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Question 1

Peoples indigenous to the Americas orally performa and transmit a variety of “literary” genres that include…

Answer 1

speeches, songs, and stories

Question 2

When did Anasazi communities inhabit southwestern regions?

Answer 2

1000-1300

Question 3

When did Columbus write, “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage”?

Answer 3

1493

Question 4

Christopher Columbus arrives in the Bahamas in… . How many Native Americans estimated to be in present day United States?

Answer 4

1492; between 3 and 7 million

Question 5

Native American populations begin to be ravaged by European diseases

Answer 5

1500

Question 6

Bartolome de las Casas petitions Spanish crown to treat Native American peoples as humanely as other subject populations

Answer 6

1514

Question 7

Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico

Answer 7

1519-21

Question 8

Spanish explorers bring first African slaves to South Carolina

Answer 8

1526

Question 9

First printing press in the Americas set up in Mexico City and Hernando de Soto invades Florida in

Answer 9

1539

Question 10

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca writes The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Answer 10

1542

Question 11

Bartolome de las Casas writes The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies

Answer 11

1552

Question 12

Reign of Elizabeth I

Answer 12

1558-1603

Question 13

Walter Ralegh lands on “island” of Roanoke; What does he name it? For whom?

Answer 13

1584; Virginia for Queen Elizabeth

Question 14

Who wrote A brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia and when?

Answer 14

Thomas Harriot; 1588

Question 15

Samuel de Champlain explores the Saint Lawrence River; founds Quebec

Answer 15

1603-13

Question 16

Jamestown is established in Virginia; Powhatan confederacy saves colonists from starving; teaches them to plant tobacco.

Answer 16

1607

Question 17

Twenty Africans arrive in Jamestown on a Dutch vessel as indentured servants

Answer 17

1619

Question 18

Mayflower drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor

Answer 18

1620

Question 19

First Thanksgiving at Plymouth

Answer 19

1621

Question 20

The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles written by whom?

Answer 20

John Smith, 1624

Question 21

John Winthrop delivers his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” in… when was it published?

Answer 21

1630; 1838

Question 22

Immigration of English Puritans to Massachusetts Bay

Answer 22

1630-43

Question 23

William Bradford writes Of Plymouth Plantation in… then published in …

Answer 23

1630-50; 1856

Question 24

Thomas Morton writes New English Canaan

Answer 24

1637

Question 25

Pequot War

Answer 25

1637

Question 26

Anne Hutchinson banished from Bay Colony for challenging Puritan beliefs

Answer 26

1638

Question 27

A Key into the Language of America

Answer 27

1643, Roger Williams

Question 28

The Tenth Muse

Answer 28

1650, Anne Bradstreet

Question 29

The Day of Doom

Answer 29

1662, Michael Wigglesworth

Question 30

Samuel Sewall keeps his Diary; published?

Answer 30

1673-1729; 1878-82

Question 31

King Philip's War destroys power of Native American tribes in New England

Answer 31

1675-78

Question 32

William Penn founds Pennsylvania

Answer 32

1681

Question 33

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration

Answer 33

1682

Question 34

Edward Taylor continues his Preparatory Meditations written in___ and published in ___

Answer 34

1682-1725; 1939, 1960

Question 35

The New England Primer

Answer 35

1690

Question 36

Salem witchcraft trials

Answer 36

1692

Question 37

Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World in

Answer 37

1700

Question 38

Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana in

Answer 38

1702

Question 39

The Sketch Book written by ___ in ___.

Answer 39

Washington Irving, 1820

Question 40

Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as a slave state, Main as a free state, and excludes slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36, 30

Answer 40

1820

Question 41

William Cullen Bryant, "Thanatopsis"

Answer 41

1821

Question 42

Sequoyah (George Guess) invents syllabary in which Cherokee language can be written

Answer 42

1821

Question 43

James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers

Answer 43

1823

Question 44

Monroe Doctrine warns all European powers not to establish new colonies on either American continent

Answer 44

1823

Question 45

Erie Canal opens, connecting Great Lakes region with ...

Answer 45

The Atlantic in 1825