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I.S.S. Exploration/Colonization Test
Multiple Choice (2 pts. each)
1.
Which of the following explains how the first people got to the America’s around 22,000 years ago?
A. Built massive rafts and floated from Asia
B. Crossed a frozen land bridge in the current location of the Bearing Strait
C. Arrived with Christopher Columbus in 1492
D. All of the above
2. Which of the following Native American empires emerged in the Valley of Mexico (present day Mexico City) around 1200 C.E.?
A. Cherokee
B. Inca
C. Seminole
D. Aztec
3. Which of the following tools were used to aid exploration?
A. Astrolabe
B. Caravel
C. Compass
D. All of the above
4. Which of the following is a potential reason why the Maya abandoned their cities around 900 C.E.?
A. War
B. Famine
C. Arrival of conquistadors
D. All of the above
5. Which of the following area(s) of study did the Maya place an emphasis on?
A. Writing
B. Math
C. Astronomy
D. Both B & C
6. Which of the following religious views best describes the early Native American societies?
A. Monotheism
B. Polytheism
C. Atheism
D. None of the above
7. Which of the following refers to a series of wars between the Muslims and Christians for control of the “Holy Land” starting in
1090?
A. Jihad
B. Allah/Jesus Wars
C. Crusades
D. Both A & B
8. Which of the following refers to the largest Native American tribe living east of the Mississippi River?
A. Anasazi
B. Ottawa
C. Iroquois
D. Cherokee
9. Which of the following refers to a reason why the Aztec Empire spanned such a large area from Mexico’s east coast to the West
coast?
A. War Victories
B. Disease killed enemies
C. Alliances
D. Both A & C
10. What Native group formed a large empire along Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and spread into present day Central America?
A. Maya
B. Aztec
C. Creek
D. Shawnee
11. Which of the following people received a vision from the angel Gabriel telling them to spread the Islamic faith to all Arab
people?
A. Allah
B. Osama Bin Laden
C. Sayyid Qteb
D. Muhammad
12. Which of the following refers to the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Aztec Empire?
A. Montezuma
B. Maximus
C. Francisco Pizzaro
13. Which of the following refers to the duties of a person following the Islamic faith?
A. Read the Qur’an
B. Series of daily prayers
C. Visit holy city of Mecca
D. All of the above
14. Which of the following men led the religious reformation in Europe which resulted in the splitting of Christians into two groups,
Catholics and Protestants?
A. Eli Whitney
B. Martin Luther
C. Pope Andrew II
D. Henry VIII
15. _____________________ invented the printing press which allowed the ideas of the Renaissance & Reformation to spread
rapidly across Europe?
A. Johann Gutenberg
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Isaac Newton
D. Franklin D. Roosevelt
16. The America’s were founded in 1492 when an Italian sailor landed in the Bahamas. Which of the following men is responsible
for this discovery?
A. Ferdinand
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Marco Polo
D. Ferdinand Magellan
17. Which of the following statements is true about the relationship between European explorers and the Native Americans?
A. 95% died of diseases
B. Natives were used as slaves
C. Spanish left the Natives alone
D. Both A & B
18. After the Spanish saw that the use of Native Americans for labor was a bad option, where did they turn to for a source of labor?
A. India
B. Africa
C. Europe
D. Antarctica
19. Which of the following treaties divided the Western Hemisphere between the Spanish and the Portuguese?
A. Proclamation Line of 1493
B. Exploration Treaty
C. Treaty of Tordesillas
D. None of the above
20. ______________________ refers to the transfer of goods and living things across the Atlantic Ocean.
A. Atlantic Exchange
B. Slave Trade
C. Columbian Exchange
D. NATO
21. Which of the following terms refers to Spanish explorers/conquerors that came to the Americas during the 1400s?
A. Mestizos
B. Crusaders
C. Gladiators
D. Conquistadors
22. The _____________________ were a Native American group that formed a civilization in the “Four Corners” region of New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. They were also the first Native American civilization in North America.
A. Inca
B. Inuit
C. Anasazi
D. Utes
23. Which of the following was a reason why the Spanish conquered the Aztecs?
A. Aztecs moved their civilization to North America
B. Spread of diseases
C. Rival tribes helped the Spanish
D. Both B & C
24. _______________________ refers to a population of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry?
A. Mulattos
B. Cajun
C. Spanhito
D. Mestizo
25. _______________________ were people who in exchange for passage to North America, agreed to a term of servitude which
usually lasted four to seven years.
A. Slaves
B. Indentured Servants
C. Planters
D. None of the above
26. Which of the following men is responsible for conquering the Incan Empire?
A. Hernando Cortes
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Francisco Pizarro
D. Henry Hudson
27. Which of the following men was chosen by the Virginia Company to lead the colony of Jamestown and ensure its success?
A. John Wilkes Booth
B. Henry VIII
C. John Winthrop
D. John Smith
28. The Virginia Company was a ____________________, in which several investors pool their wealth in support of a colony that
would hopefully yield them a return on their investment.
A. Stock Market Company
B. Gross National Cooperation
C. Joint-Stock Company
D. None of the above
29. Which of the following groups emerged as a result of Henry VIII breaking England’s ties Roman Catholicism in the 1530 and
created their own church by eliminating all traces of Catholicism?
A. Quakers
B. Puritans
C. Free Masons
D. Muslims
30. Which of the following colonies was established by the Puritans in 1630?
A. New York
B. Virginia
C. Kentucky
D. Massachusetts
31. ____________________ was an extreme separatist within the Puritan community that argued that settlers needed to purchase
the land they were settling from the Native Americans, and secondly that people should be free to worship how they please.
A. Roger Williams
B. James Madison
C. Roger Sherman
D. John Calipari
32. Which of the following treaties is responsible for ending the French & Indian War in 1763?
A. Treaty of Ghent
B. Treaty of Tordesillas
C. Treaty of Portsmouth
D. Treaty of Paris
33. Which of the following refers to a war that began in 1675 between the Native Americans and the settlers of New England that
resulted in the deaths of many Native Americans and colonist and the destruction of property on both sides.
A. French & Indian War
B. King Phillips War
C. Puritan War
D. Massachusetts Massacre
34. Which of the following religious groups established the Pennsylvania colony under the leadership of William Penn in 1621?
A. Mormons
B. Sunni Muslims
C. Quakers
D. Amish
35. The southern colonies depended on which of the following as their main economic practice?
A. Agriculture
B. Fishing
C. Timber
D. Shipbuilding
36. Which of the following refers to the trading process in which goods and people were exchanged across the Atlantic Ocean
between the countries of Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
A. NATO
B. Triangular Trade
C. African Exchange
D. None of the above
37. The __________________ is a term that refers to the middle leg of the journey across the Atlantic Ocean in which slaves were
packed into ships and exposed to diseases and extremely harsh treatment?
A. Middle Passage
B. Deadman’s Leg
C. Bermuda Triangle
D. Both A & C
38. Which of the following was an economic practice that the Northern colonies depended on?
A. Fishing
B. Sawing lumber
C. Trade
D. All of the above
39. _____________________ was an educational movement in which people began to question old world practices (science,
religion, government, etc.) and contributed to the American Revolution?
A. Renaissance
B. Reformation
C. Enlightenment
D. Civil Thinking Revolution
40. Which of the following men embraced the ideas that spread throughout the Enlightenment, discovered electricity, and helped
America move towards independence from England?
A. Isaac Newton
B. George Washington
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Thomas Jefferson
41. Which of the following refers to a war between the French and the British over land in the Ohio River Valley?
A. Metacom’s War
B. French & Indian
C. War of 1812
D. All of the above
42. __________________ refers to the leader of the Ottawa tribe that led a campaign against British forts in the Ohio Valley and
Great Lakes regions?
A. Sitting Bull
B. Pocahontas
C. Pontiac
D. None of the above
43. Which of the following established a line along the Appalachian Mountains which the American colonists were not allowed to
cross?
A. Appalachian Proclamation
B. Proclamation of 1763
C. British Emancipation Proclamation
D. All of the above
True/False (2 pts. each):
44. The 13 colonies existed primarily for the economic benefit of England.
A. True
B. False
45. Bacon’s Rebellion refers to a slave rebellion that began in Charleston, SC in which slaves killed several southern families in their
attempt to make it to Spanish-Florida.
A. True
B. False
46. The works of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton challenged the theory that the earth revolved around the sun.
A. True
B. False
47. Because of the terms agreed to in the Treaty of Paris, Great Britain claimed virtually all of Canada, all N. American land east of
the Mississippi River, and took Florida from Spain.
A. True
B. False
48. Farmers in the North required just as much slave labor as planters in the South because they had just as many cash crops as the
Southern colonies had.
A. True
B. False
49. The Great Awakening was a religious revival that swept through the British American colonies dedicated to restoring the early
practices of the Puritan Church.
A. True
B. False
50. The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening helped colonists to question British authority over their lives and were extremely
influential to the start of the American Revolution.
A. True
B. False