social studies

Question 1

who were the first Europeans to reach the American continent?

Answer 1

the Vikings

Question 2

who was the first explorer to land there?

Answer 2

Leif Ericson

Question 3

Columbus sighted land in the Americas in what year?

Answer 3

1492

Question 4

what country financed Christopher Columbus’s journey?

Answer 4

Spain

Question 5

what was the name of their king and queen?

Answer 5

king Ferdinand and queen Isabella

Question 6

why did they want to send Columbus there?

Answer 6

gold, power, and to spread Christianity

Question 7

what was the name of the boat he sailed to the new world?

Answer 7

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

Question 8

Christopher Columbus was born in?

Answer 8

Italy

Question 9

what was Christopher Columbus looking for when he set sail across the ocean?

Answer 9

a route to Asia

Question 10

why did he call the people he met there “Indians”?

Answer 10

because he thought that he was in India

Question 11

what made it impossible to get to Asia by land from Europe?

Answer 11

the route was very long and tiring, also encounters with Vikings

Question 12

How was this problem ultimately solved?

Answer 12

Portugal took the sea

Question 13

what other European nations then decided to explore this new territory? Name 3

Answer 13

1. England
2. Italy
3. Germany

Question 14

which 1 colonized it the most?

Answer 14

England

Question 15

Name 3 good reasons for wanting to take a voyage to the new world?

Answer 15

a. resources
b. adventure
c. materials

Question 16

what was the first British successful settlement in the new world?

Answer 16

Jamestown

Question 17

who led it?

Answer 17

John Smith

Question 18

after several decades had past, why did the colonists of this time period feel less closely related to the British mother country?

Answer 18

they have never been to England

Question 19

what had certain colonies began that made them feel less inclined to simply obey British command?

Answer 19

self-gover

Question 20

what was the French-Indian war over?

Answer 20

Land

Question 21

why was it called French Indian war?

Answer 21

the French colonies wanted to go South and the British colonies wanted to go West

Question 22

who won?

Answer 22

Britain wins

Question 23

who was chosen to lead the colonial army in the French Indian war?

Answer 23

George Washington

Question 24

How did the colonists feel about the French Indian war?

Answer 24

Proud

Question 25

How did the British Government feel about it?

Answer 25

Not happy because they have debt

Question 26

what problem di England have after the French Indian war?

Answer 26

Debt

Question 27

Who borrowed the money?

Answer 27

William Pitt

Question 28

what did they decide to do about it?

Answer 28

Tax the colonists

Question 29

How did the Americans respond?

Answer 29

They boycotted

Question 30

what did the Declaratory Act do?

Answer 30

It asserted the authority of Parliament to make laws binding the colonies in all cases whatsoever

Question 31

American leaders argued that their only legal relations were with whom?

Answer 31

The crown

Question 32

What was the Americans main grievance with the new situation?

Answer 32

That the English Parliament had no more right to pass laws for the colonies than any colonial legislature had the right to pass laws for England.

Question 33

What is common sense and who wrote it?

Answer 33

Thomas Paine

Question 34

What happened at the Boston massacre?

Answer 34

The British started firing.

Question 35

Who was the first person to die in the name of American independence?

Answer 35

Crispus Attucks

Question 36

What were the Townshend acts?

Answer 36

A series of British acts of parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America

Question 37

What was the Boston tea act of 1773

Answer 37

Boston tea party, and act of parliament of Great Britain

Question 38

Who did the tea act of 1773 give a monopoly to and how?

Answer 38

The British East India Company

Question 39

Who were the sons of liberty? What did they try to do?

Answer 39

They were prominent men who organize themselves into the “sons of liberty close quotation marks, they formed secret organizations to protest against the stamp act.

Question 40

What were Minutemen?

Answer 40

Men training in colonies that would be ready within a minutes notice.

Question 41

What was the first continental Congress? Name four people who were there.

Answer 41

It was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. Four people that were there were Sam Adams, John Sullivan, John Jay, and George Ross.

Question 42

Describe the Boston tea party that happened on December 16, 1773

Answer 42

A band of men disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 10,000 pounds (currency) tea into the Boston harbor

Question 43

How did England feel about it?

Answer 43

They were disgusted and furious

Question 44

What did they do in response?

Answer 44

They acted very strongly, the British pass the intolerable acts.

Question 45

Where was the shot heard round the world and who shot it?

Answer 45

It was in the battle of Concorde it is unknown who shot it

Question 46

What was this the beginning of?

Answer 46

The revolutionary war