Sanders HIS 1301 Unit 2 T

QUESTION 1

1. The religious, political, and cultural movement that began with Martin Luther and John Calvin in the early 16th century that eventually split Catholic Europe was called:

		Puritanism.
		Protestant Reformation.
		Bacon's Rebellion.
		Pontiac's Rebellion.

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QUESTION 2

1. Which best describes the Columbian Exchange?

		A series of letters exchanged between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish crown
		An exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas
		A diplomatic exchange amongst the Spanish and indigenous people
		A form of communication exchanged Columbus and other European explorers

4 points   

QUESTION 3

1. Ultimately ill-fated and its conclusion a mystery, what was England's first attempt at colonization in the New World?

		Jamestown
		St. Augustine
		Montreal
		Roanoke

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QUESTION 4

1. Who was the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony that sought to create a "city upon a hill" which would serve as a model of reformed Protestantism in the New World?

		John Winthrop
		Roger Williams
		Anne Hutchinson
		John Eliot

4 points   

QUESTION 5

1. What was patroonship?

		A Dutch ship used for transporting beaver, fox, and bear skins/furs
		A Spanish system of patronage that encouraged education in the arts
		A French style of hat that was trimmed with beaver fur from French Canada...the latest style
		A Dutch system of granting tracts of land in New Netherland to heavily invested merchants who would then have the right to govern the tenants who lived upon the land

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QUESTION 6

1. Bacon's Rebellion was caused primarily caused by:

		settlers in Virginia who believed that the government was hindering their access to land ownership and former indentured servants viewing their opportunities for land ownership challenged.
		African enslaved people within the Chesapeake colonies wanting better treatment.
		Susquehannock Indians wanted the Jamestown settlers to pay a fair price for their land.
		The Virginia governor, William Berkeley, standing up to Bacon because Bacon excluded Berkeley from an inner circle of influential Virginia colonists.

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QUESTION 7

1. Where did the transition from indentured servitude to slavery as the main source of labor in some English colonies originally take place?

		Barbados, West Indies
		Charles Town, South Carolina
		St. Augustine, Florida
		Jamestown, Virginia

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QUESTION 8

1. Seeking religious freedom from Catholic France, the Calvinists first emerged in North America around what modern location?

		Chicago, Illinois
		St. Louis, Missouri
		New Orleans, Louisiana
		Brooklyn, New York

4 points   

QUESTION 9

1. Runaway enslaved people in Jamaica created what type of groups that often lived off the land and built their communities based on their traditional ways?

		Maroon communities
		Island refuge
		Caribbean societies
		African churches

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QUESTION 10

1. Signed by 41 men in 1620, this document is sometimes referred to as the "first American governing document."

		Magna Carta
		Mayflower Compact
		Articles of Confederation
		The Constitution

4 points   

QUESTION 11

1. The lives of many of the original Jamestown settlers were plagued by poor health, lack of food, and fighting with the native people. The winter of 1609-1610 was especially difficult as the settlement was nearly obliterated. This winter in Jamestown was known as what?

		The Vanquished Colony
		The Disintegrated
		The Starving Time
		The Frozen Year

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QUESTION 12

1. During his time, Columbus was considered an exception navigator; however, he also had access to equipment that his predecessors did not. What navigational tool did Columbus (and his contemporaries) have access to that was used to measure distance and map constellations?

		The astrolabe
		Waldseemüller’s map
		The Headright System
		The sand glass

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QUESTION 13

1. What system of labor, implemented by the Virginia Company, allowed those who paid their own passage to Virginia to receive 50 acres plus an additional 50 acres for each servant or family member who was brought with them to the colony?

		Slavery
		Headright system
		Indentured servitude
		Tenantry

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QUESTION 14

1. What was the Middle Passage?

		The Columbian Spice Route from Spain to the Far East
		The Spanish leg of the land route between Eastern Europe and Western Africa
		The horrific one-to-two-month transatlantic journey experienced by captured African people who were taken from the West African coast and sent to the Chesapeake, Lower South, and/or Caribbean
		The route taken along the middle river in North America that would become known as the Mississippi River

4 points   

QUESTION 15

1. What American colony received the first Africans in 1619?

		South Carolina
		New York
		Virginia
		Georgia

QUESTION 16

1. Match the English Colonial Region with the most appropriate colony, settlement, or community.

The Puritans were among the earliest settlers of this region                                                               Populations from the Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany migrated to this region                                                               Jamestown, Virginia, and its most successful cash crop, tobacco, are in this region                                                               This region was also known as the Plantation South due to the rich farmlands                                                               Cash crops like indigo, rice, and sugarcane caused tremendous growth for marketplaces like Charles Town and Barbados in this region

A. South Atlantic Coast and Caribbean B. Lower South C. Chesapeake D. New England E. Mid-Atlantic

QUESTION 17

Match the description with the most appropriate term.

Required Native American towns to supply a pool of labor for Spanish overlords                                                               Exploited assigned Native Americans to work and defend the colony and spread Christianity                                                               French farm-settlers, fur traders, and missionaries                                                               Large tracts of land and the right to govern the tenants there in exchange for passage costs                                                               The protectionist economic principle that nations should control trade with their colonies to ensure a favorable balance of trade

A. repartimiento B. patroonships C. encomienda D. habitants E. mercantilism

15 points   

QUESTION 18

Match the explorer to the country for whom they sailed:

Prince Henry the Navigator                                         Hernán Cortés                                         Francisco Pizarro                                         Christopher Columbus                                         John Cabot

A. Portugal B. England C. Spain