Multiple Choice
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People
Colonies
Explorers
100

Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?

A. Peter Stuyvesant

B. John Winthrop

C. Dias

D. Las Casas

C. Dias

100

It was declared that Indians were humans with souls by the _______.

pope

100

The first person to sail from Europe to India was ______.

Vasco Da Gama

100

The English founded the colony ___________, buy many of the colonists would not work.

Jamestown

100
What did Columbus persuade his men to do when they became restless?

Persevere

200

Who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?

A. Columbus

B. Da Gama

C. Dias

D. Las Casas

A. Columbus

200

A tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their locations was the _______.

Quadrant

200

The people who wanted to change the Church of England by removing the false teachings and practices were called _________.

Puritans

200

A Patuxet Indian taught Pilgrims to grow food in the __________ Colony.

Plymouth

200

Who was the first person to sail from Europe to India?

Vasco da Gama

300

Who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians?

A. Powhatan

B. Da Gama

C. Dias

D. Las Casas

D. Las Casas

300

An invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing was the ________.

Compass

300

The people who started their own churches and kept apart from the Church of England were called ________.

Separatists

300

Which colony set up a congregational church government?

Massachusetts Bay Colony

300

Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?

Dias

400

Who made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields?

A. Columbus

B. John Smith

C. Dias

D. John Winthrop

B. John Smith

400

To pay for their voyage to America, many people became indentured ________.

Servants

400

The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love, was ________.

John Winthrop

400
In what way did English cities motivate people to start colonies?

People wanted to start colonies for religious reasons because English cities had become wicked.

400

Who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?

Columbus

500

Who governed New Netherland?

A. Peter Stuyvesant

B. Da Gama

C. John Smith

D. Las Casas

A. Peter Stuyvesant

500

A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods was the ________.

Caravan

500

Who was the chief of several woodland tribes in the Chesapeake Bay area?

Powhatan

500

Peter Stuyvesant governed which colony?

New Netherland

500

Who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians?

Las Casas