Early American History

Which of the following has been a leading theory about how human beings first came to the Americas?

• They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America.

• They swam across the Pacific Ocean from small islands.

• They sailed from Europe to explore new lands.

• They crossed glaciers that once linked Antarctica to South America.

What are the two types of lifestyles (or tribes) of the Native Americans?

• Fighters and runners

• Nomadic and sedentary

• Permanent settlers and farmers/sedentary

• Hunter-gatherers and nomadic

What European group established the first contact with North America?

• Spanish

• Dutch

• French

• Vikings

What was a new form of Christianity that was developing in Europe during the 1500s?

• Reformation

• Protestantism

• Catholicism

• Germanism

What were the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620?

• Catholics

• Anglicans

• Separatists

• Puritans

What was the “Middle Passage?

• The second leg of a triangular trade route on which slaves were transported across the Atlantic Ocean

• The selling of enslaved people in the slave markets of America

• The process of branding enslaved Africans

• The forced march of enslaved Africans to a European fort

The ___ wanted to reform the Anglican Church, while the ___ wanted to leave the church altogether.

• separatists / puritans

• British / Americans

• puritans / separatists

• Catholics / Protestants

What did Christopher Columbus want to find?

• Spain

• shortcut to Asia for trade so Spain could become wealthy

• North America

• Russia

What did Christopher Columbus actually find?

• United States of America

• Canada

• Spain

• An island chain now called the Bahamas

What Spanish explorer made it to present day Kansas, where he found "shaggy cows" (American bison)?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca