Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Study Questions for TEST

1) List two reasons why Europeans were interested in the Americas?
2) What did Portugal find it difficult to rule their territories?
3) What was Portugal's big colony in the Americas?
4) What happened to the Native Americans who lived in Brazil when the Portuguese claimed the land?
5) Why did the Spanish have trouble transporting gold and silver from the Americas to Spain?
6) What was the "Lost Colony"?
7) What was the English's first permanent settlement in North America?
8) Who was John Smith?  John Rolfe?
9) Why were the Pilgrims called Separatists?
10)  Why did colonists set up the House of Burgesses?
11) What group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
12) What was France's first permanent settlement in North America?
13) How did France lose it North America possessions?
14) Discuss how the English Civil War and Glorious Revolution, The American Revolution, and the French Revolution changed history.
15) What did James I do?
16) Who was Oliver Cromwell?
17) Who was the last Tudor monarch?
18) What did John Locke write and how did it influence the American Revolution?
19) What was the Stamp Act?
20) Why did the American Revolution end?
21) Discuss the three estates of France before the Revolution.
22) What was the Reign of Terror?
23) Why were Europeans rulers afraid of the ideas of the French Revolution?
24) Who was Galilei?  Issac Newton?
25) Discuss how the Industrial Revolution changed peoples lives?
26) What countries led the Industrial Revolution?
27) ho was Samuel Morse? Thomas Edison? Gottieb Daimler?

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