Lesson one Quiz
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Name: jack Campbell
Period:2nd
Multiple Choice (1 point each)
Type the letter of the correct response next to the word “Answer”
1) In what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue? Answer: C
A)509 BC
B)1066
C)1492
D)2002
2) What was Columbus looking for when he first set sail? Answer: C
A) New slaves in Africa
B) The fountain of youth
C) Spices in Asia
D) An empire to conquer
3) What change occurred in world events that led directly to European powers to look for another way
to Asia? Answer: B
A) French and Indian war
B) Fall of Constantinople
C) Viking invasions from the north
D) The Discovery of America
4) How was Constantinople finally conquered? Answer: A
A) Giant cannon
B) Giant battering rams and ladders
C) Digging underneath the walls
D) They were starved out in a siege
5) Why did the Ottoman Empire not get along with Europe? Answer: B
A) The Ottomans wanted to save the Roman Empire
B) Their different religions caused friction and loss of trade
C) The Europeans no longer needed silk road goods
D) The Ottomans blamed Europe for the destruction of the Silk road
One Word Answer section. (2 points each)
Answer the following questions with one word
6) Which modern US State did Ponce de Leon help to settle?
Answer:
Florida
7) Who was forced to work in the Spanish encomienda system?
Answer:
native Americans
8) What economic system was used by European powers during this time that encourage colonialism?
Answer:
mercantilism
9) Who won the French and Indian war?
Answer:
The British
10) Who was the man that conquered the Aztecs?
Answer:
Hernan Cortes
Short answer questions (3 Points each)
11) What was the Silk Road?
Answer:
The silk road was trade routes connecting from the east to the west
12) Why was Constantinople an important city?
Answer:
Trade capital that linked the east and the west much of the SilkRoad went through the city
13) Why did the British expect to find gold in North America? What did they find instead?
Answer:
The Spanish found gold south of the border so they thought it would be the same in north America
14) Why were joint stock companies important to the English colonies?
Answer:
They raised money to pool their wealth in the colony that the investors hoped they would yield a profit
15) Why did things go so badly for the English at Jamestown?
Answer:
They neglected farming the starving time
16) Who were the puritans?
Answer: they moved to America because they did not like the church of England teaches so they
could teach freely in America
17) Describe the economy in the southern United states during colonial times
Answer:
It was a agriculture economy Colonist owed large plantations and produced crops like tobacco and
rice they had many slaves that worked on the plantations
18) Describe the economy in the North during colonial Times
Answer: trading in furs and fish
19) Why does it make sense that the North was more against slavery from the very beginning?
Answer:
20) Describe triangular trade:
Answer:
