Do Now
If the test was today, how do you think
you would do? What topics do you think
you learned the most and least about?
Unit 1 Test
• Pre-Columbian American Indian Societies
• Religious and Economic Reasons for
European Exploration
• Early European Settlements --- SHIFT to
English Colonization primarily
• Jamestown, Plymouth and Massachusetts
Bay
• 13 English Colonies – origins,
environments
• Colonial Economic, Political, Social Life
• Colonial Conflict
•Test Structure:
• Multiple Choice
• Some stimulus
based, some factual
• Constructed
Response Short
Answers
• 3-5 sentences to
completely answer
the question.
Review Questions by Themes
Six themes of the class:
• Exploration, Settlement and Expansion
• Conflict and Compromise
• Freedom, Equality, and Power
• International Affairs and Foreign Policy
• War
• Progress, Crisis and the American Dream
Get in a group and find 4-5 different examples of historical events, ideas or
trends/changes that would fall under this theme. Be prepared to explain why you
chose those events in front of the class.
Essential Questions Review
1. Why did European nations and groups of people explore and colonize the New World?
2. How did the diversity of the populations in each region lead to varied experiences
economically, socially, and politically?
3. How did environmental factors, such as topography, climate variations and disease,
influenced the settlement and development of the thirteen English colonies in North
America?
4. How British colonists persevered in the face of harsh conditions to colonize North
America?
5. How did the Great Awakening impact colonial religious, family and educational
practices?
6. To what extent did early English colonies rely on African slave labor to survive and
prosper?
7. How did English Civil Wars and the Glorious Revolution of the 17th Century impact the
political development of the British colonies?
8. How did various groups of American Indians influence the settlement and expansion of
the European colonies and the United States frontier?
Exit Ticket
1) Which of the following most likely led to the
development of more permanent villages for the
Eastern Woodlands peoples?
a. Relatively easy access to fertile farmland and large
amounts of natural resources
b. Proximity to major trading centers and political hubs
c. Availability of large mammals for hunting
d. Migration of peoples from North to South America
Exit Ticket
2) Which of the following best describes most Indian
religions?
a. emphasized monotheism (belief in one god).
b. utilized totem poles in their ceremonies.
c. were tied closely to the natural world.
d. emphasized human sacrifice.
Exit Ticket
3) What best explains the cause of Protestant
Reformation?
a. Corruption within the Church of England
b. Corruption within the Catholic Church
c. The murder of Pope Leo X
d. The Spanish invasion of England
Exit Ticket
4) Which of the following countries became the
greatest rival of France and Spain after the
Protestant Reformation?
a. Portugal
b. The United States
c. Germany
d. England
Exit Ticket
5)What condition(s) in England in the sixteenth century
provided incentive for colonization?
a. The availability of farmland was declining while the
population was growing.
b. The demand for wool was declining while the population
was growing.
c. Pasture land was being converted to crop production while
the population was declining.
d. Both the food supply and the population were declining.
Exit Ticket
6) Which statement about Spanish exploration in the
New World is FALSE?
a. Spanish gold and silver mines were enormously productive.
b. Spanish colonies would form one of the largest empires in the
history of the world.
c. The Catholic Church was very interested in spreading Christianity
in Mexico.
d. The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming.
Exit Ticket
7. The first and perhaps most impactful result of the
meeting of native and European cultures was the
a. exchange of plants and animals.
b. native adoption of European ways of waging war.
c. intermarriage of Europeans and natives.
d. importation of European diseases.
Exit Ticket
8) In the sixteenth century, the market for slaves grew
dramatically as a result of
a. the rising European demand for sugar cane.
b. the need for labor in the tobacco fields.
c. a desire to Christianize Africans.
d. the need for labor in the rice plantations of South
Carolina.
Reading Quiz
9) The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony
a. was a severe food shortage.
b. is historically inconclusive.
c. deterred the English from another colonizing
effort for forty years.
d. was the death of the colony's governor.
Exit Ticket
10) In London, the initial promoters of Jamestown
encouraged colonists to focus on
a. the long-term success of the settlement.
b. building a family-centered community.
c. developing peaceful relations with the Indians in
the area.
d. the search for gold.
Exit Ticket
11) Captain John Smith helped Jamestown survive when he
A. divided the duties and privileges of leadership among
several members of a council.
B. imposed work and order on the colony.
C. ended raids perpetrated on neighboring Indian villages to
steal food and kidnap natives.
D. divided the colony's profits among the stockholders.
Exit Ticket
12) Which statement regarding the economic theory of
mercantilism is FALSE?
a. It presumed that the world's wealth was limited/fixed.
b. It increased competition among nations.
c. It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
d. It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
Exit Ticket
13) During the early years the survival and growth of the
Plymouth colony
a. was due in large part to the assistance of the natives.
b. led the colonists to grow rich from the surrounding
productive farmlands.
c. saw the colonists carry out warfare that wiped out
much of the local Indian population.
d. nevertheless saw two-thirds of its population die.
Exit Ticket
14) Why did the Puritan founders in Massachusetts describe their
colony as a "city upon a hill“?
a. They felt they were creating a holy community that would be a
model for the world.
b. They wanted to build their community on high ground to save it
from Indian attacks.
c. They wanted to create a community that would be open to all
peoples of all faiths.
d. They sought to create a community in which all people were treated
as equals.
Reading Quiz
15) The development of the Carolina colony was notable
in that
a. the colony was able to attract large numbers of settlers
from nearby colonies.
b. the northern and southern regions were very
economically and socially distinct from each other.
c. its economy was based on tobacco production.
d. its founders had discouraged the use of slaves.
Exit Ticket
16) Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons that
Africans were so valuable to planters along the Carolina and
Georgia coasts?
a. They could be forced to do work that white laborers refused
to do.
b. They often came from rice-producing regions of Africa.
c. They were more accustomed to the hot and humid climate.
d. They could be counted on to work the fields without protest.
Exit Ticket
17) The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with
which commodity?
a. rum
b. sugar
c. slaves
d. molasses
e. All these answers are correct.
Exit Ticket
18) Prior to 1763, the British policy of "salutary
neglect":
a. allowed royal colonies to elect their own
governors.
b. did not enforce the Navigation Acts.
c. took the Royal Navy off the high seas.
d. encouraged colonists to establish their own
parliament.
Exit Ticket
19) Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
a. emphasized the importance of religious faith.
b. rejected most religious thought.
c. had little influence on American intellectual thought.
d. challenged concepts such as "natural laws."
e. suggested that people had considerable control over
their own lives.
Exit Ticket
20) The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York
publisher John Peter Zenger
a. increased freedom of the press in the colonies.
b. restricted the ability of the press to report on
government affairs.
c. resulted in the closure of several colonial newspapers.
d. ruled that criticisms by the press, even if factually
accurate, were libelous.
Exit Ticket
21) Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by:
a. young, western farmers frustrated by their
inability to acquire land.
b. the planter class of Virginia.
c. those protesting the increased importation of
African slaves.
d. people from Jamestown only.
Exit Ticket
22) Why were slave codes written across colonial North
America?
a. slaveholders’ widespread attempts to convert their
slaves to Christianity
b. a need to regularize the price of slaves across the
colonies
c. a desire to give owners full legal power of their slaves
d. belief in the redemptive power of the criminal justice
system