Test 1

Question 1

_________ made a land grant to proprietors

Answer 1

King

Question 2

was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs

Answer 2

Hernando Cortes

Question 3

What colony founded as a safe haven for the Quakers

Answer 3

Pennsylvania

Question 4

Who made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America

Answer 4

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 5

What act established a town school system

Answer 5

Old Deluder Satan Act

Question 6

Who led the Spanish expedition that discovered the Pacific Ocean

Answer 6

Vasco de Balboa

Question 7

_________ is the Father of New France

Answer 7

Samuel de Champlain

Question 8

Who discovered the grand canyon

Answer 8

Francisco Coronado

Question 9

Who discovered the Mississippi River

Answer 9

Hernando de Soto

Question 10

The movable type printing press was invented in what year

Answer 10

1440

Question 11

_______ Columbus sailed the ocean blue

Answer 11

1492

Question 12

In ________ the English defeated the Spanish armada

Answer 12

1588

Question 13

What year did the pilgrims landed it Cape Cod

Answer 13

1620

Question 14

What year was Harvard founded

Answer 14

1636

Question 15

What colony was founded as a haven for Catholics

Answer 15

Maryland

Question 16

What precedent that Jamestown set with the house of Burgesses

Answer 16

Representative government

Question 17

What revived interest in trade with the East

Answer 17

Crusades

Question 18

Who was the first English man to sail around the world

Answer 18

Sir Francis Drake

Question 19

What set a precedent for a voluntary Union of the colonies

Answer 19

New England Confederation

Question 20

______ wrote History of Plymouth Plantation

Answer 20

William Bradford

Question 21

Who was the first governor of Plymouth

Answer 21

John Carver

Question 22

who was remembered as the “Apostle to the Indians”

Answer 22

John Eliot

Question 23

Who worked among the Wampanoags on Martha’s vineyard

Answer 23

Thomas Mayhew

Question 24

Who founded the colony of Rhode Island

Answer 24

Robert Williams

Question 25

______ The first governor of Plymouth Bay

Answer 25

John Winthrop

Question 26

_______ was intended as settlement for prisoners

Answer 26

Georgia

Question 27

Who posted the ninety five theses, sparking the protestant

Answer 27

Martin Luther

Question 28

What was the first permanent European settlement in the US

Answer 28

St. Augustine

Question 29

What city was known as the “city of brotherly love”

Answer 29

Philadelphia

Question 30

Who discovered the St. Lawrence River

Answer 30

Jacques Cartier

Question 31

Who founded Pennsylvania and Delaware

Answer 31

William Penn

Question 32

________ is the renamed new Netherlands

Answer 32

New York

Question 33

Who founded the settlement of Hartford

Answer 33

Thomas Hooker

Question 34

what country did the Ques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored the central Mississippi river for

Answer 34

France

Question 35

what was an indication that the colonists expected the government protection

Answer 35

Bacon’s Revolution

Question 36

Who was an Italian merchant that spent time in service of Kublai Khan

Answer 36

Marco Polo

Question 37

what English-speaking Indians lived in Plymouth and acted as a guide and interpreter, and taught the pilgrims how to hunt and fish

Answer 37

Squanto

Question 38

Who invented the movable type printing press

Answer 38

Johann Gutenberg

Question 39

what country sponsored Christopher Columbus‘s expedition to find an alternative route to Asia

Answer 39

Spain

Question 40

what ship carried the pilgrims to the New World

Answer 40

mayflower

Question 41

Who was the first to realize that Columbus discover the New World

Answer 41

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 42

What was the first permanent French settlement in the New World

Answer 42

Quebec

Question 43

what was the first permanent English settlement in the New World

Answer 43

Jamestown

Question 44

what document helped prepare England for limited government

Answer 44

Magna Carta

Question 45

what was the one reason new France was not heavily populated

Answer 45

many colonists were hunters and traders who did not establish permanent homes in new France 

Question 46

what precedents did Rhode Island and Connecticut set for the future US

Answer 46

Rhode Island establishment of religious freedom and Connecticut example of representative government

Question 47

what Puritan heritage laid the groundwork for a prosperous economy in the US

Answer 47

The Puritans belief of a work ethic that promoted man’s ability to work diligently for God

Question 48

what officially began the English reformation

Answer 48

Henry VIII’s break with the Roman Church