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Study Guide Chapter 2 & 3

1. Who traveled through China and inspired Europeans to find a westward water route to Asia? ______________________________________________________________________________

2. Who paid for Columbus’ voyage west and what did he discover? Where did he think he was? a. ___________________________________________________________________________

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3. What is meant by the term “Columbian Exchange?” ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What part of the Columbian Exchange had the greatest impact on Native Americans (**Hint: what followed the Europeans where ever they settled?)? What are some of the things the New World gave to the Old World and vice versa? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________5. Why did African slaves come to the New World? What were Europeans trading for the African

Slaves? Where were they taken in the New World? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________c. ___________________________________________________________________________

6. Who conquered Mexico and what empire did he conquer? ______________________________7. Who conquered Peru and what empire did he conquer? ________________________________8. After the conquests of Peru and Mexico, Spain had taken control of Central America and most of

what? _________________________________________________________________________9. What does the term “Spanish borderland” refer to? ____________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________10. Why did Ponce de Leon travel to Florida? ____________________________________________11. Why did Coronado travel through Mexico and the greater Southwest? _____________________

______________________________________________________________________________12. Which type of people settled in the borderlands? What type of settlements did they build and

what were they used for? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________13. Why did the French send Jacquez Cartier west? What did he claim once he was there? What

did he discover after he had claimed it? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________

c. ___________________________________________________________________________14. What settlement did Samuel de Champlain establish? Which type of people mainly settled in

the area? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________

15. Describe the unique relationship between the Huron and the French. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

16. Which tribe did Champlain help the Huron to defeat? ___________________________________17. Which man claimed the Louisiana Territory for France and how did he do it? ________________

______________________________________________________________________________18. What was the first English colony in the Americas and what happened to it? ________________

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19. Who became the leader of the Jamestown colony and what happened to him regarding the Natives?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

20. Who brought peace between the Powhatan tribe and the colonists at Jamestown? ________________________________________________________________________________________

21. Describe the Starving Time at the Jamestown colony. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

22. What 2 major developments saved Jamestown? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

23. Who made the first territorial claim for New Netherland and what was he looking for? Where was the land that he claimed? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

24. How did the Dutch begin making money? ____________________________________________25. With which powerful tribe did the Dutch prosper by trading guns for furs?

______________________________________________________________________________26. How did New Netherland become New York? _________________________________________

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27. Describe what it is to be an indentured servant. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

28. What were some of the main reasons people came to the colonies? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

29. Which colonies were the New England colonies? What did they have in common in terms of geography and economies? a._____________________________________________________________________________b. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

30. Which colonies were the Middle Colonies? Which types of people were represented in the Middle Colonies? What was their main reason for settling there? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________c. ___________________________________________________________________________

31. Which colonies were the Southern Colonies? What was the southern economy based on (give examples)? What is a plantation? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________c. ___________________________________________________________________________

32. Describe the four basic elements of colonial government? Who made the laws in the colonies?a. ___________________________________________________________________________

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33. Which religious group settled in Massachusetts and why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

34. Which group settled on Plymouth Rock and when? Who was their leader? Who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________c. ___________________________________________________________________________

35. What is the main significance of the Mayflower Compact? What do the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders have in common? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________

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36. Which religion tended to settle in Rhode Island? _______________________________________

37. Describe the significance of the Fundamental Orders? Which type of citizen was granted the right to vote? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

38. How was colonial government different in New York than from other colonies? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

39. Who founded Pennsylvania? Which religious group did he belong to? Why was this religious group unwelcome in England? Why was Pennsylvania founded? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________c. ___________________________________________________________________________d. ___________________________________________________________________________

40. Where was the first democracy in America? __________________________________________41. Describe the Act Concerning Religion. _______________________________________________

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42. What was the Virginia colony’s economy based on? Why did Virginia replace indentured servants with African slaves? a. ___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________

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43. Who founded the Georgia Colony and for what purpose? Which types of people actually ended up settling there? What was the main reason the king granted a charter for Georgia? a. ___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________b. ___________________________________________________________________________c. ___________________________________________________________________________

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