5-9-2020 For Practice

What explorer sailed all the way around the world?
(He was credited with it, but in fact he died before his ship made it back.)

• Balboa
• Cabot
• Magellan
• De Soto

This country DID NOT send explorers to the New World.

• Netherlands
• Italy
• England
• France

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492
• 1607
• 1776
• 2007

Jamestown was located on a peninsula in ...

• Virginia
• North Carolina
• Florida
• New York

After 9 weeks at sea, the Mayflower landed on land that is now what US state?

• Virginia
• Massachusetts
• New York
• New England

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The name of the agreement the Pilgrims signed before going ashore in Plymouth was called the

• Mayflower Compact
• Pilgrim's Progress
• Magna Carta
• The Constitution

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the House of Burgesses?

• The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in the American colonies.

• The first group of elected representatives to leave the colonies.

• The first house that was built in Jamestown, Virginia.

Which of the following statements is a correct description of the Mayflower Compact?

• The men on board the Mayflower bound themselves into a “civic body politic.” 
• The Pilgrims practiced an early and pure form of democracy
• The Mayflower Compact applied just to the non-Pilgrims on board the Mayflower
• None of the above. 

What is the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

• it provided the basis for a self-governing colony
• it established the first representative assembly in America
• it extended voting rights to non-church members
• It established the idea of due process