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5 Written Questions

1. Drawn up by Parliament and presented to King William II and Queen Mary, it listed certain rights of the British people. It also limited the king's powers in taxing and prohibited the maintenance of a standing army in peacetime
2. One founded as protection for Quakers. One was a colony where Catholics would be free from persecution. Another founded for all persecuted religions, including all Christian denominations and Jews
3. Offered to individuals who managed to build a settlement of at least 50 people within 4 years. Few people were able to accomplish this.
4. Commercial trading posts established for the early slave trade along the coast of Africa or on the small offshore islands
5. 1692-Several accusations of witchcraft led to sensational at which Cotton Mather presided as the chief judge. 18 people were hanged as witches. Most of the people involved admitted that the trials and executions had been a terrible mistake.

5 Matching Questions

1. Slavery begins
2. John Smith
3. Beringia
4. Francisco de Cornonado
5. Five Nations

1. a 1619 - Africans arrived in Virginia aboard a Dutch trading ship. Not all were held as slaves. In the 1660s House of Burgesses passed law whereby Africans and their offspring were to be treated as lifelong slaves.
2. b 1540s explored the SW including the Grand Canyon, Texas, and as far north as Kansas
3. c Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter
4. d exposed during Ice Age, land bridge spanning 600 miles between Siberia and Alaska
5. e Federation of tribes occupying northern New York: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Senecca, the Onondaga, and the Cayuga. Also known as the "Iriquois," It was the most powerful and efficient North American Indian organization during the 1700s

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. He convinced Charles I to signs the "New Laws" prohibiting Indian slavery and attempted to put an end to the encomienda system by limiting ownership of serfs to a single generation.
   1. Bartolome de Las Casas
   2. Carolinas
   3. Cabeza de Vaca
   4. Colonial agents
2. French Protestants. The Edict of Nantes (1598) freed them from persecution in France, but when that was revoked in the late 1700s, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled to other countries, including America.
   1. Cortes
   2. hacienda
   3. Pueblos
   4. Huguenots
3. She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639
   1. Anne Hutchinson, Antinomianism
   2. Asian, Polynesian, Norseman
   3. Conquistadores
   4. John Rolfe, tobacco
4. King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion
   1. 1608
   2. 1699
   3. 1517
   4. 1675-1676
5. Miscalculated earth's circumference (16 vs. 26 thousand miles). First modern European to make contact with the Americas in 1492 by landing in the Bahamas and later on Hispaniola.
   1. Christopher Columbus
   2. Clovis spear point
   3. Astrolabe
   4. Mayflower Compact

5 True/False Question

1. 300-900 → French establish Louisiana
   

   True        False

2. Balboa → complex and advanced pre-Columbian Indian society. Chichen Itza was a leading city. Constructed canals for irrigation, developed an accurate calendar and a writing system, and practiced human sacrifice.
   

   True        False

3. 1517 → Martin Luther challenges Catholic Church
   

   True        False

4. Joint stock company → 1629 - The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Puritan. Opposed total democracy, believing the colony was best governed by a small group of leaders. He helped organize the New England Confederation in 1643 and was its first president
   

   True        False

5. Mayflower Compact → 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
   

   True        False