WorksheetsChapter 1
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
What was the name of the single super continent some 225 million years ago where the entire world’s dry land was contained?
Pangaea
Gondwana
Laurasia
Atlantis
How long ago were the Appalachian Mountains created? What part of North America are they located in?
480 - 350 million years ago. They run from Canada down to Georgia and Alabama along the East Coast.
100 - 50 million years ago. They run from California to Nevada along the West Coast.
10 - 5 million years ago. They are located in the Midwest, from Illinois to Ohio.
2000 - 1500 million years ago. They stretch from Alaska to Mexico along the Pacific Coast.
What was the name of the narrow eastern coastal plain that sloped gently upward to the timeworn ridges of the Appalachians?
Tidewater region
Piedmont Plateau
Great Plains
Central Lowlands
How did many of the Native Americans travel to North America from Asia?
The land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska
By sailing across the Atlantic Ocean
By flying in hot air balloons
By swimming across the Pacific Ocean
Which Indian tribe called Peru home when the Spanish came to the New World?
Incas
Aztecs
Mayans
Cherokees
Which Indian tribe called Central America home PRIOR to the Aztec empire (Yucatan Peninsula)?
Mayans
Incas
Cherokees
Sioux
Which Indian tribe called Mexico home when the Spanish came to the New World?
Aztecs
Cherokee
Sioux
Iroquois
Which crop did most of the tribes cultivate as their primary harvest?
Maize
Wheat
Rice
Barley
How did the Aztecs routinely seek favor with their many gods? Why did Aztecs perform this ritual daily?
Human sacrifice (5000). They thought the sun would be extinguished if they didn’t.
By offering gold and jewels. They believed it would bring them wealth.
By planting crops. They thought it would ensure a good harvest.
By building temples. They believed it would make their gods happy.
Which Indian tribe, known as “village” in Spanish, constructed intricate irrigation systems to water their cornfields in the Rio Grande valley?
Pueblo
Cherokee
Sioux
Iroquois
Name three Indian tribes located in Arizona when the Spanish arrived in the New World? Texas?
Mohave, Yuma, Pima, Papago, Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Maricopa. Apache, Jumano and Eastern
Cherokee, Seminole, Creek
Sioux, Iroquois, Cheyenne
Shoshone, Ute, Nez Perce
Which North American Indian tribe created a Confederacy, which could have rivaled the great nation-states of Mexico and Peru?
Iroquois
Cherokee
Sioux
Apache
What was the name of the sixteenth century leader of the Iroquois Confederacy?
Hiawatha
Powhatan
Tecumseh
Sitting Bull
Why were the Native Americans easily conquered by the Spanish and later by the English?
They had inferior weapons, were not organized, spoke many different languages, European diseases
They had advanced technology and strong alliances with the Spanish
They were supported by powerful neighboring empires
They had more soldiers than the Europeans
The “three-sister” farming technique produced which crops in the southeastern Atlantic seaboard region?
Maize, beans, squash
Wheat, barley, oats
Rice, millet, sorghum
Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers
Which Native American tribes prospered because of the “three sister” farming technique?
Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee
Sioux, Apache, and Comanche
Iroquois, Mohawk, and Seneca
Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni
What probably is the greatest legacy of the North American Indian tribes to the Americans (Hjort question)?
Their Names
Their Clothing Styles
Their Musical Instruments
Their Cooking Methods
How many Native Americans occupied North America in 1492? What is the current number of American Indian/Alaska Natives in the United States?
4-7 million/5.2 million
1-2 million/1.1 million
10-15 million/10 million
500,000/2 million
Which Viking was probably the first to set foot upon the North American soil?
Leif Erickson
Erik the Red
Harald Hardrada
Ragnar Lothbrok
How did the crusades help to drive the need to “discover” North America? How did the fall of the Mongolian Empire lead to the Age of Exploration?
The drive for goods and exotic delights of Asia created a need for a quicker route to Asia. It became more dangerous to travel along the land route to Asia and drove people to the water.
The crusades led to the discovery of gold mines in Europe, making exploration unnecessary.
The fall of the Mongolian Empire made land travel safer and reduced the need for sea exploration.
The crusades resulted in a peace treaty that opened all land routes to Asia without restrictions.
Which Italian adventurer returned to Europe in 1295 to tell tales of his nearly 20-year trip in China?
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Which country had developed the caravel, a ship that could sail more closely into the wind, and they also discovered that they could return to Europe by sailing northwesterly from the African coast toward the Azores, where the prevailing westward breezes would carry them home?
Portuguese
Spanish
Dutch
English
Who were the first flesh (slave) merchants in the Continent of Africa?
Arabs and Africans themselves
Europeans
Chinese
Indians
Which Portuguese explorer rounded the southernmost tip of the “Dark Continent” in 1488?
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Pedro Álvares Cabral
In 1498, which Portuguese explorer reached India and returned with jewels and spices?
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartolomeu Dias
Which country sponsored Columbus’s trip to the New World?
Spain
Portugal
France
England
Why did Columbus call the Natives of North America Indians?
Because Columbus thought he had arrived in the Indies
Because he wanted to confuse other explorers
Because he believed they were from Africa
Because he misunderstood their language
What fraction of the current world's crops which are cultivated, originated in the Americas?
3/5
1/4
1/2
2/3
According to the authors of our textbook what tradeoff for the losses inflicted by the slave trade helped to make Africa more prosperous?
Introduction of maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes
Expansion of European colonies in Africa
Discovery of gold mines in West Africa
Establishment of new trade routes with Asia
Name some of the Columbian exchanges from the New World to the Old.
Gold, silver, corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, syphilis.
Tea, coffee, sugarcane, horses, smallpox, wheat, rice, sheep, pigs, cattle.
Silk, spices, gunpowder, porcelain, rice, tea, camels, elephants, oranges.
Oil, coal, iron, cotton, rubber, diamonds, bananas, apples, grapes.
Name some of the Columbian exchanges from the Old World and Africa to the New World.
Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever, slave labor.
Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, turkeys, syphilis, chocolate, vanilla.
Bananas, rubber, peanuts, llamas, alpacas, guinea pigs, chili peppers, gold, silver.
Tea, silk, gunpowder, porcelain, jade, pandas, rice noodles, Confucianism.
Which country is most responsible for the introduction of the horse to N. America?
Spain
France
England
Portugal
Where in the New World did the “sugar revolution” take place?
Caribbean because of the climate for sugar cane
New England because of the rocky soil
Great Plains because of the grasslands
Pacific Northwest because of the rainforests
What treaty will be signed in 1494 dividing the New World among the Portuguese and Spanish?
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Utrecht
When the Spanish arrive in the New World what were their motives?
Establishment of missions (conversion), search for God, gold and glory.
To escape religious persecution and establish a new society based on freedom.
To develop trade relations and promote peaceful coexistence with native populations.
To explore scientific advancements and establish educational institutions.
What was the name given to the Spanish explorers of the New World?
Conquistadores
Samurais
Vikings
Mamluks
Who is known as the person to 1st circumnavigate the globe (didn't quite make it)?
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
James Cook
Vasco da Gama
Which Spanish explorer sought the “Cities of Gold” in North America, wandering into AZ, NM and going east as far as Kansas?
Coronado
Pizarro
Cortes
De Soto
What is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement established in what would become the United States?
St. Augustine, 1565 (in Florida)
Jamestown, 1607 (in Virginia)
Plymouth, 1620 (in Massachusetts)
Santa Fe, 1610 (in New Mexico)
What “new race” was formed between the Europeans and Indian women of the New World?
Mestizos
Creoles
Mulattoes
Peninsulares
What was the capital of the Aztec Empire? What was the name of the Aztec god that they thought had arrived in the form of Cortez?
Tenochtitlan/ Quetzalcoatl
Cuzco/ Huitzilopochtli
Machu Picchu/ Tezcatlipoca
Chichen Itza/ Xipe Totec
What two ways did the Spaniards conquer the Aztecs?
Through militarily and disease (small pox)
Through peaceful negotiation and trade
By forming alliances with the Aztecs and sharing technology
By offering religious freedom and economic incentives
Mexicans celebrate Columbus Day as the Dia de la Raza. What does Dia de la Raza mean?
Day of the new race
Day of the ancestors
Day of the revolution
Day of the sun
After establishing many missions in New Mexico what revolt took place by the natives in 1680 destroying every Catholic Church and killing scores of priests along with hundreds of Spanish settlers?
Pope’s Revolt or the Pueblo Revolt
Bacon’s Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
King Philip’s War
America gained its name from which of the following sources?
The explorer Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
The Native American tribes
The British monarchy
Place the following in correct chronological order: Columbus lands in the Bahamas, Magellan’s vessel completes circumnavigation of the world, Marco Polo returns to Europe, Treaty of Tordesillas signed between Spain and Portugal, Spanish build fortress in St. Augustine, Florida. Fill in the correct order in the blanks: ________, ________, ________, ________, ________.
Marco Polo, Columbus, Treaty, Magellan, St. Augustine.
Columbus, Marco Polo, Treaty, Magellan, St. Augustine.
Marco Polo, Treaty, Columbus, Magellan, St. Augustine.
Columbus, Magellan, Marco Polo, Treaty, St. Augustine.
