AMH 2010 - Midterm Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Christopher Columbus - CORRECT ANSWER - - Explorer trying to find a new way to
deliver goods
- only Spain could accommodate his trip
- he was under sovereign state and received money to build ships and other needed items
conquistadors - CORRECT ANSWER - sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of
noble birth, who subdues the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire in the New
World
Sir Francis Drake - CORRECT ANSWER - one of Queen Elizabeth's "sea dogs" who
seized Spanish treasure ships in American waters
Hernan Cortes - CORRECT ANSWER - - a minor government functionary in Cuba
- he led a small army to verify the Mexican treasure
- his conquests transformed Spain into the wealthiest states in Europe, temporarily
Sir Walter Raleigh - CORRECT ANSWER - in 1584 traveled to eastern North America
- he named Virginia after the Virgin queen
The Columbian exchange - CORRECT ANSWER - the exchange of plants, animals,
culture, and diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout the era of
exploration
encomienda system - CORRECT ANSWER - an exploitative labor system designed by
Spanish rulers to reward conquistadors in the New World by granting them local villages and
control over native labor
, Roanoke - CORRECT ANSWER - colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. First attempt
for a permanent English colony
John White - CORRECT ANSWER - a veteran administrator and artist that Raleigh put in
charge of the second of the lost colonys
- he left for supplies and did not come up until 1590
Croatoan - CORRECT ANSWER - the word left carved in a tree when John White
returned and all colonists where gone
joint-stock company - CORRECT ANSWER - money given to set up colony given trading
rights with England
John Smith - CORRECT ANSWER - mercenary, forceful, and guaranteed colony's early
survival
Olaudah Equiano - CORRECT ANSWER - an African sold in Virginia in 1757. He was 12
and could not communicate with anyone because he did not speak English
headright system - CORRECT ANSWER - system of land distribution in which settlers
were granted a fifty-acre plot of land from the colonial government for each servant or dependent
they transported to the New World. The system encouraged the recruitment of a large servile
labor force
indentured servants - CORRECT ANSWER - individuals who agreed to serve a master for
a set number of years in exchange for the cost of boat transport to America, Indentured servitude
was the dominant form of labor in the Chesapeake colonies before slavery
Powhatan Indians - CORRECT ANSWER - Indians, one of which was Pocahontas
- she was kidnapped by Englishmen in 1613 and married John Rolfe. She died of disease
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Christopher Columbus - CORRECT ANSWER - - Explorer trying to find a new way to
deliver goods
- only Spain could accommodate his trip
- he was under sovereign state and received money to build ships and other needed items
conquistadors - CORRECT ANSWER - sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of
noble birth, who subdues the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire in the New
World
Sir Francis Drake - CORRECT ANSWER - one of Queen Elizabeth's "sea dogs" who
seized Spanish treasure ships in American waters
Hernan Cortes - CORRECT ANSWER - - a minor government functionary in Cuba
- he led a small army to verify the Mexican treasure
- his conquests transformed Spain into the wealthiest states in Europe, temporarily
Sir Walter Raleigh - CORRECT ANSWER - in 1584 traveled to eastern North America
- he named Virginia after the Virgin queen
The Columbian exchange - CORRECT ANSWER - the exchange of plants, animals,
culture, and diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout the era of
exploration
encomienda system - CORRECT ANSWER - an exploitative labor system designed by
Spanish rulers to reward conquistadors in the New World by granting them local villages and
control over native labor
, Roanoke - CORRECT ANSWER - colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. First attempt
for a permanent English colony
John White - CORRECT ANSWER - a veteran administrator and artist that Raleigh put in
charge of the second of the lost colonys
- he left for supplies and did not come up until 1590
Croatoan - CORRECT ANSWER - the word left carved in a tree when John White
returned and all colonists where gone
joint-stock company - CORRECT ANSWER - money given to set up colony given trading
rights with England
John Smith - CORRECT ANSWER - mercenary, forceful, and guaranteed colony's early
survival
Olaudah Equiano - CORRECT ANSWER - an African sold in Virginia in 1757. He was 12
and could not communicate with anyone because he did not speak English
headright system - CORRECT ANSWER - system of land distribution in which settlers
were granted a fifty-acre plot of land from the colonial government for each servant or dependent
they transported to the New World. The system encouraged the recruitment of a large servile
labor force
indentured servants - CORRECT ANSWER - individuals who agreed to serve a master for
a set number of years in exchange for the cost of boat transport to America, Indentured servitude
was the dominant form of labor in the Chesapeake colonies before slavery
Powhatan Indians - CORRECT ANSWER - Indians, one of which was Pocahontas
- she was kidnapped by Englishmen in 1613 and married John Rolfe. She died of disease
