HIST 2111 TAYLOR EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026

HIST 2111 TAYLOR EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 1200 - Answer -North America's largest Native American city of Cahokia flourishes (today's St. Louis) 1492 - Answer -Christopher Columbus arrives in West Indies, Columbian Exchange begins 1607 - Answer -Virginia company sends the first group of settlers to North America, founding Jamestown in Virginia 1612 - Answer -John Rolfe arrives in Jamestown with tobacco 1619 - Answer -- 1st group of English women arrive in Virginia and are auctioned off as wives - House of Burgesses meets for the 1st time in Jamestown, marking the 1st elected legislature in the Western Hemisphere - 1st group of slaves arrives in Jamestown , treated as indentured servants 1620 - Answer -Plymouth colony established in New England 1626 - Answer -Dutch purchase Manhattan Islands and establish the colony of New Amsterdam1630 - Answer -John Winthrop leads large group of Puritans to establish Boston and is elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1634 - Answer -colony of Maryland established George Calvert -refuge for Catholics