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INSTRUCTIONS: FILL IN EACH BLANK WITH THE CORRECT ANSWER
1. _______________________________________ was the Viking explorer who first “discovered”
America
2. The __________________________________ indirectly gave rise to the European middle class?
3. List three advances in the science of navigation from the Renaissance.
1)________________________________________
2)________________________________________
3)________________________________________
4. The Portuguese explorer__________________________________________________________ founded a navigation school.
5.___________________________________________ sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and established the 1 st all water route to the East?
6.______________________________________lead a three year voyage around the world?
7. Christopher Columbus was from __________________, _______________________.
8. One flaw in Columbus’ plan, was that he thought the earth was much
__________________________ than it actually is
9. Columbus called the place he first landed _________________________________.
10. America is named after _________________________________________
11.____________________________________________ was the 1 st modern European to set foot on mainland North America?
12.___________________________discovered the Grand Canyon?
13. __________________________________________________ discovered the Mississippi River?
14. The Spanish Armada was referred to as the “___________________________ Armada”.

15. ___________________________, Canada was the 1 st permanent French settlement in the New
World?
16. List the three areas of land that made up New France.
1)____________________________________________________
2)____________________________________________________
3)____________________________________________________
17. The largest people group in the colonies was the ____________________________.
18. __________________________ was the largest city in the colonies
19. ____________________________________________ controlled independent/charter colonies?
20. ___________________________________________ controlled the proprietary colonies?
21. The_____________________________________ controlled the royal colonies.
22. ________________________________________ was founded by Captain John Mason
23. _______________________________ was originally the New Netherlands
24. In England, _________________________ opposed King James I religious authority
25. The influx of Puritans to the new world due to persecution was known as the
___________________________________________________________.
26. The __________________________ Church was the primary church in the southern colonies.
27. __________________________________ contained the settlement of Jamestown
28. John ____________________________ married Pocahontas?
29. ____________________________________________was the 1 st governor of the Plymouth Colony?
30. “History of the _______________________________________________” was the first American history book.
31. The ______________________________________ Colony was known as the “The City Upon a Hill”.

32. _______________________________________was the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s 1 st governor?
33. _________________________________________contained the city of Charles Town.
34. _________________________________________ was settled around the Albemarle District.
35. _______________________________ was originally a benevolent undertaking
36. ____________________________________________________ organized the colonization of Georgia?
37. _______________________________ contains the “City of Brotherly Love”.
38. The ______________________________________ were known as The Society of Friends?
39. ______________________________ gave Pennsylvania access to the Atlantic Ocean.
40. _______________________________ was possessed by Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkely
41. _______________________________ was given to the Calvert family by Charles I
42. New Jersey contained large numbers of Scottish _____________________________.
43. The New England Confederation’s primary purpose was ________________________.
44. Thomas Hooker was __________________________________’s best-known pioneer.
45. The _____________________________________________________ is considered to be the first written constitution in the United States?
46. __________________________________ eventually became known as ”The Little Baptist State”.
47. List 3 types of Colonial Livelihood
1)____________________________________
2)____________________________________
3)____________________________________
48.According to the theory of mercantilism, the 13 colonies existed to make England
____________________________.