AP-USH Unit 1 Test (mult. choice questions)

Christopher Columbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages “Indians” because?

He believed they came from the east Indies in the Pacific.

True or false? The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming.

False

What factor is believed to have dramatically reduced New World native populations after contact with Europeans?

Diseases

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

St. Louis

True or false? The French, like the English, tried remain separate from the native people.

False

In what ways were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English puritans?

Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that introduced the puritans thought

The English reformation resulted from?

A political dispute between Henry VIII and the Catholic Church

The first profitable economic development in Jamestown resulted from?

The production of tobacco

Emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch?

The New York colony

Encourage the colonist to create an important ship building industry of their own

The navigation acts enacted by the English parliament

Was a refuge for English Catholics

Early Maryland colony

What became the dominant crop of the Caribbean colonies?

Sugar

The Virginia company developed the “headright” system to

Attract new settlers to the colony

Georgia was founded to?

Create a military barrier against the Spanish.

True or false? English colonist could only produce products that were also sold in England.

False

Was a major contributor to the rise in slavery in the southern.

Bacons rebellion.

The Putin founders in Massachusetts, who described their colony as “city upon a hill”

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

The triangular trade in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity

Rum, slaves, sugar. All of the above.

True or false? The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies.

True

Passing by the navigation act in the 1600s and 1700s, the British government intended to?

Guarantee that British government would have a financial share of all colony exports.

Mercantilism as applied by British to its North America colonies, meant that the British Government?

Regulated colonial shipping and trades