U.S. History Final Chapters 1-3

Women in America married earlier than women in Europe because

Who was Geneva's most influential teacher and was instrumental in the Protestant Reformation?

Some groups of Indians had built developed civilizations by the time Columbus arrived in America.

Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Which of the following was not an epidemic that seriously reduced the population of New England?

Founded Providence, which later became the capital of Rhode Island

Which of the following is not true about Spain in the colonies?

Which of the following was not characteristic of early colonial settlers?

The Eastern Woodland Indians were uncivilized and politically unskilled

Which of these was not an innovation that made it possible for explorers to extend their travels to the New World.

Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire all

What work contract gave land to a colonist in exchange for labor?

In education, the middle colonies and the South lagged behind New England because

Who founded Maryland?

Infant death rates in the colonies were

What type of colony was governed by appointees of the king?

Which two colonies came from the land originally called New Netherland?

Which ruler experienced defeat with the destruction of an armada?

The Protestant Reformation improved spiritual conditions but did not affect education.

What document of self-government did the Pilgrims sign when they first arrived in America?

The Toleration Act of 1649 granted religious freedom to all settlers in Massachusetts.

Wrote Frame of Government of Pennsylvania

Children were an important labor source on colonial farms.

The famous work Description of the World was about the adventures of Marco Polo.

Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation

Which German monk was influential in starting the Protestant Reformation?

The Pennsylvania Dutch were

Englishman who financed settlements in the New World

Who explored the New York region for Holland and sailed up a river that now bears his name?

Pope Alexander VI divided the world between England and Spain for exploration.

Also known as Lord Baltimore

Which phrase best fits Rhode Island?

What were dame schools?

Englishman whom the Spanish viewed as a pirate

What road did settlers take from Philadelphia to the backcountry?

Rice was a crop in

What was the name of Benjamin Franklin's publication?

Which was considered a New England colony?

Conquistadors were Spanish soldiers/explorers, such as Hernando Cortes, who were often brutal.

The French and the Spanish had fewer settlements in the New World than the English.

Which of the following foods was already in North America when the Europeans came to settle?

Epidemics in the colonies were more common during the eighteenth-century colonies than during the previous because

The House of Burgesses was

What type of colony were both of the Carolinas?

Mercantilism was the economic system based on building national power by amassing a surplus of hard money (i.e. gold).

Which of the following was not true about education in the colonies?

The French called the region (that is modern-day Canada) New France.

Spanish explorer whose expedition discovered the Grand Canyon

The Protestant Reformation took place only in the German states.

Headrights offered by the Virginia Company were a means of obtaining land in the colonies.

Which merchants controlled the overland routes to Asia?

The colony on Roanoke Island because known as the "Lost Colony" because its inhabitants disappeared

"Purchased" Manhattan Island from a group of Indians

The Pilgrims left Holland because

The Pilgrims were Separatists, not Puritans.

Flooded ditches were necessary to grow what crop?

Dutch explorer who claimed New Netherland

Who was the most significant figure in the settlement of Connecticut?

Few Germans wanted to move to the backcountry.

Virginia was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I

What name was given to the peoples of the Adena and Hopewell cultures that developed in what is now called the Midwest?

What people built their capital city on the site of modern Mexico City?

Harvard was America's first college.

Italian explorer who sailed for England

The Bering Straight is the thing which some historians think people crossed via a land bridge from Asia to North America

What paddle-shaped board did the colonists' children use for reading?

What is another name for the "colonial style" of architecture?

Italian explorer who sailed for Spain

Francis Drake was the English seaman who circumnavigated the globe.

America's population increased greatly during the eighteenth century.

A Powhatan chief's daughter who traveled to England

Montezuma was the king of the Aztecs who thought Hernando Cortes might be an Aztec god.

Which of the following men explored for Portugal?

Connecticut differed from Massachusetts in that it

What was the standard text for educating young people during the colonial period?

The Old Deluder Satan Act was a law based on the view that basic education is essential.

St. Augustine is the oldest permanent city settled by Europeans in the present United States.

King Charles I was involved in establishing the southern colonies.

What type of colony was governed by a trade company that received its authorization from the king?

Which type of food was not considered standard fare for a colonial meal?

Fur trading became a profitable business activity of Frenchmen because long Canadian winters reduced farming capacity.

Settlers came to America for all of the following reasons except

Virginia Dare was the first English child born in America.

Spanish explorer who named Florida

Enforced the kind of discipline necessary for the survival of Jamestown

What was the primary motivation for the settlement of Massachusetts?

Which colony was established partly to provide a place for debtors to start a new life?

The Puritans' attitude toward the Anglican Church was that they wanted

Which governor wanted to make the Massachusetts Bay Colony "a model of Christian charity"?

Which of the following was considered a middle colony?

In what colony did the Quakers undertake a :Holy Experiment"?

Which of the following was true about education in the southern colonies?

Puritans emphasized education primarily because they wanted children to

Puritans enjoyed few pleasures in their lives.

Who was the one-legged governor of New Netherland?

Which section of the colonies had the greatest cultural diversity?

Which factor most determined the type of housing used by the various Indian tribes?

The Dutch fought the English fiercely for many years over control of New Netherland.

Most southern planters lived in stately white mansions.

Which country was Spain's earliest competitor to reach the Far East and make early claims to new lands?

What new technique did Cotton Mather support to battle smallpox?

Spanish explorer whose crew circumnavigated the globe

American businessmen refused to wear wigs like the Europeans.

The French colonies in North America did not attract large numbers of settlers.

Scotts-Irish and German settlers

Provided the Plymouth settlers with lifesaving agricultural information

A well-known minister in the colonies

Portuguese explorer who sailed to India and obtained a profitable cargo of spices

Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River

The American Indians introduced many new foods to European settlers.

Instruction regarding Christian beliefs is called

Which European nation first discovered a sea route to Asia?