US History Cumulative Exam Questions
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list three of the four reasons why we should study history ✔✔History is our story; history helps
us understand the present; history helps us learn from the past; God teaches us that history is
important.
"Those who cannot remember the past... ✔✔are condemned to repeat it"
Two themes in American history and an example of each ✔✔A mixture of good and bad -
people are both good and bad; ethnocentricity - the idea that our way is best
Define worldview. ✔✔The understanding of the world in which that person lives
List any four beliefs present in biblical worldview ✔✔God created the heavens and the earth;
God continues to guide the events of the world; humankind is a special creation made in God's
image and has unique worth in his eyes; world events are not a result of chance but a mixture of
God's sovereignty and our choices
,What was the most powerful agent of stability and control during the Middle Ages? Why?
✔✔The Roman Catholic Church ; because most people accepted the church's teachings as true
and feared being excommunicated or accused of heresy
Who invented the printing press? ✔✔Johann Gutenberg
Why did Europeans seek a water route to India? ✔✔Land routes were long and dangerous
Who was the first explorer to sail successfully around the Horn of Africa to India? ✔✔Vasco de
Gamma
Describe the two forces that bring about people movements ✔✔Push - things that make people
want to leave; pull - things that make you want to go to another country
What two major miscalculations did Christopher Columbus make? ✔✔He thought the world was
smaller than it is; he didn't know there was another land mass
How did America get its name? ✔✔Amerigo Vespucci - described it to the mapmaker who
falsely credited him
, What was the "line of demarcation"? Who decided it originally? ✔✔The pope; a line running
north/south. Spain got everything west of the line, and Portugal got everything to the east. (The
line was about 300 miles off the coast of the Canary Islands.
List two goals of Spain's early expeditions to the New World ✔✔Control the lands; discover
golds and riches to send back to Spain
How did European exploration of the americas affect europe ✔✔Learned new words; saw
animals and crops they had never seen before
What was the first European settlement in what would become the United States? ✔✔St.
Augustine, Florida
What does the word renaissance mean? ✔✔Rebirth
What things was the Roman Catholic Church doing in the late Middle Ages that were unbiblical?
✔✔Selling indulgences; corrupt church leaders
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list three of the four reasons why we should study history ✔✔History is our story; history helps
us understand the present; history helps us learn from the past; God teaches us that history is
important.
"Those who cannot remember the past... ✔✔are condemned to repeat it"
Two themes in American history and an example of each ✔✔A mixture of good and bad -
people are both good and bad; ethnocentricity - the idea that our way is best
Define worldview. ✔✔The understanding of the world in which that person lives
List any four beliefs present in biblical worldview ✔✔God created the heavens and the earth;
God continues to guide the events of the world; humankind is a special creation made in God's
image and has unique worth in his eyes; world events are not a result of chance but a mixture of
God's sovereignty and our choices
,What was the most powerful agent of stability and control during the Middle Ages? Why?
✔✔The Roman Catholic Church ; because most people accepted the church's teachings as true
and feared being excommunicated or accused of heresy
Who invented the printing press? ✔✔Johann Gutenberg
Why did Europeans seek a water route to India? ✔✔Land routes were long and dangerous
Who was the first explorer to sail successfully around the Horn of Africa to India? ✔✔Vasco de
Gamma
Describe the two forces that bring about people movements ✔✔Push - things that make people
want to leave; pull - things that make you want to go to another country
What two major miscalculations did Christopher Columbus make? ✔✔He thought the world was
smaller than it is; he didn't know there was another land mass
How did America get its name? ✔✔Amerigo Vespucci - described it to the mapmaker who
falsely credited him
, What was the "line of demarcation"? Who decided it originally? ✔✔The pope; a line running
north/south. Spain got everything west of the line, and Portugal got everything to the east. (The
line was about 300 miles off the coast of the Canary Islands.
List two goals of Spain's early expeditions to the New World ✔✔Control the lands; discover
golds and riches to send back to Spain
How did European exploration of the americas affect europe ✔✔Learned new words; saw
animals and crops they had never seen before
What was the first European settlement in what would become the United States? ✔✔St.
Augustine, Florida
What does the word renaissance mean? ✔✔Rebirth
What things was the Roman Catholic Church doing in the late Middle Ages that were unbiblical?
✔✔Selling indulgences; corrupt church leaders
