A Voyage Long and Strange

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How well do you know the history of early America? Answer true or false to the following.

  1. 1

    In 1492, Christopher Columbus thought the world was round, while most "experts" in Europe thought it was flat

  2. 2

    Juan Ponce de Leon was an aged conquistador who went searching for a "fountain of youth" and found nothing.

  3. 3

    America is named for a ship's chandler from Seville who wrote that native women are "taller kneeling than I am standing" and "very desirous to copulate with us Christians."

  4. 4

    The first white child born in North America was an English girl named Virginia Dare.

  5. 5

    John Smith was an English captain who sailed to Massachusetts, named New England and Plymouth, and became a leading advocate of the region's settlement.

  6. 6

    A black slave crossed the U.S. continent more than 260 years before Lewis and Clark

  7. 7

    Spanish conquistadors were stunned by the Plains Indians' skill at hunting buffalo while riding horses bareback.

  8. 8

    Sir Walter Raleigh planted tobacco at his colony in Roanoke and wrote that "smoking this foul weed" was bad for health but good for profits.

  9. 9

    By 1620, when the Pilgrims landed, Europeans had explored a total of four states in the present-day U.S. and settled one of them.

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