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American History 101
American History meeting of the cultures and Transplantion and Borderlands
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The early South American civilizations of Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs all shared the following characteristics | economies based primarily on agriculture substantial cities |
| The Pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest built ______________ for farming. | large irrigation systems |
| In the Great Plains region, most pre-columbian societies hunted _______ for survival. | buffalo |
| Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the Untied States had the most _________________ of any region of the continent? | abundant food resources |
| Many Pre- Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by _______________ | common linguistic roots |
| The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was | Portugal |
| thought the world was much smaller than it really was. | Christopher Columbus |
| As a result in his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded he had encountered | a continent separate from Asia |
| helped popularize the idea that the Americas were new continents. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| In 1518, Hernando Cortes's conquest of the Aztecs was made possible due largely to | the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox |
| An encomienda was the | uniform worn by conquistadors |
| In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish | made efforts at suppressing Indian religious rituals. |
| In what way did the sixteenth-century Europeans benefit from the trade between the Americans and Europe? | A large number of new crops became available in Europe. |
| In Spanish colonial societies, mestizos came to make up the | largest segment of the population. |
| African and American- Indian societies tended to be matrilineal which meant | people traced their heredity through their mothers |
| In what Chronological order did European countries control the African slave trade? | Portuguese, the Dutch, the English |
| What Condition in England in the sixteenth century provided an incentive for colonization | the availability of the farmland was declining while the population was growing. |
| The English Reformation resulted from | a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church. |
| At the beginning of the seventeenth century, English Puritan discontent was increased by | the death of Queen Elizabeth |
| England's first experience with colonization came in | Ireland |
| The English concluded from their colonial experiences in Ireland that | English colonists should maintain a rigid separation from the indigenous population |
| An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that | England found the seas more open to their control. |
| The colony of Virginia was named in honor of | Elizabeth I |
| Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements | were tightly controlled by the English government |
| The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from | the production of tobacco |
| the cultivation of tobacco around Jamestown resulted in all | the rapid wearing out of the soil the search for new sources of labor rising prosperity for the colony the expansion of European settlement into the interior |
| In the first seventeen years of Virginia existence | nearly eighty percent of the white settlers died |
| In which technology were Indians more advanced than the Virgina colonists | agriculture |
| In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn | produced yields than any of the European grains |
| Compared to King James I, King Charles I treatment of the Puritans | was more hostile |
| The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company | carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century |
| The Massachusetts Bay Puritans created a | colonial theocracy |
| One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was he said | the land occupied by the colonists belong to the Indians |
| In 1637, hostilities broke out between the English settlers in the Connecticut Valley and what local Native American Tribe? | the pequots |
| In King Phillips war, Indians made effective use of the relatively new weapon | the flintlock rifle |
| The English Restoration began with the reign of | Charles II |
| Originally, the Georgia colony excluded | both free blacks and slaves |
| Which of the following was not a restoration colony? Maryland Carolina New York Pennsylvania New Jersey | Maryland |
| The English Colonial settlements in the Caribbean concluded that it was | cheaper to buy new African slaves than to protect the ones they already had. |
| The proprietors who founded the Carolina colony | guaranteed religious freedoms to all Christians |
| In colonial North America the "middle grounds" refers to a region in which | no one European or Indian group held clear dominance |
| The English Parliament enacted the Navigation Acts primarily to benefit | New England merchants |
| The Dominion of New England | called for a single royal government |
| Leisler's Rebellion took place in | New York |
| The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 | helped put in place the Dominion of New England |
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