HIST 405 Final Exam 1 Questions And
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Edition.
primary sources - Answer eyewitness accounts of history. They include letters, diaries,
speeches, and interviews.
secondary source - Answer Provides information gathered from or based on other sources
Native American agricultural practices - Answer These practices included weeding using
squash plants, and more advanced irrigation
Three Sisters - Answer corn, beans, and squash
Eurasian trade routes - Answer
Founding of the different colonies - Answer
Mercantilism - Answer belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
King Philip's War - Answer Armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of present-day
New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675-78.
Mayflower Compact - Answer A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect
the general good
Pilgrims - Answer English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
Separatists - Answer People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known
as Pilgrims.
Puritans - Answer Protestants in England inspired by Calvinist ideas
, Theocracy - Answer A government controlled by religious leaders
Democracy - Answer A form of government in which citizens govern themselves
Pennsylvania Dutch - Answer German speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Bay Company - Answer Company formed by the Puritans when sailing to North
America
Plymouth - Answer Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts
Bay colony.
Protestantism - Answer the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant churches.
Reformation - Answer the action or process of reforming an institution or practice.
Wampanoag Bible - Answer The first Bible published in the colonies, a 1663 translation into
Wampanoag by the missionary John Eliot.
New England - Answer
New Netherlands - Answer
New Sweden - Answer
New Spain - Answer
New France - Answer
Pennsylvania - Answer Founded by William Penn for Quakers
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Edition.
primary sources - Answer eyewitness accounts of history. They include letters, diaries,
speeches, and interviews.
secondary source - Answer Provides information gathered from or based on other sources
Native American agricultural practices - Answer These practices included weeding using
squash plants, and more advanced irrigation
Three Sisters - Answer corn, beans, and squash
Eurasian trade routes - Answer
Founding of the different colonies - Answer
Mercantilism - Answer belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
King Philip's War - Answer Armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of present-day
New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675-78.
Mayflower Compact - Answer A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect
the general good
Pilgrims - Answer English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
Separatists - Answer People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known
as Pilgrims.
Puritans - Answer Protestants in England inspired by Calvinist ideas
, Theocracy - Answer A government controlled by religious leaders
Democracy - Answer A form of government in which citizens govern themselves
Pennsylvania Dutch - Answer German speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Bay Company - Answer Company formed by the Puritans when sailing to North
America
Plymouth - Answer Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts
Bay colony.
Protestantism - Answer the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant churches.
Reformation - Answer the action or process of reforming an institution or practice.
Wampanoag Bible - Answer The first Bible published in the colonies, a 1663 translation into
Wampanoag by the missionary John Eliot.
New England - Answer
New Netherlands - Answer
New Sweden - Answer
New Spain - Answer
New France - Answer
Pennsylvania - Answer Founded by William Penn for Quakers
