History Midterm

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What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to India, China, and the East Indies

To find markets for Portugal's surplus manufactured goods

Which statement about women in the early Virginia colony is False

Women consisted of about half the white population

Great Britain's debt from colonial wars was how many pounds?

150 million

Approximately how many free Americans remained loyal to the British during the war?

20 to 25 percent

During the eight years of war, approximately how many Americans bore arms in the Continental army and state militias?

200,000

It is estimated that between ______ percent of adult whit men could vote in eighteenth-century colonial British America

50 and 80

Religious dissension in England the first half of the seventeenth century resulted in

A civil War

John Locke's political Philosophy stressed

A contrat system between the people and the government

Who would southern colonists have seen as the best candidate for serving as the town's judge

A wealthy planter

Who might be considered an ideal woman in late eighteenth century America?

An educated Mother

Before being captured, slaves in the forest regions of West Africa worshipped

Aspects of nature

Pre-Columbian Native Americans lacked metal tools

Because no metal deposits existed in the Americas

The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents in the year 1200 is today know as

Cahokia

Maryland was established as a refuge for which group

Catholics

Who received the most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?

Colonial and European merchants

New Netherland never became an important or sizable colony in the Dutch empire.

False

The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following Except

Defeating the English fleet in 1588

The assumption among ordinary people that wealth, education, and social prominence entitled leaders to public office was called

Deference

The Spanish reconquista required that all Muslims and Jews convert to Catholicism or leave Spain immediately

False

The Spanish were the first to sail down the western coast of Africa, establishing trading posts called factories

False

The first Continental Congress raised an army and appointed George Washington as its commander.

False

Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush promoted what to help with American virtue?

Education

During the reign of, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphry Gilbert and Walter Raleigh of the establishment of colonies there.

Elizabeth I

The mound builders were a sophisticated ancient people living in the American southwest

False

The immigrant group most likely to settle on the colonial western-most frontier was

English

According to Noah Webster, what was the very soul of a republic?

Equality

All thirteen colonies attended the Stamp Act Congress.

False

Although a few were outraged by the stamp act, most politically active colonists actually supported it.

False

Bacon's Rebellion was caused by a conflict between blacks and whites in Virginia.

False

Columbus established the first permanent settlement on Hispaniola in 1502

False

Like the first Jamestown settlers, the settlers of Massachusetts were mostly families

False

Thomas Paine wrote common sense as a response to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

False

With the Peace of Paris

France lost its North American empire

What does the seal of New Netherland, adopted by the Dutch West India Company in 1630, suggest is central to the colony's economic prospects?

Fur

The ultimate goal for the English in gaining New Amsterdam and New Netherland from the Dutch was to

Gain slaves

The most famous Great Awakening revivalist minister was

George Whitefield

The language spoken by African American slaves on the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia during the eighteenth century was known as

Gullah

What geographic error did Columbus make?

He grossly underestimated the size of the Earth.

Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church

He wanted a divorce and the Pope refused to grant it.

In 1519, who became the first European explorer to encounter the Aztec empire?

Hernan Cortes

By the end of the seventeenth century, who was most successful at using diplomacy in securing rights to use land

Iroquois

Who in the American colonies benefited the most from the Glorious Revolution

Jacob Leisler

Virtually every founding father owned at least one slave at some point in his life, who was a notable exception?

John Adams

Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian

John Calvin

Which colonial leader warned that independence from England would lead to constant internal disputes and possible civil war

Joseph Galloway

Both Aztecs and Inca empires were

Large, Wealthy, and sophisticated

The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the

Moors

Which Statement about the Indians of North America is False

Many Indian Societies were Matrilineal

In 1517,the German priest _____ began the protestant reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses, which accused the Catholic Church of worldliness and corruption

Martin Luther

Around 7000 BCE agriculture developed in the Americas around

Mexico and the Andes

Why did Parliament think the colonists would accept the Townshend duties?

Most colonists wanted to stop smuggling, too

What area of North America was most like England in regards to ethnicity?

New England

The Jesuit religious order was particularly influenced in

New France

Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became

New Jersey

Which state's constitution granted suffrage to all inhabitants who met a property qualification, allowing property owning women to vote until an 1807 amendment limited suffrage to males

New Jersey

John Cabot sailed to

Newfoundland

In regards to voting for the states, what was a contentious issue?

Owning property

What was Virginia's gold, which ensured its survival and prosperity?

tobacco

Who was most likely to build the best relationships with the Native Americans

Pilgrims

William Penn was a member of which religious group

Quakers

In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded

Quebec

What was William Penn's most fundamental principle

Religious Freedom

The English Toleration Act of 1690

Set the stage for the Salem Witch Trials

Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe, whose causes included improved conditions for imprisioned debtors and abolition of

Slavery

Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest

South Carolina rice planters

What commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?

Sugar

What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony?

Swearing

Which of the following created the largest political consensus in the American colonies

The buying and selling of tea

Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia

was rare

The transatlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugar cane is called

The Columbian Exchange

Who finally ended the Salem Witch Trials?

The Massachusetts governor

Which European country dominated international commerce int he early seventeenth century

The Netherland

What armed group, motivated by deep frustrations with the corruption of North Carolina's county officials, was defeated by the colony's militia at the 1771 Battle of Alamance?

The Sons of Liberty

The treatment of John Wilkes resembled which act of Parliament against the colonies?

The Tea Act

A west African captured and sold into slavery in 1650 most likely ended up in

The West Indies

Bacon's Rebellion was a response to

worsening economic conditions in Virigina

Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party with

The intolerable Acts

Who demanded to elect their own officers

The lower house of the state legislatures

A commonality shared between the Asians who crossed the Bering Strait and theEuropeans who creased the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years later was

The search for food items

What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire

The seven years' war

Which one of the following is true of indentured servants?

Their masters could determine whether they could marry

In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's biggest influence in regards to natural rights came from?

Thomas Paine

Who wrote the following," one of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in Kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an ass for a lion."?

Thomas Paine

Most of the slaves carried to the new world were destined for mainland North America

True

Only a few West African societies participated in the slave trade

True

Prior to the Seven Years' war, Britain had not tried to regulate the colonies' economy.

True

France's relations with Native American tribes can be described as a marriage of necessity because

Very few French came to North America

Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?

Virginia

The constitutions of which states retained property qualifications for voting?

Virginia and South Carolina

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England

Was more family-oriented

In regards to geography, English colonies

Were in colder climates when compared to Spanish Colonies

The English finally became successful in defeating the French in the Seven Years' War under the leadership of

William Pitt

Virginia law gave the American veteran land and

a slave

A rising demand for sugar, rice, and tobacco led to

an increase in the Atlantic Slave Trade

Why was the Proclamation of 1763 difficult to enforce?

it involved a large geographical area

Which English group did the most to reshape the Native American environment in the seventeenth century

settlers farming the land.

Ordinary citizens were most likely to debate politics in

taverns

What did the invisible hand refer to

the free market

Europeans-particularly the English, French, and Dutch- generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on

their view that Indians did not use the land properly

What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763

to protect the Indians


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