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8th grade
history test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Protestant Reformation | Split between the Catholic and Protestant |
| What was the Northwest Passage | The passage between the Atlantic and Pacific |
| Who traded furs, guns, and other tools to Native Americans? | French |
| What started the Representative Government in America | House of Burgesses |
| Who defeated the Aztecs in Mexico | Cortes |
| Land grants called ____ let settlers demand labor or taxes from Native Americans | Conquistadors |
| What was the lowest class in the Spanish colonies? | Mulattos |
| What Native American was a big part in helping the English colonist grow food? | Squanto |
| ____was the first document in which colonist claimed the right of self government | Mayflower Compact |
| What difference did the Puritans and Pilgrims have in their journey to the New World | Puritans wanted to own new land |
| What area was wanted for the fertile lands and recourses before the 7 years war? | Ohio River Valley |
| Which group founded Pennsylvania and Delaware | Quakers |
| What jobs or recourses were the Middle Colonies known for? | Great farm land |
| A colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family | Proprietary Colony |
| The ___ was formed to protect the colonies from Spain and also fro debters | Georgia |
| _____and ____ promoted the growth of slavery. | Tobacco, rice |
| Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanack | Benjamin Franklin |
| ____is the idea of maximizing exports and minimizing imports | Mercantilism |
| what was triangular trade? | Ships go from Africa to America and then to Erope |
| what is this | test |