Week 3 Review

Question 1

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 1

Puritans

Question 2

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 2

Vasco da Gama

Question 3

First lasting English colony:

Answer 3

Jamestown

Question 4

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 4

Samoset and Squanto

Question 5

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 5

Roanoke

Question 6

Who establised the colony?

Answer 6

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 7

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 7

Jacques Cartier

Question 8

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 8

1492

Question 9

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 9

Pilgrims

Question 10

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 10

Native Americans

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Lief Ericson

Question 12

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 12

Separatists

Question 13

Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:

Answer 13

Manhattan Island

Question 14

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 14

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 15

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 15

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 16

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 16

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Henry the Navigator

Question 18

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 18

Christopher Columbus

Question 19

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 19

John Cabot

Question 20

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 20

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 21

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 21

Pennsylvania

Question 22

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 22

Captian John Smith

Question 23

Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:

Answer 23

the Navigation Act

Question 24

Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 24

Oliver Cromwell

Question 25

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 25

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 26

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 26

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 27

The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:

Answer 27

Mayflower Compact

Question 28

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

Answer 28

The House of Burgesses