8th Grade Social Studies Class results using ActivExpression voting
devices where the majority of votes decided the response after the
lesson on Multiple Choice strategies was taught on 9/26/11:
THE AMERICAN NATION HOME PAGE
Self-Test
Exploration and Colonization (1492–1675)
Results of the quiz.
1. The first French colonists were
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CORRECT: fur trappers and traders.
2. Who made up the majority of settlers in Louisiana?
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INCORRECT: Frenchmen
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CORRECT: He sent roughly one thousand farmers to the colony.
4. Spanish missions were supposed to
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CORRECT: convert Indians to Christianity.
5. How did Bartolomé de Las Casas try to protect the Native Americans?
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CORRECT: He suggested that Africans replace Native Americans as slaves.
6. The Natchez Revolt in 1729 was fought between the Indians and
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INCORRECT: the Spanish.
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CORRECT: Indians were dying of overwork and disease.
8. What led to a heightened rivalry among many of the European nations in the 1500s?
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CORRECT: religious differences
9. How did the arrival of the Europeans affect Native Americans?
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CORRECT: Many Native Americans died from harsh conditions or European disease.
10. Which of the following elements of Native American culture did Europeans adopt?
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CORRECT: the use of crops such as corn
11. Who led the Vikings to the northern tip of North America?
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CORRECT: Leif Ericson
12. What event led to the collapse of the Incan empire?
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CORRECT: the capture and execution of the Incan emperor
CORRECT: Africans
3. How did Louis XIV try to increase the population of New France in the 1660s?
CORRECT: the French.
7. Why did the Spanish begin to import Africans as slaves?
13. The Mayflower Compact was a document that
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CORRECT: created a framework for governing the new colony.
14. The conquistadors
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CORRECT: conquered Native Americans.
15. Enslaved Africans were brought to the Caribbean primarily to work the
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CORRECT: sugar plantations.
16. A northwest passage was important to Europeans because it would
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CORRECT: provide easier access to the riches of Asia.
17. Native Americans helped the Plymouth colonists by
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CORRECT: teaching them about new crops and ways to hunt.
18. What group was at the top of the social scale in New Spain?
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CORRECT: peninsulares
19. The first presidio in the borderlands was built in
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CORRECT: St. Augustine, Florida.
20. The House of Burgesses was an example of
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CORRECT: representative government.
You got 18 out of 20 correct.
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