Test 1: Discovery of New World - French and Indian War

Question 1

war between France and England fought in Europe

Answer 1

Seven Years’ War

Question 2

war between France and England fought in America

Answer 2

French and Indian War

Question 3

name given to North America when visited in A.D. 1000

Answer 3

Vineland

Question 4

general who captured Quebec

Answer 4

James Wolfe

Question 5

Native American who aided the Pilgrims

Answer 5

Squanto

Question 6

given Pennsylvania by the king of England

Answer 6

William Penn

Question 7

European credited with the discovery of America

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus

Question 8

explorer after whom our continent is named

Answer 8

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 9

first lasting English colony

Answer 9

Jamestown

Question 10

founder of Roanoke

Answer 10

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 11

king of Portugal; thought it possible to sail around Africa

Answer 11

Henry the Navigator

Question 12

leader of first expedition to circle the globe

Answer 12

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 13

English sailor who discovered Cape Cod

Answer 13

John Cabot

Question 14

protector of England who established the Navigation Act

Answer 14

Oliver Cromwell

Question 15

French sailor who discovered the St. Lawrence River

Answer 15

Jacques Cartier

Question 16

financed Columbus’s first voyage

Answer 16

Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 17

original inhabitants of North America

Answer 17

Native Americans

Question 18

Viking credited with first discovering North America

Answer 18

Leif Ericson

Question 19

first European to reach India by sea

Answer 19

Vasco da Gama

Question 20

head of the Jamestown colony

Answer 20

Captain John Smith

Question 21

Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War.

Answer 21

Treaty of Paris

Question 22

Manhattan Island was purchased for how much?

Answer 22

$24 of trinkets

Question 23

Oldest city in the mainland of North America

Answer 23

St. Augustine

Question 24

Puritans that left the Anglican Church altogether

Answer 24

Separatists

Question 25

First English colony in America, which disappeared

Answer 25

Roanoke

Question 26

Englishmen who desired a purer religion

Answer 26

Puritans

Question 27

Short civil war in Virginia, during which Jamestown was seized

Answer 27

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 28

Separatist that sailed to the New World

Answer 28

Pilgrims

Question 29

Borderline separating Pennsylvania and Maryland

Answer 29

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 30

First Englishman to circle the globe

Answer 30

Sir Francis Drake

Question 31

Year(s) of the French and Indian War

Answer 31

1754-1763

Question 32

Year(s) Columbus discovered America

Answer 32

1492

Question 33

What was the first form of representative government in America?

Answer 33

The House of Burgesses

Question 34

Describe the Navigation Act

Answer 34

Act set forth by Oliver Cromwell that prohibited colonists from building their own boats and required that all cargo should be carried by English ships.

Question 35

What was the signed agreement that established a form of government for the Pilgrims?

Answer 35

The Mayflower Compact