United States History        Quiz chapter 1  1st 1/2                Name: _______________________________

Teacher: Mr. Cap  Europe/America Before the Modern Age    Score: __________________________

1.  Paraphrase the quote by Alexis de Tocqueville. "Just then ( at the time in history) North America was 
    discovered, as if it had been kept in reserve by the Deity and had just risen from beneath the waters of

the Deluge." _______________________________________________________________________

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2.  Why did God, in His wisdom,  allow America to remain unknown until 1500s?  ____________________

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3.  Viking adventurer landed in North America around A.D. 1000  ________________________________

4.  What evidence do we have that the Native Americans came to the Americas after the Tower of Babel?

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  What materials were used to build Wigwams? 5. __________________________________

6.  Tepees _____________________________ 7.  Pueblo ___________________________________

8.  What possible land bridge did the Native Americans cross to get to America?  ____________________

9.  What three vegetables became the Native American's staple diet?  _____________________________

10.   Feudal Europe :  A.D. 700-1300  all aspects of life centered around the ownership of _____________

Social class depended upon  11.  _____________.  Lords of the castles lived comfortably, while 12.

_______________ struggled for _________________ and  ___________________________.

13.  A distorted Christianity called ________________________________________ dominated Europe.

14.  What were the Crusades? __________________________________________________________

 List two of the historical significance of the Crusades.  15.  _____________________________________

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17.   Why was the rise of the Middle Class  significant? ________________________________________

18.  List three navigational inventions that led to the Age of Discovery _____________________________

19.  Spell the word for a "rebirth of learning".  ____________________________________________

20.  What was the Protestant Reformation?  _______________________________________________

21.  Why was the Reformation so important to the United States? ________________________________