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My child has studied and is prepared to take the Chapter 4 Social Studies
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TEST ALERT
Chapter 4
Test Date: _____________________
This is the study guide for the chapter 4 social studies test. Use this study guide to prepare for the
test at home. Two extra credit points will be awarded if the completed study guide, with parent
signature, is turned in on the day of the test.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. From which city did Spanish leaders govern most of the colonies in New Spain?
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2. What did Spain build in the borderlands of New Spain to convert the American Indians to Christianity?
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3. What changed life for many American Indians after the arrival of the Spanish.
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4. What does the word legislature mean?
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5. Are the following statements true or false:
a. The Roanoke settlers were killed by Indians
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b. Pocahontas saved John Smith’s life.
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c. All the earliest Africans in Virginia were indentured servants.
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d. Jamestown was founded on a river near Chesapeake Bay.
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6. Which of the following is an example of a primary source?
a. the illustration of Jamestown in your textbook.
b. a movie about Pocahontas’s life
c. John Smith’s book A Description of New England
d. a recent book about Jamestown
7. How did Tisquantum help the first colonists in New England?
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8. In which present-day states did the Dutch establish New Netherland?
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9. Which part of North America did La Salle claim for France in 1684?
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SEQUENCING
10. The Virginia Company establishes Jamestown.
11. Pedro Menendez de Aviles establishes St.
Augustine.
12. The Dutch establish New Amsterdam.
13. Samuel de Champlain establishes Quebec.
14. William Bradford and the Pilgrims establish
Plymouth.
SHORT ANSWER
Answers must be in complete sentences.
15. How did missionaries affect American Indians in New Spain?
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16. What were the disadvantages of Jamestown’s location?
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“We whose names are underwritten…(agree) to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal
Laws…from time to time as shall be thought most meet (proper) and convenient for the General
good of the Colony…”
---Mayflower Compact, 1620
17. How do these words illustrate that the Mayflower compact created a form of self-government?
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18. What kinds of activities made up the early economies of the North American colonies?
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19. What is one reason why the colonial population of New France was relatively small?
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TEST ALERT
Chapter 4
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. From which city did Spanish leaders govern most of the colonies in New Spain?
Mexico City
2. What did Spain build in the borderlands of New Spain to convert the American Indians to Christianity?
Missions
3. What changed life for many American Indians after the arrival of the Spanish.
Horses
4. What does the word legislature mean?
A lawmaking branch of government
5. Are the following statements true or false:
a. The Roanoke settlers were killed by Indians
False
b. Pocahontas saved John Smith’s life.
False
c. All the earliest Africans in Virginia were indentured servants.
False
d. Jamestown was founded on a river near Chesapeake Bay.
True
6. Which of the following is an example of a primary source?
a. the illustration of Jamestown in your textbook.
b. a movie about Pocahontas’s life
c. John Smith’s book A Description of New England
d. a recent book about Jamestown
7. How did Tisquantum help the first colonists in New England?
He taught them how to farm and to fish in their new home.
8. In which present-day states did the Dutch establish New Netherland?
New York and New Jersey
9. Which part of North America did La Salle claim for France in 1684?
The Mississippi River valley
SEQUENCING
10. The Virginia Company establishes Jamestown.
2
11. Pedro Menendez de Aviles establishes St.
Augustine.
12. The Dutch establish New Amsterdam.
1
13. Samuel de Champlain establishes Quebec.
3
14. William Bradford and the Pilgrims establish
Plymouth.
4
5
SHORT ANSWER
Answers must be in complete sentences.
15. How did missionaries affect American Indians in New Spain?
They taught them Christianity and European ways of living and working. The missionaries also
introduced them to horses, sheep, cattle, and new crops. Some forced American Indians to work
on mission farms and ranches, which often led to conflict.
16. What were the disadvantages of Jamestown’s location?
It was located on low, swampy land, which had disease-carrying mosquitoes and unhealthy
drinking water; it was in an area where many American Indians already lived and hunted.
17. How do these words illustrate that the Mayflower compact created a form of self-government?
The people who signed the compact agreed to make and follow their own laws for the common
good.
18. What kinds of activities made up the early economies of the North American colonies?
Farming, ranching, fishing, mining, fur trading, shipping
19. What is one reason why the colonial population of New France was relatively small?
New France covered an enormous area of land, and most French people were more interested in
trading furs than they were in building large settlements.