The History of Our United States: Practice Test

 The first European to find land in the Western Hemisphere was __.

• Leif Ericson

•  Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

The explorer who claimed the eastern coast of North America for England was __.

• Jacques Cartier

•  Hernando Cortés

•  John Cabot

Nearly all the people that came to the New World were seeking _.

• freedom

• riches

• adventure

 Harvard College was started to train _.

• lawyers

• ministers

• doctors

Match the following:

• Jamestown

• first permanent European settlement in America

• Pennsylvania

• known as Penn's Woods

• Rhode Island

•  first permanent English settlement in America

•  St. Augustine

•  first colony to offer complete religious freedom;

  founded by Roger Williams

What is the written record of what man has done with the time

God has given him?

 In what year did Christopher Columbus discover the New World?

In what year was Plymouth Colony founded?

Hernando Cortés conquered Mexico for France.

• true

• false

A charter is a permit given by a ruler.

• true

• false