7th Grade Pretest

What European group likely landed in present-day Canada five hundred years before Christopher Columbus made it to the Western Hemisphere?

• the Celts

• the Romans

• the Vikings

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyages to the Western Hemisphere?

• England

• Spain

• Italy

Which term refers to the way of life of a people (including elements like language, clothing, music, etc.)?

• culture

• social class

• civilization

The Native American group that have lived in upstate York since many years prior to the arrival of Europeans are the

• Cherokee

• Sioux

• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)

The first PERMANENT English settlement in North America (settled in 1607) was

• Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Roanoke, North Carolina

• Jamestown, Virginia

The name of the ship that carried a group of English settlers (often referred to as Pilgrims) to Plymouth in 1620 was called the

• Santa Maria

• Mayflower

• Godspeed

I was the daughter of a Powhatan chief. I helped improve relations between English settlers and my tribe. There is a highly inaccurate Disney movie about me. Who am I?

• Pocahontas

• Sacagawea

• Mulan

This important city was settled by the Dutch in the early 1600s. The Dutch called their island settlement New Amsterdam, but when the English took it over they renamed it.

• Manhattan (NYC)

• Boston

• Philadelphia

I was a newspaper publisher and a well-respected thinker in colonial Philadelphia. I was a Patriot during the American Revolution. I am regarded as a "founding father" because I signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

Boston Tea Party: On December 16, 1773, a group of Americans dumped cases of English tea into the harbor to protest what?

• a lack of jobs

• taxes

• war with France