HISET US HISTORY QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS || EXPERT VERIFIED
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Where did the first people to live in North America come from? - Correct Answer Asia.
Beringia - Correct Answer The land bridge that connected Asia and North America.
Civilization - Correct Answer A group of people with an organized culture, they began to form in Central America.
The...
HISET US HISTORY QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS || EXPERT VERIFIED
Where did the first people to live in North America come from? - Correct Answer Asia.
Beringia - Correct Answer The land bridge that connected Asia and North America.
Civilization - Correct Answer A group of people with an organized culture, they began to form in Central
America.
The Olmec - Correct Answer 1500 BC - 300 BC
The Maya - Correct Answer 300 BC - 1100 BC
The Aztec - Correct Answer 1325 BC - 1521 BC
Theocracy - Correct Answer When a religious leader is in charge.
The Inca - Correct Answer 1200 BC - 1538 BC
Quipus - Correct Answer The Incan writing system where they used strings of different length, patterns
of knots as well as different colored beads. These all meant something different.
What was Columbus looking for? - Correct Answer The Northwest Passage that would take them
directly to Asia.
What year did Columbus discover America? - Correct Answer 1492
Primogeniture - Correct Answer The practice where only the eldest son could inherit the families land.
,Protestant Reformation - Correct Answer Many English Catholics and Protestants felt alienated by the
new Church if England, and they wanted to find a place where they could worship more freely.
Who and where was the first attempt to found a colony in the new world? - Correct Answer Sir
Humphrey Gilbert in Newfoundland in 1583.
Where was the first permanent settlement? - Correct Answer Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
Virginia Charter - Correct Answer Declared that English settlers in the new world would be treated as
Englishmen with full English rights.
Jamestown Colony - Correct Answer In 1606, King James 1 gave permission to the Virginia Company of
London to try and make a colony. On May 14, 1607 the settlers began building the first settlement on the
James river in Virginia.
John Smith - Correct Answer English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia he
also acted as the leader of the colony.
The Starving Time - Correct Answer Winter of 1609/10 in which 90% of Jamestown died and with some
occurrences of cannibalism
John Rolfe - Correct Answer Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown
successfully in Virginia. He was also married to Pocahontas.
1620 - Correct Answer Women came to the colony.
Mayflower Compact - Correct Answer A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect
the general good.
Henry VIII - Correct Answer Rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church and started his own church. It
was called the Church of England.
, First Thanksgiving - Correct Answer 1621
13 colonies - Correct Answer Divided into 4 regions these were the first permanent British settlements
in North America.
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
French and Indian War - Correct Answer a war in North America between France and Britain (both
aided by indian tribes) 1754-1763
What did Europe call the French and Indian war? - Correct Answer The Seven Years War.
Join or Die - Correct Answer slogan and propaganda created by Ben Franklin to help unit colonies in
French Indian War
Proclamation of 1763 - Correct Answer law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the
Appalachian Mountains
Stamp Act of 1765 - Correct Answer Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies
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