Hist 130- iStudy Exam 1

(Q046) A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadores.

False

(Q058) Intermarriage was common between Indians and English settlers.

False

(Q030) Which of the following are true about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs?

He viewed established churches as a major example of despotism and believed that religious liberty served God's will.

(Q030) One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was that

Indian use of alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive to Native American culture.

(Q047) What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?

Its members fought for both England and America

(Q042) During the first half of the eighteenth century, the flow of non-English migrants to British North America was larger than that of English migrants.

True

(Q044) During the early to mid-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.

True

(Q045) Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration.

True

(Q053) Colonial political offices frequently passed from generation to generation within the same family.

True

(Q053) While Abigail Adams resented the "absolute power" husbands exercised over their wives, she did not believe in female equality in a modern sense.

True

(Q057) Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.

True

(Q059) During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.

True

(Q071) Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.

True

(Q036) In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope in life?

a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians

(Q024) Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued that

democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.

(Q041) What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians?

enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans

(Q038) South Carolina and Georgia were the two southern colonies that failed to take what action to help win the war?

enroll free blacks and slaves to fight

Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?

expand westward

(Q006) Which of the following was a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?

frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land

(Q045) Following the Seven Years' War, what factor led to a loss of power for Native American tribes in eastern North America?

he departure of the French

(Q025) As a result of the Seven Years' War, a large number of French residents in Nova Scotia

moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns.

Who were the mestizos in the Americas?

persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin

(Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that

just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule over others.

(Q011) Native American religious beliefs and practices included

medicine men in positions of authority.

(Q042) A "borderland" is a

meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly defined.

(Q014) Under the ideals of liberalism, the "social contract" extorted that

men retain their natural rights because these rights predated the establishment of political authority.

(Q044) The Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of a despotic national government.

True

(Q046) The 1790 Naturalization Act barred non-white foreigners from attaining American citizenship.

True

(Q048) Under the seventeenth-century British Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be transported in English ships and sold in ports in England.

True

(Q049) By 1750, the Virginian population recognized "white" and "free" as virtually identical.

True

(Q035) The Constitution mandates that the President of the United States must be a(n)

"natural born citizen."

(Q028) Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World were that

English settlements would reduce the Spanish empire and the influence of Catholicism.

(Q038) The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.

False

(Q036) Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as trading partners and allies than the English, Native Americans exercised more

power and freedom with Europeans in relations with these settlements.

(Q004) In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should

regulate economic activity to promote the nation's power.

(Q015) Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty

required all persons to affirm Jesus Christ's divinity.

(Q017) What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) argued that

the "invisible hand" of the free market was more effective and fairer than government intervention in the economy.

(Q033) What area did England continue to control in the Americas after the American Revolution?

Canada

(Q030) The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was

Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.

(Q039) Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch.

False

(Q041) Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Virginia.

False

(Q049) Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.

False

(Q050) Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of African-based slavery.

False

(Q052) "Racism"--the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over them--was fully developed in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia.

False

(Q054) The phrase "freedom of speech" originated in colonial America.

False

(Q002) One of the leading Federalist thinkers, known as the "father of the Constitution," was

James Madison

(Q036) What territory did the United States acquire from France in 1803?

Louisiana

(Q027) In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launched a revolt against British rule called

Pontiac's Rebellion.

(Q033) Which of the following is true regarding the Middle Passage?

Ship captains sometimes threw slaves overboard, especially when they were sick.

The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were

a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.

(Q002) One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was

a renewed sense of entitlement to political liberty for Anglican Protestants.

To prevent them from being seized by British vessels and "impressed" into the British Navy, Congress in 1790 granted citizenship to

black sailors.

(Q012) Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was

called New Netherland and controlled by the Dutch empire.

(Q012) Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between

church and state

(Q014) Shays's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of

debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.

(Q001) Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to

declare war.

(Q025) Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence

declared the United States independent of British rule.

(Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease.

(Q012) The European practice of "coverture" included that

in marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.

(Q022) The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

indentured servants

(Q027) The U.S. Constitution

is a purely secular document that contains no reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders.

(Q026) To finance the war, Congress

issued hundreds of millions of dollars in paper money.

Following the Proclamation of 1763,

its ordinances were ignored and officials covered their involvement in land grabs.

(Q038) 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.

(Q029) Jefferson's idea of the "empire of liberty" involved

the United States admitting the area's population as equal members of the political system.

(Q020) The effect of the Enlightenment on religion resulted in

the adoption of the concept of deism.

(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was

the desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England.

(Q029) Why did news of the 1492 voyage of Columbus spread rapidly in Europe?

the invention of printing with movable type

(Q020) Federalism refers to

the relationship between the national government and the states.

(Q032) What was Thomas Jefferson's solution to tension between Indians and whites after the American Revolution?

the removal of Indians to territory beyond the Mississippi River

(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

the suppression of town meetings and local elections

(Q006) As a result of the three-fifths clause,

the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted.

(Q027) Which of the following defines republican motherhood?

training sons to be future citizens

(Q011) When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by

virtual representation.

(Q030) 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.

(Q015) Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s

were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.

(Q019) Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts

were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.

(Q035) 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 of the community.

(Q021) The Great Awakening occurred because many ministers were concerned with

westward expansion.