C.L Test 26-50

Question 1

26. What is the indentured servant?

Answer 1

A person under contact that worked for another person for a definite period of time.

Question 2

26. What happened in the 17th century?

Answer 2

Most of the white laborers in Maryland and Virginia came from England as indentured servants.

Question 3

27. What is Jamestown?

Answer 3

The first permanent English settlement in North America.

Question 5

27. What happened during the 17th century?

Answer 5

Jamestown was destroyed.

Question 6

28. Who is Jean Lafitte?

Answer 6

A French pirate.

Question 7

28. Where was he active?

Answer 7

New Orleans, Louisiana

Question 8

29. What is the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Answer 8

A journey made by Meriwether Lewis

Question 9

29. Where did the expedition start?

Answer 9

St. Louis Missouri

Question 10

30. What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

Answer 10

The first battle of the revolutionary war.

Question 10

30. What happened in concord?

Answer 10

The advancing British troops met resistance from the minuteman?

Question 11

31. What is the Mason-Dixon Line?

Answer 11

The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Question 12

31. What happened before an during the civil war?

Answer 12

The line was symbolic of the division between the slave holding and free states.

Question 13

32. What is the mayflower?

Answer 13

The ship that carried the pilgrims to America.

Question 14

32. What did the pilgrims agree to?

Answer 14

The mayflower compact.

Question 14

33. What is the mayflower compact?

Answer 14

An agreement reached among the pilgrims while still on the ship just before landing.

Question 15

33. What happened in the late 17th century?

Answer 15

The basic law in Massachusetts.

Question 16

34. What are minutemen?

Answer 16

Armed American civilians who were active in the revolutionary war and during the period Judy before the war.

Question 17

34. Why were they named minute men?

Answer 17

They were called minutemen because they were ready to fight alongside the regular soldier at a moments notice.

Question 18

35. Who is Samuel F. Morse?

Answer 18

A 19th century inventor of the telegraph and of morse code.

Question 19

35. What are Navajos?

Answer 19

A tribe of Native Americans.

Question 20

36. What are the Navajos known for now?

Answer 20

There houses made of logs also called hogans.

Question 21

36. What Is the New Amsterdam?

Answer 21

A city founded by Dutch settlers in the 17th century on the present site of New York.

Question 22

36. What did Amsterdam buy?

Answer 22

Manhattan Island.

Question 23

37. Who are pilgrims?

Answer 23

A group of English PURITANS.

Question 24

What year did they arrive here?

Answer 24

1620

Question 25

What is the pony express?

Answer 25

A system of mail service by relays of riders on horses.

Question 26

42. Who was the two guys that rode the pony express?

Answer 26

Buffalo bill Cody and wild bill Hickok