Week 10 Review

Question 1

President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:

Answer 1

John Hancock

Question 2

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 2

Jacques Cartier

Question 3

King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:

Answer 3

Henry the Navigator

Question 4

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

Who said it?

Answer 4

General William Prescott

Question 5

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 5

1770

Question 6

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 6

1492

Question 7

“That man has an ax to grind.”

Answer 7

Benjamin Franklin

Question 8

Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:

Answer 8

the Treaty of Paris

Question 9

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 9

Separatists

Question 10

French nobleman who served int he American army:

Answer 10

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 11

Second Continental Congress:

Answer 11

May 1775

Question 12

First battles of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 12

Lexington and Concord

Question 13

Final battle of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 13

Yorktown

Question 14

Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:

Answer 14

Manhattan Island

Question 15

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 15

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 16

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 16

the Seven Years’ War

Question 17

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 17

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 18

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

Who said it?

Answer 18

John Paul Jones

Question 19

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 19

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 20

Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:

Answer 20

Boston Massacre

Question 21

The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:

Answer 21

Lief Ericson

Question 22

Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:

Answer 22

George Washington

Question 23

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

Answer 23

Patrick Henry

Question 24

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 24

Pennsylvania

Question 25

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 25

Vasco da Gama

Question 26

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 26

Roanoke

Question 27

American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:

Answer 27

John Paul Jones

Question 28

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 28

Samoset and Squanto

Question 29

The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:

Answer 29

Mayflower Compact

Question 30

Who establised the colony?

Answer 30

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 31

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 31

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 32

Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:

Answer 32

Boston Tea Party

Question 33

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Answer 33

Nathan Hale

Question 34

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 34

Pilgrims

Question 35

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 35

Puritans

Question 36

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 36

taxation without representation

Question 37

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:

Answer 37

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 38

Name the thirteen original colonies:

Answer 38

1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. New York 5. Maryland 6. Connecticut 7. Rhode Island 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. Pennsylvania 12. Delaware 13. Georgia

Question 39

Battles of Lexinton and Concord

Answer 39

April 19, 1775

Question 40

First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:

Answer 40

First Continental Congress

Question 41

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 41

John Cabot

Question 42

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 42

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 43

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 43

Captian John Smith

Question 44

Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:

Answer 44

the Navigation Act

Question 45

First Continental Congress:

Answer 45

September 1774

Question 46

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 46

1773

Question 47

Date of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 47

July 4, 1776

Question 48

Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 48

Oliver Cromwell

Question 49

Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:

Answer 49

Benedict Arnold

Question 50

Financed Columbus's first voyage:

Answer 50

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 51

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:

Answer 51

minutemen

Question 52

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 52

1754-1763

Question 53

Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:

Answer 53

Saratoga

Question 54

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" What was the occasion?

Answer 54

Battle of Bunker HIll

Question 55

R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:

Answer 55

"the shot heard round the world"

Question 56

Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 56

Second Treaty of Paris

Question 57

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 57

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 58

Father of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 58

Thomas Jefferson

Question 59

"I have not yet begun to fight." What was the occasion?

Answer 59

naval battle with British

Question 60

Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:

Answer 60

September 3, 1783

Question 61

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 61

Christopher Columbus

Question 62

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 62

1. trade and navigation laws 2. stamp act 3. Townshend Acts 4. Boston Massacre 5. the Five Intolerable Acts

Question 63

Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:

Answer 63

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 64

First lasting English colony:

Answer 64

Jamestown

Question 65

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 65

James Wolfe

Question 66

The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:

Answer 66

Nathan Hale

Question 67

War between France and England in America:

Answer 67

the French and Indian War

Question 68

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 68

Native Americans

Question 69

Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:

Answer 69

crossing of the Delaware

Question 70

British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:

Answer 70

Cornwallis

Question 71

First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:

Answer 71

The House of Burgesses

Question 72

General at Bunker HIll:

Answer 72

William Prescott