MIDTERM REVIEW GAME START

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

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

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12.What tactic did the Son’s of Liberty use effectively to help get the Stamp Act repealed?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?

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?

Quakers Pilgrims Moravians Shakers 80.What separatist group was known as the Society of Friends?

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