Abeka Grade 11 U.S. History Test 1
freedom of the press
Andrew Hamilton's defense of John Peter Zenger in court set what important precedent for early America?
founder of Princeton University
Benjamin Franklin was NOT known for?
1636
Harvard College was founded in ______ as the first institution of higher learning in British North America.
1- The Protestant Reformation revived biblical Christianity in Europe and gained a strong foothold in England, giving the English colonies a strong heritage of biblical Christianity. 2 -The defeat of the Spanish Armada allowed England to establish colonies in the New World. 3 -The people at Jamestown and Plymouth were protected in their voyages and in surviving the winters. Squanto and other friendly Native Americans gave advice and helped the colonist survive.
In paragraph form, choose three events before 1629 and explain how they each illustrated God's providence in early American colonization.
domestic system
In the colonial period, how was most manufacturing produced?
Aztecs
Montezuma was the chieftain of the ________.
religious liberty
Name one of the two areas in which the Pilgrims set precedents in the New World.
Native American attacks
Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion in Virginia because the governor had failed to respond to ________________________?
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator led ______ to take the lead in the 1400's during the Age of Exploration.
New Jersey
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley founded the colony of ________.
middle
The __________ colonies were known as the bread colonies.
San Diego
The first European settlement in California.
Ferdinand and Isabella
The king and queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' expedition.
They united European religions and promoted religious toleration.
This is NOT an important effect of the crusades.
boarding schools
This was NOT a form of education established in the early colonies.
Leif Ericson
What Viking adventurer is believed to have reached North America in early A.D. 1000?
Ole' Deluder Satan Act
What act required all towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with more than fifty families to hire a teacher?
southern colonies
What colonial region is known for growing indigo and rice?
Line of Demarcation
What divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal in 1493?
trade with the Orient
What economic movement helped give rise to the middle class?
representative government
What major change in English government did the Magna Carta begin?
small family farms
What primarily characterized New England's agriculture?
the ability of free enterprise to motivate
What quality does the following quotation illustrate? "Those who tried to live without working soon found that they must also try that harder thing-to live without eating."
House of Burgesses
What representative body in Virginia acted as an advisory body to the governor in the early 1600's?
nationalism
What term refers to the spirit of pride in one's country that helped inspire explorers to seek new wealth, honor, and glory for their homelands?
New-England Courant
What was the first privately published newspaper in America?
Dominion of New England
What was the name of the forced union of colonies governed by Sir Edmund Andros?
1607
What year was Jamestown founded?
1588
When was the Spanish Armada defeated?
1440
When was the movable-type printing press invented?
middle colonies
Which region of the colonies was religiously diverse?
John Smith
Who abolished Jamestown's common-store system?
Martin Luther
Who began the Protestant Reformation?
John Cabot
Who claimed Newfoundland for England?
Sir Francis Drake
Who claimed Nova Albion?
Robert Cavalier de La Salle
Who claimed the Mississippi Valley as Louisiana for France?
Vasco de Gama
Who discovered an all-water route to India?
Daniel Boone
Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Hernando de Soto
Who discovered the Mississippi River?
Vasco de Balboa
Who discovered the Pacific Ocean?
Jacques Cartier
Who discovered the St. Lawrence River?
Roger Williams
Who published the book "Key into the Language of America"?
Sir Martin Frobisher
Who searched for the Northwest Passage?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Who sponsored voyages to explore Virginia?
Jacques Marquette
Who was one of the two explorers who explored the central Mississippi River?
Virginia Dare
Who was the first English child born in the present-day United States?
John Robinson
Who was the pastor of the Scrooby congregation?
Catholics and Puritans
Who were the two largest groups of dissenters in England?
William Bradford
Who wrote the first American history book?
It started just as England was becoming a world power who would eventually challenge Catholic Spain and France.
Why is it significant to American history that the Protestant Reformation occurred when it did?
He hated England for interfering with Spanish shipping and with his efforts to suppress Protestant rebels in the Netherlands.
Why was King Phillip II so determined to beat England?
