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History US 1877
UNIT 1 (1,2,3,4,5,6)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the oldest major mountain range in north america is the app. mountains T OR F | true |
| before the arrival of columbus the indian people of north america spoke essentially the same language T OR F | false |
| the largest and most sophisticated indian civilizations were in the area of the pacific northwest | false |
| most north american indian people relied on a rich agricultural diet of corn maize beans and squash | true |
| the largest north american confederacy was created by the legendary hiawatha in the 16th centtury | true |
| viking expolorere created small but permanent settlement along the northest coast beginning about 1300 ad | false |
| spices from asia were extremely expensive in euarope due to the high costs paid to muslim "middlemen" | true |
| african slavery essentially began becaause of the low economic and cultural condition of african sociesties | false |
| before setting out on his voyage across the atlantic colubmus had already rounded the souther tip of afirca in seach of a route to asia | false |
| the primary cause of declining indian population after columbuss arrival was military assault on indian civilians | false |
| the conquest of mexico and peru solidified spains position as the wealthiest colonial power of thr 16 cenrury | true |
| the aztecs under moctezuma launched a military attack on cortez and the spnahish as soon as they landed in mexico | false |
| the spanish were largely uninterested in developing colonial settelemnets north of present day mexico city | false |
| the spanish settlements in new mexico and california depeneded more on catholic missionary efforts than on the discovery of gold and silver | true |
| despite their extremely harsh tremaent of the indians the spanish conquerors created culture laws and religion that laid the basis for later latin american civilization | true |
| the final landscape of the north american continent were determeined about 10,000 years ago by | the last retreat of the great ice age galciers |
| the most persuasive theory regarding the origins of american indians is they orgininally came from | siberia |
| the most sophisiticated indian civilzations were those erected by the | mayas incas and aztecs |
| the largest and most powerful indian confederacy in the territory of the present us was estblish in the sixteenth century by the | iriquois |
| the 1st european nation to sail around africa and establish large slave labor plantations was | portugal |
| among the indian agricultural products the eventually contributed to the eropean diet were | corn maise beans and tomatoes |
| the primary cause of the death of about 90 percent of the orginial indian population in the centuries after colombus's arrival was | diseases like smallpox malaria and yellow fever |
| spain gained the greatest riches of its american empire by | seizing indian gold and silver and mining more of the precious metals |
| what was not among the motives that drove the spanish conquistadors in their new world exploits | a humanitarian desire to end practices like human sacrifice |
| the spanish conquistador hernan cotes was able to defeat the ateca partly because | the aztec emporer moctezuma initially welcomed cortez into his captial city |
| the term mesizto refers to | people of mixed indian and european descent |
| the first universities established in the americas were those of | mexico city and lima peru |
| the primary motive for the spansish to establish settlements in florida and teas was | to prevent the encorashment of other eruopean powers especially france |
| the primary motive for the first spanish settlements in california was | to convert the indians to christianity |
| the black legened refers to the unfounded beleif that | the spanish only killed and stole the wealth of the americas without creating any lasting cutlure |
| englands rivalry with catholic spain intensified during the reing of protestant queen elizabeth | true |
| englands first colonies in newfoundland and north carolina were more succesful than the colonies of spain | false |
| englands colonization efforts were substantially delayed after its navy was defeated by the spanish armada | false |
| the defeat of the spanish armada helped fuel a strong english patriotism that was expressed in both literature and colonial adventures | true |
| it was difficult to recruit english settlers for the colonies because propersity and full employment mean that few wanted to leave england | false |
| the primary purpose of the colonial virginia company was to earn quick profits for it stockholders | true |
| the jamestown colony enjoyed a great succes in its early years | false |
| the marriage between pocahantas and john rolfe guranteed permanent peaceful relations between the powhatan indians and the virgian colonists | false |
| disease and white attacks quickly devastated and then destroyed most of the indian population along the atlanctic seaboard | true |
| virginias economic prosperity rested on the production of corn and rice | false |
| marylands catholic founder lord baltimore established a policy of harsh persecution of protestants | false |
| south carolina was closed tied to the slave and sugar growing economy of the west indies | true |
| north carolina generally resisted the alrge scale plantations and aristocratic social system that dominated south carolina | true |
| the georgia colony was established by poor whites fleeing the planter controlled society of south carolina | false |
| the dominant religion in the souther colonies was the established church of englash | true |
| the english protestant reformation was first launched by.. | king henry VIII |
| in 1585 sir walter raleigh launched the failed english colonial settlement of roanoke in present day | north carolina |
| the english law of primogeniture contributed to colonial settlements because | ambitious younger sons were unable to inherit property |
| even though the purpose of the virginia company was to earn quick profits for stockholders the companys charter guaranteed | that settlers would enjoy all the rights of englishmen that they had at home |
| lord de la warr's use of irish tactics in virginia led to | fierce raids on indian villages and destruction of their crops |
| the english settlers policy of killing or driving out the Indians emerged partly because | the indians served no economic function for the colonists |
| during its first forty years of virginias existence, african slaves had | only a small presence in the colony |
| the maryland colony was orginially established as | a haven for persecuted english catholics |
| marylands 1649 act of toleration still contained provisions for harsh persectuion of what races | jews and atheists |
| sugar cane contributed greatly to the expansion of slavery because | it could only grow on large plantations with extensive labor |
| many of the early settlers of south carolina originally came from | englands west indies colonies like barbados |
| the primary agricultural crop of south carolina turned out to be | rice |
| the colony of north carolina was originally settled by | poor white squatters fleeing aristocratic virginia |
| the 3 most powerful indian peoples who controlled the appalachian mountains and valleys in the 18th century were the | cherokees creeks and iroquois |
| the prominent english christian missionary who worked temporarily among debtors and indians the the georgia colony was | john wesley |
| the primary form of protestantism that shaped englands north american colonies was reformed calvanism | true |
| the most devout puritans believed that the church of england should re-emphasize its role as a bridge chruch between protestantism and catholicism | false |
| unlike the puritans the pilgrims of plymouth bay believed that they should stay within the church of england in order to reform it | false |
| the original colonists of mass bay brough their royal charter along with them as a basic constitution | true |
| most of the original settler in massachussetss were poor and largely uneducated | false |
| although mass bay had an established chruch wih voting dependent on church membership it barred clergy from actually holding political office | true |
| anne hutchinson was exiled for teach that the saved need not obey the law and that she had recieved a direct revelation from god | true |
| roger williams made rhode island the most religiously tolerant of englands north american colonies | true |
| in contrast to virginia, relations between the english settlers in new england and the indians were generally peaceful | false |
| the new england confederation succeeded in defying king charles II and establishing greater autonomy for all of englands north american colonies | false |
| dutch new netherland was and authoritarian colony with little toleration for religious dissent or democracy | true |
| williams penns colony on the delware river struggled for many years until penn invited german colonists to settl there | false |
| williams penn established an autocratic gov't that brought prospertiy but denied freedom of worship and freedom of speech | false |
| the middle colonies had a more ethnically and religiously diverse population that either the souther or new england colonies | true |
| the swedish settled colony of delaware was originally under the governance of new york | false |
| what was not among the religous groups heavily influened by john calvins version of protestant christianity | german lutherans |
| the most fervent puritans beleved that the church should consist only of | visible saints who could demonstrate the working of grace in their lives to their fellow puritans |
| the number of puritan immigrants who came to new england on the first eleven ships in 1630 was approximately | 1000 |
| voting rights in the mass bay colony provinicial governments was restricted to | adult male members of the congregrational church |
| the punishment the puritans infliced on the religous dissenters anne hutchinson and roger williams was | exile from mass |
| the new england colonies with the closest connections to puritan mass were | conneticut and new haven |
| the pequot war of 1637 resulted in | the complete annihilation of the pequot tribe and 40 years of relative calm between puritans and indians |
| englands glorious revolution of 1688-89 resulted in | american attacks on royal authority and the collapse of the dominion of new england |
| the primary initial goal of the dutch west india company in establishing its new netherland colony was | to make quick profits from the fur trade for company investors |
| the small swedish colony of new sweden was conquered in 1655 by | `the dutch from new netherland |
| what was not among the distinctive features of the quakers religous beleif and practice | a denial of the christian doctrine of the trinity |
| which of the following was not among the unusual features of williams penns colony | the communal ownership of land |
| economically the quakers of pa were | shrewd businesspeople who attained considerable prosperity through trade |
| the 2 middle colonies most closely assosicated with quaker pa were | new jersey and delaware |
| while born is mass ben franklins life and career was essentially linked with the colony of | pennsylvania |
| the population of 17th century virgnia and maryland expanded rapidly through natural population growth | false |
| the primary source of labor in the 17th century tobacco colonies came from white indentured servants | true |
| the headright system for importing indentured servant labor contributed to the growth of large and wealthy plantations in the chesapeake region | true |
| by the end of the 17th century former indentured servants enjoyed greater oppurtunity for land ownership and upward mobility into the virginia gentry | false |
| virginias governor william berkely brutally crushed bacons rebellions and hanged more than 20 of the rebels | true |
| bacons rebellions and the crisis of indentured servitude led virginia planters to look to african slaves as a better source of labor | true |
| the primary reason few african slaves were brough to north america before 1700 was that most european settlers originally objected to slavery on religious and moral grounds | false |
| the leading center of slave trading in the northern british colonies was rhode island | true |
| the highest death rate for captured africans occrued during the middle passage from african to the americas | true |
| the treatment of slave and thier life expectancy was worse in the chesapeake colonies than in the deep south colonies like south carolina | false |
| the life expectancy of colonial new englanders was not much shorter than that of present day americans | true |
| most new england married women experienced fewer than four pregnancies during their child bearing years | false |
| new england families were more stable and multi generational than those in the southern colonies | true |
| colonial new england laws permitted and actually encouraged male spouses to physically abuse their wives | false |
| the new england town was a compact center and forum for managing government education and religion | true |
| the great majority of immigrants to seventeenth century virginia and maryland were | single men in their late teens and early twenties |
| as tobacco production expanded and prices for the leaf fell seventeenth century chesapkeake tobacco farmers | planted even more tobacco on newly acquired lands |
| by the end of the 17th century the institution of white indentured servitituve was | in a state of sever crisis that led to a major rebellion by landless former indentured servantws |
| the main reason that american plantation owners turned from white indentured servitude to african slavery was | they were afraid that masses of disconeteneted whites would rebel and overthrow their social system |
| most of the africans who came to north america were originally from | western africa from senegal to angola |
| which of the following were not provisions of the colonial slave codes written in the late seventheenth century english colonies | slaves could legally marry other slaves |
| the african american population of north america was one of the few slave societies in history to | perpetuate itself by natural reproduction |
| a primary reason that souther colonial women generally enjoyed more legal rights than new england women was that | southern men frequently died young leaving their widows with small children to support |
| the primary purpose of new englands family was to | defend the integrity of marriage |
| what was not a function of the traditional new england town | relations with the indians |
| the jermiad sermons that became common after mid 17th century generally | scolded parishioners for their wanting religious zeal |
| the half way covenant established in new england after 1662 provided that | unconverted children of church members could be baptized but not admitted to communion |
| a primary cause of the salem witchcraafts of 1692 was | the increasing social change and growing social stratification in new england towns |
| the generally unfavorable conditions for new england agriculture led to | an increasing economic turn to fishing shipbuilding and commerce |
| most of the english colonists in 17th century noth american were the descendents of | the middle layers of enlgish and europenan society |
| most of the increase in american population up to 1755 came from eurpean immigration and african slave importation | false |
| the center of the german ethnic population in the colonies was pennsylvania | true |
| there was less economic oppurtunity for ordinary americans in the 18th century than for contemporary britons | false |
| scots-irish immigrants generally settled in the mountain frontier areas because the better coastal land was already taken | true |
| the british gov't forcibly sent about fifty thousand convicted criminals and paupers to the american colonies | true |
| members of the ordinated clergy enjoyed little repect or social status in britains north american colonies | false |
| before the american revolution about 90 percent of the american population worked in agriculture | true |
| the largest portion of colonial commerse consisted of the triangular trade among new england west africa and the west indies | false |
| the best educated and most repsected clergy in colonial americfa belondged to the anglican chruch | false |
| the great awakening represented a spiritual and emotional challenge to the loss of earlier religious fervor in the colonies | true |
| the great awakenings leaders were hostile to and educated clergy and refused to support colonial colleges | false |
| the great awakening represented one of the first spontaneous movement of colonists as americans rather than as residents of seperate colonies | true |
| schools and colleges were more highly developed and better supported in colonial new england that in the middle colonies or the south | true |
| because they resented british political control american colonists looked to france and italy for much of their cultural goods and ideals | false |
| in the zenger case of 1734 a ny jury held that a newspaper could not be punished for libel it its statemetns about puclic officials were truthful | true |
| by 1775 appro what percent of the american pop was african american | 20 |
| the scots irish immigrants to the american colonies were known for their | individualism and hostility to governmental officials |
| the french settler crevecourer attributed the complex ethinic makeup of the american colonists to | the fact that americans of many diverse ethnic groups were intermingling and intermarrying |
| the vast majority of american colonists before the revolution were | small landowning farmers |
| the very lowest social class among white colonists consisted of | convicts and paupers |
| the worst disease in the colonies was | smallpox |
| the largest colonial manufacturing activity consisted of | lumbering shipbuilding and naval stores |
| colonial taverns were especially important as centers of | political conversation and orginization |
| the 2 colonial denominations that were most hostile to british authority and active in rebellious agitation were | presbyterians and congregationalists |
| the anglican church in america was severly handicapped by | its poorly educated clergy and lack of a resident bishop |
| clergy and believers who strongly supported the great awakeneing were called | new lights |
| the great awakening led to the founding of several new colleges including | princeton brown and dartmouth |
| many colonial southerners chose to educate their sons in | elite enlgish universisties |
| besides his classsic autobiography ben franklin was best known as a writer for | poor richards almanack |
| a primary means that colonial assemblies used to challenge royalr governors was | using to withhold the governors salary unless he yielded to their demands |
| samuel de champlain the father of new france allied french colonization with the huron indians in hostility to the iroguois | true |
| the strongest source of french colonists were the dissenting protestant french hugenots | false |
| the greatest economic foundation of frances new world empire was the fur trade | true |
| the french were unable to expand much beyond canada due to the spanish and british occupancy of the mouth of the mississippi river system | false |
| most of the colonial wars of the early 18th century featured britain and spain allied against the expanding french empire | false |
| george washingtons crucial role in the french british war for empire began when he successfuly defended virginia against a french invasion | false |
| at the albany congress of 1754 ben franklin attempted unsuccessfully to forge a plan for intercolonial unity | true |
| the british victory in the battle of quebec effectively makred the end of frances colonial empire in north america | TRUE |
| the successful performance of colonial soldiers and officers like george washington earned the respect of the professional british military | false |
| the experience of fighting together in the french and indian war created new and bitter divisions among citizens of the diverse 13 colonies | false |
| pride in the victorious british empire made american colonists feel a stronger sense of british partriotism after 1763 | false |
| among the major winners from the treaty of paris were the iriquois creeks and other interior indian trives | false |
| the british defeat of the ottawa cheif ponitact in 1763 openened the door to american colonial migration across the apps | true |
| the british prohibition of colonial expansion in the proclomation of 1763 aroused americans resentment and defiance | true |
| in the wake of their great victory in the seven years ware britons were filled with pride and determined to put upstart colonials back in line | true |
| the primary center of french imperial activity in north american was | quebec |
| what was not a reason that new france grew slowly | there were no valuable resources to be exploited in canada |
| the catholic religious order that played a large role in explorartion and attempted conversion of the indians to christianity was | the jesuits |
| what was not among the 18th century was fought between britain and france | the war of jenkins ear |
| when did the french and indian war begin | when the governor of virginia sent george washington into the french controlled ohio country |
| ben franklins famous cartoon published to promote the 1754 albany congress contained the slogan... | join or die |
| the french success in the early phases of the seven years war was greatled aid by their alliance with... | the indians |
| general james wolfe effectively ended frances new world empire with his daring victory in | the battle of quebec |
| the colonial view of the proffesional british army altered when | they saw the arrogance and vulnerability of the british redcoats |
| british officials grew very angry and impatient with their colonial subjects during the 7 years ware because | many of the colonists refused to provide funds to support the conflict and their own defense |
| perhaps the greatest political benefit of the war for the american colonists was that | their discovery that they were all americans who spoke a common language and shared common ideals |
| of the french settler of louisianne were largely drawn from | refugees from british conquered nova scotia new brunswick and prince edward island |
| the american colonists felt a new sence of freedom after the seven years war because | they no longer felt the need for british militairy protection from the menacing french |
| the ottawa chief pontiacs 1763 campaign to drive the british out the the ohio country led to | a crushing indian defeate and british determination to stabilize the frontier at colonial expense |
| the british proclamation of 1763 forbidding futher colonial settlement beyond the apps led to | A growing westward migration and outright defiance of british authority |
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