MTTC US History Exam Questions
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Objectives of Spanish Explorers in North America - ✔✔- Conquered civilizations of
Mexico and America
- Goal was to take wealth back to Spain
- Became leaders of the civilizations, which died out due to exposure to new diseases
Objectives of Europeans colonizing North America - ✔✔- Exploration
- Could not conquer the native tribes due to the large amounts of different tribes and
their migrations to new areas following the seasons
- Different from Spanish in that they did not want to only take wealth back to home
country, but find new areas to live
- Wanted to find faster way to China and the "East" than going around Africa
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- St. Augustine - ✔✔- Explored by the
Spaniards looking for gold
- Wanted to set up military bases for the pirates
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,- Wiped out major Indian populations from disease
- Did not really colonize successfully
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- Roanoke - ✔✔- 1587
- First English settlement, off the coast of North Carolina
- Virginia Dare was the first English child born in America
- Settlement failed, no one knows what became of the people who first settled there
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- Jamestown - ✔✔- Virginia company
sponsored English colonization
- English men didn't want to work/build colony
- Wanted to find gold but did not
- Didn't want to farm, had 1 year survival rate
- Once women arrive, tobacco was planted and the colonists established trade with
Indians so the colony could survive
- First permanent English settlement
Key Expeditions During European Colonization-- Massachusetts - ✔✔- New England:
Came over for religious freedom
- Puritans
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, - Pilgrams: Wanted to get away from the church all together (Mayflower Compact:
Agree just and equal laws)
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- New Netherland - ✔✔- Name the
Dutch gave to their colony (what is now New York and New Jersey)
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- New Amsterdam - ✔✔- The Dutch
settlement that was started on the island of Manhattan
Key Expeditions of European Colonization- Pennsylvania - ✔✔- Heaven for Quakers
- Tolerant bunch, but opposed slavery
- Good to Indians, except when penn was gone
7 Years War - ✔✔- Also known as the French and Indian War
- Caused because economics (mercantilism) and religious rivals
- Ended with the Treaty of Paris
- We got more land but it wasn't very valuable
Major Features of New England - ✔✔- Religion: Dominated by Puritans, reformers
seeking to "purify" Christianity, who came over from England to practice religion with
persecution. Puritans followed strict rules and were intolerant of other religions, but
eventually absorbed Pilgrims in MA. Sever consequences for those who failed to attend
church or speak against the Puritans. Holidays were prohibited
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Objectives of Spanish Explorers in North America - ✔✔- Conquered civilizations of
Mexico and America
- Goal was to take wealth back to Spain
- Became leaders of the civilizations, which died out due to exposure to new diseases
Objectives of Europeans colonizing North America - ✔✔- Exploration
- Could not conquer the native tribes due to the large amounts of different tribes and
their migrations to new areas following the seasons
- Different from Spanish in that they did not want to only take wealth back to home
country, but find new areas to live
- Wanted to find faster way to China and the "East" than going around Africa
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- St. Augustine - ✔✔- Explored by the
Spaniards looking for gold
- Wanted to set up military bases for the pirates
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,- Wiped out major Indian populations from disease
- Did not really colonize successfully
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- Roanoke - ✔✔- 1587
- First English settlement, off the coast of North Carolina
- Virginia Dare was the first English child born in America
- Settlement failed, no one knows what became of the people who first settled there
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- Jamestown - ✔✔- Virginia company
sponsored English colonization
- English men didn't want to work/build colony
- Wanted to find gold but did not
- Didn't want to farm, had 1 year survival rate
- Once women arrive, tobacco was planted and the colonists established trade with
Indians so the colony could survive
- First permanent English settlement
Key Expeditions During European Colonization-- Massachusetts - ✔✔- New England:
Came over for religious freedom
- Puritans
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, - Pilgrams: Wanted to get away from the church all together (Mayflower Compact:
Agree just and equal laws)
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- New Netherland - ✔✔- Name the
Dutch gave to their colony (what is now New York and New Jersey)
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- New Amsterdam - ✔✔- The Dutch
settlement that was started on the island of Manhattan
Key Expeditions of European Colonization- Pennsylvania - ✔✔- Heaven for Quakers
- Tolerant bunch, but opposed slavery
- Good to Indians, except when penn was gone
7 Years War - ✔✔- Also known as the French and Indian War
- Caused because economics (mercantilism) and religious rivals
- Ended with the Treaty of Paris
- We got more land but it wasn't very valuable
Major Features of New England - ✔✔- Religion: Dominated by Puritans, reformers
seeking to "purify" Christianity, who came over from England to practice religion with
persecution. Puritans followed strict rules and were intolerant of other religions, but
eventually absorbed Pilgrims in MA. Sever consequences for those who failed to attend
church or speak against the Puritans. Holidays were prohibited
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