Name_______________________________ Desk Number______________
Chapter 3 Review
U. S. History
Complete each statement by placing the NUMBER of the term used in the blank.
1. Presidio
3. Charter
5. Precedent
2. Alliance
4. Encomienda
6. Plantation
1. An agreement between two nations to aid and protect each other is
a (an)___________________________.
2. A (an)_______________________ is a fort where soldiers live.
3. A (an)_________________________is a legal document giving certain rights to a
person or company.
4. __________________________ is a land grant from the Spanish government to
settlers.
5. A (an)__________________ is a large estate farmed by many workers.
6. A (an)______________________ is an example for people in the future to follow.
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7. On the map, what does the dotted line with the arrows represent?
a. the route Columbus followed on his third voyage
b. the route Balboa took to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic
c. the route that Magellan took to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic
8. How was the route shown on the map linked to earlier voyages?
a. It established the route to Asia that Columbus attempted to find.
b. It followed Columbus’s earlier route around South America.
c. It gave Spain possession of the Pacific Ocean.
9. Which of the following statements is most clearly shown on the map?
a. A European explorer reached Asia by rounding the tip of South America.
b. A European explorer reached the Pacific Ocean by rounding the tip of South
America.
c. No European explorers reached the Pacific Ocean by crossing North
America.
10. Which of the following is the most likely immediate result from such a voyage?
a. increased wealth from trading with natives of North America
b. the growth of new Spanish colonies in the West Indies
c. new information to draw more accurate maps
7. Squanto
16. Fur trade
24. Representative
8. Laws
17. Riches
25. Land
9. Hemispheres
18. Persecution
26. Incas
10. European diseases
19. Peninsulares
27. Starvation
11. Native Americans
20. Resources
28. Churches
12. Resistance
29. Rivalries
13. Borderlands
21. Mayflower Compact
30. Africans
14. De Las Casas
22. Presidios
31. Water
15. Mosquitoes
23. Laborers
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11. One of the challenges faced by the Jamestown colonists was disease spread by
________________________.
12. Christopher Columbus’ voyage was different from earlier voyages to the Americas
because it led to increased trade between the Eastern and Western____________.
13. The purpose of the Mayflower Compact was to establish ______________ for the
general good.
14. The Virginia House of Burgesses began a tradition of ________________________
government in the English colonies.
15. The signers of the _________________________ agreed to make and obey laws for
the good of the colony.
16. After 1619 Virginia’s population grew with the arrival of women and
_____________________.
17. ___________________________asked the king of Spain to enact laws prohibiting the
enslavement of Native Americans.
18. One reason the Plymouth colony succeeded was because ______________taught the
colonists how to grow native food crops.
19. Europe’s rulers carried the tensions of the Protestant Reformation from Europe to
North America by encouraging rivalries between settlers for goods and __________.
20. Conflicts with Native Americans, disease, and ___________________ were
challenges faced by the Jamestown colonists.
21. During the early years of the Jamestown colony additional ________________ were
needed from England.
22. One result of the Protestant Reformation was that religious differences increased
_____________________ among nations.
23. In most European countries people who did not follow the established religion
sometimes faced _____________________.
24. Because of a civil war and infighting among the _______________, they lost their
empire to the Spanish.
25. The three types of settlements in New Spain were the pueblos, the_____________,
and the missions.
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26. The rivalry over the______________________ in the 1600s in North America led to
conflict between New France and New Netherland.
27. European explorers failed to find a northwest passage to Asia but it led them to
make use of North American_____________________.
28. The Spanish ____________________________ were located from present-day
Florida to present-day California.
29. One reason that the Pilgrims were able to survive early hardships in their settlement
was because of the help of ____________________________.
30. In the 1500s most European rulers supported established _____________________.
31. Spanish explorers were largely unsuccessful in the Spanish borderlands because
they were met by strong Indian ___________________.
32. The Aztecs were easily defeated by the Spanish conquistadors because a large
number of the Aztecs had died from __________________________________.
33. Western European nations sent explorers in search of a northwest passage to find a
direct _______________ route to Asia.
34. The social classes in New Spain from the highest to the lowest were
__________________, Creoles, Mestizos, and Indians.
35. Because of Columbus’ voyages Europeans saw the potential for settling and gaining
____________________ from new lands.
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APPLYING MAIN IDEAS
The Columbian Exchange
From the Americas to Europe
From Europe to the Americas
Potatoes, tomatoes
Peppers, cocoa
Squash, peanuts
wheat, bananas
horses, cows
smallpox, typhus
36. What is the significance of smallpox and typhus on this chart?
a. These diseases hindered European colonization of the Americas
b. Native Americans in South America developed cures for these diseases.
c. These diseases killed the majority of Native Americans in Mexico and the
Caribbean.
37. Which of the following goods from the chart had a direct impact on the way Native
Americans battled Europeans?
a. cocoa
b. cows
c. horses
38. What information is included on this chart?
a. Goods introduced to the Americas and Europe as part of the Columbian
Exchange
b. Vegetables grown in South America after the Columbian Exchange
c. American animals introduced into Europe as part of the Columbian
Exchange
39. Which pair of goods could be added to the left-hand column of the chart?
a. rice, olive oil
b. goats, chickens
c. maize, pumpkins
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