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- Q1What technologies contributed to European exploration?Compass, Astrolable, Caravel Shipshorses, pigs, cows, and sheepprinting press, eyeglasses, and armored cannonsspinning frames, wheels, and long bows60s
- Q2Why did Queen Isabella and Ferdinand finance Columbus' expedition?they wanted to stop England from gaining too much powerthey wanted converts, gold, resources, and more landthey did not finance his trip Queen Elizabeth I of England didthey wanted to support Columbus since he was from Spain60s
- Q3Why did England start exploration later than other European Nations?They did not have enought money to explorenone of the answersReligious conflict stopped them from exploringEngland explored earlier than Spain and other Europeans nations60s
- Q4What group became more powerful under mercantilism?Merchants & tradersNobelsPopeMonarchs60s
- Q5Why is 1492 a turning point in American history?1st time a European traveled to the New World1st discoverey America1st sustained contact between New World and Old World1st exchange of culture60s
- Q6What imperial conflict caused the end of Spanish naval dominance in the New World?Treaty of TordesillasSpanish ArmadaGlorious RevolutionProtestant Reformation60s
- Q7What sect of Christianity did Henry the VIII create?Lutheran ChurchChurch of England (Anglican Church)none of the answersRoman Catholic CHurch60s
- Q8What social change in Europe caused overpopulation in cities and the disappearance of common land use in Medieval Europe?none of the options shownFeudalismSpanish ArmadaEnclosure Movement60s
- Q9What region had forest, cold climate, and focused on shipbuilding and whaling?SouthernChesapeakNew EnglandMiddlle60s
- Q10What colony had warm summers, rich land and focused on tobacco farming?PlymouthNone of the answersMassachusetts BayJamestown60s
- Q11What system gave land to people who had indentured servants in the colonies?slaveryNone of the answersHeadright systemfeudalism60s
- Q12Which colonists established Rhode Island and supported the idea of a separation of Church and State?Thomas HookerWilliam BradfordRodger WilliamsAnne Hutchenson60s
- Q13What established a representative legislature to protect the political voice of landowners living in the Virginia colony.Toleration ActFundamental Orders of ConnecticutHouse of BurgessesMayflower Compact60s
- Q14What economic system focused on building wealth for nations through exploration and colonization?mercantalismnone of the answerscapitalismfeudalism60s
- Q15What early policy provided religious toleration for all creating the idea of freedom of religion in America?none of the answersEnglish Bill of RightsMaryland Toleration ActNavigation Acts60s