Chapter 1

Question 0

What does allegiance mean?

Answer 0

Devotion or loyalty

Question 1

What is a pledge?

Answer 1

A promise to do something

Question 2

What are documents

Answer 2

Writings

Question 3

What is liberty?

Answer 3

Freedom

Question 4

What is freedom of speech?

Answer 4

We do not have to be afraid to say what we believe

Question 5

What is freedom of the press?

Answer 5

We can print things in books and newspapers for everyone to read and think about

Question 6

What are you promising when you pledge allegiance to the flag?

Answer 6

Promising to be faithful and loyal to your country.

Question 7

What freedom allows to attend any church we want to?

Answer 7

Freedom of religion

Question 8

What is history?

Answer 8

The story of what happened in the life of a country or people.

Question 9

What is a continent?

Answer 9

A large mass of land

Question 10

What are the seven continents?

Answer 10

Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica

Question 11

What are people who study the earth called?

Answer 11

Geographers

Question 12

What are the four oceans?

Answer 12

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic

Question 13

What is geography?

Answer 13

The study of the earth’s surface

Question 14

Who discovered America

Answer 14

Christopher Columbus

Question 15

Who was the merchant that traveled to the east to visit China?

Answer 15

Marco Polo

Question 16

What is the name for the ruler of China?

Answer 16

Khan

Question 17

Where was Christopher Columbus trying to travel to?

Answer 17

Asia

Question 18

Name the king and queen that funded Christopher Columbus’ trip.

Answer 18

Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 19

What three ships did he travel with?

Answer 19

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Question 20

Where did Christopher Columbus land?

Answer 20

San Salvador

Question 21

What date did Christopher Columbus land?

Answer 21

October 12, 1492

Question 22

What did Columbus call the people where he landed?

Answer 22

Indians

Question 23

What are the islands Columbus landed on called now?

Answer 23

West Indies

Question 24

Who discovered America before Columbus?

Answer 24

The Vikings

Question 25

Why is Christopher Columbus more popular than the Vikings?

Answer 25

He shared what he discovered the Vikings kept it to themselves.

Question 26

Who sell the first English ship to North America?

Answer 26

John Cabot

Question 27

Who was the English mapmaker that sailed to North America?

Answer 27

John Cabot

Question 28

Who was the first person to call America the new world.

Answer 28

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 29

Who sailed below the tip of Africa to get to India?

Answer 29

Vasco da Gama

Question 30

Who was the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific ocean?

Answer 30

Vasco de Balboa

Question 31

Who was the first European to reach what is now the United States?

Answer 31

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 32

What is a body of land with water on three sides?

Answer 32

Peninsula

Question 33

What was Ponce deLeon searching for in Florida?

Answer 33

The fountain of youth

Question 34

What were the name of the Indians in Mexico?

Answer 34

Aztecs

Question 35

What was the name of the Aztecs ruler?

Answer 35

Montezuma

Question 36

Who set out to conquer Mexico or to win it by force?

Answer 36

Hernando Cortes

Question 37

Name the French explorer to who hoped to find a waterway to North America to the Pacific ocean.

Answer 37

Jacques Cartier

Question 38

Who was the Spanish explorer who explored throughout the Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon?

Answer 38

Francisco de Coronado

Question 39

Who was the Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River?

Answer 39

Hernando de Soto

Question 40

What were the names of the English sea captains raided Spanish boats

Answer 40

Seadogs

Question 41

Who was the most famous sea dog?

Answer 41

Sir Francis Drake

Question 42

Name the French explorer who founded Quebec.

Answer 42

Samuel de Champlain

Question 43

Name the fabled cities which Cornado searched for but never found.

Answer 43

Seven cities Of Cibola

Question 44

Where did Coronado discover the Grand Canyon?

Answer 44

Arizona

Question 45

What is the greatest American River discovered by De Soto

Answer 45

Mississippi River

Question 46

First permanent European settlement in the United States

Answer 46

St. Augustine

Question 47

First lasting Spanish settlement in the new world

Answer 47

St. Augustine

Question 48

Name first given to Canada

Answer 48

New France

Question 49

First successful French settlement in the new world

Answer 49

Quebec

Question 50

Who searched for the seven cities of Cibola

Answer 50

Coronado

Question 51

Name the three powerful countries with claims in the New World during the years of discovery

Answer 51

England, Spain, France

Question 52

What was the first successful French settlement in America?

Answer 52

Quebec

Question 53

One queen permitted England Pirates to attack Spanish?

Answer 53

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 54

What natural wonder did Coronado discover on his journey?

Answer 54

Grand canyon