ESL US History Quiz 1 Review

Question 1

Capital city of Texas?

Accepted Answer

Austin

Question 2

In exchange for coming to settle Virginia, settlers were given a piece of land. This is a what?

Accepted Answer

Headright

Question 3

The Aztec expanded by conquering their neighbors and then demanding payments know as what?

Accepted Answer

tributes

Question 4

Capital city of California?

Accepted Answer

Sacramento

Question 5

What was the name of the huge stone temple the Maya built and is still around today?

Accepted Answer

Chichen Itza

Question 6

Which country sent most of the first sea explorers?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 7

Where did the Maya empire rule?

Accepted Answer

Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula

Question 8

Who founded Maryland?

Accepted Answer

Calvert

Question 9

Who conquered the Aztecs in 1519?

Accepted Answer

Hernan Cortes

Question 10

Capital city of Pennsylvania?

Accepted Answer

Harrisburg

Question 11

What was the agricultural revolution?

Accepted Answer

Invention of farming

Question 12

What was the main shared feature of the Mississippian cultures?

Accepted Answer

mounds, Mississippi River

Question 13

The FIRST Mesoamerican civilization was the who?

Accepted Answer

Olmec

Question 14

A device used to measure direction, latitude, longitude, and local time?

Accepted Answer

Astrolabe

Question 15

What did King Henry VIII want from the pope?

Accepted Answer

a divorce

Question 16

The Anasazi lived in what area?

Accepted Answer

4 corners

Question 17

When did Christopher Columbus come to the Americas?

Accepted Answer

1492

Question 18

The Crusades opened up Europe to trade with where?

Accepted Answer

Middle East, Asia

Question 19

What happened to the settlers at Roanoke Island?

Accepted Answer

they disappeared, CROATOAN

Question 20

Humans came to thee Americas across the Bering Strait on a what?

Accepted Answer

land bridge

Question 21

Capital city of New York?

Accepted Answer

Albany

Question 22

The Aztecs were very religious and believed in sacrificing what for their gods?

Accepted Answer

Humans

Questions 22