Finals

Question 1

A way of life shared by members of a society is known as?

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Mountains, hills, plains, and plateaus are examples of?

Answer 2

Landforms

Question 3

What is the field of study that looks at artifacts, completes carbon dating, and digs at a site?

Answer 3

Archaeology

Question 4

What do archaeologists study or look at when examining a specific find?

Answer 4

Artifacts`

Question 5

A primary source that an archaeologist might look at would be a?

Answer 5

Diary or Journal

Question 6

A peninsula has land on how many sides?

Answer 6

3

Question 7

Name four major geographic features of the United States from east to west.

Answer 7

1. Appalachian Mountains
2. Mississippi
3. Great Plains
4. Rocky Mountains

Question 8

When it comes to producing a variety of products, name two things that cause that production to occur in different regions of the country.

Answer 8

Geography

and

Climate

Question 9

The land bridge connected what two continents?

Answer 9

Asia

and

North America

Question 10

If you were to use a textbook to study history, what type of source are you using?

Answer 10

Secondary Source

Question 11

When the Europeans came to America what did they bring with them, not intentionally, that caused a major impact to the Native American Indians and many deaths?

Answer 11

Diseases

Question 12

Who settled in the area now known as New York, prior to the English?

Answer 12

The Dutch

Question 13

What was the major cash crop that helped the Jamestown, Virginia colony survive?

Answer 13

Tobacco

Question 14

Why did so many Native American cultures develop in North America?

Answer 14

Because there were many different environmental conditions that existed in North America.

Question 15

The Iroquois Native Americans lived in what type of dwellings?

Answer 15

Longhouses

or

Haudenosaunee

Question 16

The Mayan and Aztec empires were located on what geographical continent?

Answer 16

Central America

Question 17

Name three civilizations that developed in America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus?

Answer 17

Mayan Aztecs

and

Incas

Question 18

The Pueblo Native Americans adapted to their environment by creating what type of system?

Answer 18

Irrigation Systems

Question 19

Prior to having any knowledge of the continents of America, explorers were looking for a shorter route or a northwest passage to what continent?

Answer 19

Asia

Question 20

A group of Native American’s formed a Confederation led by a Grand Council. It had 5 nations who ran their own affairs. What was the name of the Native American tribe?

Answer 20

The Iroquois

Question 21

Most people from Europe settled in the North East or Middle states were seeking what type of freedom from Europe?

Answer 21

Religious Freedom

Question 22

What was the name of the body that produced the first form of representative democracy in America?

Answer 22

The Virginia House of Burgesses

Question 23

American colony boycotts usually hurt which group the most?

Answer 23

British Merchants

Question 24

After the French and Indian War, why did most of the Americans become angered over the king’s Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 24

Limited the American Freedom to move West.

Question 25

Statements of Liberty, Natural Rights, and Banding together as one came from Americans who believed in freedom and were willing to fight for that freedom. These people were known as?

Answer 25

Patriots

Question 26

The English Parliament put taxes on the colony without any representation from those colonies. People who boycotted these taxes would protest and yell?

Answer 26

“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!”

Question 27

After the French and Indian War came the Boston Tea Party and then the Declaration of Independence. Is this true?

Answer 27

Yes

Question 28

After helping the British beat the French in the French and Indian War, What did England decide to make American colonists help pay?

Answer 28

War Debts

Question 29

The famous engraved picture of the British firing at civilians was the depiction of what incident that occurred in Boston on March 5, 1770?

Answer 29

The Boston Massacre

Question 30

What famous person engraved the picture of this incident that occurred March 5, 1770 in Boston Massachusetts?

Answer 30

Paul Revere