WorksheetsTest: chapters 1, 2, 3: Am Hist 1
Total questions: 91
Worksheet time: 46mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
climates and landscapes that surround living things
a)
Bering Land Bridge
b)
Paleo-Indians
c)
migration
d)
environments
2.
a strip of land between Asia and present-day Alaska that was exposed by the lower sea levels of the Ice Age
a)
Bering Land Bridge
b)
hunter-gatherers
c)
environments
d)
culture
3.
people believed to have crossed the Bering Land Bridge
a)
Pueblos
b)
Kivas
c)
Paleo-indians
d)
Matrilineal
4.
movement of people or animals from one region to another
a)
caravels
b)
environments
c)
migration
d)
hunter-gatherers
5.
people who obtain food by hunting animals and gathering wild plants
a)
caravels
b)
hunter-gatherers
c)
totems
d)
pilgrims
6.
a group’s set of common values and traditions
a)
pueblos
b)
kivas
c)
totems
d)
culture
7.
above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe
a)
kivas
b)
totems
c)
matrilineal-
d)
Iroquois League
e)
pueblos
8.
underground ceremonial chambers at the center of each Anasazi community
a)
astrolabe
b)
kivas
c)
Line of Demarcation
d)
circumnavigate
9.
ancestor or animal spirits of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
a)
pueblos
b)
kivas
c)
totems
d)
culture
10.
tracing a society’s ancestry through mothers
a)
patrilinical
b)
matrilineal
c)
kivas
d)
totem
11.
an alliance of Native Americans in northeastern North America
a)
Pueblos Group
b)
Kivas of the Plains
c)
The Midwestern Totems
d)
Iroquois League
12.
Viking who landed in present-day Canada in the year 1000
a)
Leif Eriksson
b)
John Nova Scotia
c)
Eric the Red
d)
Leif Garrett
13.
Portuguese prince who established a school of navigation and paid for expeditions astrolabe device used to determine location based on the position of the stars
a)
Prince Harry the Global
b)
Prince Bacon of Fryington
c)
Henry the Navigator
d)
Princess Joy of Hampton
14.
Portuguese ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind
a)
Nina
b)
caravels
c)
The Mayflower
d)
pontoon boats
15.
sailor from Genoa, Italy
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Leif Erikkson
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
Hernan Cortes
16.
imaginary boundary in the Atlantic dividing Spanish and Portuguese territories
a)
equator
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
Line of Demarcation
d)
International Dateline
17.
agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
a)
Treaty of Doritos
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
Treaty of Tordesillas
d)
Mason-Dixon Line
18.
Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
a)
Hernan Cortes
b)
Francisco Pizarro
c)
Jacques Cartier
d)
Ferdinand Magellan
19.
to go all the way around
a)
Line of Demarcation
b)
circumnavigate
c)
Treaty of Tordesillas
d)
Columbian Exchange
20.
Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
a)
encomienda system
b)
plantations
c)
Bartolome de Las Casas
d)
conquistadors
21.
conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Hernán Cortés
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
Bartolome de Las Casas
22.
ruler of the Aztec empire during the early 1500s
a)
Poncho Villa
b)
Maggie the Great
c)
Moctezuma II
d)
Prince Chace
23.
conquistador who captured the Inca capital and killed the Inca leaders
a)
Francisco Pizarro
b)
Bartolome de Las Casas
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
Christopher Columbus
24.
system that gave settlers the right to tax Native Americans or to make them work
a)
Protestant Reformation
b)
Protestants
c)
Northwest Passage
d)
Encomienda System
25.
large farms that grew just one kind of crop and made huge profits for their owners
a)
plantations
b)
cash crop
c)
share crops
d)
Columbian Exchange
26.
priest who wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity by treating them in a better manner
a)
Conquistadors
b)
Hernan Cortes
c)
Francisco Pizarro
d)
Bartolomé de Las Casas
27.
religious movement that began as an effort to reform the Catholic Church
a)
Protestant Reformation
b)
Missions
c)
Spanish Armada
d)
Northwest Passage
28.
reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church’s practices
a)
Baptists
b)
Protestants
c)
Egyptians
d)
Mormons
29.
huge fleet of Spanish warships
a)
British Navy
b)
Spanish Fleet
c)
Spanish Armada
d)
Portugese Navy
30.
water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
a)
Saint Lawrence River
b)
Northwest Passage
c)
Panama Canal
d)
Cape of Good Hope
31.
French explorer who sailed up the Saint Lawrence River looking for the Northwest Passage
a)
Jacques Cartier
b)
Ferdinand Magellan
c)
Hernan Cortes
d)
Christopher Columbus
32.
document giving permission to start a colony
a)
charter
b)
chapter
c)
chatter
d)
State's Rights
33.
an English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607
a)
Virginia Dare
b)
Jamestown
c)
St James River
d)
Outer Banks
34.
a colonist and leader of Jamestown
a)
John Rolfe
b)
William Bradford
c)
Cotton Mather
d)
John Smith
35.
a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe
a)
Squanto
b)
Falling Rock
c)
Pocahontas
d)
Running Bear
36.
colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys
a)
charter
b)
slave codes
c)
indentured servants
d)
maids
37.
an act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime
a)
Toleration act of 1649
b)
Magna Carta
c)
Northwest Passage
d)
Mayflower Pact
38.
a Separatist group that cut all ties with the Church of England and left England to escape persecution
a)
Puritans
b)
Tisquantum
c)
Immigrants
d)
Pilgrims
39.
a Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England
a)
Tisquantum
b)
Pilgrims
c)
Puritans
d)
Quakers
40.
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
a)
Quakers
b)
immigrants
c)
refugees
d)
squantos
41.
a legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good
a)
Northwest Passage
b)
Staple Crops
c)
Mayflower Compact
d)
Protestant Reformation
42.
leader of Puritans who left England for Massachusetts seeking religious freedom
a)
John Smith
b)
Cotton Mather
c)
William Bradford
d)
John Winthrop
43.
Puritan woman who disagreed on religious ideas, was tried, and forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony
a)
Anne Hutchinson
b)
Sally Mae
c)
Roger Willis
d)
Deliah Sanford
44.
director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647
a)
George Benson
b)
Glen Campbell
c)
William Penn
d)
Peter Stuyvesant
45.
a religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God; supported nonviolence and religious tolerance
a)
Quakers (Society of Friends)
b)
Puritans
c)
Pilgrams
d)
Shakers
46.
a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony
a)
Roger Williams
b)
James Baker
c)
Frank Rhoade
d)
William Penn
47.
crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats
a)
paper clip crops
b)
staple crops
c)
tobacco
d)
seeds
48.
What event are you looking forward to studying in American History 1?
a)
American Revolution
b)
Making of the US government
c)
Westward Expansion
d)
Civil War
e)
Reconstruction
49.
The nomadic ___________ lived during the Ice Age, when much of the Earth was covered with ice and snow and the entire oceans were frozen over.
a)
Yeti
b)
snowpeople
c)
hunter-gatherers
d)
Asians
50.
When the seawater is frozen solid, the ocean level gets lower, exposing entire stretches of land that are underwater during warmer climates. The land connecting the northwest tip of Asia and present day Alaska, now called the. _______________________________
a)
Bering Land Bridge
b)
Northwest Passage
c)
Bering Sea
d)
Atlantis
51.
Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest carved images of _____________, ancestor or animal spirits- on tall, wooden poles. They had great religious and historical significance to their people.
a)
ghosts
b)
teepees
c)
igloos
d)
totems
52.
___________________, son of Eric the Red, was sailing west from Norway to Greenland, his ship was blown off course, and landed in North America around year 1,000.
a)
Leif Eriksson
b)
Leif Garrett
c)
Leaf Mealone
d)
Glen the Red
53.
Sailors used navigation by learning the ship's location by charting the position of the stars. The ___________, made it possible for sailors to travel the open seas without landmarks to guide them.
a)
portsmith
b)
star-gazer
c)
galaxy fixer
d)
astrolabe
54.
______________________, knew the world was round, and was trying to reach Asia by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. He didn’t realize the Earth is much bigger than he thought
a)
Ferdinand Magellan
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Henry Cortes
d)
Vasco de Gamma
55.
On April 26, 1607, the first 105 colonies sent by the Virginia Company arrived in America. In May, about 40 miles up the James River in Virginia, the colonists founded
a)
Johnsburg
b)
Pittsburgh
c)
Roanoke Country Club
d)
Jamestown
56.
_____________, daughter of the Powhatan leader, married John Rolfe. The marriage helped the colonists form more peaceful relations with the Powhatans.
a)
Sara Powhatan
b)
Pocahontas
c)
Tiger Lilly
d)
Saqagewea
57.
There was a huge labor shortage in Virginia, Most of the workers were _________________, were servants who signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid their journey to America.
a)
slaves
b)
interns
c)
indentured servants
d)
college students
58.
Religious tensions in England remained high after the Protestant Reformation. A Protestant group called the ______________ wanted to purify, or reform the Anglican Church.
a)
Baptists
b)
Puritans
c)
Quakers
d)
Shakers
59.
The ___________ were one Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution.
a)
Seperatates
b)
Quakers
c)
Pilgrims
d)
Catholics
60.
Why was the Mayflower Compact significant or important?
a)
Ending of their relationship with the King
b)
Agreement with Native Americans
c)
Charter to move westward
d)
America's first laws/ Constitution
61.
New York and New Jersey were led by Dutch Director-general ____________
a)
Peter Stuyvesant
b)
William Paterson
c)
David Montclair
d)
Frank Trenton
62.
_______________, a Quaker, owned a lot if land in New Jersey and wanted his own colony that he could control. He was granted a charter from King Charles II, and moved to land west of New Jersey.
a)
Wilford Brimley
b)
William Bradford
c)
John Rolfe
d)
William Penn
63.
Great Plains People
What was the difference between different groups that developed in the Great Plains?
a)
Their use of bison
b)
One of the groups moved more and the other group stayed in one place.
c)
One group planted corn, the other group planted maize
d)
Often spoke several languages
64.
What was the central resource of many of the native people?
a)
Crops
b)
Shop Rite
c)
Amazon
d)
Bison
65.
By the late 1800s how many bison were left on the Great Plains?
a)
By the late 1800s barely 100 bison were left on the Great Plains.
b)
By the late 1800s only 10 bison were left on the Great Plains.
c)
By the late 1800s over 1,000 bison were left on the Great Plains.
d)
By the late 1800s, well over 2 million bison were left on the Great Plains.
66.
Lost Roanoke Colony
Why did they believe the colony should be moved to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay?
a)
Cooler sounding name
b)
James River was known for its good fishing waters
c)
Better farmlands
d)
They concluded that the colony should move there because there was deeper water for ships to dock there.
67.
Why could John White not return to Roanoke Island for three years?
a)
He couldn’t use the ship because Queen Elizabeth said they were using them for the war.
b)
His wife was expecting
c)
He became ill
d)
Money was a big issue
68.
What clue did White find at the site of the colony?
a)
The clue that White found was skulls and arrows all over the place.
b)
The clue that White found was Native Americans living there.
c)
The clue that White found was the word "Croatoan" carved in trees.
d)
The clue that White found was a map was left nailed to a tree.
69.
French and Spanish Colonization of America
What were the French more interested in than getting land?
a)
Making friends with the Native Americans
b)
Trapping animals for fur and trading fur.
c)
Learning to speak English
d)
Ice fishing in Canada.
70.
What important city did the French establish at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
a)
Louisville
b)
Pittsburgh
c)
New Orleans
d)
St Augustine
71.
Why were indentured servants necessary in Virginia?
a)
people hated England
b)
they didn't have skills
c)
nothing else was going on.
d)
shortage of labor
72.
What was the purpose of slave codes?
a)
slaves needed their own laws
b)
make slaves follow certain rules.
c)
laws to protect slaves
d)
codes that gave slaves rights
73.
Why were the slaves in high demand in the southern colonies?
a)
slaves liked the warm weather
b)
slaves hated cold weather
c)
slaves took a lot of labor to take care of crops.
d)
slaves were not good with the machinery that they have in the north
74.
Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans leave Europe for the Americas?
a)
To avoid religious persecution
b)
Disagreement over taxes
c)
They needed unchartered lands
d)
The want for money and treasures
75.
How did John Smith improve conditions in Jamestown?
a)
He convinced the colonists to remain isolated from Powhatan
b)
He developed a new type of tobacco that sold well and made a profit
c)
He ended conflict with Native Americans by marrying a Powhatan princess
d)
He helped to build better housing and created rules that rewarded hard workers with food.
76.
Why was the Toleration Act of 1649 important?
a)
It provided some religious freedom to the colonists
b)
It stopped all religious conflict in the English colonies
c)
It officially ended the practice of slavery in the colonies
d)
It limited the size of land grants that were given to the colonists
77.
Which of the following describes agriculture in the southern colonies.
a)
The crops that farmers grew required little work to grow and harvest
b)
The farmers in the southern colonies grew cash crops that were sold for profits
c)
The short growing season reduced the amount of crops that farmers could produce
d)
The southern colonies were dominated by large plantations with few small farms
78.
How did the economy of the New England colonies differ from that of the southern colonies?
a)
The warm climate in New England led those colonists to rely on farming
b)
New England depended on the production of cash crops such as tobacco
c)
Slavery was important in New England due to the high demand for farm laborers
d)
New England depended on skilled craftpeople and merchants since trade was vital.
79.
How was the treatment of enslaved Africans different under English rule than it was under the rule of the Dutch?
a)
Enslaved Africans had more rights under English rule
b)
Enslaved Africans lived in harsh conditions under English rule
c)
English laws were less strict since fewer Africans resisted slavery
d)
English laws made it easier for enslaved Africans to earn their freedom
80.
Which of the following is true of the Quakers?
a)
They followed formal religious practices
b)
They supported religious tolerance for all people
c)
They had a desire to reform the Anglican Church
d)
They believed inequality between men and women
81.
Which of the following correctly describes slavery in the middle colonies?
a)
Slaves became the main source of labor
b)
Slavery and the slave trade were outlawed
c)
Slaves worked in a variety of different jobs
d)
Slavery was not as important as it was in New England
82.
How were the experience of the indentured servants different from those of enslaved people?
a)
indentured servants were rarely granted their freedom
b)
Indentured servants worked in the fields to grow and harvest cash crops
c)
Indentured servants were forced to follow strict laws that controlled their behavior
d)
Indentured servants signed a contract to work without pay for a certain number of years
83.
In what way Did Roger Williams disagree with the Puritan leaders of Massachusetts?
a)
He believed that women should be religious leaders
b)
He believed in the separation of the church from the state.
c)
He believed in not paying the Native Americans when taking their land.
d)
He believed that the church leaders should also be the government
84.
The colony that was founded by William Penn did which of the following?
a)
Promoted slavery
b)
Create an official religion
c)
Gave Penn absolute power
d)
established an elected assmbly
85.
Please write a 4 sentence summary, using facts for ...
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
4 lines
86.
Please write a 4 sentence summary, using facts for ...
Jamestown Colony
4 lines
87.
Please write a 4 sentence summary, using facts for ...
Puritans
4 lines
88.
Please write a 4 sentence summary, using facts for ...
Salem Witch Trails
4 lines
89.
Please write a 4 sentence summary, using facts for ...
French and Indian War
4 lines
90.
What kind of projects would you like to do in American History 1?
4 lines
91.
Who is your American History teacher's name?
a)
Dr Henry Jones, Jr
b)
Mr Poje
c)
Mrs. Bennett
d)
Mrs. Golden
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