Quiz 1

During the early years the survival and growth of the Plymouth colony

Was due in large part to the assistance of the Native population.

led the colonists to grow rich from the surrounding productive farmlands

Nevertheless saw two-thirds of its population die

Was critically important for trade routes with Jamestown to the south

The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony

Is historically inconclusive

Deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years

Was a severe food shortage

was a virulent malarial epidemic

Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city?

New Orleans

St. Louis

Detroit

Baton Rouge

Regarding the Indians, Puritan settlers were LEAST likely to advocate a policy of

Tolerance and respect

Conversion to Christianity

Extermination

displacement

The Virginia Company

Never sanctioned military action against the Native Americans of Virginia

Deeply opposed the importation of Africans to the colonies

Had its charter revoked by James I

Was absorbed by the crown because it was becoming too powerfu

The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "city upon a hill"

Wanted to create a community that would be open to all peoples of all faiths.

Wanted to construct their community on high ground to save it from Indian attacks.

Sought to create a community in which all people were treated as equals.

Felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world.

Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?

Spanish gold and silver mines were enormously productive.

Spanish colonies would form one of the largest empires in the history of the world.

The Catholic Church was very interested in spreading Christianity in Mexico.

The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming.

What became the dominant crop of the Caribbean colonies?

Beans

Tobacco

Cotton

Sugar

The Indigenous empire that dominated modern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest was the

Aztec

Inca

Olmec

Maya

The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was

The Netherlands.

Portugal.

Spain.

England.

The initial Jamestown colonists focused primarily on

Developing peaceful relations with the Indians in the area.

Building a family-centered community.

The search for gold.

The long-term success of the settlement.

The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony was

Roger Williams

Johns Smith

John Winthrop

William Bradford

An encomienda was a

License to exact tribute and labor from natives.

Uniform worn by conquistadores.

religious ceremony.

Special title given to Spanish explorers of the New World.

In 1619, another crucial group of humans was forced into the Virginia social order:

Africans

Tobacco Brides

Catholics

Puritans

In the century prior to European contact, the Indigenous people who inhabited the Americas:

Were culturally united because they spoke the same language.

Occupied the world's most diverse place at that period of time.

Were concentrated in areas mainly east of the Mississippi.

Did not have extensive trading opportunities due to the lack of roads.

Christopher Columbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages "Indians" because

he believed they came from the East Indies in the Pacific.

He wanted to hide his discovery from rival explorers.

Norse seamen had previously used the term.

It is what the natives called themselves.

In which area of technology were Indians more advanced than the Virginia colonists?

Agriculture

Weaponry

Ocean-going vessels

Tools

The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas

Married Englishman John Smith.

Created an interest in England in "civilizing" Indians.

Refused to convert to Christianity.

Was kidnapped by John Rolfe.

At the time of the beginning of the slave trade, most Africans

Were primitive peoples dominated by warring tribal societies.

Followed the Christian faith.

Had little commercial contact with the Mediterranean world.

Had well-developed econom.ies and political systems

The first profitable economic development in Jamestown resulted from

The discovery of gold and silver.

Fur trade with the Indians.

The production of tobacco.

development of fisheries and lumber.

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