Conquests and Colonies

Test review sheet

Identify

  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Anne Hutchinson/Roger Williams 
  • Balboa
  • Black Death 
  • Cash crop
  • Cibola
  • Conquistadors
  • Coronado
  • Cortes
  • Crusades 
  • Cuzco 
  • de Leon
  • de Soto
  • Encomiendas
  • Erik the Red 
  • Fountain of youth
  • Half Moon 
  • Henry Hudson
  • Henry the Navigator
  • House of Burgesses
  • Jamestown
  • John Cabot
  • John Rolfe
  • John Smith 
  • Joint-stock Company 
  • London Virginia Company patent 
  • Mayflower 
  • Mayflower Compact  
  • Mestizos
  • Monopoly 
  • Montezuma
  • Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria
  • Pacifist
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pepper 
  • Pilgrims
  • Pizarro
  • Puritans
  • Quetzalcoatl
  • Reformation 
  • Renaissance 
  • Roanoke 
  • Spanish Armada
  • Speedwell
  • St. Augustine
  • Tenochtitlan
  • Tobacco
  • Treaty of Tordesillas 
  • Vineland 
  • William Penn
  • Quakers
  • 1492
  • 1519

Questions to know

  • How did the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay deal with dissenters?
  • How was Jamestown founded?
  • Name 3 Indian groups with complex cultures.
  • What did the Spanish do to the leader of the Incas?
  • What is a settlement of people in a new land controlled by their mother country called?
  • What were the first English colonies set up in hopes of achieving?
  • Who was the first European to definitively ‘discover’ the Americas?
  • Why were the southern colonies founded?

Essays

  • Describe the Virginia Company's attempt at colonization in North America.
  • Explain why the Pilgrims came to the New World. 
  • How did the Chesapeake (middle) colonies differ from the New England colonies?
  • What was the encomienda system and what were some of its results?
  • What was the significance of the defeat of the Spanish Armada? 
  • Why did the Aztecs welcome the Spanish and what happened as a result?