Week 8 Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

The House of Burgesses

Question 2

Battles of Lexinton and Concord

Answer 2

April 19, 1775

Question 3

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 3

Vasco da Gama

Question 4

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 4

Separatists

Question 5

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 5

Captian John Smith

Question 6

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 6

1773

Question 7

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 7

Pennsylvania

Question 8

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 8

Christopher Columbus

Question 9

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 10

1770

Question 11

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 11

James Wolfe

Question 12

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 12

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 13

General at Bunker HIll:

Answer 13

William Prescott

Question 14

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 14

Samoset and Squanto

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Mayflower Compact

Question 16

First battles of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 16

Lexington and Concord

Question 17

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 17

1754-1763

Question 18

R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:

Answer 18

“the shot heard round the world”

Question 19

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:

Answer 19

minutemen

Question 20

French nobleman who served int he American army:

Answer 20

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 21

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 21

Jacques Cartier

Question 22

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:

Answer 22

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 23

Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:

Answer 23

crossing of the Delaware

Question 24

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 24

taxation without representation

Question 25

Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:

Answer 25

George Washington

Question 26

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Answer 26

Nathan Hale

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Manhattan Island

Question 28

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 28

John Cabot

Question 29

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 29

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 30

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 30

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 31

Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 31

Oliver Cromwell

Question 32

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

Answer 32

the Treaty of Paris

Question 33

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 33

the Seven Years’ War

Question 34

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 34

Roanoke

Question 35

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 35

Pilgrims

Question 36

War between France and England in America:

Answer 36

the French and Indian War

Question 37

Date of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 37

July 4, 1776

Question 38

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 38

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 39

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 39

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 40

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

Who said it?

Answer 40

General William Prescott

Question 41

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 41

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 42

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

Answer 42

the Navigation Act

Question 43

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

What was the occasion?

Answer 43

Battle of Bunker HIll

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Patrick Henry

Question 45

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 45

Native Americans

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Henry the Navigator

Question 47

Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:

Answer 47

Saratoga

Question 48

First Continental Congress:

Answer 48

September 1774

Question 49

Second Continental Congress:

Answer 49

May 1775

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Boston Tea Party

Question 51

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 51

1492

Question 52

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 52

Puritans

Question 53

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

Answer 53

First Continental Congress

Question 54

President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:

Answer 54

John Hancock

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Boston Massacre

Question 56

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

Answer 56

Lief Ericson

Question 57

Father of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 57

Thomas Jefferson

Question 58

First lasting English colony:

Answer 58

Jamestown

Question 59

Who establised the colony?

Answer 59

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 60

The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:

Answer 60

Nathan Hale

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 62

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 62

Amerigo Vespucci