The American Republic

Question 1

Where the Huguentos settled

Answer 1

English territory

Question 2

where did Columbus believe he had settled when he actually discovered the New World

Answer 2

East Indies

Question 3

Who helped Jamestown’s settlers survive early hardships

Answer 3

John Smith

Question 4

Were the Indians unified people

Answer 4

No

Question 5

He was trying to find the legendary fountain of youth, but was possibly the first European to see the land that is now the United States.

Answer 5

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 6

This French explorer discovered the st.Lawrence River

Answer 6

Jacques Cartier

Question 7

He claimed the Mississippi River and the land it drained

Answer 7

Robert de La Salle

Question 8

He offered proof that the lands were not the Orient but instead a new world

Answer 8

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 9

He discovered the adobe villages of the Pueblo Indians

Answer 9

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Question 10

This explorer laid claim to the Atlantic coast of North America for England

Answer 10

John Cabot

Question 11

These types of Indians hunted buffalo, lived in tepees, and they were nomadic

Answer 11

The Plains Indians

Question 12

These types of Indians lived in cedar houses (wooden planks) in permanent villages they had abundant food. They are also known for there totem poles they raised in their villages

Answer 12

West coast Indians

Question 13

These types of Indians lived in tepees, brush huts, and hogans. They also hunted buffalo and they are nomadic They also had petroglyphs which means rock drawings that showed lifestyle.

Answer 13

The great basin and plateau Indians

Question 14

These types of Indians hunted, fished, and planted maize, squash, and tobacco. they built houses in permanent villages. They lived in wigwams

Answer 14

Woodland Indians

Question 15

What king and queen gave Colubus support for his voyage

Answer 15

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

Question 16

What explorer was the Americas named after

Answer 16

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 17

Indian tribes that moved from place to place had what kind of lifestyle

Answer 17

Nomadic

Question 18

What year was Jamestown founded

Answer 18

1607

Question 19

What did the Frenchmen who came to North American want to trade

Answer 19

Tools, clothing, axes, and pots

Question 20

What is another name for Norsemen

Answer 20

Viking

Question 21

What kind of crop became profitable for the jamestown settlers

Answer 21

Tobacco plant

Question 22

The belief that spirits live in natural objects and rule natural events

Answer 22

Animism

Question 23

Who was the English noble who organized an unsuccessful colony called the lost colony on roanoake island

Answer 23

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 24

Who opened the door for European exloration in the New world

Answer 24

Christopher Columbus

Question 25

What European reached America before Columbus died

Answer 25

Leif Ericson

Question 26

During the late 1400s Europeans desired spices from where

Answer 26

The Orient

Question 27

The Reformation turned what country to Protestantism

Answer 27

England

Question 28

What Country explored and settled the land by the St.Lawrence River

Answer 28

France

Question 29

What were some of the significant achievements of the Jamestown settlement

Answer 29

It established the first representative law making body in America. It developed a crop that it could raise and sell to Europe. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New world.

Question 30

Who were the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown

Answer 30

Indentured servants

Question 31

What group of English captains struck at Spanish harbors and ships

Answer 31

Sea dogs

Question 32

Which group of Indians lived near the Jamestown settlement

Answer 32

Woodland Indians

Question 33

What did the Virginians call their first representative assembly

Answer 33

House of Burgesses

Question 34

What type of conquestadors spread the Roman Catholic religion as they explored the New World

Answer 34

Spaniards

Question 35

What was the Spanish Armada

Answer 35

a Spanish naval invasion force sent to England by Philip II of Spain in 1588.