11th Grade U.S. History Unit 1 (A Beka)
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- What year did Columbus discover the New World?
- 1492
- Which Viking landed in North America c.A.D. 1000?
- Lief Ericson
- Muslims from North Africa were called...
- Moors
- The first European to travel the length of Asia was an Italian merchant named...
- Marco Polo
- The movable-type printing press was invented in the year....by....
- 1440, Johann Gutenberg
- The German monk who protested the teachings of the Catholic church and began the Protestant Reformation was...
- Martin Luther
- What did Martin Luther nail to the door of the Wittenburg church?
- The 95 Theses
- In what year did Martin Luther nail his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenburg church?
- 1517
- An important Protestant reformer from Switzerland.
- John Calvin
- Who was the Portuguese prince who founded a school of navigation and encouraged exploration in the mid-1400's?
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Which Portuguese explorer reached the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1498?
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Which Portuguese explorer sailed around Africa to India and opened a new all-water route to the East in 1498?
- Vasco da Gama
- Who were the Spanish monarchs who sponsored Columbus'voyage to the New World?
- Ferdinand and Isabella
- Who is the Italian sailor after whom America was named?
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Who was the Portuguese explorer who landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed the land for Portugal in 1500?
- Pedro Cabral
- Name the Spanish explorer who embarked on a search for "the fountain of youth" and discovered Florida in the process.
- Ponce de Leon
- Who was the Spanish explorer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513?
- Vasco de Balboa
- Who was the Portuguese sailor, hired by the Spanish, who made a 3-year vogage around the world in 1519?
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Name the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico by 1521.
- Hernando Cortes
- Name the powerful chieftain of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.
- Montezuma
- Name the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas of Peru by 1533.
- Francisco Pizarro
- Name the Spaniard who explored southern Texas and parts of New Mexico and Arizona between 1528 and 1536.
- Cabeza de Vaca
- Name the Spanish explorer who explored what is today the southwestern United States in 1540 and whose men discovered the Grand Canyon.
- Francisco Coronado
- Who was the Spaniard who explored what is now the southeastern United States in 1540 and discovered the Mississippi River in 1541?
- Hernando de Soto
- Name the Portuguese explorer employed by the Spanish who explored the coast of California in 1542.
- Juan Cabrillo
- Which king of Spain sent the "Invincible Armada: against England in 1588?
- King Philip II
- Who was the Protestant queen of England at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Name the Italian sailor who explored the eastern coast of North America for France in 1524.
- Giovanni da Verrazano
- Which Frenchman led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River in 1534-1535?
- Jacques Cartier
- French Protestants who established Charlesfort on the coast of South Carolina and Fort Caroline on the coast of Florida in the 1560's were...
- The Huguenots
- Called the "Father of New France," he established Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the New World, in 1608.
- Samuel de Champlain
- A French Jesuit missionary who explored the Central Mississippi River in 1673 was...
- Jacques Marquette
- A French fur trader who explored the central Mississippi River with Marquette was...
- Louis Joliet
- This French explorer claimed the entire Mississippi Valley and named it "Louisiana" in 1682.
- Rober Cavelier de la Salle
- This American Indian tribe did not ally themselves with the French.
- The Iroquois
- In the 1400's, the Iroquois League of Five Nations consisted of...
- The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Cayuga tribes
- A system in which all aspects of life centered on the ownership and use of land was called...
- The feudal system or feudalism
- Efforts of European kings and noblemen to drive the Muslims from the Holy Land and reclaim it for Christendom between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1300 were called...
- The Crusades
- An effort by Catholics of the Iberian Peninsula to drive the Moors from the region of Granada in southern Spain was called...
- The Reconquista
- Merchants, traders, craftsmen, and men of other professions who were neither extremely rich nor poor became known as ...
- the middle class
- A revival of learning of "rebirth" that occurred in Europe between 1300 and 1600 was known as...
- The Renaissance
- A revival of Biblical Christianity which began in Europe in 1517 was known as...
- The Protestant Reformation
- An imaginary line drawn by the pope in 1493 to end the rivalry between Spain and Portugal over lands in the New World was called...
- The Line of Demarcation
- Spanish conquerers
- Conquistadors
- Called the "King's Highway," it is the oldest road in the United States, first traveled in 1581. It runs between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico.
- El Camino Real
- A Spanish fleet of 130 ships and 30,000 men sent against England in 1588; destroyed in the English Channel.
- The Invincible Armada
- An effort of the Roman church to crush Protestantism and to bring back as many souls as possible into the Catholic fold was known as...
- The Counter-Reformation
- A supposed water route through North America to the Pacific
- The Northwest Passage
- French traders were called...
- voyageurs
- The island, possibly in the Bahamas, where Columbus first landed.
- San Salvador
- The location of the first Spanish landing on the North American Continent was...
- Florida
- The first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States was...
- St. Augustine, Florida
- This city served as the capital of the Spanish colonies in North America.
- Santa Fe
- The name given to the entire Mississippi Valley in honor of King Louis XIV of France was...
- Louisiana
- The first permanent French settlement in the New World was...
- Quebec, Canada
- The best known city of French heritage in America is...
- New Orleans