History Boot Camp
Which of the following is the least reliable source in determining what happened in a school fight between two boys in the cafeteria?
(a) The student who participated in the fight
(b) A custodian who was sweeping in the cafeteria
(c) Students who were in the cafeteria when the fight started
(d) A mother who heard about the fight from her son
(e) Cafeteria workers who witnessed the fight
(d) A mother who heard about the fight from her son
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This mountain range is represented by number 1 on the map.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
One of the following is NOT a trade item sought after by early explorers.
(a) Perfume
(b) Spices
(c) Lumber
(d) Silk and Cloth
(e) Precious Stones
What is (c) Lumber?
This Catholic priest condemned the unethical treatment of Native Americans and enabled Spain to enact laws protecting them?
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
This crop made it possible for Jamestown to survive.
What is tobacco?
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The following map shows mountains and rivers of Europe and is an example of this type of map.
(a) Political
(b) Physical
(c) Mercator
(d) Time zone
(b) Physical
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This river is represented by number 2 on the map.
What is the Mississippi River?
This navigator funded and set up schools for explorers in Portugal.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor that led to the destruction of Native American cultures by European colonization?
(a) Disease
(b) Spread of Christianity
(c) Conquest of tribal lands
(d) Natural Disasters
What are (d) Natural Disasters?
This was the year that the Plymouth colony was founded.
What is 1620?
This line divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, runs through Greenwich, England, and represents 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
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This river is represented by number 3 on the map.
What is the Ohio River?
This country funded Christopher Columbus' exploration.
What is Spain?
What did Europeans gain in the Columbian Exchange with the New World?
(a) Chocolate, llamas, chili peppers, tomatoes
(b) Wheat, rats, cinnamon, cilantro
(c) Peas, cows, nutmeg, cucumbers
(d) Onions, pigs, ginger, perfume
What are chocolate, llamas, chili peppers, tomatoes?
This group of colonies was known for religious tolerance and having many different churches.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This early American civilization had an emperor named Moctezuma, built its capital city at Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico City), sacrificed humans, and was conquered by Hernan Cortes.
What is the Aztec Empire?
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This river is represented by number 4 on the map.
What is the Missouri River?
Among other reasons, Columbus' principal reason for sailing west instead of east through the Mediterranean was this.
What are pirates in the Mediterranean and the middle man in trade?
What was NOT a contribution of the main European powers to the New World?
(a) European languages
(b) New foods and animals
(c) Natural resources such as timber and furs
(d) Advanced technology such as steel tools
What is (c) Natural resources such as timber and furs?
In the triangular trade route this was NOT a product exported from the Americas to Europe?
What are slaves?
This determined the culture of Pre-Columbian American Indians (their homes, what they wore, what they ate, etc.)
(a) Their religion
(b) The resources of the land they lived on (geography)
(c) The influence of European Explorers
(d) Their popularity with neighboring tribes
What is (b) The resources of the land they lived on (geography)
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Which physical feature is represented by number 6 on the map?
What are the Great Plains?
These two countries were given the right to explore the "New World" when the Pope created an imaginary line known as the "Line of Demarcation" to divide the claims for each country.
What are Spain and Portugal?
This explorer is given credit for realizing that America was not in the Indies; it was a new continent.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Which of the following would be a reason that prisoners would starve themselves or jump off the boat during the Middle Passage?
(a) They believed that if they starved themselves their white captors would treat them better
(b) Conditions were so horrible that they wished for death
(c) Their white captors purposefully kept food from them and wanted to kill them
(d) They thought the shore was close enough that they could swim to it
What is (c) Conditions were so horrible that they wished for death?