6th Grade History Test 4
Chapter 1-5; Map Masteries 1-6; Geo Facts 1-5
1. John Cabot was the first explorer in the modern times to reach North America’s mainland.
2. Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island and also the first Baptist church in America.
3. Joseph Brant translated portions of the Scriptures into the Mohawk language.
4. Sequoya invented a language for Cherokees.
5. The world’s largest bay is named for Hudson, its discoverer.
6. Jacques Cartier’s search for the Northwest Passage gave France a claim to Canada.
7. David Brainerd brought the gospel to the Indians until his death at the age of 29 from
tuberculosis.
8. The first Bible printed in America was John Eliot’s translation of the Scriptures into an Indian
language.
9. The plants that are most likely to grow on a prairie are trees.
10. Most Plains Indians live in tepees.
11. The most important animal to the Indians of the plains was the bison.
12. A plain or hilly region with the temperate zone that is covered by grasses is called a prairie.
13. Prairies experience more extreme weather conditions than other areas.
14. The largest land animal in the Western Hemisphere is the bison.
15. The Indians of the Dakota tribe were also called the Sioux.
16. The ground squirrel that lived in vast underground “towns” stretching over the prairie was
the prairie dog.
17. The Seminole tribe was the predominant tribe in the Florida Everglades.
18. The Maya Indians had an advanced civilization in Central America.
19. Inca are the most famous Indians of South America.
20. The Wampanoag tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
21. Hopewell was a very early but very civilization and famous for their burial mounds.
22. Indians from the Sioux tribe defeated Custer at Little Bighorn.
23. The Blackfoot tribe was named for the color of their moccasins.
24. The Aztec were the most famous Indians to settle in Mexico.
25. Five tribes of the Iroquois group formed the League of Five Nations.
26. The Delaware Indian tribe kept a pictorial chronicle of their history.
27. Ottawa is Canada’s capital city.
28. Early explorers of Canada were searching for a water route to Asia that they called the
Northwest Passage.
29. Canada is the world’s largest producer of nickel.
30. Canada’s form of government is a constitutional monarchy.
31. The two official languages of Canada are English and French.
32. As a result of the French and Indian War England gained control of most of North America.
33. The hills that contain Mount Rushmore is the Black Hills.
34. The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States.
35. The Mississippi River is the largest river in the United States.
36. The Badlands are a region in the Dakotas which has many irregular cliffs and spectacularly
colored hills.
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37. Lake Superior is the world’s largest freshwater lake.
38. The Gulf Stream is an important Atlantic current that begins in the Gulf of Mexico.
39. The Gulf of Mexico is the world’s largest gulf.
40. Be able to locate and identify the following locations on a map:
a. Yukon River
i. Outer Banks
b. Rio de la Plata
j. Colorado River
c. St. Lawrence River
k. Snake River
d. Ohio River
l. Missouri River
e. Columbia River
m. Mississippi River
f. Parana River
n. Orinoco Rives
g. Arkansas River
o. Mackenzie River
h. Amazon River
p. Rio Grande
41. Be able to locate and identify the following locations on a map of the Western
Hemisphere:
a. Mexico
i. Victoria Island
q. Great Lakes
b. Hudson Bay
j. Rocky Mountains
r. Mount Mckinley
c. Bering Strait
k. Gulf of California
s. Great Slave Lake
d. Great Bear Lake
l. Atacama Desert
t. Yucatan Peninsula
e. West Indies
m. Baffin island
u. Caribbean Sea
f. Bay of Campeche
n. Andes Mountains
v. Appalachian Mts.
g. Strait of Magellan
o. Great Salt Lake
w. Island of Newfoundland
h. Baja California
p. Cape Horn
42. Using complete sentences, discuss the most important animal to the Indians of the plains was
the bison. Give five ways in which they put this animal to use.
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