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Advanced US History (8th grade) Ch. 1-3 Exam Review
1.The earliest Native Americans crossed a land bridge called _______________________.
2.What discovery turned nomads into farmers? ____________________________________.
3.Mayan priests' interest in astronomy led to the creation of ___________________________.
4.What was the capital of the Aztec Empire? ________________________________
5.The Maya and the Aztec organized their societies around ______________________________.
6.Which was the largest of the early American civilizations? ____________________________
7.Who were the early Ohio Valley people who built huge burial mounds? ___________________________
8.The largest settlement of Mound Builders was in present-day ____________________________.
9.Iroquois women's positions of power in their communities included all of the following except
______________________________.
10.In the 1500s what changed the ways of life for Native Americans forever? __________________________
11.Early Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia to present-day ___________________________
12.Agriculture allowed early Americans to _______________________________.
13.Which civilizations organized their societies around their religion? ________________________
14.Which civilization built stone-paved roads over mountains? _________________________
15.The Inca believed the sun god enjoyed displays of _______________________.
16.How did the Hohokam people acquire shells? ________________________________
17.Which peoples wore clothing of sealskin? _____________________________
18.Which was the main food of the peoples of the northwestern coast? _____________________________
19.Tepees were used by which culture? _________________________
20.The Iroquois promoted peace by _________________________________.
Region
Northwest Coast
Foods
salmon
Housing
wooden houses
Far North
caribou
igloos
California
Intermountain
Southwest
small game,
shelters made of
berries
branches and reeds
buffalo meat, adobe houses,
maize
pueblos, and hogans
Great Plains
buffalo meat tepees
Eastern Woodlands corn, nuts
wooden houses
Southeast
corn, squash wooden houses
24.Who was Marco Polo? _________________________________
Characteristic
(4) used resources of the forest
and sea
(3) clothing made from fur and
sealskins
(5) nomadic
(6) Apache and Navajo
(1) used horses in warfare
(2) women owned land
(7) farmed river bottomlands
25.The historical period of intellectual and artistic creativity is known as the ____________________________.
26.Which Portuguese prince laid the groundwork for a new era of exploration? _______________________
27.In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Nina, Pinta, and _________________________.
28.Who was the first Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America? ___________________________
29.The explorer who first sailed around the southern tip of Africa was ______________________________.
30.Who publicly condemned the cruel treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish? _____________________
31.England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover a _____________________ passage to Asia.
32.Which explorer's crew founded Quebec? _____________________________
33.What did the French want to establish in the Americas? _______________________
34.Which invention helped Marco Polo's Travels gain wider circulation? ____________________
35.From their trading posts in Africa, the Portuguese traded for _______________________________.
36.Under King Mansa Musa, which city became an important center of Islamic art and learning? _____________
37.Which explorer discovered the long-awaited eastern sea route to Asia? __________________
38.Which agreement gave Spain most of North America and South America? __________________________
39.Hernando de Soto traveled as far west as present-day ________________________.
40.The right granted by the Spanish government to the conquistadors that turned Native Americans into slaves was called
____________________________.
41.Who believed that faith rather than good deeds was the way to heaven? _______________________
42.Whose voyage was used by England as the basis for its claims to North America? ____________________
43.Which explorer's crew was the first to sail around the world? ______________________________
44.The Jamestown settlers saved their colony by planting _______________________________.
45.What did King James I grant to groups of merchants to organize settlements in an area in America?
___________________________
46.Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own churches were called _______________________.
47.Puritans formed the New England Company and received a royal charter to establish the ________________.
48.People who refuse to use force or fight in wars are called ___________________________.
49.Who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution? ________________________
50.What law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland? _______________________
51.Which document covered land distribution and social ranking? ___________________
52.Which colony was created so debtors and poor people could start over? ________________________
53.Religious settlements established in California by the Spanish were called _________________________.
54.Who claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth? ______________________________
55.Because their journey had a religious purpose, the Separatists called themselves _______________________.
56.The movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts was called the _______________________.
57.Which group maintained the friendliest relations with the Native Americans? ______________________
58.What island was purchased for a small amount of beads and other goods? _________________________
59.What law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony? ________________
60.Who was "the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia," according to Governor William Berkeley?
______________________________
61.The last of the British colonies to be established in America was _____________________________.
62.Workers who paid their French lords an annual rent were known as ___________________________.
63.To keep other European powers from threatening its empire in America, Spain sent soldiers, settlers, and
___________________________________.
Founding the Thirteen Colonies
Colony
New England Colonies
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Mass. Bay Colony
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Middle Colonies
New York
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Southern Colonies
Virginia
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
1st Permanent
Settlement
1620
1630
C. 1630
1636
1635
Reasons Founded
Founders or Leaders
Religious freedom
Religious freedom
Profit from trade and fishing
Religious freedom
Profit from fur trade, farming;
religious and political freedom
John Carver William Bradford,
John Winthrop
Ferdinando Gorges, John Mason
Roger Williams
Thomas Hooker
1624
1638
1638
1682
Expand trade
Expand trade
Profit from selling land
Profit from selling land; religious
freedom
Dutch settlers
Swedish settlers
John Berkeley, George Carteret
William Penn
1607
1634
C. 1660’s
1670
1735
Expand trade
To sell land; religious freedom
Profit from trade and selling land
Profit from trade and selling land
Religious freedom; protection
against Spanish Florida; safe
home for debtors
John Smith
Cecil Calvert
Group of eight aristocrats
Group of eight aristocrats
James Oglethorpe