Deck 2: Founding the Colonies

Question 1

Bartholomew Dias was recognized for being the first to achieve what accomplishment?

A)Rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
B)Sailing from Europe to India and back.
C)Sailing around the world.
D)Reaching South America.
E)Exploring the interior of Canada.

Answer 1

Rounding the Cape of Good Hope.

Question 2

Ferdinand Magellan was recognized for what accomplishment?

A)Rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
B)Sailing from Europe to India and back.
C)Sailing around the world.
D)Reaching South America.
E)Exploring the interior of Canada.

Answer 2

Sailing around the world.

Question 3

By the early sixteenth century,the center wealth and commerce of Europe had shifted

A)from the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
B)from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
C)from Italy to North Africa.
D)The center of wealth and commerce did not change until the 17th century.

Answer 3

from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

Question 4

Spain's eventual decline in influence can be traced to

A)the lack of a solid foundation for its settlement efforts.
B)a costly war to bring the Low Countries under subjection.
C)the decline in gold and silver imports from America.
D)All of the above are correct.

Question 5

Which of the following phrases does not accurately describe a feature of the European economy during the Renaissance period?

A)technological advances in navigation
B)the rise of nation-states
C)declining population
D)increased security of persons and property

Question 6

Prince Henry the Navigator was recognized for being the leading explorer of what region?

A)Western coast of Africa.
B)The West Indies.
C)Canada.
D)Mexico.
E)Brazil.

Question 7

Bartholomew Dias was one of the leading explorers for which nation?

A)England
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Portugal.
E)Spain.

Question 8

Estimates of the North American Native American population in 1491

A)are inconclusive.
B)range in the hundreds of thousands.
C)range in the millions.
D)range in the ten of thousands.

Question 9

Humphrey Gilbert was one of the leading explorers for which nation?

A)England.
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Portugal.
E)Spain.

Question 10

Vasco de Gama was recognized for what accomplishment?

A)Rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
B)Sailing from Europe to India and back.
C)Sailing around the world.
D)Reaching South America.
E)Exploring Newfoundland.

Question 11

Walter Raleigh was one of the leading explorers for which nation?

A)England.
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Portugal.
E)Spain.

Question 12

Who did not found a colony?

A)Lord Baltimore.
B)Sir Nelson Maryland.
C)William Penn.
D)Roger Williams.
E)General James Oglethorpe.

Question 13

Which English colony was the first permanent settlement in the New World?

A)Roanoke.
B)Plymouth.
C)Jamestown.
D)Mexico.
E)Quebec.

Question 14

Which nation made the greatest commitment to establish permanent settlements in its colonization strategy?

A)England.
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Spain

Question 15

Which nation pioneered Atlantic exploration?

A)England
B)Italy
C)Portugal
D)Spain

Question 16

Cortez was one of the leading explorers for which nation?

A)England.
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Portugal.
E)Spain.

Question 17

The agreement that established Spain and Portugal's rights to explore various parts of the world was called:

A)The Treaty of Spain.
B)The Treaty of Paris.
C)The Treaty of Tordezillas.
D)The Spanish-Portuguese Covenant.
E)The London Accord.

Question 18

The first English colonies in North America were established by

A)Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
B)Christopher Columbus
C)Capt.John Smith
D)Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 19

Ferdinand Magellan was one of the leading explorers for which nation?

A)England.
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Portugal.
E)Spain.

Question 20

Prince Henry the Navigator was one of the leading explorers for which nation?

A)England
B)France.
C)Holland.
D)Portugal.
E)Spain.

Question 21

People from which nation in Europe were most likely to come to colonial North America as redemptioners?

A)Italy.
B)Holland.
C)Germany.
D)France.

Question 22

Of the 6,000 settlers who migrated to Virginia since the founding of the first permanent settlement in 1607,nearly ________ had died by 1623.

A)5,500
B)4,000
C)6,000
D)2,500
E)1,000

Question 23

Of the English-owned joint stock companies that operated in North America,which was the only one to survive longer than 20 years?

A)The London Company
B)The New Plymouth Company
C)The Hudson Bay Company
D)The Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 24

In the early colonies,private landholdings

A)gradually replaced common ownership.
B)occasionally supplemented common ownership.
C)were only legalized after 1650.
D)were the norm from the very beginning of colonization.

Question 25

Who would be most likely to move from Europe to the New World in the early 1600s?

A)A 19 year-old,first born son with many skills.
B)A 37 year-old skilled carpenter.
C)A 17 year-old from a poor family.
D)A 21 year-old woman.
E)An unskilled laborer with a wife and two children.

Question 26

What type of person would you expect to have the shortest indenture?

A)13 year-old male craftsman who went to New England.
B)22 year-old male laborer who went to the West Indies.
C)20 year-old male farm worker went to the South.
D)21 year-old male carpenter who worked in the West Indies.

Question 27

Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the Native Americans during the colonial period?

A)There is a strong consensus among historians about the size of the Native American population at the time of arrival of the first European settlers.
B)Native Americans rarely formed trading alliances with the European settlers.
C)The significant deterioration of the Native American population occurred after 1825,when the US started to expand to the west.
D)The susceptibility to disease was one of the primary reasons the Native American population declined.

Question 28

The term "free rider"

A)Refers to the reduction of incentives for an individual to provide effort.
B)Describes the privatization of goods and property.
C)Refers to a situation in which resources are overused and quickly exhausted.
D)Describes people who did not pay for their ship travel to the colonial US because their relatives would pay their fares once they arrived.

Question 29

According to a royal investigation in 1623 of the English colonies in Virginia,the average life expectancy of newly arrived setters was

A)2 years.
B)5 years.
C)10 years.
D)20 years.

Question 30

After reading Governor Bradford's account,which is the most accurate statement,given his experience?

A)He considered the problems in the colony to be rooted in the "sine and corruption" of selfishness.
B)He agreed with Plato that goods held in a "commone wealth" would make the people "happy and flourishing."
C)That assigning private plots of land "made all hands very industrious."
D)That assigning private plots of land "for this communitie" caused "much confusion and discontent."

Question 31

People from which nation were most likely to come to colonial North America as indentured servants?

A)England.
B)Liberia.
C)Germany.
D)France.

Question 32

A student is working on a group class-project where the same grade is assigned to everyone in the group.He chooses to not contribute to the project.What term best describes this situation?

A)Moral hazard.
B)Tragedy of the Commons.
C)Public good problem.
D)Free Rider.

Question 33

Settlers often received 50 acres of land for each person whose passage they paid to America.This was known as

A)a special purpose grant.
B)an entailment.
C)the headright system.
D)planter's shares.

Question 34

In the early colonial period which region had the highest mortality rates?

A)The South.
B)The Middle States.
C)New England.
D)Caribbean

Question 35

Indentured servitude was first used to promote immigration in

A)Jamestown in 1618.
B)Jamestown in 1615.
C)Plymouth Colony in 1623.
D)New York in 1630.
E)Rhode Island Colony in 1652.

Question 36

From 1700-1780,the colonial population increased at a rate of approximately 3 percent per year.This rapid population growth was primarily due to

A)immigration from England.
B)immigration from central Europe.
C)higher birth rates in the colonies than in Europe.
D)importation of slaves from Africa.

Question 37

What was the least important reason for the failure of the Virginia Company?

A)Difficulty in finding good crops to grow.
B)The Company's employees had unforeseen labor alternatives.
C)There was a relatively small incentive for employees to work hard.
D)The death rate was much higher than they expected.

Question 38

Which was not an English-owned joint stock company?

A)The Virginia Company.
B)The Plymouth Company.
C)The East India Company.
D)The Rhode Island Company.
E)The Massachusetts Bay Company.

Question 39

The racial profile of colonial South Carolina

A)was typical of the colonies as a whole.
B)was closer that of the French and British West Indies than to that of its neighboring colonies.
C)was dominated by whites until nearly 1750.
D)indicates that it had a higher concentration of blacks than any colony except Virginia.

Question 40

Costing more than the average person's yearly income,the Atlantic passage in the early seventeenth century was roughly

A)£1
B)£10
C)£100
D)£1,000

Question 41

The market for indentured servants could be best described as:

A)A monopoly.
B)An oligopoly.
C)A competitive market.

Question 42

If a series of severe storms in the Atlantic Ocean drastically significantly disrupted the slave transatlantic slave trade,which would most accurately describe the market for indentured servants in colonial America?

A)The price and quantity of servants would increase.
B)The price and quantity of servants would decrease.
C)The price of servants would increase and the quantity of servants would decrease.
D)The price of servants would decrease and the quantity of servants would increase.

Question 43

If a series of severe storms in the Atlantic Ocean drastically significantly disrupted the slave transatlantic slave trade,which would most accurately describe the market for slaves in colonial America?

A)The price of slaves would increase and the quantity of slaves would decrease.
B)The price and quantity of slaves would increase.
C)The price and quantity of slaves would decrease.
D)The price of slaves would decrease and the quantity of slaves would increase.