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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
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get the Stamp Act repealed?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
14. Which term listed below would most be associated with New Spain and slavery?
Navigation Acts
Asiento
Mestizo
Squatters
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
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
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?
Separatist
Soul Driver
Indenture
Barter
75. What term would NOT be associated with Davy Butcher’s story in the movie Bound for Freedom?
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?