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HIS 1110 Unit 2 Test Questions & Answers.
• Question 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? Correct Answer: The astrolabe
• Question 2
Why did England not make stronger attempts to colonize the New World before the late 16th to early 17th century? Correct Answer: England's attention was focused on internal challenges, including the Spanish (Catholic) encroachment upon Ireland and Scotland
• Question 3
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? Correct Answer: Maroon communities
• Question 4
Where did the transition from indentured servitude to slavery as the main source of labor in some English colonies originally take place? Correct Answer: Barbados, West Indies
• Question 5
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? Correct Answer: The Starving Time
- Question 6 What was patroonship? Correct Answer: 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 - Question 7 Which best describes the Columbian Exchange? Correct Answer: An exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas - Question 8 Signed by 41 men in 1620, this document is sometimes referred to as the "first American governing document." Correct Answer: Mayflower Compact - Question 9 Pocahontas, who was also known as Matoaka and would eventually take the name Rebecca, married what Englishman in 1614 to help suppress the Anglo-Powhatan War? Correct Answer: John Rolfe - Question 10 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: Correct Answer: Protestant Reformation.
- Question 16 Match the English Colonial Region with the most appropriate colony, settlement, or community. o Question Correct Match The Puritans were among the earliest settlers of this region E. New England Populations from the Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany migrated to this region C. Mid-Atlantic Jamestown, Virginia, and its most successful cash crop, tobacco, are in this region D. Chesapeake This region was also known as the Plantation South due to the rich farmlands A. South Atlantic Coast and Caribbean Cash crops like indigo, rice, and sugarcane caused tremendous growth for marketplaces like Charles Town and Barbados in this region B. Lower South
Question 17
Match the description with the most appropriate term. o Question Correct Match Required Native American towns to supply a pool of labor for Spanish overlords C. repartimi ento Exploited assigned Native Americans to work and defend the colony and spread Christianity D. encomie nda French farm-settlers, fur traders, and missionaries A. habitants Large tracts of land and the right to govern the tenants there in exchange for passage costs B. patroons hips The protectionist economic principle that nations should control trade with their colonies to ensure a favorable balance of trade E. mercantili sm Match the explorer to the country for whom they sailed:
Question Correct Match Prince Henry the Navigator B. Portug al Hernán Cortés A. Spain Francisco Pizarro A. Spain Christopher Columbus A. Spain John Cabot C. Englan d
