8th Grade Assessment Review
Chapters 1-4
People
The
Terms More Terms Geography Colonies
Q $100
Q $100
Q $100
Q $100
Q $100
Q $200
Q $200
Q $200
Q $200
Q $200
Q $300
Q $300
Q $300
Q $300
Q $300
Q $400
Q $400
Q $400
Q $400
Q $400
Q $500
Q $500
Q $500
Q $500
Q $500
Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from People
Dutch settler who bought
Manhattan Island for $24
worth of goods from the
Native Americans
$100 Answer from People
Who was
Peter
Minuit?
$200 Question from People
Englishmen who sailed for
the Dutch. He entered NY
Harbor and sailed up the
river that bears his name
today
$200 Answer from People
Who was Henry Hudson?
$300 Question from People
Conquistador who
conquered the Aztec
empire
$300 Answer from People
Who is Hernando Cortes?
$400 Question from People
He is credited with the
first trip around the
world learning the true
size of the Pacific
$400 Answer from People
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
$500 Question from People
A person of mixed
Spanish and Native
American blood
$500 Answer from People
What is a mestizo?
$100 Question from Terms
the study of artifacts
left by early people
$100 Answer from Terms
What is archeology?
$200 Question from Terms
A trade good
brought into a
country
$200 Answer from Terms
What is an import?
$300 Question from Terms
Entire way of life of a
people
$300 Answer from Terms
What is culture?
$400 Question from Terms
Person who signed a contract
to work for a certain length of
time in exchange for passage
to the colonies
$400 Answer from Terms
What is an indentured
servant ?
$500 Question from Terms
A system of rule by lords
who owe loyalty to a king
$500 Answer from Terms
What is fuedalism?
$100 Question from More Terms
The First Native Americans
crossed this to reach North
America
$100 Answer from Policies
What is a land bridge
between present day Russia
and Alaska?
$200 Question from More Terms
A religious settlement run
by Catholic priests and
friars in the Spanish
colonies.
$200 Answer from More Terms
What is a mission?
$300 Question from More Terms
Peninsulares,
creoles,
mestizos, and
Indians
$300 Answer from More Terms
What were the four
social classes in
New Spain?
$400 Question from More Terms
Surplus food sold for money
on the world market
$400 Answer from More Terms
What is a cash crop?
$500 Question from More Terms
Ocean trip from
Africa to the Americas
in which thousands of
slaves died
$500 Answer from More Terms
What is the middle
passage?
$100 Question from Geography
This is the longest
and most important
river system in the
U.S.
$100 Answer from Geography
What is the
Mississippi
and Missouri?
$200 Question from Geography
mapmaker
$200 Answer from Geography
What is a cartographer?
$300 Question from Geography
$300 Answer from Geography
What are natural harbors?
$400 Question from Geography
$400 Answer from Geography
What were the New
England colonies?
$500 Question from Geography
Where were the Maya and Aztec empires located?
(1) Canada
(2) Central America
(3) southeastern United States
(4) southwestern Europe
$500 Answer from Geography
What is
Central America
$100 Question from the colonies
Why did most colonial farmers settle near oceans
or coastal waterways?
(1) Fewer Native American Indians lived there.
(2) Local governments paid farmers to do so.
(3) There were fewer problems with removal of
trees and rocks.
(4) Transportation of products was easier.
$100 Answer from the Colonies
transportation of
products was
easier
$200 Question from the Colonies
The belief that colonies exist to benefit the
economy of the mother country is known as
(1) triangular trade
(2) mercantilism
(3) free trade
(4) nativism
$200 Answer from the Colonies
What is
Mercantilism?
$300 Question from the Colonies
$300 Answer from the Colonies
What is the Albany
Plan of Union?
$400 Question from the Colonies
What was the major reason the original settlers of
Plymouth Colony, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
came to America?
(1) to secure freedom from religious persecution
(2) to search for gold and silver
(3) to convert Native American Indians to
Christianity
(4) to bring spices to the New World
$400 Answer from the Colonies
To secure freedom
from religious
persecution
$500 Question from the Colonies
The creation of the Virginia House of
Burgesses was an important step in the
development of democracy in colonial America
because it
(1) adopted a bill of rights for women
(2) allowed citizens to vote directly on
proposed laws
(3) provided the first written constitution
(4) established a representative form of
government
$500 Answer from the Colonies
established a representative form of government
Final Jeopardy
Presidents before and
after Teddy Roosevelt
Final Jeopardy Answer
Who are William
McKinley and
William Howard
Taft?