US History Unit 1 Exam

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics

The Great League of Peace included all of the following except

Choctaw

Which is NOT true regarding Kind Philip and King Philip's War?

Indian tribes fought together under unified leadership of Metacom

Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?

Powhatan

Another name for for indentured families was

Redemptioners

This was the first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population

South Carolina

The richest group of mainland colonists were

South Carolina planters

Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?

Squanto

The oldest site in the present-day continental United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans and their descendants is

St. Augustine, Florida

As a result of this uprising, the state slave code was tightened and a temporarily imposition of a prohibitive tax on imported slaves was established.

Stono Rebellion

In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was

The House of Burgesses in Virginia

The event that started the Pequot War was

The killing of a fur trader by the Pequots

Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-1688)?

Vermont

The Albany Plan of Union

Was the attempt to create a council composed of delegates from each colony to levy taxes and settle domestic issues

Within the Puritan community, the family was considered the foundation of a strong community while unmarried persons

Were viewed as a danger to the social fabric

In Jonathan Edward's view, what was a sinner's only hope?

a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians

Benjamin Franklin is credited with all of the following except

founding a Catholic Church in Baltimore

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

grandchildren of the English Great Migration

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease

Following the Proclamation of 1763

its ordinances were ignores and officials covered their involvement of land grabs

Under the ______ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs

task

The three-race system developed in

the British Caribbean

All of the following contributed to the devestation of Indian society except

the introduction of British animals

Despite China's large power, their purpose in exploration was

to impress other peoples with their might

In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could do all of the following except

vote

The Levellers

wanted to greatly expand the right to vote

Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts

were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity

The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is most closely related to what political idea?

Republicanism

Father Junipero Serra founded the first Catholic mission in 1769 at

San Diego

In 1610 Spain established the capital of New Mexico at _______, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest?

Santa Fe

In North America, three new and very different empires had arisen in the late seventeenth century-

Spanish, French, and English

Which of the following was not a notable feature of the sixteenth-century Spanish America?

The Spanish crown took initially little interest in the administration of colonial affairs?

Which of the following was not a Puritan thought?

The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption

Which were the following was NOT a major reason early Europeans felt the Indians were barbaric?

Their wearing of beads and feathers

Which did NOT characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland and in the 1600s?

They could not own African slaves

Lord Baltimore's sudden voting restriction based on land accumulation resulted in

Protestant uprising calling for his removal of office

This dwelling structure in New Mexico stood five stories high and had more than 60 rooms

Pueblo Bonita

Which was not true of the Middle Passage?

Seventy precent of slaves were destined for North America

Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?

She could only own property with her paster's permission

The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called

The Enlightenment

Which of the following events did not happen in the 1630's

The House of Burgesses was established (1619)

What was not part of the aftermath of King Philip's War?

The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed

Which of the following was not a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?

A determination to abolish slavery in Virginia

A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe

A person who had experienced a conversion experience

Olaudah Equiano was

A slave who purchased his freedom

Another name for the Church of England was the

Anglican Church

The reconquista happened in what year?

1492

The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?

1502

Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?

5%

An indenture was

A contract for labor for a period of years

Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World were

English settlements would strike a blow against the Spanish empire and their influence of Catholicism

Huguenots

French Protestants who fled Europe to North America

The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was

George Whitefield

Which colony was founded by a group of philanthropists led by James Oglethorpe?

Georgia

Which was not expressed by Bartolome de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552?

He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration

Which was not a means by which Cortes conquered the Aztecs?

He bombarded the Aztec capitol from his Spanish galleons

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

Indentured servants

In the 1500's and 1600's, the Spanish in Central and South America relied on many of which of the following groups to work fields and mines?

Indians

During Pontiac's Rebellion, Neolin, the prophet, asserted all except

Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies

What was NOT part of the Glorious Revolution

It secured Catholic succession to the throne of England

Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?

Large cities were unknown to the Americas

Which was NOT an element in Leilser's Rebellion?

Leisler's success meant French domination of New York

Which African kingdom provided Europe with most of its gold?

Mali

Which of the following was NOT a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690's?

Many were tried on charged of witchcraft, but no one was actually convicted

During the Pueblo Revolt, which of the following names were ordered to never be spoken again?

Mary

Following Order (Flip Card)

Mayflower Compact, Trial of Anne Hutchinson, Half-Way Covenant

Under the liberalism idea, the "social contract" exhorted that

Men retain their natural rights, as they predated the establishment of political authority

As a result of the Seven Years Was, a number of French residents in Nova Scotia

Moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns

The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was

Pennsylvania

Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?

People in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders

Who were the peninsulares?

Persons of European birth

`Who were the mestizos?

Persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin

In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port and cultural center was

Philadelphia

In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launches a revolt against British rule called

Pontiac's Rebellion

One change in Indian life after the English colonists settles was

alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive

The Charter of Liberties and Privileges

allowed for a trial by jury and the security of property

In Salem witchcraft trials of 1692,

almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft

A child of an Indian and a mestiza is a

coyote

Slaves, in the traditional African example, tended to be

criminals, debtors, and captives in war

Which was not a characteristic of early New England society?

equality of the sexes in general church affairs, but not in governmental affairs

Following order (Flip Card)

establishment of Dominion of New England, Glorious Revolution in England, English Toleration Act

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was

land ownership

In 1691, Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter, issued by the English government, absorbed Plymouth into Massachusetts and

made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting in General Court elections

Dutch shareholders who agreed to transport tenants for agriculture labor were called

patroons

Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

rice

Along with the sugar, the West Indies also produced this increasingly popular product enjoyed by both North American and Indians

rum

The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by

sheep

The chief crop produced by Western Hemisphere slaves during the eighteenth century was also the first to be mass-marketed to consumers in Europe?

sugar

The Great Awakening occurred as many ministers were concerned with

westward expansion

Which of these crops did not form the basis of Native American agriculture?

wheat

In eighteenth century colonial America, all of these groups were ineligible to vote as they lacked a "will of their own" except

white landholders

The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called

Arminianism

Which of the following was not a significant outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?

Campaigns to discourage migration by English women, who, it was feared, would distract male Virginians from their work in the fields

Following in order (Flip Card)

Cortes's conquest of the Aztecs, Las Casas's History of the Indies, Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement

In 1500, Pedro Cabral claimed Brazil for

Portugal

Eighteenth-century migrants included Scottish and Scotch-Irish, who were mostly

Presbyterians

The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called

Presidios

Some slaves came to the colonies familiar with Christianity, but most North American slaves practiced

traditional African religions

Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century English society?

the elimination of gender hierarchies

When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, he called for all except

the freeing of slaved, particularly enslaved Christians