Exploring The Americas - Lesson 3: Competing for colonies
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- Q1
The discovery of the St. Lawrence River, Hudson Bay, and the Mississippi River were each the result of ______________.
competition between religious groups in Europe
searches to find the Northwest Passage
expeditions by trappers
searches for a river that cut across South America
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q2
A new form of Christianity in Europe was ______________.
Protestantism
Catholicism
Reformation
Germanism
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q3
King Henry VIII left the church because he could not get a _______________________-.
new palace
dog
divorce
marriage
300s - Q4
Because Henry Hudson did not find the Northwest Passage, _____________.
his crew rebelled
Hudson Bay was named after him instead
he sailed as far north as Albany
he sailed for France
300s - Q5
What resource did France go inland to find?
fur
grassland
wood
youth
300sSS.8.A.2.5 - Q6
John Cabot, who probably landed on the coast of Newfoundland, was hired by _________________.
Spain
France
Italy
England
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q7
Spain had the strongest navy and was able to defeat England even during a storm.
False
True
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q8
What gave England the ability to look to explore?
Religion gave them the power to expand.
King Henry VIII died, and his son had the urge to expand.
Defeating Spain over a religious war.
After King Henry VIII won ships in a contest.
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q9
Tenant farmers _____________.
worked for a lord and paid rent to him
hired Spanish colonists to help them
worked on very large plantations that raised mainly one crop
lived in cities
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q10
The colony in North America set up by the Dutch and run by the Dutch West India Company was called _____________.
New York
Manhattan
New Netherland
New Colony
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q11
The Dutch gave the Manhattoes people _____________.
spices
the right to be tenant farmers on Manhattan Island
the choice to become citizens of New Netherland
trade goods for Manhattan Island
300sSS.8.A.2.1 - Q12
•1626 Peter Minuit bought the island from natives for $______ worth of goods
27
24
23.50
1000
300sSS.8.A.2.1
