US History Test 1 Review

Prince Henry the Navigator led Portugal to take the lead in the 1400s during the Age of Exploration

Harvard College was founded in 1636 as the first institution of higher learning in British North America.

The Line of Demarcation divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal in 1493.

The first European settlement in California was San Francisco.

Thomas Hooker published the book Key into the Language of America

The Boston News-Letter was America's first privately published newspaper.

Montezuma was the chieftain of the Incas.

Jamestown was founded in 1620.

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley founded the colony of New Jersey

The New England colonies were the region known as the bread colonies.

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?

Name the king and queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's expedition.

Who was the first English child born in the present-day United States?

Name the two areas in which the Pilgrims set precedents in the New World.

What was the name of the forced union of colonies governed by Sir Edmund Andros?

What colonial region was known for growing indigo and rice?

Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?

What act required all towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with more than 50 families to hire a teacher?

Claimed Newfoundland for England

Wrote the first American history book

Discovered an all-water route to India

Discovered the Mississippi River

Discovered the St. Lawrence River

Began the Protestant Reformation

Sponsored voyages to explore Virginia

Claimed the Mississippi Valley as Louisiana for France

One of two explorers who explored the central Mississippi River

Searched for the Northwest Passage

Claimed Nova Albion

Discovered the Pacific Ocean

Who were the two largest groups of dissenter in England?

When was the movable-type printing press invented?

When was the Spanish Armada defeated?

What economic movement helped give rise to the middle class?

Which region of the colonies was religiously diverse?

Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion in Virginia because the governor had failed to respond to what?

Who was the pastor of the Scrooby congregation?

Who abolished Jamestown's common-store system?

What major change in English government did the Magna Carta begin?

What representative body in Virginia acted as an advisory body to the governor in the early 1600's?

Which of the following primarily characterized New England's agriculture?

In the colonial period, how was most manufacturing produced?

Andrew Hamilton's defense of John Peter Zenger in court et what important precedent for early America?