U.S. History Review Test

What is the controversy surrounding Christopher Columbus?

Why is it important to study multiple perspectives in history?

How did European countries claim land in America?

How did the 1st European explorers get to America and what was life like for them?

In what ways were the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution important to the development of Democracy in America?

What was the Mayflower Compact?

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Where did most colonists live?

• Most lived on small farms.

• Most lived in the city.

Unlike colonists from Europe, Africans came to America:

• hoping to build better lives.

• to escape poverty and debt.

• in search of religious freedom.

• as slaves against their will.

What was the first Great Awakening? What ideas did it encourage?