US History L1,2,3 Review

Christopher Columbus set off to discover an all-water route to the Indies with financial help from Queen Isabella of Spain in what month/year?

• October 1367

• March 1422

• August 1492

• January 1969

What was the name of the first English Colony?

• Croatoan

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Griffin

What is the name of the thousand miles wide land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska?

• Caribou

• Beringia

• Glacier

• nomads

What was the name of the colony where 100 men in three ships landed in April 1607?

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Champlain

• New France

What happened to the Roanoke colony?

• It grew to great proportions

• They formed the government we still have today

• It was lost

• Everyone fought and killed each other

The first people in the Americas settled in what is called _____________, which includes what is now Mexico and other countries south through Costa Rica.

• Guatemala

• Mesoamerica

• Civilization

• Aztecs

Which civilization took shape about 1200 A.D. and ruled a large kingdom in much of central and southern Mexico?

• Mayans

• Toltecs

• Aztecs

• Roanoke

From what explorer did “America” get its name?

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Ferdinand Hernando Cortez Jacques America

What was Ponce de Leon searching for in the New World?

• Gold & the Fountain of Youth

• Silver & Gold

• Lakes & Rivers

• Northwest Passage

Where was the first French colony started in the early 1600s?

• Tenochtitlan

• Near the Gulf of Mexico

• St. Lawrence River

• New Orleans