Deck 2: The Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Joint-stock company

Answer 1

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Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Enclosure

Answer 2

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Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "New slavery"

Answer 3

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Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Mali

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Hernán Cortés

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Roman Catholic Church

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Prince Henry "the Navigator", Bartolomeu Días, and Vasco da Gama

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Puritans

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Renaissance

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Islam

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Maritime Revolution

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Henry VIII, Church of England (Anglican Church)

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Counter-Reformation

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. conquistador

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Martin Luther, John Calvin

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Peasants

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. European reciprocity

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Christopher Columbus

Question 21

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Kongo

Question 22

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Armada

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sugar

Question 24

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Roanoke Island

Question 25

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "Headright", indentured servants

Question 26

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain

Question 27

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Cabeza de Vaca, Juan Ponce de Léon, Hernando de Soto

Question 28

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Virginia Company of London

Question 29

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Francis Drake

Question 30

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Rolfe, tobacco

Question 31

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Grand Banks

Question 32

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Battle at Lake Champlain

Question 33

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. St. Augustine, Florida

Question 34

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. New Netherland, Henry Hudson, New Amsterdam

Question 35

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Mayflower Compact, Plymouth Colony, Squanto

Question 36

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Smallpox

Question 37

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Opechancanough and Anglo-Powhatan Wars

Question 38

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Jamestown, Captain John Smith, Pocahontas

Question 39

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Encomiendas

Question 40

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Columbian Exchange

Question 41

Which of the following is true of both African and Indian religion?

A) Both believed the practice of magic was wrong.
B) Both believed that another world lay beyond the one the people perceived with their five senses.
C) Both believed in a devil.
D) Both believed that human beings ultimately could become gods.
E) All of these are true.

Question 42

Which of the following was not a development of the "maritime revolution" of the fifteenth century?

A) New materials for constructing ships
B) A more maneuverable ship
C) A new type of sail
D) Mastering the compass
E) Better use of the astrolabe

Question 43

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Conversion experience

Question 44

Which of the following was not one of the Puritan beliefs?

A) Salvation was predetermined.
B) Christ was not present in the Eucharist.
C) A learned sermon was the heart of worship.
D) Membership in the church should be extended to anyone who had been baptized.
E) It was necessary to live lives of severe self-discipline.

Question 45

Which of the following statements accurately describe Prince Henry the Navigator's role in encouraging Portuguese exploration?

A) Most of his financial support came from the Pope.
B) He discouraged Portuguese seamen from using caravels because he thought they were unreliable.
C) He looked for alternative routes to Asia.
D) He wrote a popular book about the value of Benin.
E) He led a Portuguese fleet around Cape Horn.

Question 46

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. New Mexico

Question 47

What was the general social structure in European society in the sixteenth century?

A) Egalitarian
B) Hierarchical
C) Communistic
D) Matriarchal
E) Socialistic

Question 48

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Little Commonwealth

Question 49

Which of the following nations led the way in exploration in the fifteenth century?

A) England
B) Portugal
C) The Netherlands
D) Spain
E) France

Question 50

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. New France

Question 51

In the early 1500s what percentage of Europe's population consisted of peasants?

A) Less than 10 percent
B) Between 40 percent and 50 percent
C) About 75 percent
D) Less than one percent
E) Over 90 percent

Question 52

Why was John Rolfe important to the eventual success of the Jamestown settlement?

A) He adapted a salable variety of tobacco to conditions in Virginia.
B) He negotiated agreements with the Indians that provided essential food between 1607 and 1610.
C) He resolved the problem of an inadequate labor supply by importing slaves from Africa.
D) He introduced the policy that if you did not work you would not eat.
E) He persuaded Powhatan to teach the settlers how to grow food.

Question 53

When Columbus first encountered the Tainos, how did he react?

A) He assumed they were bloodthirsty killers.
B) He said that they reminded him of residents of England.
C) He concluded that they were simplistic innocents who could be Christianized.
D) He wanted to sell them as slaves in earn gold.
E) He assumed that they were stupid savages who were good for nothing.

Question 54

Which of the following was not one of the problems in English society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

A) High unemployment
B) A declining population
C) Falling wages
D) Class differences
E) Widening gap between rich and poor

Question 55

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Protestant Reformation

Question 56

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Church of England

Question 57

How did the Puritans want to reform the Church of England?

A) They wanted to revert to purer Roman Catholic rituals.
B) They wanted to purify it of Roman Catholic rituals.
C) They wanted to purge the church of Quaker influences.
D) They wanted to distinguish between the clergy and the congregation.
E) They wanted to discourage laypersons from interfering in church affairs.

Question 58

Which statement concerning the West African empires prior to 1600 is true?

A) They engaged in vigorous trade, were Islamic, and were known for their wealth.
B) They had no written language and no transportation infrastructure.
C) They were infested with tsetse flies and therefore unable to develop a state bureaucracy.
D) They were generally warrior states with little inclination to develop agriculture.
E) They were ruled over by kings whose absolute political power was based on ruthless use of force.

Question 59

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. predestination

Question 60

Which of the following is not a legacy of the Reformation?

A) The development of various denominations in Europe
B) A belief in the importance of reading
C) The idea that clergy have no special powers
D) A counter-reformation by the Catholic Church
E) Cooperation between Protestant denominations and the Catholic Church

Question 61

How did Governor Francis Wyatt wage the Second Anglo-Powhatan War?

A) He ordered all captured Indians enslaved.
B) He made an alliance with Chippewa Indians to overwhelm the Powhatan Indians.
C) He used ruthless tactics like destroying food supplies and driving Indians from their homes during winter.
D) He attempted to minimize bloodshed by offering generous concession to the Indians if they stopped fighting.
E) He laid siege to the Indians' villages and then negotiated.

Question 62

How were the early English efforts at settlement paid for?

A) Through the issuance of company stock
B) Through the sale of slaves
C) Through the floating of government bonds
D) Through the raising of income taxes
E) Through deficit spending by the government

Question 63

Which of the following statements about the fifteenth century slave trade is correct?

A) Slavery already existed in West African societies and was a much harsher, less humane form of slavery than that practiced by the Europeans.
B) The only motivation was economic, and race had no role.
C) Slave traders often traded gold for the African slaves.
D) The trade began accidentally because of a linguistic misunderstanding between Portuguese seamen and African tribes.
E) Those sold into slavery by African kings were primarily undesirables such as lawbreakers or persons accused of witchcraft.

Question 64

What was the Mayflower Compact?

A) It was an agreement reached by the first Pilgrims to constitute themselves a civil body politic.
B) It was an agreement reached by the first Pilgrims to live in harmony with the local Indians.
C) It was an agreement reached by the first Pilgrims to be governed directly by England.
D) It was an agreement reached by the first Pilgrims to establish a colony open to all newcomers.
E) None of these choices

Question 65

Where was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

A) Plymouth
B) Newport
C) St. Augustine
D) Jamestown
E) Charles Town

Question 66

Where did the French attempt to make their first settlement in North America?

A) Along the St. Lawrence Valley
B) South Carolina
C) Jacksonville, Florida
D) Fort Nassau
E) None of these choices

Question 67

Which of the following statements does not correctly portray an aspect of the "Columbian exchange"?

A) Europe carried deadly germs to the Americas.
B) The Americas sent corn and potatoes to Europe.
C) The Americas sent horses and sheep to Europe.
D) Europeans transported silver to the Americas to finance new settlements.
E) Europe sent coffee and sugar to the Americas.

Question 68

What was the primary object of Spanish explorers in the New World?

A) Agricultural land
B) Gold
C) Land
D) A fountain of youth
E) Furs

Question 69

In the 1570s, what were England's objectives in the Western Hemisphere?

A) It wanted to find the Northwest Passage and to harass the Spanish.
B) It wanted to find a steady source of furs for aristocratic English women.
C) It wanted to convert the Native Americans to Protestantism and to establish colonies.
D) It wanted to discover new sources of gold and to develop new markets for English goods.
E) It wanted to lay claim to new fishing beds and to find an outpost to which they could exile Irish rebels.

Question 70

How did the European slavery that arose in the fifteenth century differ from other forms of European slavery?

A) The "new slavery" was a high-volume business.
B) Slaves taken under the "new slavery" were treated harshly and were destined for exhausting, mindless labor rather than domestic service.
C) Slaves were regarded ad property rather than merely as persons of low status.
D) The "new slavery" was based explicitly on the blackness and cultural differences of Africans.
E) All of these choices

Question 71

Who broke with the Catholic Church and persuaded Parliament to create the Church of England?

A) Richard I
B) Henry VIII
C) Mary I
D) Elizabeth I
E) James I

Question 72

Which of the following statements about Christopher Columbus is correct?

A) He believed by sailing west he could reach Asia.
B) He had been recruited by the King and Queen of Spain to be the agent of Spanish territorial expansion.
C) He embarked on his expedition with limited navigating experience.
D) His sole goal was to glorify his god, and he thought nothing of personal gain or even the finances of his expedition.
E) He was simply one of about a dozen would-be explorers who roamed Europe endlessly hawking their enterprises.

Question 73

What was the main problem that crippled the Roanoke colony and hurt Jamestown in its early years?

A) The English settlers refused to work.
B) The nearby French settlement monopolized the Native American labor supply.
C) The Native Americans refused to trade with the English settlers.
D) The British refused to send more supplies.
E) The blacks brought by the English refused to live in harmony with the Native Americans.

Question 74

What was the leading empire in West Africa in the 14^th and early 15^th centuries?

A) Ashanti
B) Zulu
C) Sambura
D) Mali
E) Yoruba

Question 75

How did the Renaissance encourage exploration?

A) It led Italian monarchs to support explorers in search of a return to Rome's greatness.
B) It encouraged individuals to search for new knowledge and information.
C) It destroyed the connections between Christianity and science.
D) It ended the disputes between Protestantism and Catholicism
E) It motivated many to look for lost treasures.

Question 76

Who did Virginia rely on for most of its labor in its initial years as a colony?

A) Indentured servants
B) Hessians
C) Irish laborers
D) Slaves
E) Indians

Question 77

What was one of the purposes of the settlement at Plymouth Plantation?

A) The settlers wanted to form a religious outpost to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
B) The settlers wanted to establish a community in which all members could freely practice the religion of their choice.
C) The settlers wanted to compete with the Virginia colony for furs.
D) The settlers wanted to identify a source of gold to finance future religious wars.
E) The settlers wanted to send back lumber, furs, and fish.

Question 78

According to Martin Luther, what is the basis of a person's salvation?

A) People can buy their salvation by giving money to the church.
B) People can earn their salvation by doing good works.
C) People can only gain their salvation through faith in God.
D) People can gain their salvation after seeing Jesus Christ.
E) None of these choices

Question 79

What was European reciprocity?

A) It was when European monarchs funded explorers in return for any riches found during the explorations.
B) It was when Europeans paid for exploration with gold and silver.
C) It was when the upper classes acted with dignity and the lower classes showed deference to their superiors.
D) It was the agreement between the Pope and Protestant monarchs to collaborate on colonizing the New World.
E) None of these choices

Question 80

Where was the first permanent European settlement on future United States soil?

A) Jamestown, Virginia
B) Quebec, Canada
C) St. Augustine, Florida
D) Plymouth, Massachusetts
E) Santa Fe, New Mexico