Historical Background Names

Question 1

Cabeza de Vaca

Answer 1

Spanish explorer who came across Native Americans in the New World in the 1500s

Question 2

Ben Franklin

Answer 2

American scientist, politician, inventor, Founding Father

Question 3

John Calvin

Answer 3

French pastor who started Calvinism during the Protestant Reformation

Question 4

Jean de Crevecoeur

Answer 4

French-American writer who wrote Letters from an American Farmer

Question 5

John Adams

Answer 5

1st Vice President of the United States, 2nd President of the United States who was a diplomat and lawyer

Question 6

The Mayflower

Answer 6

The Pilgrim ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

Question 7

Puritanism

Answer 7

English Protestants who were persecuted by the Church of England, led by the English monarch

Question 8

Patrick Henry

Answer 8

A Virginian orator during the American Revolution who said, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Question 9

Plymouth

Answer 9

The colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Massachusetts

Question 10

Enlightenment

Answer 10

European intellectual movement during the 1600s and 1700s that favored reason

Question 11

George Washington

Answer 11

1st President of the United States who served as General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War

Question 12

Puritan ethic

Answer 12

Concept stating that hard work shows if a person is going to be saved by God

Question 13

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 13

3rd President of the United States, main writer of the Declaration of Independence

Question 14

Thomas Paine

Answer 14

Political author of the American Revolution, author of Common Sense

Question 15

Cotton Mather

Answer 15

New England Puritan minister who was involved in the Salem Witch Trials

Question 16

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 16

Great Awakening theologian

Question 17

Isaac Newton

Answer 17

English physicist and mathematician