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U.S. History
U.S. History: Land of New Beginnings Unit 1
| Question | Answers |
|---|---|
| Who was the explorer who reached the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa? | Bartholomew Dias |
| What Portuguese explorer sailed all the way around Africa? | Vasco Da Gama |
| Who discovered the New World but mistakenly thought he had reached the Indies? | Christopher Columbus |
| What Portuguese sailor led a three-year voyage around the new world? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| What was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States? | St. Augustine |
| Name the Viking adventurer who was likely the first European to see North America? | Leif Ericson |
| In what year was the Spanish Armada destroyed by the English navy? | 1588 |
| After whom is America named? | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Which Spanish explorer discovered the Pacific Ocean? | Vasco de Balboa |
| Who is known as the "Father of New France"? | Samuel de Champlain |
| Who was known as the "Morning Star of the Reformation"? | John Wycliffe |
| What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World? | Jamestown |
| Who saved the Jamestown settlement from failure in its early days? | John Smith |
| What colony is associated with the Mayflower Compact? | Plymouth |
| What early English settlement mysteriously disappeared? | Roanoke |
| Who translated the Bible into English and gave the English people the first printed English Bible? | William Tyndale |
| When was the House of Burgesses established? | 1619 |
| List the three key reasons for English colonization? | Religious Freedom, Political Freedom, and Economic Freedom |
| What people formed the second largest group of colonial immigrants? | Germans |
| By 1760, what was America's largest city? | Philadelphia |
| Name the official church of the Southern colonies? | Anglican Church |
| Give the agricultural nickname of the Middle colonies? | Bread Colonies |
| What piece of legislation established the first public education system in the colonies? | Headright System |
| What type of roads connected larger cities and were used to carry the mail? | Post Roads |
| Harvard College was founded by the Puritans in? | 1636 |
| The Puritan missionary that was called the "Apostle of the Indians"? | John Eliot |
| The trial of German printer that set an important precedent for freedom of the press in America. | John Peter Zenger |
| The frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road was? | Daniel Boone |
| What were the three most advanced civilizations to develop in the Western Hemisphere? | Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas |
| List three important effects the Crusades had upon world history? | They revived European trade with Orient, They gave rise to the middle class in Europe, and they served as a model for the conquest of the New World. |
| As a trade with Orient increased, what new social class arose in Europe? | Middle Class |
| What were the four greatest nations to emerge in Western Europe? | England, France, Spain, and Portugal |
| What invention brought Europe out of the Dark Ages? | Movable-type Printing Press |
| Who invented it and when? | Johann Gutenberg, 1440 |
| Who began the Protestant Reformation and when? | Martin Luther, 1517 |
| Who finally agreed to finance Columbus's expedition? | King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
| Name the three ships Columbus led on his first voyage to the New World. | Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria |
| Who is credited with being the first to realize that Columbus had discovered a new continent. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| What imaginary line divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal? | Line of Demarcation |
| Who originally drew this line? | Pope Alexander VI |
| Who made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America? | Ponce de Leon |
| Who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico? | Hernando Cortes |
| Who conquered the Incas of Peru? | Francisco Pizarro |
| Who discovered the Mississippi River? | Hernando de Soto |
| Who explored the coast of California for Spain? | Juan Cabrillo |
| What King probably controlled more of the earth's surface than any other man in history? | Philip II |
| What was the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation? | Counter-Reformation |
| What led to the decline of Spain as a world power? | The defeat of Armada |
| Who explored the eastern coast of North America for France? | Giovanni da Verrazano |
| Who discovered the St. Lawrence River? | Jacques Cartier |
| Name the Jesuit missionary and the fur trader who together led an expedition down the Mississippi River. | Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet |
| Name the first permanent French settlement in the New World. | Quebec |
| Who founded it? | Samuel de Champlain |
| Who claimed the entire Mississippi Valley for France? | Robert Cavelier de la Salle |
| What was the most profitable business in New France? | Voyageurs |
| What King broke England away from the Roman Church? | Henry VIII |
| Who was the first explorer in the Modern Age to reach the mainland of North America? | John Cabot |
| Who was the first Englishmen to sail around the world? | Sir Francis Drake |
| Name the three groups involved in English colonization? | Sovereigns, Businessmen, and Settlers |
| Who was the first English child born in the present-day United States? | Virginia Dare |
| Name two companies that received a charter to colonize Virginia. | London Company and Plymouth Company |
| What is a permanent English settlement in the New World? | Jamestown |
| What type of colony was owned and controlled directly by the King? | Royal Colony |
| What representative body in Virginia acted as an advisory body to the governor? | Nathaniel Bacon |
| Who led part of the Scrooby congregation to Leyden, Holland? | Pastor John Robinson |
| What name was given to the group of businessmen who agreed to finance the Pilgrim's expedition to the New World? | Adventurers |
| Name the first governor of the Plymouth colony. | John Carver |
| Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation? | William Bradford |
| What legislative body did the Pilgrims establish to pass laws, and carry out provisions of the law, and judge cases arising under the law? | General Court |
| What English king vowed to rule without Parliament? | Charles I |
| What company provided the Puritans with an opportunity to find religious freedom in America? | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Who was chosen to be the governor of the Puritans Colony? | John Winthrop |
| Who made up the General Court? | Freemen of the Colony |
| What was considered to be the first written constitution in America? | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| Name the First settlement in Rhode Island? | Providence |
| What book did Roger Williams publish about the Indian Language? | Key into the Language of America |
| What denomination played a large role in the establishment of Rhode Island and its system of government? | Baptists |
| What colonies were included in the New England Confederation? | Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven |
| What was the greatest triumph of the New England Confederation? | When it put down a fierce Indian uprising |
| Name the Organization under which the New England colonies, New York, and New Jersey were united in the 1680s? | Dominion of New England |
| What colony was founded as a haven for English Catholics? | Maryland |
| Who became Maryland's first governor? | Leonard Calvert |
| What act in Maryland granted freedom of worship to anyone "professing to believe in Jesus Christ"? | Toleration Act |
| Who acted as agent in the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians? | Peter Minuit |
| For what religious group was Pennsylvania a haven? | The Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) |
| What does Philadelphia mean? | The City of Brotherly Love |
| Who founded Georgia? | James Oglethorpe |
| When did they found Georgia? | 1733 |
| What was the largest city in colonial America? | Philadelphia |
| What group of colonies became known for having many churches? | Middle Colonies |
| What was the official church of the southern colonies? | Anglican Church |
| List three social classes in America. | Aristocracy, Middle Class, and Indentured Servants/Slaves |
| What was the occupation of at least 90% of the colonists? | Farming |
| What system of farming was used in the southern colonies? | Plantations |
| What crops were grown in the south for exportation? | Tobacco, Indigo, and Rice |
| Who blazed a trail that later became known as the Wilderness Road? | Daniel Boone |
| What connected larger cities, enabling mail to be carried more easily? | Post Roads |
| Name four colonial industries. | Lumber, Shipbuilding, Fishing, and Whaling Industries |
| What system of manufacturing was done in the home? | Domestic System |
| What was the first institution of higher learning in British North America? | Harvard College |
| What law provided for the establishment of the first public education system in America? | Ole' Deluder Satan Act |
| What kind of schools were first established in the middle colonies? | Hornbook |
| What replaced the first schools in the middle colonies? | New England Primer |
| What academy was founded by Benjamin Franklin? | Philadelphia Academy |
| What did Benjamin Franklin's academy later become? | University of Pennsylvania |
| What printer's trial set an important precedent for American freedom of the press? | John Peter Zenger |
| Name the royal colonies. | Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Georgia |
| What are the two bodies of a bicameral legislature? | Upper House and Lower House |
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