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