Name the king and queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's expedition.
Ferdinand and Isabella
What colonies were known as the bread colonies?
middle
Who was the first English child born in the present-day United States?
Virginia Dare
When was the movable-type printing press invented?
1440
Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Daniel Boone
What Viking adventurer is believed to have reached North America in early A.D. 1000?
Leif Ericson
Which region of the colonies was religiously diverse?
middle colonies
Who began the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Which Native American tribe was Montezuma the chieftain of?
Aztecs
Which country did Prince Henry the Navigator lead to take the lead in the 1400s during the Age of Exploration?
Portugal
Who sponsored voyages to explore Virginia?
Sir Walter Raleigh
In the colonial period, how was most manufacturing produced?
domestic system
Who wrote the first American history book?
William Bradford
What representative body in Virginia acted as an advisory body to the governor in the early 1600s?
House of Burgesses
What act required all towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with more than fifty families to hire a teacher?
Ole' Deluder Satan Act
Who searched for the Northwest Passage?
Sir Martin Frobisher
What major change in English government did the Magna Carta begin?
representative government
Who discovered the St. Lawrence River?
Jacques Cartier
Who were the two largest groups of dissenters in England?
Catholics and Puritans
Name the two areas in which the Pilgrim set precedents in the New World.
religious liberty and political liberty
Who claimed the Mississippi Valley as Louisiana for France?
Robert Cavalier de La Salle
What was America's first privately published newspaper?
New-England Courant
Who claimed Nova Albion?
Sir Francis Drake
What divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal in 1493?
Line of Demarcation
Andrew Hamilton's defense of John Peter Zenger in court set what important precedent for early America?
freedom of the press