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Explorers and Colonization Quiz

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  • Q1

    He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India

    Ferdinand Magellan

    John Cabot

    Amerigo Vespucci 

    Christopher Columbus

    300s
  • Q2

    Italian explorer who wrote about his travels to Central Asia and China.

    Jacques Cartier

    John Cabot

    Marco Polo

    Henry the Navigator

    300s
  • Q3

    One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit

    Mercantilism

    Colonization

    War

    Empire building

    300s
  • Q4

    Which of the following is NOT a reason for exploration?

    Gold

    Government

    God

    Glory

    300s
  • Q5

    What was the name of the first permanent English settlement?

    New York

    Plymouth

    Jamestown

    Roanoke

    300s
  • Q6

    People who paid for their passage to America with labor were called____.

    enslaved African people

    pilgrims

    indentured servants

    apprentices

    300s
  • Q7

    Georgia was first established as a colony for---

    pilgrims

    indentured servants

    enslaved African people

    debtors

    300s
  • Q8

    Which colony was founded by Quakers led by William Penn?

    Pennsylvania

    Massachusetts 

    New York

    Georgia

    300s
  • Q9

    South's economy was based on these resources...

    Lumber, fishing, whaling

    Wheat, barley, oats

    Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo

    300s
  • Q10

    The Middle Colonies' economy was based on these resources...

    Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo

    Wheat, barley, oats

    Lumber, fishing, whaling

    300s
  • Q11

    The New England Colonies economy was based on these resources...

    Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo

    Lumber, fishing, whaling

    Wheat, barley, oats

    300s
  • Q12

    A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, West Indies and Africa

    Triangular Trade

    Ye Olde Amazon

    New World Order

    Colombian Exchange

    300s
  • Q13

    A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

    bitcoin farming

    subsistence farming

    cash crop

    farm factorization

    300s
  • Q14

    What was New Amsterdam renamed when it became a New England Colony?

    New Jersey

    Maine

    New York

    Amsterdam 2.0

    300s
  • Q15

    What was Roanoke?

    The man who founded West Virginia.

    A settlement that mysteriously vanished without a trace.

    A cash crop in Georgia and the Carolinas.

    The first English settlement.

    300s

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