History 1301 Unit 1 Quizzes 1-4

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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


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