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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)

13. What were the effects of European ocean trade routes? (115)

14. How did the Vikings get to Newfoundland? Why did they leave? (111)

15. How did the invention of the printing press contribute to the revival of learning? (112)

16. What was the name of the major trading center that became known as “the land of gold”? (107)

17. What type of trade was often made in Ghana? (107)

18. What did the Europeans bring to trade in North Africa? (108)

19. What happened as a result of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Africa? (108-109)

20. Why did Marco Polo go to China? (103)

21. What places did the Silk Road connect? (103)

22. What occurred as a result of Zheng He’s voyages? (104-105)

23. What new things did Marco Polo find in China? What was not new to him? (102-103)

24. What was the Silk Road? (103)

25. Why did Columbus sail west on his first expedition? (135)

26. Why did Columbus continue to return to the West Indies? (136)

27. What is the Columbian Exchange? (136)

28. What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange? (136)

29. How did Columbus’s voyages impact the Americas? (136-138)

30. How was Cortes able to defeat the Aztecs? (143)

31. What Spanish conquistador defeated the Incan Empire? (145)

32. Order the groups in New Spain from the most powerful to the least powerful. (148)

33. Describe life on an encomienda. (148-149)

34. Why did the Spanish landowners want to keep slaves? (150)

35. What did Las Casas believe about the Indians in the encomienda system? (149-151)

36. Why did the Pilgrims chose to leave England and come to the New World? (169)

37. Why did the Pilgrims go to Plymouth rather than Virginia? (170)

38. What difficulties did the Pilgrims face at Plymouth that first winter? (170)

39. What group helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth Colony? (170)

40. Why did the Puritans send a small group of colonists ahead of the others? (172)

41. What happened to dissenters of Puritan rules in Massachusetts? (178)

42. Which region had the longest growing season? (177)

43. Describe the New England colonies. (178)

44. Why did the English want colonies in North America? (157)

45. Where did the English first try to start a colony? (157)

46. How did the Jamestown settlers avoid starvation? (159-161)

47. Why were the Spanish angry enough at the English to begin a war in 1588? (158)

48. What two colonies did the French found as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage? (165)

49. What was the Northwest Passage? Was it ever found? (165)

50. Why did Quebec grow so quickly? (165)

51. Why were explorers searching for a Northwest Passage? (165)

52. Why did Dutch settlers choose Manhattan Island as the site of New Amsterdam? (165)