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Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
During the period from 1492 to 1700, French activity in the Americas was primarily directed toward
  1. establishing trade with American Indians
  2. plundering American Indian settlements for gold and silver
  3. conquering Spanish and English colonies
  4. encouraging the growth of permanent settlements
  5. discovering a new route to Africa
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
In which area did Native Americans hunt buffalo?
  1. the Eastern Woodlands
  2. the Southeast
  3. the Arctic
  4. the Great Plains
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
Which of these explorers may have reached America before Columbus did?
  1. Ferdinand Magellan
  2. Leif Erikson
  3. Amerigo Vespucci
  4. Hernando Cortés
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
What year did Christopher Columbus finally set foot on the continental America?
  1. 1492
  2. 1496
  3. 1497
  4. never
  5. 1490
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
The 1493 Line of Demarcation was created by the Pope in order to do what?
  1. To mark the path that Christopher Columbus took to America.
  2. To show the best way to get from Europe to India.
  3. To split the newly discovered world between Spain and Portugal.
  4. To try to convince Europeans that the world was indeed flat.
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
The triangular shaped sail that allowed ships to head into the wind was called
  1. the Lateen Sail.
  2. the Portu-Sail.
  3. the Quadrant Sail.
  4. the Scalene Sail.
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
The land bridge that once connected Siberia and Alaska is now
  1. Central America.
  2. the Bering Strait.
  3. the Amazon rain forest.
  4. the Gulf of California.
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
What group of Mound Builders constructed the first cities in North America?
  1. the Anasazi
  2. the Hohokam
  3. the Pueblos
  4. the Mississippians
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
What is another name for Norsemen?
  1. Indians
  2. Pirates
  3. Vikings
  4. Nomadics
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
Why do we celebrate Columbus day on the second Monday of October and not Leif Erikson day?
  1. Because Leif Erikson did not get a lot of attention in Europe after returning from North America.
  2. Because Leif Erikson made it to North America over five hundred years after Christopher Columbus.
  3. Because Leif Erikson never actually made it to North America.
  4. Because Leif Erikson was not a real person, but instead a viking legend.
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
What Native American Tribe were known as the Mound Builders and appeared in the Ohio River Valley around 1000 B.C.?
  1. The Aztecs and Mayas
  2. The Blackfoot and Souix
  3. The Paleo-Indians
  4. The Adena and Hopewell
  5. The Five Nations of Iroquois
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
Who passed the southern tip of Africa in 1498?
  1. Prince Henry the Navigator
  2. the King of Portugal
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Mansa Musa
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
Which is NOT a type of settlement that the Spanish made in the New World?
  1. Missions
  2. Adobes
  3. Pueblos
  4. Presidios
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
When did Europeans first make contact with Native Americans?
  1. around A.D. 500
  2. around A.D. 1000
  3. around A.D. 1500
  4. around A.D. 1700
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
A Joint-Stock company to be located in North Virginia
  1. Joint-Stock Comany
  2. London Company
  3. Plymouth Company
Grade 8 Pre-Colonial Period
What was the name of the first English man who attempted to colonize what is now Georgia
  1. James Oglethorpe
  2. Tomachichi
  3. Henry Ellis
  4. John Reynolds
  5. King James II
  6. Robert Motomery
  7. James Wright
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