Lesson I and IV Quiz

The American continent is named after the Italian explorer

• Amerigo Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Amerigo

• Christopher Columbus

______ became the first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation.

• Italy

• England

• France

• Spain

Both the Enlightenment and the _____ served to emphasize an individualism that supported America's political independence.

• Manifest Destiny

• Great Awakening

• Scientific Revolution

• Protestant Reformation

In Europe, the _____ brought a rebirth of interest in ancient Greece and Rome, a renewed commitment to reason, and a scientific revolution that would make sea travel easier.

• Renaissance

• Golden Age of Athens

• Great Awaking

• Manifest Destiny

In the seventeenth century, English business and government leaders saw _____ as sources of raw materials and as markets for English goods.

• Serfs

• Farms

• Enemies

• Colonies

Anthropologists think the first people to build a civilization in America were the

• Anasazi

• Hohokam

• Maya

• Olmec

The men who led expeditions to conquer what today is Mexico and Central America became known as

• encomenderos

• mestizos

• peninsulares

• conquistadors

Who argued that governments exist because people allow them to exist

• Sir Edmund Andros

• King James II

• John Locke

• King Charles II

What became known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts?

• the Coercive Acts and Tea Act

• the Coercive Acts and Townsend Acts

• the Quebec Act and Coercive Acts

• the Tea Act and Townsend Acts

____ is the taking of States out of the Union.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Manifest Destiny

• annexation

• secession