| Before European Contact | ||
| #1 | Which European nation looked for a direct sea route to Asia by traveling west across the Ocean Sea? | Spain |
| #2 | Which European nation looked for a direct sea route to Asia by traveling around the tip of Africa? | Portugal |
| #3 | What allowed Native American civilizations to create permanent settlements? | Agriculture |
| #4 | Which three powerful West African kingdoms developed along the Niger and Senegal Rivers? | Ghana, Mali, & Songhai |
| #5 | Who were the hunters who arrived in the Americas 15,000-60,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age? | Paleo-Indians |
| Exploration | ||
| #1 | Which explorer established Spain’s land claim in the “New” World? | Christopher Columbus |
| #2 | When large number of Native American workers died off, who did Europeans turn to in order to fill the labor shortage? | Africans |
| #3 | What drastically reduced the native population of the Americas after European contact? | Disease |
| #4 | The French claimed land in North America based on which explorer’s voyage on the St. Lawrence River? | Jacques Cartier |
| #5 | The Columbian Exchange included the exchange of what things between the “Old” World and the Americas? | Plants, Animals, & Diseases |
| Pilgrims | ||
| #1 | Which document was signed on the Mayflower to form a system of self-government before the passengers disembarked from the ship? | Mayflower Compact |
| #2 | Which group of colonists wanted to purify and improve the Church of England? | Puritans |
| #3 | Which group of colonists wanted to break away from the Church of England because they believed that it could not be fixed? | Separatists |
| #4 | Why didn’t the Separatists want to remain in the Netherlands? | Their children were growing up influenced by the Dutch |
| #5 | Whose journal, entitled Of Plimoth Plantation, was the basis for the history of the Pilgrims? | William Bradford |
| Early Non-English Colonies | ||
| #1 | What type of colony did the French establish in New France? | Trading |
| #2 | What are factors that motivate people to leave their home countries? | Push Factors |
| #3 | Which two non-English countries settled in the area between the English Chesapeake and New England between 1600 and 1660? | Netherlands & Sweden |
| #4 | What types of Spanish settlements succeeded in the New Mexico Colony? | Misiones |
| #5 | In the Spanish Casta System, what were people born of Spanish and Native parents called? | Mestizos |
| Early Colonial History | ||
| #1 | Immigrants from which country dominated immigration into the Thirteen Colonies up until 1660? | England |
| #2 | John Rolfe brought seeds for which cash crop (later called “green gold”) to Jamestown, saving the colony from economic ruin? | Tobacco |
| #3 | Which English island colony was a failure in 1584 and again in 1587? | Roanoke |
| #4 | Authority to settle in a place that is granted by a king and given on a formal legal certificate is called what? | Charter |
| #5 | Which two significant wars between Native Americans and colonists took place in New England in the 1600s? | Pequot War & King Philip’s War |
| Final Question | |