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8th Ch 2 US Hist Ex
8th Grade US History Mid Term Exam Chap 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were the first Europeans to make contact with North America? | The Vikings |
| Who never actually went on a voyage? He founded a school of navigation in Portugal | Prince Henry the Navigator. |
| Why did the Europeans want a water route to Asia? | To spread Christianity, Asian spices and curiosity about Asian culture. |
| Portugals explorations of the New World led to the start of what? | The Atlantic Slave Trade. |
| What did the slave trade cause? | Wars between African tribes to protect their own tribe from slave trade; devastation of African communities and families, horrible living conditions, wealth for the portuguese. |
| Who sailed for Spain? | Christopher Columbus |
| What did Columbus trip do? | Opened up possibilities of exploration and discovery for Europeans. |
| What was the line the Pope drew down the Atlantic Ocean and gave everything west of the line to Spain and East to Portugal called? | The Line of Demarcation |
| What moved the line further west to give Portuagal more land? | The Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Whose first expedition to circumnavigate the glode and was killed in the Phillippines? | Magellan |
| This dramatically changed the world by introducing non-native plants and animals to other areas. | Columbian Exchange |
| Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs. | Hernan Cortes |
| Who was teh Aztec leader Cortes captured? | Moctezuma |
| Who defeated the Inca Empire in South America? | Francisco Pizarro |
| Who establish San Juan,, Puerto Rico, then explored Florida, mostly looking for the Fountain of Youth? | Ponce de Leon |
| Who explored the Gulf Coast, Georgia, and the Carolinas? | Hernando de Soto |
| What gave the Spanish permission to tax or force Native Americans to work? | Encomienda System |
| Who spoke up about the harsh treatment of Native American by the Spanish? He was a priest. | Bartolome' de Las Casas |
| Who began and led the Protestat Reformation and criticized the leaders of the Catholic Church for their greed and abuse of their power? | Martin Luther |
| Who founded the Church of England (Angelican Church) to challenge the authority of the pope? | King Henry VIII |
| A document givign someone permission to start a colony. | Charter |
| In 1584 whose charter for the first colony in Roanoke, abandoned after a year? | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| In 1587 who resettled in Roanoke again. His granddaughter Virginia Dare was the first colonist born in North America. | John White and 150 Colonists |
| Who were the French missionaries who explored the Mississippi River down to Arkansas? | Marquette and Joliet |
| Why was a new labor force needed in North America? | Because many Native American were wiped out by European diseases. |
| Who legalized the sale of slaves in the colonies? | The Spanish government |
| What was the voyage across Atlantic Ocean where enslaved Africans were kept chained to the cargo called? | The Middle Passage |
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