UNITED STATES HISTORY: END-OF-YEAR ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE
SECTION 1: VOCABULARY
Using the glossary in the rear of the textbook, please define the following words:
1. encomienda:_________________________________________________________________________________________
2. expedition: _________________________________________ __________________________________________________
3. charter: ___________________________________________ __________________________________________________
4. persecution: ________________________________________ __________________________________________________
5. proprietor: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
6. saga: _____________________________________________ __________________________________________________
7. caravan: __________________________________________ __________________________________________________
8. Renaissance:_________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Columbian Exchange__________________________________________________________________________________
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10. conquistador: _________________________________________ _______________________________________________________
Directions: Please use your textbook to locate the answers to the questions below. The End-of-Year Assessment encompasses chapters 3-5. (Page numbers are in parentheses.)
11. Who was the first Portuguese explorer to reach India? (114)
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12. How did the Portuguese benefit from exploring the coast of Africa? (113)
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13. What were the effects of European ocean trade routes? (115)
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14. How did the Vikings get to Newfoundland? Why did they leave? (111)
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15. How did the invention of the printing press contribute to the revival of learning? (112)
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16. What was the name of the major trading center that became known as “the land of gold”? (107)
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17. What type of trade was often made in Ghana? (107)
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18. What did the Europeans bring to trade in North Africa? (108)
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19. What happened as a result of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Africa? (108-109)
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20. Why did Marco Polo go to China? (103)
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21. What places did the Silk Road connect? (103)
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22. What occurred as a result of Zheng He’s voyages? (104-105)
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23. What new things did Marco Polo find in China? What was not new to him? (102-103)
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24. What was the Silk Road? (103)
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25. Why did Columbus sail west on his first expedition? (135)
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26. Why did Columbus continue to return to the West Indies? (136)
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27. What is the Columbian Exchange? (136)
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28. What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange? (136)
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29. How did Columbus’s voyages impact the Americas? (136-138)
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30. How was Cortes able to defeat the Aztecs? (143)
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31. What Spanish conquistador defeated the Incan Empire? (145)
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32. Order the groups in New Spain from the most powerful to the least powerful. (148)
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33. Describe life on an encomienda. (148-149)
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34. Why did the Spanish landowners want to keep slaves? (150)
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35. What did Las Casas believe about the Indians in the encomienda system? (149-151)
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36. Why did the Pilgrims chose to leave England and come to the New World? (169)
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37. Why did the Pilgrims go to Plymouth rather than Virginia? (170)
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38. What difficulties did the Pilgrims face at Plymouth that first winter? (170)
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39. What group helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth Colony? (170)
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40. Why did the Puritans send a small group of colonists ahead of the others? (172)
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41. What happened to dissenters of Puritan rules in Massachusetts? (178)
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42. Which region had the longest growing season? (177)
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43. Describe the New England colonies. (178)
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44. Why did the English want colonies in North America? (157)
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45. Where did the English first try to start a colony? (157)
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46. How did the Jamestown settlers avoid starvation? (159-161)
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47. Why were the Spanish angry enough at the English to begin a war in 1588? (158)
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48. What two colonies did the French found as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage? (165)
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49. What was the Northwest Passage? Was it ever found? (165)
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50. Why did Quebec grow so quickly? (165)
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51. Why were explorers searching for a Northwest Passage? (165)
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52. Why did Dutch settlers choose Manhattan Island as the site of New Amsterdam? (165)
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