Questions and All Correct Answers
2026 Updated.
The most devastating factor brought to the Americans by the Europeans - Answer Disease
Which of the following was true of Christopher Columbus - Answer he was an Italian
navigator whose four voyages to the West were financed by the Spanish
Who of the following was the conqueror of the Inca empire - Answer Incas
The era of European exploration - Answer Brought previously isolated societies into contact
with other nations and cultures
The Aztec chief Montezuma allowed Cortes to enter the capital of Tenochtitlan ( modern day
Mexico City) because - Answer Montezuma believed that Cortez was a god
Which conquistador landed in present day Florida (in the Tampa Bay Area ) and is given the
distinction of discovering the Mississippi River - Answer Hernandez De Soto
Which early Native Americans left detailed written records of their activities, especially a
supposedly advanced calendar - Answer Maya
the first permanent European settlement in the present day United States is - Answer St.
Augustine
the lost colony of Roanoke was established by - Answer Walter Raleigh
which of the following statements about early jamestown is most correct - Answer it saw the
majority of its colonists die
the colony if Massachusetts bay was settled by - Answer puritans
roger williams and a handful of individuals founded - Answer providence, rhode island
, which powerful, religious women in early Massachusetts bay, whose attack on the clergy in the
colony threatened the male power structure and led to her banishment - Answer anne
hutchinson
the first written framework of government, establishing majority rule, agreed upon by the
separatists was called the - Answer mayflower compact
the first cash crop to virginia was - Answer tobacco
under the headright system - Answer a colonist received fifty acres of land for every person
for whom he paid to passage to virginia
who was the powhatan chiefs daughter, who begged for and saved the life of jamestown leader,
john smith - Answer pocahantas
nathaniel bacon was - Answer a rebellious virginia planter who murdered peaceful Indians
and burned jamestown
an undocumented, though long-standing british policy of avoiding strict enforcement of
parliamentary laws, meant to keep the american colonies obedient to great britain, was known
as - Answer salutary neglect
by the mid 1700's, most of the english colonies in north america were - Answer royal colonies
with appointed governors and elected assembly
an economic theory that a nations power and wealth depended on maintaining a favorable
balance of trade and controlling commerce. colonies were to provide the mother country with
raw materials and serve as markets for the mother country's finished goods. the navigation acts
were passed to - Answer mercantilism
which one of these evangelists was the most efficient in bringing the masses into a conversion
experience (ie cT) - Answer george whitfield
the fall of montreal during the french and indian war - Answer marked the end of hostilities
in the north american theatre of the war
the fort william massacre during the french and indian war is based on what book - Answer
last of the mohicans