Week 5 Review

Question 1

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 1

Roanoke

Question 2

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 2

Vasco da Gama

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The House of Burgesses

Question 4

War between France and England in America:

Answer 4

the French and Indian War

Question 5

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 5

Samoset and Squanto

Question 6

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 6

John Cabot

Question 7

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 7

Pilgrims

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Henry the Navigator

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Lief Ericson

Question 10

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 10

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 11

Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 11

Oliver Cromwell

Question 12

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 12

Christopher Columbus

Question 13

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 13

the Seven Years’ War

Question 14

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 14

1492

Question 15

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 15

1754-1763

Question 16

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 16

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 17

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 17

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 18

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 18

Puritans

Question 19

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

Answer 19

the Navigation Act

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Mayflower Compact

Question 21

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 21

Captian John Smith

Question 22

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 22

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 23

Who establised the colony?

Answer 23

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 24

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 24

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 25

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 25

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 26

First lasting English colony:

Answer 26

Jamestown

Question 27

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 27

James Wolfe

Question 28

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

Answer 28

the Treaty of Paris

Question 29

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 29

Native Americans

Question 30

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 30

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 31

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 31

Pennsylvania

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Manhattan Island

Question 33

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 33

Jacques Cartier

Question 34

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 34

Separatists