A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
VOLUME TWO 2026 FINAL PAPER REVIEW
QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED PRACTICE
COLLECTION
◉ Squanto.
Answer: Native American who helped the English colonists in
Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an
interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag.
◉ Cahokia.
Answer: The dominant center of an important Mississippi valley
mound-building culture, located near present-day St. Louis,
Missouri; flourished from about 900 to 1250 C.E.
◉ Johnathan Edwards.
Answer: An American theologian and congregational clergyman
whose sermons stirred the religious revival (Great Awakening);
known for sinners in the hands of an angry god sermon.
◉ Iroquosis.
Answer: largest concentration of natives in present day New york
Cayuga
, Onondaga
Oneida
Mohawks
◉ Leif Ericson.
Answer: The Viking explorer believed to be the first European to
reach the New World (in about 1000 AD). Landed in Newfoundland
which was called Vinland.
◉ Prince Henry the Navigator.
Answer: (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an
observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages
that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.
◉ Bartolomeu Dias.
Answer: Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to
sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the
Indian Ocean.
◉ Vasco da Gama.
Answer: Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval
expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important
commercial sea route.
VOLUME TWO 2026 FINAL PAPER REVIEW
QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED PRACTICE
COLLECTION
◉ Squanto.
Answer: Native American who helped the English colonists in
Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an
interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag.
◉ Cahokia.
Answer: The dominant center of an important Mississippi valley
mound-building culture, located near present-day St. Louis,
Missouri; flourished from about 900 to 1250 C.E.
◉ Johnathan Edwards.
Answer: An American theologian and congregational clergyman
whose sermons stirred the religious revival (Great Awakening);
known for sinners in the hands of an angry god sermon.
◉ Iroquosis.
Answer: largest concentration of natives in present day New york
Cayuga
, Onondaga
Oneida
Mohawks
◉ Leif Ericson.
Answer: The Viking explorer believed to be the first European to
reach the New World (in about 1000 AD). Landed in Newfoundland
which was called Vinland.
◉ Prince Henry the Navigator.
Answer: (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an
observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages
that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.
◉ Bartolomeu Dias.
Answer: Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to
sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the
Indian Ocean.
◉ Vasco da Gama.
Answer: Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval
expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important
commercial sea route.
