8 history 1st nine weeks exams

Question 0

Who were the first Americans?

Answer 0

Asians

Question 1

How did the first Americans arrive here?

Answer 1

Through a land bridge

Question 2

Which group of people told sagas that were passed down through generation?

Answer 2

Vikings

Question 3

What is another word for feudal system?

Answer 3

Serfdom

Question 4

What do we call followers of the religion Islam?

Answer 4

Muslims

Question 5

Which two inventions helped sailors know the directions they were sailing?

Answer 5

Compass and astrolabe

Question 6

Which country did Christopher Columbus sail for?

Answer 6

Spain

Question 7

What was another name for China?

Answer 7

Indies

Question 8

How long did it take to circumnavigate the world?

Answer 8

3 years

Question 9

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

Answer 9

Conquedor

Question 10

Who was fighting whom in the crusades?

Answer 10

Jerusalem and Israel (Christian v/s Muslim)

Question 11

What was the name of the island Christopher Columbus named in 1492?

Answer 11

Hispaniola

Question 12

What was the Spanish Armada?

Answer 12

Naval Fleet

Question 13

Who did Francis Drake sail for?

Answer 13

England

Question 14

Who led the colony of Roanoke the second time?

Answer 14

John White

Question 15

Which disease did most settler get from Mosquitos?

Answer 15

Malaria

Question 16

Who became the leader of Jamestown?

Answer 16

John Smith

Question 17

The years 1609-1610 were known as what for the colonists of Jamestown?

Answer 17

The Starving Time

Question 18

Who were considered separatists from the Church of England?

Answer 18

Pilgrims

Question 19

Which Native American helped the Pilgrims?

Answer 19

Squanto

Question 20

Who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company?

Answer 20

John Winthrop

Question 21

Which family started the colony of Maryland?

Answer 21

Calverts

Question 22

What was the name of the colony the French found?

Answer 22

Quebec

Question 23

Who were the first to build log cabins in America?

Answer 23

Swedish

Question 24

Where did most of the colonists who populated Carolina come from?

Answer 24

Barbados

Question 25

Which country started the colony of New Netherland?

Answer 25

Dutch

Question 26

Who started the colony of Pennsylvania?

Answer 26

William Penn

Question 27

What was John Smith's philosophy about work life in the colony?

Answer 27

If you don't work you don't eat.

Question 28

Is it fair to credit Christopher Columbus with the discovery of America? Explain.

Answer 28

It is not fair because he was the third person to reach America after the Vikings and the Asians.

Question 29

What was the first body of government in America?

Answer 29

The House of Burgesses

Question 30

What was considered a framework of our constitution?

Answer 30

The Fundamental Orders

Question 31

What was the first permanent European settlement in America?

Answer 31

St. Augustine, FL

Question 32

Explain the culture of the Puritans and how their colony was ran.

Answer 32

They wanted to Purify the Church of England, they were strict about wanting everyone to believe in their beliefs (did not tolerate other religions), they wanted a common wealth, and they wanted everyone to work

Question 33

Where could churches, meeting houses, and schools be found?

Answer 33

Town Common

Question 34

What was the origin of southern hospitality?

Answer 34

Isolation

Question 35

Where could women in America feel almost equal to men?

Answer 35

Church

Question 36

Who sold the first slaves to English colonies?

Answer 36

Dutch

Question 37

What is peculiar institution?

Answer 37

Slavery

Question 38

Tobacco, sugar, rice, and indigo are all examples of what?

Answer 38

Cash crops

Question 39

What disease would affect most people working rice fields?

Answer 39

Malaria

Question 40

The Great Awakening began under whom?

Answer 40

Jonathan Edwards

Question 41

What did Galileo invent?

Answer 41

The telescope

Question 42

What did Benjamin Franklin invent?

Answer 42

Bi-focal glasses

Question 43

What did Isaac Newton discover?

Answer 43

Laws of Gravity

Question 44

How many years of schooling did Benjamin Franklin have?

Answer 44

2

Question 45

Which section of America controlled the colonial governments?

Answer 45

East

Question 46

Who wrote the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 46

Benjamin Franklin

Question 47

What were rights denied to women in colonial America?

Answer 47

Voting and owning land

Question 48

Who was involved in triangular trade?

Answer 48

Sugar Islands, England, and the Northern Colonies

Question 49

Why did many African Americans join the Methodist church?

Answer 49

They were against slavery

Question 50

What did Benjamin Franklin write every year?

Answer 50

Poor Richards Almanac

Question 51

What are some things Benjamin Franklin helped found?

Answer 51

The first fire department, the first hospital, the first library, and a school

Question 52

What colleges were open during colonial America?

Answer 52

Yale, Harvard, William and Mary, and Princeton

Question 53

Why did colonists take a practical view of marriage instead of a romantic view?

Answer 53

After the women's 7 years of being indentured servants, she would usually marry her master

Question 54

How did African Americans become slaves?

Answer 54

They were either prisoners of war and sold into slavery of captured by slave hunters

Question 55

Why is it incorrect to think that slaves were often beaten?

Answer 55

They were to valuable

Question 56

Explain Bacon's Rebellion.

Answer 56

It was a dispute between the settlers and the Indians that showed the weakness of the House of Burgesses which led to new elections.

Question 57

What was the middle passage?

Answer 57

A slave-route to america

Question 58

What would someone experience during the Middle Passage?

Answer 58

Ships were tightly packed with thousands of slaves who were all shackled, so their wrists were usually rubbed raw. They were also confined since their were so many in one ship. This also helped any sickness to spread rapidly.

Question 59

Explain the Boston Massacre.

Answer 59

It was when the colonists decided to take action against the British soldiers, or Redcoats. When the colonists did this, the Redcoats fired into the crowd killing 5.

Question 60

What was the refusal to buy certain products for political reasons called?

Answer 60

Boycott

Question 61

Which law proclaimed that the colonies were subordinate to England?

Answer 61

Declaratory Act

Question 62

Which document was sent to all colonial legislatures calling on them to support the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 62

Circular Letter

Question 63

Who was a lawyer who defended the soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 63

John Adams

Question 64

Who was the chancellor of the English exchequer for whom a series of money-raising laws passed in 1767?

Answer 64

Charles Townshed

Question 65

This law passed in 1764 imposing a tariff on sugar, coffee, and other products.

Answer 65

Sugar Acts

Question 66

This person was a radical who was a founder of the Sons of Liberty and co-author of the Circular Letter

Answer 66

Samuel Adams

Question 67

Why was the Stamp Act repealed?

Answer 67

The colonists were boycotting it so it became pointless

Question 68

Why did Benjamin Franklin write Poor Richards Almanac?

Answer 68

So that he could say things that he wouldn't normally say as himself.

Question 69

Who was France's biggest ally?

Answer 69

Spain

Question 70

What was the result of King William's War?

Answer 70

Every gets land that was taken from them

Question 71

What was the result of Queen Anne's war?

Answer 71

England gains Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the Hudson Bay

Question 72

What was the result of King George's War?

Answer 72

Fort Luis burg went back to France

Question 73

What was the result of the French and Indian War (the Seven Years')?

Answer 73

France loses it's entire North American empire.

Question 74

What was the result of Pontiac's rebellion?

Answer 74

It was put down by Brit troops because Charmaine is awesome.