History Midterm review

Question 1

Henry VIII’s first wife was

Answer 1

Catherine of Aragon

Question 2

What did his future in-laws do in September 1492

Answer 2

Reconquista Jews and Moors - Jews and Muslims kicked out of Spain( Ferdinand & Isabelle take over Spain)

Question 3

Who was Henry VIII’s second wife

Answer 3

Anne Boleyn

Question 4

What was the most important thing about Henry having a second wife

Answer 4

Queen Elizabeth was born, started the Church of England

Question 5

Tell me one of Henry VIII’s children

Answer 5

Mary (bloody Mary), Edward, Elizabeth

Question 6

Who was the German monk who Henry VIII initially hated but later used

Answer 6

Martin Luther

Question 7

What was the English document in 1215 that reduced Henry VIII’s heirs powers

Answer 7

Magna Cart

Question 8

What happened in 1066 in England

Answer 8

Battle of Hastings - William the conqueror fought & conquered England

Question 9

What was important about Mansa Manu

Answer 9

Was a wealthy King, leaves Africa to go to Middle East & converts to Islam. Gives out gold to everyone on his way.

Question 10

What did Dias determine?

Answer 10

Dias sails to the tip of Africa in 1488

Question 11

What did Henry of Portugal do?

Answer 11

He was a navigator (Prince Henry the navigator) made navigational instruments such as the quadrant & caravel.

Question 12

Why was the lost Colony originally founded in 1584 not revisited until 1589?

Answer 12

Went back for supplies - Roanoke

Question 13

Who is Virginia named for?

Answer 13

Virgin queen Mary

Question 14

What was founded in 1607?

Answer 14

Jamestown

Question 15

Tell me a problem the initial settlers had there

Answer 15

Disease causing mosquitos

Question 16

What was the long term significance of King Phillip?

Answer 16

Provides England with stability, led to no more Indian attacks.

Question 17

Tell something important that happened in 1619 in Virginia

Answer 17

Virginia House of Burgesses was established

Question 18

Something else that happened in 1619 in Virginia

Answer 18

The first Africans arrived in Jamestown

Question 19

Tell me about Bacon

Answer 19

Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion 1676 - bacon led a rebellion to do more about the Indian attacks

Question 20

What Act was done in Maryland in 1649?

Answer 20

Toleration Act

Question 21

What was important about the Toleration Act

Answer 21

Guaranteed “religious freedom” for all Christian’s but death to others

Question 22

What was the name of the boat that landed in Plymouth in 1620?

Answer 22

The Mayflower

Question 23

What agreement did the men sign on the Mayflower?

Answer 23

The Mayflower compact

Question 24

Why was the Mayflower compact important?

Answer 24

First democracy/ agreement for a crude government.

Question 25

Why was Rhode Island the “sewer”?

Answer 25

Outcast who were kicked out went there

Question 26

What is important about the Pequots?

Answer 26

Battles between Indians and Whites

Question 27

What was something unique about the Quakers and Indians

Answer 27

The Quakers made peace with the Indians

Question 28

What war started in 1754?

Answer 28

The French & Indian war

Question 29

What did Franklin propose in 1754?

Answer 29

The Albany Plan of Union

Question 30

Name the fort that Washington attacked in 1754?

Answer 30

Ft. Duquesne

Question 31

Name the fort that Washington built and lost

Answer 31

Fort Necessity

Question 32

What Battle did Braddock fight as his last?

Answer 32

Battle of Mesquita

Question 33

What (besides Braddock dying) is important about that battle?

Answer 33

Ended the French & Indian War

Question 34

Name something important that occurred immediately after the war in 1763

Answer 34

Treaty of Paris 1763

Question 35

Grenville passed 4 taxes/acts name one

Answer 35

Sugar Act, Currency Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act

Question 36

Tell me something the Townshend Acts did

Answer 36

Taxed the rich: these imports - paper, paint, lead, glass, tea

Question 37

What happened on March 5, 1770 in Boston?

Answer 37

Boston Massacre

Question 38

What happened on December 16, 1773 in Boston?

Answer 38

Boston Tea Party

Question 39

Tell me one of the Coercive Acts

Answer 39

Port Bill, Government Act, New Quartering Act, Administration of Justice

Question 40

Tell me another

Answer 40

New Quartering Act

Question 41

When did the revolution begin?(date)

Answer 41

1775

Question 42

Where did the revolution begin?

Answer 42

Lexington and Concord (Massachusetts)

Question 43

Who went to warn the minutemen(well kind of)

Answer 43

Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott

Question 44

What was the reason the British were on the move?

Answer 44

Capture John Adams & John Handcock

Question 45

What is the first real battle?

Answer 45

Bunker Hill

Question 46

Tell me something about that first real battle?

Answer 46

British suffered over 40% casualties, showed the colonists were gonna fight

Question 47

Tell me something that happened on May 10, 1775

Answer 47

2nd continental congress meets in Philadelphia

Question 48

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer 48

July 2-4, 1776

Question 49

Who wrote the DOI?

Answer 49

Thomas Jefferson

Question 50

Who wrote Common Sense?

Answer 50

Thomas Paine

Question 51

What is the turning point of the war according to the greatest professor that you have right now?

Answer 51

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Question 52

According to the state the turning point of the revolution is…

Answer 52

Battle of Saratoga

Question 53

Why am I right?

Answer 53

Washington saves his army after encouraging them to fight, restores faith because he won

Question 54

Why are they?

Answer 54

French give us money & decide to ally with colonists

Question 55

What is Benedict Arnold known for?

Answer 55

A traitor, helped British

Question 56

What is the final battle of the American Revolution?

Answer 56

The battle of Yorktown

Question 57

Who was the commander of The Continental Army?

Answer 57

George Washington

Question 58

Who is the first President of the United States?

Answer 58

George Washington

Question 59

Tell me something about him

Answer 59

Born on Feb 22, 1932

Question 60

Who is the second president

Answer 60

John Adams

Question 61

Tell me something that happened during his term (John Adams)

Answer 61

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