Early US History Quiz

What was the primary mission of the Lewis & Clark Expedition?

• Remove Native Americans from Louisiana

• Explore and map the Louisiana Purchase

• Find a route to the Pacific Ocean

• Capture Spanish territory in California

Who started a colony where people of any religion could be free to worship as they chose?

• Ceclilius Calvert

• William Penn

• Lord Baltimore

• Roger Williams

What was the book Benjamin Franklin published each year with a calendar, weather forecasts, stories, jokes, and wise sayings called?

• the Pennsylvania Gazette

• the Philadelphia Journal

• Poor Richard's Almanack

• the Schuylkill Register

Who led the Puritans that settled in Boston?

• John Winthrop

• Bill British

• George Winchester

• Doug Dover

Who was the first and only President of the Confederacy?

• John C. Calhoun

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• John Bell

What was written by Thomas Jefferson, and signed and ratified by the 13 colonies on July 4, 1776?

• Constitution

• Federalist Papers

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

Massachusetts men who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice were called what?

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Tories

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement and was located in which colony?

• Maryland

• Connecticut

• Massachusetts

• Virginia