Unit II Self-Check Quiz

Question 1: Match the English Colonial Region with the most appropriate colony, settlement, or community. 1. The Puritans were among the earliest settlers of this reason. a. New England 2. Populations from the Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany migrated to this region. a. Mid-Atlantic 3. Jamestown, Virginia, and its most successful cash crop, tobacco, are in this region. a. Chesapeake 4. Due to the extreme temperatures, farming the lucrative cash crops native to this region came with threat of disease, such as malaria. a. Lower South 5. 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 Question 2: Match the explorer to the country for whom they sailed: 1. Prince Henry the Navigator a. Portugal 2. Hernan Cortes a. Spain 3. Francisco Pizarro a. Spain 4. Christopher Columbus a. Spain 5. John Cabot a. England Question 3: Match the description with the most appropriate term. 1. Required Native American towns to supply a pool of labor for Spanish overlords. a. Repartimiento 2. Exploited assigned Native Americans to work and defend the colony and spread Christianity. a. Encomienda 3. French farm-settlers, fur traders, and missionaries. a. Habitants 4. Large tracts of land and the right to govern the tenants there in exchange for passage costs. a. Patroonships 5. The protectionist economic principle that nations should control trade with their colonies to ensure a favorable balance of trade. a. Mercantilism

Question 4: Why did England not make stronger attempts to colonize the New World before the late 16 th to early 17 th century? England’s attention was focused on internal challenges, including the Spanish (Catholic) encroachment upon Ireland and Scotland. Question 5: Ultimately ill-fated and its conclusion a mystery, what was England’s first attempt at colonization in the New World? Roanoke Question 6: What system of labor, implemented by Virginia Company, allowed those who paid their own passage an additional 50 acres for each servant or family member who brought with them to the colony? Headright system Question 7: 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? John Rolfe Question 8: What was the primary objective of the Puritans? To eliminate all remnants of Catholicism from the Church of England Question 9: 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. Question 10: What was patroonship? 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 11: While Virginian settlers at Jamestown eventually discovered that growing tobacco was a lucrative method of making money, what did they initially hope would be their source of income in the New World? Gold Question 12: Which best describe the Columbian Exchange? An exchange of plants, animals, and disease between Europe and the Americas Question 13: 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 Question 14: 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 Jamestown was known as what? The Starving Time Question 15: Where did the transition from indentured servitude to slavery as the amin source of labor in some English colonies originally take place? Barbados, West Indies