Ch 1-3

Question 1

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 1

Founded Quebec; “father of New France”

Question 2

John Cabot

Answer 2

1st modern European to step foot in North America

Question 3

“Master thief” ; claims California for England; crowned as a knight

Answer 3

Francis Drake

Question 4

Jamestown

Answer 4

1st permanent settlement founded in 1607

Question 5

Pochahontas

Answer 5

Married John Rolf at 18 years old; becomes a Christian and is renamed Rebecca

Question 6

John Rolfe

Answer 6

Introduces higher grade Tabacco

Question 7

Indentured servants

Answer 7

Men and women who sold their labor for 3-6 years to the person who paid their passage to the colony

Question 8

House of Burgesses

Answer 8

1st representative assembly in the colonies

Question 9

Signed by 41 men, a form of civil government to submit to the will of the majority

Answer 9

Mayflower compact

Question 10

2nd governor for the next 30 years; wrote the 1st American history book “HISTORY OF THE PLYMOUTH PLANTATION”

Answer 10

William Bradford

Question 11

Gave thanks to God for the harvest and his faithfulness; Abe Lincoln made it an official holiday

Answer 11

The first thanksgiving

Question 12

Toleration act 1694

Answer 12

Maryland granted freedom of worship to all who professed the name of Christ

Question 13

Appalachians

Answer 13

Barrier to the westward expansion; 1750 colonists began to explore

Question 14

Daniel Boone

Answer 14

Established Boonesborough, Kentucky; Rifle was named “Tick-Licker”

Question 15

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 15

• Public libraries, Poor Richards almanac, Scientist and diplomat
• 13 virtues
• FOUNDING FATHER

Question 16

Great awakening

Answer 16

1730-1740s a spiritual revival in America

Question 17

Results of the great awakening

Answer 17

Thousands converted,new collages

Question 18

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 18

1741 Preaches famous sermon: sinners in the hands of an angry God. He was a foremost theologian and intellect

Question 19

George Whitefield

Answer 19

Most powerful voice in America, was kicked out of preaching indoors for evangelistic messages/ preached to crowds of 20,000 people

Question 20

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 20

1st black poet in America; a slave that was taught to read and write

Question 21

Rivalry in the river valley

Answer 21

1754- a conflict begins, the French and Indian against England and Colonists over territory, fur trade, and fishing rights in the Ohio River

Question 22

Young George Washington

Answer 22

Washington and men attack a French scouting party who were spying on them; the French and Indian war begins

Question 23

The Albany plan 1754

Answer 23

The British summoned an inter-colonial congress

Question 24

TreatY of Paris

Answer 24

Ends the war; Britain got all of North America(including Canada) east of the Mississippi River; Spain got the land west of the Mississippi River

Question 25

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 25

Barred colonists from settling west of the Appalachians

Question 26

Quartering act

Answer 26

When necessary, the colonists supply Brits with certain supplies and living quarters

Question 27

Stamp act

Answer 27

Had to buy stamps or seals for all legal documents

Question 28

Boston massacre

Answer 28

Shooting begins, 11 people hit, 5 die including Crispus Attacks

Question 29

Boston tea party

Answer 29

Sam Adams leads the sons of Liberty aboard British ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor

Question 30

Harsh laws placed on colonies; Boston port bill, quartering act, intolerable acts

Answer 30

Coercive acts

Question 31

Father of the California missions

Answer 31

Priest Junipero Serra