Week 4 Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Manhattan Island

Question 2

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 2

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Henry the Navigator

Question 4

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 4

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 5

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 5

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 6

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 6

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Mayflower Compact

Question 8

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 8

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 9

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 9

James Wolfe

Question 10

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 10

Jacques Cartier

Question 11

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus

Question 12

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 12

Pennsylvania

Question 13

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 13

1754-1763

Question 14

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 14

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 15

War between France and England in America:

Answer 15

the French and Indian War

Question 16

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 16

1492

Question 17

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 17

Vasco da Gama

Question 18

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 18

Separatists

Question 19

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 19

Captian John Smith

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Lief Ericson

Question 21

First lasting English colony:

Answer 21

Jamestown

Question 22

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 22

Native Americans

Question 23

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 23

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 24

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 24

Pilgrims

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The House of Burgesses

Question 26

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 26

Samoset and Squanto

Question 27

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 27

Puritans

Question 28

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

Answer 28

the Treaty of Paris

Question 29

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 29

John Cabot

Question 30

Who establised the colony?

Answer 30

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 31

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

Answer 31

the Navigation Act

Question 32

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 32

the Seven Years’ War

Question 33

Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 33

Oliver Cromwell

Question 34

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 34

Roanoke