History 1301 Unit 1 Quizzes 1-4
Jews and Muslims
In 1492, the Spanish forced these two religious groups to either convert or leave
Eunice, the daughter of John Williams was captured by Indians at the age of 7. She later assimilated to Indian life, refused to return to New England, and married an Indian man. Which tribe did she marry into?
Mohawk
Where did the protestant reformation begin
Northern Europe
The Mayflower compact was signed by people headed to this colony
Plymouth
Which of the following is not true of the Puritan religion?
Religious freedom was important.
The first English attempt at colonizing the New World was
Roanoke
What caused the deaths of most of the native American population?
an epidemic of smallpox
Which crop did the Europeans bring to the new road
Wheat
Which of the following best describes most of the first English settlers to arrive at the colony of Jamestown?
peasants who had been forced off their farms and sought work
Which of the following was a goal of the Spanish in their destruction of Fort Caroline?
reducing the threat of French privateers
What was the "conspiracy" of the New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741?
slaves conspiring to burn down the city and take control
Which of the following represents a concern that those in England and her colonies maintained about James II?
that he would institute a Catholic absolute monarchy
What was the Dominion of New England?
the consolidated New England colony James II created
What was the Middle Passage?
the transatlantic journey that African slaves made to America.
Why did the Spanish build Castillo de San Marcos?
to defend against imperial challengers
What was the chief goal of the Puritans
to eliminate any traces of Catholicism from the Church of England
The growth in colonial population that occurred by the early 1700s led to which of the following?
wider gap between the rich and poor
Inca
Which culture developed a road system rivaling that of the Romans?
Olmec
Which culture developed the only writing system in the Western Hemisphere
Anasazi
Which of the following Indian peoples built homes in cliff dwellings that still exist?
Sedentary village life
Which of the following characterized the post-Arcaic phase in North America?
Batolome de las casas denounce Spanish brutality in the New World in his writings which became known as
Black legend
Large wealthy and Sophisticated
Both aztec and Inca empires were
How could encomiendas be obtained
By serving the Spanish crown
Constantinople
In 1054 the eastern branch of Christianity establish its center in __________. The Western branch remained in Rome
Which religious order joined the French settlement in Canada and tried to convert the natives to Christianity?
Jesuits
Who wrote "Two Treatises of Government" and promoted the idea government existed to protect "life, liberty, and property"?
John Locke
What was the first major conflict in the Americas that the English colonists fought?
King Philip's War
Cortes was aided in his conquest of the Aztec and other native Indians by _____________who served as an interpreter
Malintzin
Which of these is not a "Restoration" colony?
Maryland
The first English Colong settled by Puritans was
Massachusetts Bay colony
The Pueblo
Which southwestern tribe was first to build multi-room and multistory buildings?
They wanted to circumvent Arabic merchants
Why was finding an oceanic route to Asia important to the Europeans?
They were able to resist diseases that had affected the native peoples.
Why were the West Africans preferred over the native people of the Americas for enslaved labor?
Venice
______ became wealthy trading with the east
What was patroonship?
a Dutch system of granting tracts of land in New Netherland to encourage colonization
What was the First Great Awakening?
a Protestant revival that emphasized emotional, experiential faith over book learning
Cahokia
What was the location of the largest mound-building culture in the early North America?
Why was Jamestown originally founded?
as a center for economic opportunity
In the early years of the Virginia colony, ______________ were commonly used for labor.
indentured servants
The city we now call New York was first established by the
Dutch
Which of the following is not a tenet of the Enlightenment?
Atheism
The imperial power enjoyed relatively good relations with native peoples of the New World
France
Rice, indigo, and tobacco
The first African slaves were brought to the English colonies in North America to cultivate which crops?
From the west
The first migrants to North America reached it from which direction?
Had elaborate trade networks
Before the arrival of Columbus, Native North Americans
By crossing the Bering Strait from the west
How did the first people to migrate North America reach it?
Why didn't England make stronger attempts to colonize the new world before the late 60s and early 17th century
English attention was turn to internal struggles and the encroaching Catholic menace to Scotland and Ireland
True of False - The English Toleration Act of 1689 was written, in part, for the protection and toleration of religions of all English subjects.
False
The first permanent colony established by Europeans in the modern-day United States was in what modern-day state?
Florida
Asia
From where did the first migrants to North America origionate?
False
Globalization is the ever decreasing interconnectedness of the world
Who were the main combatants in the French and Indian War?
Great Britain against the French and their Indian allies
Many people doubted Christopher Columbus's plan to sail west because
He underestimated the circumference of the earth
Pueblo people
Hohokam Indians were part of the pueblo people
The first permanent English colony in the modern day United States was
Jamestown
Who was the head of the new English Commonwealth?
Oliver Cromwell
The first English colony settled by pilgrims was
Plymouth
Which explorer initiated the Spanish charting of the Southeastern region?
Ponce de León
Which country initiated the era of Atlantic exploration
Portugal
The strategic holdings of islands and coastal ports gave this country an almost unrivaled control of nautical routes and global empire of trading post during the 1400s
Portugal (the Netherlands) ( Dutch)
_____________Spearheaded early exploration into the Atlantic world
Prince Henry
What was the predominant religion in Pennsylvania?
Quakerism
The Society of Friends were
Quakers
Which of these believed in the concept of "inner light"?
Quakers
Marco Polo
Which Europeans travels first provoked the Western European curiosity for Asian goods?
The founders of the Plymouth colony were:
Separatists
Which colony had a black majority by 1715?
South Carolina
Where were the first Europeans to establish a colony in North America from?
Spain
Which country established the first colonies in the Americas
Spain
What was the first European colony established in the area we now call the United States of America?
St. Augustine
Which of these barred colonist from importing goods that had not been made in England
Staple Act
The Negro Act of 1740 was a reaction to
Stono Rebellion
This commodity was an important part of early African slavery
Sugar
Aztec
Tenochtitlan was home to the __________
Protestants like John Calvin and Martin Luther believed
The Bible should be available in every day language
On which modern day location did Christopher Columbus's fleet first land in the new world
The Caribbean
What was the principal cause of the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico?
The Spanish had attempted to keep the Pueblos from practicing their native religion.
False
The Spanish preserved Mayan history in forms of glyphs or pictures representing words recorded in folding books called codices
Silk Road
The ________ is the overland trading route from china to the Mediterranean
Inca
The _________ gave as much as one third of their crop to those who were unable to work or grow their own food.
Maya
The __________ perfected the calendar and written language the Olmec had begun
Timbuktu
The city of __________ became the leading center for Muslim scholarship and trade
How did the Europeans arrival in the New World have the most detrimental effect on its ecosystem?
The livestock brought by the Europeans devoured the native plants.
To what does the term "Restoration" refer?
The restoration of Charles II to the English throne
The crusades
The series of attempts by Christian armies to retake the Holy Lands(region of Palestine) from Muslims was known as ______________
What actions by the Spanish settlers in the New Mexico colony led to the Pueblo Revolt?
They kept them from practicing their native religion.
How did the French settlers approach colonization in the New World differently from the Spanish?
They sought to make alliances with the native peoples instead of subjugating them.
Cahokia
This civilization near modern day St. Louis had more than 10,000 residents with 10,000 more living in farms around city it was the hub of political and trading activities along the Mississippi River
The British and French West Indies
To which colonies were the largest number of slaves transported from West Africa during the transatlantic slave trade?
What was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies?
Tobacco
What was the main goal of the French in colonizing the Americas
Trading especially for furs
The ____________ divided South America between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
True of False - King James II once worked as a slave trader.
True
The New World was called America in honor of
Vespucci
Environmental changes
What posed the biggest threat to the early peoples of the American Southwest prior to the year 1300
The first English colonists in the Chesapeake region were devoted to
finding gold
What was the primary cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
former indentured servants wanted more opportunities to expand their territory
What was the primary goal of Britain's wars for empire from 1688 to 1763?
greater power in Europe and the world
What was the primary cause for the population growth in the American colonies in the early 1700s?
immigration to the Americas from Europe
