Week 2 Review

Question 1

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 1

John Cabot

Question 2

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 2

1492

Question 3

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 3

Jacques Cartier

Question 4

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 4

Christopher Columbus

Question 5

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 5

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 6

King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:

Answer 6

Henry the Navigator

Question 7

First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:

Answer 7

The House of Burgesses

Question 8

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 8

Captian John Smith

Question 9

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 9

Roanoke

Question 10

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 10

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 11

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 11

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 12

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 12

Vasco da Gama

Question 13

First lasting English colony:

Answer 13

Jamestown

Question 14

Who establised the colony?

Answer 14

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 15

The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:

Answer 15

Lief Ericson

Question 16

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 16

Native Americans

Question 17

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 17

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 18

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 18

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain