Chapter 1 & 2 Study Questions
Chapter 1
Read “Ancient Peoples Come to the Americas” on pages 4 & 5.
1. Explain how the first people arrived in the Americas.
Section 4 European Societies Around 1492 (pages 20-26)
2. What three effects did the Crusades have on European society in the 1400s?
3. What caused the weakening of the power of the Roman Catholic Church?
4. Explain how trade, travel, and technology combined to lead the Europeans to sea.
5. What were the most significant Portuguese explorations?
Section 5 Transatlantic Encounters (pages 27-33)
6. What were the effects of contact between Europeans and Native Americans?
7. What methods of colonization, based on earlier models, did Spain use in the Americas?
Chapter 2 The American Colonies Emerge
Section 1 Spain’s Empire in the Americas (pages 38-43)
8. Identify Hernan Cortes
9. Define Conquistador
10. Identify Juan Ponce de Leon
Section 2 An English Settlement at Jamestown (pages 44-45)
11. What were the challenges and hardships faced by the original Jamestown settlers?
12. What were the factors that helped Jamestown to flourish?
13. What caused Bacon’s Rebellion and what were the effects of it?
Section 3 Puritan New England (pages 52-57)
14. Identify the motives that led the Puritans to New England.
15. What did John Winthrop mean when he said that the Puritan settlements were to be “as a
City upon a hill, the eyes of all people are on (them)”?
Section 4 Settlement of the Middle Colonies (pages 58-60)
16. How was New Netherland founded?
17. Explain the reasons for the social and religious diversity of colonial Pennsylvania.
18. What were the characteristics of the Quaker faith?