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US History Exam I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The origins of the majority of humans existence in North America began | With migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait |
| England’s first experience with colonization came in | Ireland |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Helped spread recognition of the idea that the Americans were new continents |
| An encomienda was a | License to exact tribute and labor from natives |
| The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the | Olmec |
| What factor is believed to have dramatically reduced New World native populations after contact with Europeans | Disease |
| At the time of the beginning of the slave trade, most Africans | Had well-developed economies and political systems |
| African and American Indian societies tended to be matrilineal, which means | People traced their heredity through their mothers |
| The teaching of John Calvin | Produced a strong desire among his followers to lead lives that were virtuous |
| The English Reformation resulted from | A political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church |
| The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony | Is historically inconclusive |
| The significant Indian trading center near present-day St. Louis was called | Cahokia |
| The Spanish referred to peoples of mixed race as | Mestizo |
| John Calvin introduced the doctrine of | Predestination |
| The only clue to the fate of the Roanoke colony was the cryptic inscription “______” carved on a post | Croatan |
| How did Spanish settlements and attitudes toward native populations in the New World differ from those of the English? | |
| The initial Jamestown colonists focused primarily on | The search of gold |
| Captain John Smith helped the Jamestown settlement survive by | Imposing work and order on the colonists |
| The Virginia Company developed the “headright” system to | Attract new settlers to the colony |
| The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas | Created an interest in England in “civilizing” Indians |
| Bacon’s Rebellion | Was a conflict between eastern and western political forces in Virginia |
| In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America | Hoped to create their ideal close-knit Christian community |
| Georgia was founded | To create a military barrier against the Spanish |
| In colonial North America, the “middle grounds” refers to a region in which | No one European or Indian group held a clear dominance |
| The navigations acts enacted by the English Parliament | Encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own |
| the rebellion led by Jacob Leisler took place in | New York |
| The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 | Saw an English king, James II, flee to the European continent |
| In Jamestown, the winter of 1606-1610 was known as the “ | Starving time |
| The royal governor of Virginia who clashed with Nathaniel Bacon was | William Berkeley |
| The first meeting of an elected legislature in what is now the United States took place in the Virginia House of | Burgesses |
| Why did slavery emerge as a major labor source in the North American colonies by the end of the seventeenth century? | There were issues with indentured servants and slaves were more plentiful and cheaper |
| During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England | Deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies |
| Most seventeenth-century English migrants to the North American colonies were | Laborers |
| Rice production in colonial America | Was very difficult and unhealthy work |
| The “triangular trade” in the Atlantic dealt with | Rum, sugar, and slaves |
| The Stono Rebellion | Saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony |
| The first American college was | Harvard |
| The term “middle passage” refers to the movement of enslaved Africans | From African to the New World |
| In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because | Cities were the centers of intellectual information |
| In the English colonies, Roman catholics | Suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland |
| After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were | Almanacs |
| The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for | Iron |
| Primogeniture refers to | Passing of property to the firstborn son |
| Cotton Mather promoted the use of inoculation against the disease | Smallpox |
| The dreaded journey in which captured Africans were transported to the Americas to be sold as slaves was called the | Middle passage |
| Puritan sermons of despair were called | Jeremiads |
| How did immigration affect social and economic life in the colonies? | Huge increase of native born workers that spent money on housing and food. |
| In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted toward | Parliament |
| The proposed Albany Plan of 1754 | Revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other |
| The treaty of Utrecht in 1713 | Transferred territory from the French to the English in North America |
| What future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio valley | George Washington |
| According to the term of the Peace of Paris of 1763, | France ceded Cananea and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain. |
| When George III assumed the throne of England, he | Was painfully immature |
| The Sugar Act of 1764 was designed to | Damage the market for sugar grown in the colonies, eliminate the illegal sugar trade among the colonies, the French, and the West Indies, and establish new vice-admiralty courts in America to try accused smugglers |
| The Stamp Act of 1765 | Required colonists to pay taxes on most printed documents |
| The Tea Act of 1773 | Followed a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies, lowered the price of tea for colonies, and was intended to benefit a private British company |
| The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now | Pittsburgh |
| The Quebec Act | Granted political rights to Roman Catholics |
| The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was | Samuel Adams |
| The conflict between England and America was made insoluble because of a basic difference of opinion over the nature of | Sovereignty |
| A private company, Britain’s __________ Company, stood to benefit from the passage of the Tea Act of 1773 | East India |
| Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing a series of laws called the | Coercive Acts |
| Describe the origins of the American Revolution | A political and military struggle from 1765-1783. They started to protest taxes. |
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