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NWHG Test 3
Chapters 6 & 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the highest waterfall in North America? | Yosemite Falls |
| What is the most famouse geyser in Yellowstone National Park? | Old Faithful |
| What is the highest peak in the continental US? | Mt. Whitney, Sierra Nevada Range |
| What is the largest desert area in the US? | Great Basin |
| What is the longest mountain chain on earth? | Cordilleras |
| What is the largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America? | Columbia River |
| What type of horses were bred by the Nez Perce? | appaloosa horses |
| What is the hottest and driest part of North America | Death Valley, CA |
| What is the largest canyon in the world? | Grand Canyon |
| What is the name of the river which flows through Hells Canyon? | Snake River |
| What is the chief tributary of the Mississippi River? | Missouri River |
| What is the largest saltwater lake in North America? | Great Salt Lake, UT |
| Where is one of the rainiest places on earth, in North America? | Olympic Peninsula |
| What is the name of the world's largest tree? | General Sherman |
| What are plants of a specific region called? | flora |
| Name 3 plants of the North American Desert | sagebrush, barrel cactus and Saguaro cactus |
| Many peaks in the Cascade Range are extinct volcanoes. Name one volcano in the Cascade Range, which has erupted in the last 40 years. | Mt. St. Helens |
| Which Indian tribe lived in multi-room houses cut into solid rock? | Pueblo |
| Which are two things the Navajo indians are famous for? | skill in weaving rugs, jewelry |
| What is the name of the Shoshone who guided Lewis & Clark on their expedition? | Sacagawea |
| Which Indian tribe has the rule, "everything in moderation, no excess, no waste"? | Pueblo |
| Dr Marcus & Narcissa Whitman were missionaries to what tribe of Indians? | Cayuse |
| What state is named for the Ute Indians? | Utah |
| What is a water ouzel? | A bird which makes its nest behind a waterfall |
| How is a jack rabbit designed to live in the desert? | The jack rabbit's large ears act as air conditioning for its body. |
| What is another name for the "Society of Friends"? | Quakers |
| What colony was founded as a place for Catholics to have religious freedom? | Maryland |
| Who was the owner and founder of the Maryland colony? | Lord Baltimore |
| Who was Count von Zinzendorf? | The leader of the Moravians. He helped establish Bethlehem, PA as a Moravian settlement. |
| What group was the first to build log cabins in Delaware? | Swedes |
| What colony was founded as a place for debtors? | Georgia |
| Who was the first governor of Georgia? | James Oglethorpe |
| What was the name of the Dutch governor of New Netherland? | Peter Stuyvesant |
| What was the first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America? | Rhode Island |
| Who was the Puritan preacher famous for the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"? | Jonathan Edwards |
| What was the "Southern Plantation" colony of Virginia? | Carolinas |
| What is the name of the governing body of Virginia? | House of Burgesses |
| What Virginia colonist made working a condition for eating? | Captain John Smith, Jamestown |
| What was the name of the English evangelist who preached to huge crowds during the Great Awakening and raised money to build orphanages in the Colonies? | George Whitefield |
| What was the name of the first permanent European settlement in the New World? | St. Augustine |
| What was the name of the colony in which all of the settlers mysteriously disappeared? | Roanoke, the Lost Colony |
| Who was the founder of Roanoke Colony? | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Who was Virginia Dare? | The first European (white) child to be born in America |
| Who was the second governor of Plymouth? | William Bradford |
| What book did William Bradford write? | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| Who was the explorer who searched for the fountain of youth? | Ponce de Leon |
| Who was the explorer who claimed nearly half of North America for England? | John Cabot |
| When did Christopher Columbus discover the New World? | 1492 |
| The Separatists moved from England to what city in Holland for religious freedom? | Leyden, Holland |
| What two groups made up the Pilgrims? | Separatists and Strangers |
| What is the Mayflower Compact? | The first written agreement of self-government in America, signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims. |
| Where did the Pilgrims (including the Separatists) settle in America? | Plymouth (Massachusetts) |
| What act established the first public schools in America? | Ole Deluder Satan Act of 1647 |
| Who was the Puritan minister who settled Hartford (CT) with his congregation? | Thomas Hooker |
| What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620? | Mayflower |
| What group established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630? | Puritans |
| In what year did the English Navy defeat the Spanish Armada? | 1588 |
| What is the Great Awakening? | A spiritual revival which occurred in the Colonies from 1730 - 1760. |
| Who was the first overseas missionary from America? | Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma |
| What was one important idea the Great Awakening helped the colonists to see about man's condition before God? | All men are created equal by God. |
| If all men are created equal by God, then how should all men be treated by the laws of government? | All men should be equal under man's law. |
| What faith promoted a sense of nobility of hard work? | Christianity |
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