2019 Social Studies

What group of Mound Builders constructed the first cities in North America?

• the Anasazi

• the Hohokam

• the Pueblos

• the Mississippians

Who set up a center for exploration in the 1400s?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• the King of Portugal

• Vasco da Gama

• Mansa Musa

When Columbus reached Cuba, he thought it was...

• Japan

• Hispaniola

• the Indies

• Asia

Which explorer discovered a strait that bears his name?

• Columbus

• Balboa

• Magellan

• Vespucci

Who gave Florida its name?

• Hernando Cortés

• Bartolomé de Las Casas

• Francisco Pizarro

• Juan Ponce de Leon

What caused the greatest number of Native American fatalities?

• warfare with Europeans

• warfare between Native American groups

• natural disaster

• diseases spread by European contact

The first European to see the Pacific Ocean was

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Francisco Coronado

Which colony was originally part of Pennsylvania?

• New Jersey

• Delaware

• Rhode Island

• Virginia

Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?

• John Locke

• Phillis Wheatley

• Baron de Montsequieu

• Peter Zenger

Colonists resented the Tea Act because

• it established a British monopoly on tea

• it lowered the price of tea

• it increased the price of tea

• it forced tea to be shipped from India to Britain