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Europe Discovers America
True/False Quiz

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1 .       France dominated the exploration and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       England's delay in New World colonization was largely the consequence of its navy's defeat by the Spanish Armada in 1588. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       The introduction of tobacco as a cash crop helped save the Jamestown colony. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Under Queen Elizabeth I, the Anglican church became the official Church of England. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       Both Puritans and Separatists believed in predestination. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Puritans, who favored a form of church organization in which authority emanated up from the local congregations, rather than from the top down, were called Arminians. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       In Puritan Massachusetts Bay, clergymen were not allowed to hold public office such as seats on the General Court. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       The Dutch originally established the colony that later became New York. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Pennsylvania was England's first proprietary colony in North America. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Queen Elizabeth I took little interest in England's colonization of the New World. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       Most English settlers who came to America in the seventeenth century were primarily motivated by religious persecution. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       Those English colonists we know as the "Pilgrims" were Protestant Separatists who settled in Plymouth Plantation. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       Pennsylvania was the only proprietary colony that was not founded as a refuge for a dissenting religious group then being persecuted in England. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       Juan Ponce De Leon made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America on the east coast of Florida in 1513. [Hint]

 
 






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