US History 1
Wrote the first American history book
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What Viking adventurer is believed to have reached North America in early A.D. 1000?
William Bradford
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Leif Erickson
claimed Newfoundland for England
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What act required all towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with more than 50 families to hire a teacher?
John Cobalt
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Ole' Deluder Satan Act
true/false:
Prince Henry the Navigator led Portugal to take the lead in the 1400s during the age of Exploration.
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Which of the primarily characterized New England's agriculture?
true
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a. grain farms b. plantation
c. small family farms d. no significant farming
true/false:
Harvard College wad founded in 1647 as the first institution of higher learning in British North America.
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Why is it significant to America history that the Protestant Reformation occurred when it did?
1636
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It started late enough to avoid hindering the Reconquista, which would have left Muslims in control of much of Europe.
Which region of the colonies was religiously divers?
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What economic movement helped give rise to the middle class?
middle colonies
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trade with the Orient
Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion in Virginia because the governor had failed to respond to?
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When was the movable-type printings press invented?
Native American attacks
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1440
discovered an all-water route to India
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What term refers to the spirit of pride in one's country that helped inspire explorers to seek new wealth, honor, and glory to their homelands?
Vasco de Gama
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nationalism
In the colonial period, how was most manufacturing products?
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true/false:
The Line of Demarcation divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal in 1493.
domestic system
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true
discovered the St. Lawrence River
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Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Jacques Cartier
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Daniel Boone
When was the Spanish Armada defeated?
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What representative body Virginia acted as an advisory bod y of the governor in the early 1600s?
1588
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House of Burgesses
discovered Mississippi River
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What colonial region was known for growing indigo and rice?
Hernando de Soto
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southern colonies
began the Protestant Reformation
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one of two explorers who explored the central Mississippi River
Martin Luther
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Jacques Marquette
true/false:
Montezuma was the chieftain of the Incas.
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Why was King Philip II so determined to defeat England?
Aztecs
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He hated England for interfering with Spanish shipping and with his efforts to suppress protestant rebels in the Netherlands.
Which was not a form of education established in the early colonies?
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tur/false:
The First European settlement in California was San Francisco.
a. grammar schools b. old-filed schools
c. apprenticeships d. boarding schools
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San Diego
Who was the pastors of the Scrooby congregation?
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Who abolished Jamestown's common-store system?
John Robinson
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John Smith
What major change in English government did the Magna Carta begin?
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Who were the two largest groups of dissenters in England?
representative of government
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Catholics and Puritans
Andrew Hamilton's defense of John Peter Zenger in court set what important precedent for early America?
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true/false:
Jamestown was found in 1620.
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1607
Which of the following was Benjamin Franklin not known for?
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true/false:
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley founded the colony of New Jersey.
a. author of Poor Richard's Almanac
b. founder of Princeton University
c. invented of lightning rod
d. started the first subscription library
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true
What quality does the following quotation illustrate?
"Those who tired to live without working soon found that they must also try that harder thing-to live without eating"
a. the cruelty of Jamestown's leaders
b. suffering during the starving time
c. the ability of free enterprise to motivate
d. lack of unity and compassion among the Pilgrims
The New England colonies were the region known as the bread colonies.
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Name the king and queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's expidetion.
middle
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Ferdinand and Isabella
Which of the following was not an important effect of the crusades?
a. The united European religious and promoted religious toleration.
b. They revived European interest in trade with the Orient.
c. The gave rise to the middle class in Europe.
d. They served as the model for the conquest of the New World.
true/false:
Thomas Hooker published the book Key into the Language of America.
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searched for the Northwest PassageRoger Williams
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Sir Martin Frobisher
true/false:
The Boston News-Letter was America's first privately published newspaper.
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Who was the first English child born in the present-day United States?
New-England Courant
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Virginia Dare
discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Name one of the two areas in which the Pilgrims set precedents in the New World.
Vaso de Bolboa
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religious liberty or political liberty
claimed Nova Albion
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What was the name of the forced union of colonies governed by Sir Edmund Andros?
Sir Francis Drake
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Dominion Of New England