Week 7 Review

Question 1

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Lief Ericson

Question 3

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 3

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 4

Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:

Answer 4

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 5

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 5

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 6

First Continental Congress:

Answer 6

September 1774

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The House of Burgesses

Question 8

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 8

Native Americans

Question 9

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 9

Separatists

Question 10

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:

Answer 10

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 11

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

Answer 11

the Navigation Act

Question 12

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 12

1773

Question 13

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

Answer 13

the Treaty of Paris

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Boston Massacre

Question 15

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 15

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 16

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 16

1492

Question 17

War between France and England in America:

Answer 17

the French and Indian War

Question 18

First lasting English colony:

Answer 18

Jamestown

Question 19

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 19

the Seven Years’ War

Question 20

Second Continental Congress:

Answer 20

May 1775

Question 21

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 21

Jacques Cartier

Question 22

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 22

Vasco da Gama

Question 23

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 23

April 19, 1775

Question 24

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 24

1754-1763

Question 25

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

What was the occasion?

Answer 25

Battle of Bunker HIll

Question 26

R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:

Answer 26

“the shot heard round the world”

Question 27

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:

Answer 27

minutemen

Question 28

First battles of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 28

Lexington and Concord

Question 29

Who established the first English colony in America?

Answer 29

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 30

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 30

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 31

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 31

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 32

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 32

Samoset and Squanto

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Patrick Henry

Question 34

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 34

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Henry the Navigator

Question 36

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 36

Pennsylvania

Question 37

Protector of England who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 37

Oliver Cromwell

Question 38

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 38

John Cabot

Question 39

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

Who said it?

Answer 39

General William Prescott

Question 40

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 40

Captian John Smith

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Mayflower Compact

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Boston Tea Party

Question 43

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 43

taxation without representation

Question 44

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

Answer 44

First Continental Congress

Question 45

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 45

James Wolfe

Question 46

Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:

Answer 46

George Washington

Question 47

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 47

Pilgrims

Question 48

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 48

1770

Question 49

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 49

Puritans

Question 50

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 50

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 51

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 51

Roanoke

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Manhattan Island

Question 53

General at Bunker HIll:

Answer 53

William Prescott

Question 54

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 54

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