Week 9 Review

Question 1

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 2

James Wolfe

Question 3

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 3

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 4

French nobleman who served int he American army:

Answer 4

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 5

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

Who said it?

Answer 5

General William Prescott

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The House of Burgesses

Question 7

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 7

Roanoke

Question 8

Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 8

Oliver Cromwell

Question 9

Father of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 9

Thomas Jefferson

Question 10

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 10

Samoset and Squanto

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Mayflower Compact

Question 12

Who establised the colony?

Answer 12

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 13

Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:

Answer 13

crossing of the Delaware

Question 14

R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:

Answer 14

“the shot heard round the world”

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Nathan Hale

Question 16

British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:

Answer 16

Cornwallis

Question 17

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 17

John Cabot

Question 18

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

Answer 18

the Navigation Act

Question 19

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 19

1770

Question 20

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

Who said it?

Answer 20

John Paul Jones

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 22

Second Continental Congress:

Answer 22

May 1775

Question 23

Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:

Answer 23

September 3, 1783

Question 24

Date of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 24

July 4, 1776

Question 25

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 25

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Henry the Navigator

Question 27

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 27

Pilgrims

Question 28

“That man has an ax to grind.”

Answer 28

Benjamin Franklin

Question 29

President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:

Answer 29

John Hancock

Question 30

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 30

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 31

Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:

Answer 31

George Washington

Question 32

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 32

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 33

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 33

1773

Question 34

Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 34

Second Treaty of Paris

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Nathan Hale

Question 36

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

What was the occasion?

Answer 36

naval battle with British

Question 37

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

Answer 37

First Continental Congress

Question 38

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 38

Native Americans

Question 39

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:

Answer 39

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 40

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 40

Vasco da Gama

Question 41

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 41

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Boston Tea Party

Question 43

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 43

1754-1763

Question 44

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 44

1492

Question 45

Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:

Answer 45

Benedict Arnold

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Boston Massacre

Question 47

Final battle of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 47

Yorktown

Question 48

War between France and England in America:

Answer 48

the French and Indian War

Question 49

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 49

Separatists

Question 50

General at Bunker HIll:

Answer 50

William Prescott

Question 51

Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:

Answer 51

Saratoga

Question 52

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 52

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 53

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 53

taxation without representation

Question 54

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 54

Captian John Smith

Question 55

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 55

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 56

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 56

Pennsylvania

Question 57

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 57

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

Question 58

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 58

Puritans

Question 59

Name the thirteen original colonies:

Answer 59

1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. New York
5. Maryland
6. Connecticut
7. Rhode Island
8. North Carolina
9. South Carolina
10. New Jersey
11. Pennsylvania
12. Delaware
13. Georgia

Question 60

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 60

Jacques Cartier

Question 61

Battles of Lexinton and Concord

Answer 61

April 19, 1775

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Patrick Henry

Question 63

First battles of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 63

Lexington and Concord

Question 64

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 64

the Seven Years’ War

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Lief Ericson

Question 66

First lasting English colony:

Answer 66

Jamestown

Question 67

American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:

Answer 67

John Paul Jones

Question 68

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:

Answer 68

minutemen

Question 69

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

Answer 69

Manhattan Island

Question 70

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

Answer 70

the Treaty of Paris

Question 71

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

What was the occasion?

Answer 71

Battle of Bunker HIll

Question 72

First Continental Congress:

Answer 72

September 1774