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History 103 Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of which nation? | Spain |
| Hernan Cortes relied on a native woman to conquer the Aztecs. What did he call her? | Dona Marina |
| What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon? | Pueblo |
| The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans, also called the “Three Sisters,” Include: | Squash, Maize (corn), and Beans |
| How would you compare the sexual and marital freedom of Native Americans and Europeans before contact? | Native Americans enjoyed greater sexual and marital freedoms. |
| The first Americans arrived on the North American continent approximately________________. | 12-20 thousand years ago |
| Most Native Americans understood property rights as primarily relating to which of the following concepts? | Active use |
| Agriculture arose in North America (and Western Hemisphere more generally)… | Nearly simultaneously as in the Asia/Eastern Hemisphere |
| Which of the following proved essential to the Spanish conquer of the Aztecs? | Native Dissension, Persuasion, Smallpox |
| What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent? | Matrilineal |
| What was the name of the most powerful Native American group in sixteenth-century Florida? | Apalachee |
| The expansion if the Iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into the “middle ground” located in what region? | Great Lakes |
| In the late sixteenth century, England went to war with which nation> | Spain |
| The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ______________. | Asia |
| Which of the following European countries offered the most religious liberty? | Netherlands |
| When did slavery first emerge in Virginia? | The Dutch sold 20 Africans to Virginia Colonists in 1619 |
| Justification from African slavery partly derived from interpretations if a biblical curse placed on Noah. This curse is known as __________. | Curse of Ham |
| Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New Netherlands? | Trade with Indians |
| The Dutch used what kind of labor to construct New Amsterdam? | Enslaved Africans |
| The Headright Policy promised which of the following? | 50 acres for anyone paying the passage of an English immigrant to Virginia |
| Bacon’s Rebellion and King Phillip’s War occurred at approximately the same time, in Virginia and Massachusetts’s respectively. Both conflicts grew out of which if the following causes? | Hostilities with Indians |
| Who led the Pueblo Revolt? | Pope |
| The Spanish king adopted which of the following policies for enslaved Africans who escaped English territory to St. Augustine, FL? | Slaves escaping the English were freed |
| Puritans derived their theology primarily from which system of Christian thought? | Calvinist |
| What is the term used to describe the forced voyage of millions of Africans across the Atlantic? | Middle Passage |
| Slave status was tracked through which family member? | The mother |
| What was the most common means for colonists to acquire Native American Slaves? | War |
| Enslaved Africans sold in North America differed from most slave communities. What was the most important distinction? | Higher percentage of women |
| What is the current estimate of the number of Africans forcibly relocated to The New World? | 11 to 12 million |
| What was the motivating factor in the creation of colonies such as Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island? | Religion |
| How did the culture of rice cultivation reach colonial Carolina? | Enslaved Africans |
| What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion? | Neolin |
| What was the “commodity money” used in Virginia? | Tobacco |
| This British colonist helped spark a world war when troops under his command killed a French diplomat in 1754. | George Washington |
| Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase consumer goods… | Transportation, Availability of credit, and manufacturing |
| What is the name for the practice whereby married woman loses all of her political and economic rights to her husband? | Couverture |
| What was the first English group to turn against slavery? | The Quakers |
| Which of he following colonies had a majority enslaved African population? | South Carolina |
| What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth century? | Philadelphia |
| What portion of residents in 1700 New York City was enslaved? | 40% |
| The “Declaration of Rights and Grievances” produced by the Continental Congress included which of the following assertions: | Taxes should come only from the colonists’ elected representatives, Colonists should have the right to trials by jury, and Colonists retained all the rights of native Britons |
| Why did King George III issue the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and limit settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains? | To limit wars with the Native Americans |
| How did women participate in protesting the Twonshend Acts? | Spinning homespun clothing to aid the trade boycott |
| What turning point convinced the French to join the war against Britain? | Battle of Saratoga |
| Most members of the Shawnee, Creek, Cherokee, and Iroquois sided with which side during the war? | British |
| What was the most important difference between the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act? | The Stamp Act was a direct tax, while the Sugar Act modified pre-existing duty |
| Which side was the first to offer freedom to slaves willing to fight along their side? | British |
| The aid of which European nation proved most helpful to the American cause? | France |
| Where did the ideas of the “country” party, that is the emphasis on the ideology of republicanism, have the most influence? | In the colonies |
| The Coercive or Intolerable Acts included four specific laws. The first was the Boston Port Act. The other three were: | The Quartering Act, The Administration of Justice Act, and The Massachusetts Government Act |
| Who suffered the most from the Whiskey tax? | Western farmers |
| John Jay’s Treaty included all of the following: | Required the united states to treat Britain as its closest trade partner, required Britain to compensate American merchants for their losses, required Britain to abandon military positions in the northwest territory |
| What is the XYZ Affair? | The scandal that occurred when French diplomats demanded bribes from American officials |
| All of the following are true about the Virginia Plan. | It proposed three branches of government, it proposed that the national legislature have a veto power over state laws, it proposed creating a strong federal government |
| What was the term for the documents arguing that states could declare federal laws unconstitutional? | Kentucky and Virginia resolutions |
| Alexander Hamiltons financial plan included all of the following. | Creating new bonds to allow investment in the United States, establishing a bank of the United States, federal assumption of state debtsHow were slaves counted for purposes of proportional representation? |
| How were slaves counted for purposes of proportional representation? | They were counted as 3/5 of a person |
| How did most Americans initially respond to the news of the French Revolution? | Celebrating the spread of republican government |
| What was the primary cause of Shay’s Rebellion? | Farmers struggling because of debts |
| The Alien and Sedition Acts allowed all of the following: | 1. Federal government could prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing “false, scandalous, malicious writing” against the government 2. Federal government could deport foreign nationals or “aliens” who seemed to pose a national security threat |
| Why did Gabriel’s Conspiracy fail? | Two enslaved men revealed the plot to their masters |
| All of the following are true about the Hatian Revolt. | Free and enslaved black Americans used the Revolution as inspiration in their freedom struggle, The Haitian Revolution terrified white slave owners, and Many slaveholding refugees brought their slaves to the United States |
| What was the primary consequence of the war of 1812? | Boost in American nationalism |
| Which of the following best describes Thomas Jeffersons policy of peaceable coercion? | Attempt to use a trade embargo to force Europeans to respect American neutrality |
| What proved to be the most effective unifying force for the many Indians who followed Tecumesh? | Spirituality |
| Which of the following best describes Thomas Jeffersons relationship with the American military? | He just trusted the military and dramatically cut its budget and manpower |
| Which of the following was a key goal for President Jefferson? | Reduce the size of the federal government |
| What is the term for the early American belief that women were essential in nurturing the principles of liberty in the citizenry? | Republican Motherhood |
| Thomas Jefferson, in Notes of the State of Virginia, argued for poly genesis. What is poly genesis? | The belief that African descended peoples were created separately from European descended peoples |
| Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of most of the founding fathers as it relates to pure democracy? | Believed it was dangerous |
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