SS (4th) Unit 1, Lesson 2

Question 1

Who was the first explorer to reach the new world?

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

What did Christopher Columbus want to find when he set out?

Answer 2

A faster route from Europe to Asia.

Question 3

Christopher Columbus wanted to find a faster route from ________ to ______.

Answer 3

Europe

Asia

Question 4

Christopher Columbus wanted to find a ______________ from Europe to Asia.

Answer 4

faster route

Question 5

What did the Spanish introduce to the Native Americans?

Answer 5

horses & oranges

Question 6

What did Europeans learn about from the Indians?

Answer 6

chocolate, tomatoes and popcorn

Question 7

Europeans brought ____________ with them that killed many Indians.

Answer 7

diseases

Question 8

Who were brought to the Americas against their will?

Answer 8

Africans

Question 9

The first Europeans to explore North America were from _____________.

Answer 9

Spain

Question 10

The early explorers thought they would find ____________ and other riches.

Answer 10

gold

Question 11

Who came to North America to talk about Christianity?

Answer 11

Priests

Question 12

Priests came to North America to talk about what?

Answer 12

Christianity

Question 13

A Spanish settlement in the Americas where priests talked about the Christian religion.

Answer 13

mission

Question 14

What were the French explorers looking for that would lead from the Great Lakes to Asia?

Answer 14

a water route across North America

Question 15

What did the French explorers call the water route across North America leading from the Great Lakes to Asia?

Answer 15

the Northwest Passage

Question 16

The French explorers were looking for __________ & _____________.

Answer 16

gold

fur

Question 17

What did the French explorers offer the Native Americans in exchange for beaver furs?

Answer 17

weapons

Question 18

The French explorers offered the Native Americans weapons in exchange for _________.

Answer 18

beaver furs

Question 19

A land ruled by another country.

Answer 19

colony

Question 20

Who traveled from present-day St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 20

Robert de la Salle

Question 21

In honor of Louis the Fourteenth, what did Robert de la Salle name the land of present-day St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 21

Louisiana

Question 22

In 1607, the English set up ___________, the first permanent English colony in what is now Virginia.

Answer 22

Jamestown

Question 23

In 1607, the English set up Jamestown, the _________________ in what is now Virginia.

Answer 23

first permanent English colony

Question 24

In 1620 _____________ left England in search of religious freedom and settled in what is now part of New England.

Answer 24

Pilgrims

Question 25

In 1620 Pilgrims left England in search of ________________ and settled in what is now part of New England

Answer 25

religious freedom

Question 26

When the Pilgrims left England & settled in what is now part of New England, what did they call it?

Answer 26

Plymouth

Question 27

The ____________ and the ___________ celebrated their friendship by having a great feast that has been called our country's first Thanksgiving.

Answer 27

Pilgrims | Native Americans

Question 28

The Pilgrims and the Native Americans celebrated their friendship by having a great feast that has been called our country's first ______________.

Answer 28

Thanksgiving

Question 29

Who came to North America to make money, particularly in the fur trade?

Answer 29

Dutch

Question 30

The Dutch came to North America to make money, particularly in the ______________.

Answer 30

fur trade

Question 31

The Dutch settled along the Hudson River and named their colony ______________________.

Answer 31

New Netherland

Question 32

Who was the Dutch governor who bought Manhattan Island from the Native Americans and called it New Amsterdam?

Answer 32

Peter Minuit

Question 33

New Amsterdam became _____________ when the English colonies took control of it from the Dutch.

Answer 33

New York

Question 34

New Amsterdam became New York when the ___________ colonies took control of it from the _____________.

Answer 34

English | Dutch

Question 35

Why was it hard for the Native Americans when the Europeans were coming to North America?

Answer 35

Because the new colonists wanted more land

Question 36

The ______________ & the _____________ went to war over who owned the land near the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley.

Answer 36

English | French

Question 37

The English & the French _________________ over who owned the land near the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley.

Answer 37

went to war

Question 38

Why did the English & French go to war?

Answer 38

Over who owned the land near the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley.

Question 39

Why did the Native Americans fight on the side of the French in the French and Indian War?

Answer 39

Because they thought the French would help them drive the English out of North America.

Question 40

Who won the French and Indian War?

Answer 40

The English

Question 41

What did the English do when they won the French and Indian war?

Answer 41

They let the Native Americans have the Ohio River valley.

Question 42

The English won the French and Indian War, but they let the Native Americans have the ________________.

Answer 42

Ohio River Valley

Question 43

The English won the French and Indian War, but, they let the ___________________ have the Ohio River Valley.

Answer 43

Native Americans

Question 44

When the Europeans were coming to North America it was hard for the Native Americans because _________________________________.

Answer 44

the new colonists wanted more land.

Question 45

The Native Americans fought on the side of the French and Indian War because ________________________________.

Answer 45

they thought the French would help them drive the English out of North America.