US History Chapter 1 Test Flashcards

US History Chapter 1 Test

1158408693	During the 16th century, which country dominated exploration of the New World?	Spain	1
1158408694	1st European nation to discover sea route to Asia	Portugal	2
1158408695	What event encouraged people to escape Catholic persecution and settle in the New World?	Protestant Reformation	3
1158408696	What event's most important legacy was: change of view on salvation and the authority and outlook of the Bible	Protestant Reformation	4
1158408697	invention that helped Luther's ideas spread	printing press	5
1158408698	Who discovered Newfoundland and provided a basis for England's claim and colonization in the New World?	John Cabot	6
1158408699	Who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey?	King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain	7
1158408700	captain whose discipline helped Jamestown survive	John Smith	8
1158408701	powerful Spanish ruler	Philip II	9
1158408702	1st European to sail to India	Vasco de Gama	10
1158408703	1st to round the souther cape of Africa	Bartolomeu Dias	11
1158408704	Whom is attributed with circumnavigation of the world?	Ferdinand Magellan	12
1158408705	journeyed to China during rule of Kublai Khan	Marco Polo	13
1158408706	1st modern European to reach the Western Hemisphere, sailed west to reach the East	Christopher Columbus	14
1158408707	queen who sponsored colonization in North America	Queen Elizabeth I	15
1158408708	realized the discovery of a new continent	Amerigo Vespucci	16
1158408709	Indian chief who threatened Jamestown	Powhatan	17
1158408710	sea dog who attacked Spanish ships	Sir Francis Drake	18
1158408711	sponsored 2 vain attempts to establish colonies in Roanoke, the "Lost Colony" , Croatan written on the tree	Sir Walter Raleigh	19
1158408712	Indian princess who brought peace to Jamestown	Pocahontas	20
1158408713	Aztec emperor who was defeated by Hernando Cortes	Montezuma	21
1158408714	had a vain search for the 7 Cities of Cibola	Francisco de Coronado	22
1158408715	name of the French colony in the New World	New France	23
1158408716	What early English colony was assisted by Pocahontas?	Jamestown	24
1158408717	In what type of company did investors share profits from colonies without sharing liabilities?	joint-stock companies	25
1158408718	a combination of explorer and soldier of fortune	conquistador	26
1158408719	What event gave a new belief of religion?	Protestant Reformation	27
1158408720	book that taught believers new ideas	Priesthood of the Believer	28
1158408721	1st permanent English settlement in the New World	Jamestown	29
1158408722	Sir Francis Drake attacked ships and outposts of what country?	Spain	30
1158408723	Diseases of the white men caused the __________ population to drop dramatically.	Indian	31
1158408724	Aztecs were a highly civilized tribe from ___________	Mexico	32
1158408725	Who discovered the Mississippi River?	Hernando de Soto	33
1158408726	Who wrote about the adventures of a famous explorer with whom he shared a prison cell?	Rustichello	34
1158408727	Who set sail from Spain with 300 men and 5 boats and had a crew of 18 circumnavigate the world?	Ferdinand Magellan	35
1158408728	Who disobeyed the governor of Cuba and conquered the richest Indian tribe in Mexico?	Hernando Cortes	36
1158408729	Who told of his adventures in China and of a land called Cipango, which was reportedly paved with gold?	Marco Polo	37
1158408730	Who had a nickname of "Giovanni", reached Newfoundland while in search for China, and was known by a different name to the English?	John Cabot	38
1158408731	Who thought he could sail 3,000 miles west to reach China, but had faulty calculations?	Christopher Columbus	39
1158408732	Who had a ship called the "Golden Hind" and fought the Catholic threat on the high seas?	Sir Francis Drake	40
1158408733	Who attempted to settle the southeastern United States for the Spanish and was the first to explore the Florida peninsula?	Juan Ponce de Leon	41
1158408734	Who was America named after?	Amerigo Vespucci	42
1158408735	Who searched for the 7 Cities of Cibola and found the Grand Canyon?	Francisco de Coronado	43
1158408736	Who returned from India with a cargo of spices worth 60x the cost of his expedition?	Vasco de Gama	44
1158408737	Who financed 2 attempts to colonize the New World in an area that he called Virginia?	Sir Walter Raleigh	45
1158408738	Who landed at Tampa Bay, traveled to North Carolina, and eventually discovered the Mississippi River?	Hernando de Soto	46
1158408739	Who went to England for supplies but returned to America to find the town of Raleigh empty?	John White	47
1158408740	Who was the first to round the southern cape of Africa?	Bartolomeu Dias	48
1158408741	country that Cabot explored for	England	49
1158408742	country that Columbus explored for	Spain	50
1158408743	country that Coronado explored for	Spain	51
1158408744	country that Cortes explored for	Spain	52
1158408745	country that de Soto explored for	Spain	53
1158408746	country that Drake explored for	England	54
1158408747	country that Magellan explored for	Spain	55
1158408748	invention that helped Europeans discover the New World and help tell sailors which direction they were heading	compass	56
1158408749	invention that helped Europeans discover the New World and helped sailors determine their latitude	astrolabe	57
1158408750	invention that helped Europeans discover the New World and was a Portuguese ship that had multiple triangular sails that made it easily maneuverable	caravel	58
1158408751	an economic system that was designed to enhance the wealth and power of a nation, believed that a nation's wealth consisted of precious metals, especially gold, the value of a product was determined by how much gold people were willing to exchange for it, nationalists who believed that a nation could increase its wealth by increasing its amount of gold, wanted a "favorable balance of trade", export more than import so you keep more gold	mercantilism	59
1158408752	Geneva's most influential leaders that was a reformist like Luther, thought solid education was the way to produce effective leaders for church and society	John Calvin	60
1158408753	similarities between Indians and Europeans	great interest in religion, farmed, lived in villages, traded with others, had social organizations, fought in wars	61
1158408754	similarities among Indian groups	dark skin, hair, and eyes, no alphabet or written language, storytelling skills were important to pass down history and custom, faith in the supernatural, belief in afterlife, land belonged to everyone	62
1158408755	differences between Indians and Europeans	Indians had a primitive culture, minimal technology, did not use iron, Europeans had well-developed spoken and written language, building styles and materials were different, Indians weren't as united	63
1158408756	differences among Indian groups	2,200 different languages in North America, different houses in different environments, some were peaceful, some were war tribes	64
1158408757	Which Indian group lived in the Southwest?	the Pueblos	65
1158408758	Which Indian group lived in the Midwest?	the Mound Builders	66
1158408759	Which Indian group lived in the Southeast and along the Atlantic coast in the Northeast?	the Eastern Woodlands Indians	67
1158408760	What were the Five Civilized Tribes?	Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles	68
1158408761	settlement in Florida named after Saint's Day	St. Augustine	69
1158408762	elite fleet of 130 ships and 30,000 men that was destroyed by the Sea Dogs and the "Protestant Wind"	Spanish Armada	70
1158408763	Who claimed the New York area for the Dutch?	Henry Hudson	71
1158408764	What was the name of the Dutch settlement in the New World?	New Netherland	72
1158408765	Who was the most famous governor of New Netherland who was also one legged and hated Quakers?	Peter Stuyvesant	73
1158408766	What was the name of the colony along the Delaware River claimed by Sweden?	New Sweden	74
1158408767	Who was New Netherland's former governor who became New Sweden's governor that created peace treaties between the Europeans and the Indians allowing the white men to claim the land that is now Philadelphia?	Peter Minuit	75