LESSON 7 - EXAMS

Benchmark SS.8.2.2 -

Directions: 1) Click on "Explorers and Colonial America." of the Globe-Fearon text,  2) Read pages 13-88, and 3) Answer the following questions on MS Word. You may highlight, copy, and paste these questions onto Word. Finally, print our your answers and submit your copy to me. If you have not finished, copy, paste, and then send your question-sheet to your home e-mail and finish answering at home.


1) Which European was the first country to discover gold in America?

2) What is "mercantilism" ?


3) What three countries were the leading powers in Europe in the 17th century (1600's)?

4) Name the areas in America where the European powers controlled.

5) Which European country was the first to enslave Africans in the New World?

6) What did the Glorious Revolutions prove?

7) Who founded Pennsylvania?

8) Who were the Huguenots?

9) In regards to Religious Freedom, which religious groups founded religious freedom in the differing colonies?

10) Who founded New Jersey? (name two persons)

11) Who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to America?

12) Who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore?

13) What two Spanish explorers were beheaded?

14) Explain why Spanish Conquistador Pizzaro was "not" a nice guy.

15) Slavery is based on an idea from where?

16) What native tribe build a city of gold that Cortez discovered?

17) What was the reason why these colonies were founded?: a) New York, b) Delaware,
c) Massachussetts, d) Pennsylvania, e) Virginia, f) Georgia, g) North and South Carolina,
h) Connecticut, i) Rhode Island, j) New Hampshire, and k) Maryland.
(one or two word answers)
18) Why did the British establish the Thirteen Colonies? (8 reasons)

19) What changed the trade routes during the 16th century?

20) What are the five major reasons for European exploration and colonization in America?

21) Who launched the exploration of the New World?

22) What caused the Age of exploration?

23) Which colonies comprise New England? the Middle Colonies? The South?

24) Where did Sir Walter Raleigh first colonize in America?