

b) in search of economic gain by creating tobacco plantations

c) to escape religious persecution and maintain their religious values and way of life

d) to set up trade outposts in the New World

a) economic gain

b) religious freedom

c) spices

d) trade

a) Native Americans electing a council of elders to make decisions for the tribe

b) the English allowing for tobacco plantations which used slave labor to grow and process the crops

c) the Virginia Company allowing colonists the right to elect burgesses, who made laws for the colony

d) the American people voting for the President of the United States

a) it was paradise, and had all the comforts of home

b) they caught many diseases from Native Americans

c) they faced conflict from other European colonies in the region

d) they faced hardships and hunger

a) the British started making more money

b) the Spanish Armada’s defeat

c) the Native Americans invited them

d) France gave up exploring

a) the colony was set up as a tobacco plantation to make England rich

b) the colonists at Roanoke came to the New World aboard the Mayflower

c) it was the first English colony in the New World, but it disappeared mysteriously

d) the colony was saved when one of the English settlers married Pocahontas

a) he made a deal with the Native Americans to supply food to the colonists

b) he married Pocahontas, the daughter of a Powhatan Chief

c) he sent people back to England to bring supplies and food

d) he knew that the colony would not survive without hard work so he forced settlers to work

a) to spread the Spanish way of life and the Catholic religion

b) to create centers of trade and commerce in the region

c) to build military forts to protect their settlements

d) to create farms to increase crops sent to Spain

a) Pope Leo X

b) Giovanni de Verrazano

c) Jacques Cartier

d) Martin Luther

a) to claim the territory for Spain

b) to find gold

c) to help spread their religion

d) to make peace with native tribes

a) they lived much cleaner lives than the Europeans

b) they had no immunity to European diseases

c) they did not believe in using vaccinations on their children

d) they Spanish brought foods that made natives sick

a) to find gold

b) to spread their religion/god

c) to create settlements in the Americas/glory

d) all of the above

a) he was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean

b) his crew were the first to circumnavigate the globe

c) he made three voyages to the New World and claimed it for Spain

d) he was the first European to land in Florida and named the land “La Florida”

a) the Columbian Exchange

b) the Spanish Conquistadors

c) the Triangular Trade Route

d) the Northwest Passage

a) better maps

b) improvement in ship design

c) inventions such as the astrolabe and compass

d) all of the above

a) Atlantic

b) gulf of mexico

c) Ohio river

d) Mississippi river

a) to learn about the culture and people of the region

b) to obtain spices and other valuable goods

c) to create colonies to increase their nation’s wealth

d) to find a New World