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US History Exam I

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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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