MIDTERM REVIEW

GAMESTART

1. Who was the first explorer who sailed for Portugal and proved that Africa could be rounded?

Diaz Vespucci

Columbus Balboa

2. What explorer is given credit for the first circumnavigation of the world?

Magellan Cabot

Vespucci Drake

3. What is the geographic term that describes lines that measure points north and south of the equator?

Latitude

Compass

Navigation

Longitude

4. What country took the lead in finding all water route to Asia?

Italy

Spain

England

Portugal

5. Who was the real hero of the midnight ride that made it in time to warn Concord?

Adams

Revere

Prescott

Dawes

6. What was the name of the Aztec leader who died during the conquest of Hernando Cortes?

Montezuma

Quetzalcoatl

Pizarro

Dona Marina

7. Which of the following battles was an American victory in the Revolutionary War?

Charleston

Cowpens

Brandywine

Long Island

8. What person listed below would most be associated with The Great Awakening?

Newton

Franklin

Bradford

Whitefield

9. Which event listed below helped bring a slow end to Feudalism?

War of Roses

Enlightenment

Crusades

Age of Reason

10. Who said…“Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their

eyes” on the top of Bunker Hill?

William Prescott

William Howe

Thomas Gage

Paul Revere

11. What religious group would you associate with the phrase… “City Upon a Hill?

Puritans

Shakers

Pilgrims

Quakers

12. What tactic did the Son’s of Liberty use effectively to help

get the Stamp Act repealed?

Monopoly

Boycott

Stalemate

Blockade

13. The city of Philadelphia would best be described as…

Metropolis

Suburban

Urban

Rural

14. Which term listed below would most be associated with New Spain and slavery?

Navigation Acts

Asiento

Mestizo

Squatters

15. What military leader died in victory on the Plains of

Abraham?

Wolfe

Pitt

Duquesne

Montcalm

16. What member of the Son’s of Liberty transformed the

Boston Incident into a Massacre?

John Hancock

Ben Franklin

Sam Adams

Paul Revere

17. Which colony listed below was known as the…

“Holy Experiment”?

Pennsylvania

Maryland

New York

Georgia

18. A small farm that provides a harvest for one family with a

little left over to trade is called…

Commercial

Shortage

Subsistance

Plantation

19. What was the name of the British general who took

control of Boston’s government?

John Pitcairn

William Howe

John Burgoyne

Thomas Gage

20. Which term listed below best describes a law maker in the

colony of Virginia?

Magistrate

Burgess

Chancellor

Lord

21. Which of the following men listed below would NOT be

considered a conquistadore?

De Leon

Cortes

Pizarro

Vespucci

22. Which explorer listed below claimed North America for

Great Britain?

Cabot

Diaz

Vespucci

Columbus

23. What person defended the British soldiers of the Boston

Massacre in court and won?

John Adams

Ben Franklin

John Hancock

Sam Adams

24. What person did Elizabeth I place in charge of colonizing

North America for England?

Smith

Raleigh

Bradford

Drake

25. Which of the following items would NOT be associated with

the Puritans?

Inner Light

Witch Trials

Separatist

Winthrop

26. What woman listed below rode forty miles through a rainy night to warn Patriots of a British attack?

Sybil Ludington

Rebecca Motte

Abigail Adams

Lydia Darragh

27. Which rebellion listed below was the result of conflicts between

eastern and western settlers?

Pontiac’s Reb.

Shay’s Reb.

Whiskey Reb.

Bacon’s Reb.

28. What term listed below describes a slave’s journey across the Atlantic to the New World?

Prime Meridan

Middle Passage

Northwest Passage

Equator Road

29. What is another name for Patriots… Americans who

supported Independence?

Tories

Whigs

Republicans

Loyalists

30. What was the name of the conquistadore that

conquered the Inca Empire?

De Soto

De Leon

Pizarro

Cortes

31. Which of the following laws passed by Parliament was

not a tax?

Declaratory

Townshend

Sugar

Stamp

32. Who founded the first permanent settlement at Quebec in New France?

La Salle

Cartier

Verrazano

Champlain

33. Most New England communities had a church, meeting house, and school centrally located called a…

Village Green

Town Square

Town Common

Central Market

34. What American Partisan leader was called the “Swamp Fox” because of his hit & run tactics?

Francis Marion

Ethan Allen

Benedict Arnold

Henry Knox

35. What Catholic colony listed below would you associate with the Toleration Act?

Georgia

Maryland

Virginia

Pennsylvania

36. What Spanish bishop became the 1st Indian rights activist by

trying to get laws passed to protect them?

Balboa

Pizarro

Cortes

Casas

37. What is considered the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

Jamestown

Williamsburg

Roanoke Island

Plymouth

Brandywine

Saratoga

Yorktown

Trenton

38. What battle listed below was considered the turning point of

the American Revolution?

39. What person listed below would you associate with the term “sea dog”?

Henry Morgan

John Smith

Francis Drake

Francis Marion

40. Which of the following items would you NOT associate with the colony of Georgia?

Buffer Colony

Holy Experiment

J. Oglethorpe

Penal Colony

41. What American listed below was able to capture Fort Ticonderoga with the Green Mountain Boys?

William Prescott

Francis Marion

Ethan Allen

John Paul Jones

42. Which of the following items would NOT be associated with the

Quakers?

William Penn

Society of Friends

City Upon a Hill

George Fox

43. Which colony had the lowest population in colonial America?

North Carolina

Rhode Island

New York

Delaware

44. Who was the first person to inherit the throne of England after the death of King Henry VIII?

Edward VI

Mary I

Elizabeth I

Simba IV

45. Which item listed below would most be associated with the

term… “Peculiar Institution”?

Stamp Act

Plantation

Mercenary

Toleration Act

46. Which item listed below would NOT be considered propaganda?

Common Sense

Boston Massacre

Join or Die

Townshend Acts

47. Which term listed below is often the reason why goods go on sale at the mall?

Surplus

Boycott

Demand

Shortage

48. Which colony listed below would be considered a “Middle Colony”?

Virginia

North Carolina

New Jersey

New Hampshire

49. Which of the following crops would best be described as a cash crop in Colonial America?

Wheat

Potatoes

Tobacco

Barley

50. What woman listed below was the first published black poet in

America?

Peggy Shippen

Phillis Wheatley

Betty Zane

Debora Sampson

51. What person listed below would most be associated with the Catholic faith in Maryland?

William Bradford

John Winthrop

George Calvert

William Penn

52. The colonial frontier was always slowly shifting in which

direction?

West

East

South

North

53. What northern colony had the highest population?

Pennsylvania

New York

Massachusetts

Virginia

54. What factor had the greatest impact on colonial settlement patterns?

Education

Rivers

Religion

Economy

55. Which item listed below was considered America’s first

“national event”?

Bacon’s Reb.

Enlightenment

Toleration Act

Great Awakening

56. What term describes a contract that exchanges work for several years

for passage to the New World?

Commonwealth

Land Charter

Indenture

Headright

57. Who was the first explorer to see the Pacific Ocean, although he called it the South Sea?

Columbus

Balboa

Vespucci

Magellan

House of Burgesses

House of Lords

King / Queen

House of Commons

58. What group listed below would NOT be considered part of Parliament?

59. What person shown below would be considered an American naval hero of the Revolutionary War?

Artemas Ward

Francis Marion

Henry Knox

John Paul Jones

60. What person known as “the navigator” was most responsible for starting sea exploration?

Prince Henry

Queen Isabella

King Phillip II

Prince Edward

61. What geographic term listed below describes a narrow water passage between two large areas of land?

Peninsula

Strait

Plateau

Isthmus

62. What general listed below led the American Army in the southern campaign with success?

Clinton

Lafayette

Greene

Lincoln

63. Which item listed below would NOT be considered a postwar

problem of the French & Indian War?

Navigation Acts

Pontiac’s Reb.

Land Disputes

Financial Debt

64. Which crop listed below would NOT be considered a “cash

crop”?

Rice

Green Gold

Corn

Indigo

Exports

Shortage

Monopoly

Imports

65. For the United States to achieve favorable balance of trade, the economy has to have more…

County Courts

Town Meeting

Privy Council

Parliament

66. Which of the following items listed below demonstrate democracy in action?

Urban

Suburban

Seaports

Rural

67. Most Americans during the colonial time period lived in areas that would best be described as…

Trenton

Brandywine

Yorktown

Saratoga

68. Washington had a key victory when he crossed the Delaware and

surprised Hessians celebrating Christmas at the Battle of…

Peninsula

Plains

Isthmus

Strait

69. Panama would best be described by what geographic term listed below?

Rochambeau

De Grasse

Von Steuben

Lafayette

70. What was the name of the French naval commander who held off

the Royal Navy in the Battle of the Virginia Capes?

Sunshine Patriots

Yankee Ingenuity

Great Awakening

Age of Reason

71. People living on the American frontier who were described as

“Jack of All Trades” could best be associated with the term…

Naval Stores

Indentures

Contraband

Black Gold

72. Tar and pitch from the pine forests of the south, used in the ship

building industry, are called…

Spain & Portugal

Italy & Spain

England & Italy

Spain & England

73. What two countries took the lead and dominated early exploration efforts to reach Asia?

Plymouth

San Salvador

Roanoke Island

Jamestown

74. Which colony listed below was known as the “Lost Colony”

because it mysteriously disappeared?

Barter

Soul Driver

Indenture

Burgess

75. What term would Best be associated with the term “trade”, exchanging goods as a form of currency?

Quakers

Puritans

Pilgrims

Anglicans

76. Which religious group listed below would NOT be described as Separatists?

Suburban

Proprietary

Corporate

Royal

77. What colony type listed below would best describe the colony of Pennsylvania?

Cortes

Diaz

Vespucci

Cabot

78. What explorer was the first to realize that Columbus had discovered an unknown

continent?

Smith

Oglethorpe

Penn

Bradford

79. What colonial leader listed below failed in Georgia with Asian

crops?

Quakers

Pilgrims

Moravians

Shakers

80. What separatist group was known as the Society of Friends?

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