Week 6 Review

Question 1

Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:

Answer 1

Boston Tea Party

Question 2

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

Answer 2

the Treaty of Paris

Question 3

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 3

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 4

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

Answer 4

the Navigation Act

Question 5

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 5

1770

Question 6

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 6

the Seven Years’ War

Question 7

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 7

1773

Question 8

First Continental Congress:

Answer 8

September 1774

Question 9

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 9

Jacques Cartier

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Henry the Navigator

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Mayflower Compact

Question 12

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 12

John Cabot

Question 13

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 13

Roanoke

Question 14

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 14

Puritans

Question 15

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 15

taxation without representation

Question 16

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 16

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 17

First lasting English colony:

Answer 17

Jamestown

Question 18

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 18

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 19

War between France and England in America:

Answer 19

the French and Indian War

Question 20

Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:

Answer 20

Boston Massacre

Question 21

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 21

Captian John Smith

Question 22

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 22

Samoset and Squanto

Question 23

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 23

Pilgrims

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Manhattan Island

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Lief Ericson

Question 26

Protector of England who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 26

Oliver Cromwell

Question 27

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 27

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 28

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 28

1754-1763

Question 29

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 29

Separatists

Question 30

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 30

Native Americans

Question 31

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 31

Pennsylvania

Question 32

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

Answer 32

The House of Burgesses

Question 33

Who establised the first English colony in America?

Answer 33

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 34

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 34

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 35

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 35

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 36

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

Answer 36

Patrick Henry

Question 37

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 37

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 38

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 38

1492

Question 39

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 39

1. trade and navigation laws
2. stamp act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Massacre
5. the Five Intolerable Acts

Question 40

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 40

James Wolfe

Question 41

First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:

Answer 41

First Continental Congress

Question 42

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 42

Christopher Columbus

Question 43

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 43

Vasco da Gama

Question 44

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:

Answer 44

minutemen