6th Grade History Test 3

1. John Eliot was the “Apostle to the Indians”; the first Bible printed in America was his translations of an Indian language.

2. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island and America’s first Baptist church.

3. David Brainerd preached to the Indians with the help of his interpreter and died at the age of 29.

4. Joseph Brant was a Mohawk chief who translated Scripture into his people’s language.

5. Tattamy translated the preaching of David Brainerd.

6. John Campanius was a Swedish Lutheran missionary who translated some of Martin Luther’s writings into the Delaware language.

7. Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief who fought to keep all white men out of Indian territory.

8. Seqouya invented the written language of the Cherokees.

9. The Hopewell Indian tribe was known for their burial mounds.

10. Iroquois Indians lived in longhouses.

11. The Shawnee Indian tribe means “southerner.”

12. The Delaware Indian tribe kept a pictorial chronicle of their history.

13. The Wampanoag Indian tribe joined the Pilgrims for Thanksgiving.

14. The Iroquois Indians formed a confederacy known as the League of Five Nations.

15. Be able to locate and identify the following locations on a map:

a. Augusta f. North Carolina

b. Chesapeake Bay g. Outer Banks

c. Connecticut h. Rhode Island

d. Dover i. Outer Banks

e. Kentucky j. Vermont

16. The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean.

17. The Cumberland Gap is a famous narrow passageway between mountains used by pioneers as they traveled west.

18. The Appalachian Mountains are the most prominent landform in eastern North America, extending 1,500 miles from Canada to Alabama.

19. Mammoth Cave is the largest known underground cave system in the world.

20. The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States.

21. The Piedmont Plateau is an area that slopes from the eastern edge of the Appalachians to the Atlantic Coastal Plain; most of the land is hilly and rolling,

22. The everglades are a marshy of tall grasses and swamps in southern Florida.

23. Be able to locate and identify the following locations on a map:

a. Labrador Sea f. Bay of Campeche k. Beaufort Sea

b. Atlantic Ocean g. Arctic Ocean l. Amundsen Gulf

c. Bering Sea h. Gulf of Alaska m. Gulf of St. Lawrence

d. Gulf of Mexico i. Caribbean Sea n. Pacific Ocean

e. Hudson Bay j. Baffin Bay o. Gulf of California

24. Be able to locate and identify each of the following landforms:

a. Archipelago e. Plain

b. Canal f. Summit

c. Gap g. Tributary

d. Harbor

25. Write a descriptive paragraph about the Atlantic Ocean. Include at least five important facts. ________________________________________________________________________