history quizzes 1-3

Who were the Paxton Boys?

A group of Scots-Irish settlers in Pennsylvania who attacked a peaceful group of Native Americans in 1763

The _________________ were colonial organizations that were established to coordinate plans for obstruction of the British government.

Committees of Correspondence

Which Revolutionary War battle in the South was a decisive American victory?

Cowpens

According to the OpenStax textbook, Puritans refers to English Catholics who wanted to bring back Catholic practices to the nation and restore religious ties with the Pope

False

According to the textbook, George Washington was very successful in the early years of the war (in particular, 1776 and 1777) in his successful defense of New York City and Philadelphia from the British. He did, however, suffer a series of setbacks at Trenton and Princeton and learned valuable lesson about not fighting during the winter season.

False

According to the video "Consideration for Women's Rights," John Adams was very supportive of Abigail Adams and her request the Congress support greater rights for women, going so far as to introduce legislation into Congress to expand property rights for women.

False

According to the video "Slavery and the American Revolution," the American Revolution had no positive impact on the condition of slaves in America, and in fact, most northern states passed laws after the war that prohibited the emancipation (freedom) of slaves.

False

According to the website "The Salem Witchcraft Trials," the Salem trials ended because King William issued a royal proclamation ending the trials and accusing the judges of prosecuting only those who were practicing Anglicans.

False

King Philip's War was a major conflict in the colony of Virginia that began in 1622 and is significant because it was the first time in the South that the two main Indian nations in the Carolinas (Cherokee, Creek) united together in an effort to throw out the English in the southern colonies.

False

King Philip's war (1675 - 1676) left New England's Indians more powerful and threatening than ever.

False

The Boston Massacre was a conflict between a group of Bostonians and British regulars, resulting in the deaths of over 100 Bostonians in June 1775 and leading to the commencement of hostilities between the British and colonists.

False

The Incas had no written language, but they recorded events and communicated using a system of colored knots and strips called Quechua.

False

The nature of slavery in the Chesapeake shifted to an institution almost as soon as it began in the early 17th century.

False

According to your textbook, this minister is considered to be the "foremost evangelical of the Great Awakening" who electrified colonial listeners with his brilliant oratory.

George Whitefield

According to the video English Settlement, which of the following is true about John Winthrop?

He is the founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony who delivered a sermon entitled "Model of Christian Charity" where he outline the vision of Massachusetts, including a demand that the colonists become a "tightly knit" community to avoid the pitfalls that had taken place in Virginia

Why is John Dickinson significant?

He was the author of "Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer" who argued that Parliament could not impose either internal taxes, like stamps, on goods or external taxes, like customs duties, on imports.

Why is slavery in the Americas considered different than any type of slave/bondage system that had come before this time?

It became a race-based slavery system in the New World unlike any bondage system that had come before American slavery

What is true about the Yamasee War?

It demonstrates the key role native peoples played in shaping the outcome of colonial struggles and the disunity that existed between different native groups It was caused in part by outrageous actions on the part of English traders when they took native women captive as payment for debts It was caused in part by English expansion onto Indian land to support their growing demand for rice and tobacco fields

The _______, members of the Society of Jesus, an elite religious group whose goal was the spread of Catholicism among the natives, worked in present-day Canada to convert the indigenous people.

Jesuits

Which European's travels first provoked the Western European curiosity for exploration and expansion?

Marco Polo

How did Great Britain respond to the destruction of tea in Boston in 1773?

Parliament passed the Boston Port Bill designed to shut down the port of Boston unit the destroyed tea was repaid The Massachusetts government was placed under direct control of crown officials Parliament passed the Administration of Justice Act allowed the royal governor to move any trial of a crown officer out of Massachusetts It increased the scope of the Quartering Act by allowing British troops to be housed in occupied buildings

The ____________ initiated the African slave trade when they began exploring south along the western coast of Africa and found that they could supply their labor needs on their sugar plantations with African slave labor.

Portugese

The Rhode Island Colony was founded by _________ who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his liberal ___________ beliefs.

Roger Williams/political

Explorer ______________ established ___________ as a fur-trading post in present-day Canada.

Samuel de Champlain, Quebec

The people who are now labeled "Pilgrims" and settled the Plymouth Colony in 1620 called themselves ___________ or Saints.

Separatists

Which of the following European diseases was responsible for the greatest number of Amerindian deaths in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

Smallpox

The ___________ was the plan devised by colonists in Massachusetts to resist the Intolerable Acts by arming the local militias and agreeing to refuse to trade or do business with Britons in the Mother Country.

Suffolk Resolves

According to the document Historical Interpretation: The American Revolution, what is Gordon Wood's interpretation of the American Revolution?

The political changes brought on by the Revolution radically altered American society by now focusing on liberal ideas and democracy

What is true about women's contributions to the Revolutionary War per the article "Women's Service with the Revolutionary Army"?

They performed laundry services for the soldiers They worked as cooks and in some cases earned extra income for their services They worked as nurses to take care of the sick and wounded In several cases, women actually fought as soldiers

What is true about the Quakers in Pennsylvania?

They were pacifists who with the leadership of William Penn tried to establish friendly relationships with local native peoples and insisted on buying Indian land for a fair price instead of taking it by force.

Why did the Europeans begin to search in earnest for a faster route to the Orient?

Travel along the Silk Road was expensive and time-consuming and the Moors blocked the route more and more over time.

According to the article "American Indians and the American Revolution," the impact of the Revolution on Native Americans was devastating and resulted in many Indian tribes losing land, even those who had fought on the side of the United States.

True

According to the segment "A Visual Footnote" in the video English Settlement, the painting of Elizabeth Freake represents the proper role of a middle-class Puritan woman and displays Puritan prosperity through her clothing and furniture.

True

According to the textbook, Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty used public media to engage in a relentless propaganda campaign against British oppression. This included the use of newspaper articles and pamphlets to suggest that the Boston Massacre was actually a planned murder on the part of the British.

True

According to the textbook, the French and Indian War is considered to be a consequential war because it created a large debt in Great Britain. This resulted in attempts by Great Britain in the 1760s and 1770s to diminish this debt through imperial reforms causing significant strain within the empire.

True

According to the video Goree, slaves experienced brutal conditions not only at the slave port Goree, but also in their trip across the Atlantic.

True

According to the video New World Encounters, Native Americans in the Southeast and New Mexico were unable to resist Spanish exploration and colonization in any meaningful way and there was little bloodshed between the two groups because of superior Spanish technology.

True

After a period of tense peace following the 1622 Powhatan attack on Jamestown the 3rd Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644-1646 resulted in the deaths of 500 English colonists.

True

Disease killed more indigenous people than did anything else in the early years of European colonization.

True

During the Age of Exploration, European nations used conquest, colonization and trade to increase their acquisition of resources in the Americas

True

Europeans were introduced to luxury goods, spices, silk, porcelain and sugar from the East during the Crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries.

True

For more than 200 years, Goree was the west African center of the Atlantic slave trade.

True

In Florida in the 16th century French Huguenots and Spaniards vied for control of the area. This competition for Florida is an example of the way European conflicts spread the Americas.

True

Many women found themselves incapable of handling the burdens of war when their husbands and fathers went off to fight.

True

Pontiac's Rebellion was a major uprising by several Native Americans tribes in 1763 in response to the invasion of their lands by British colonists, resulting in significant violence and loss of life in the western backcountry of North America

True

Slavery was extended to the New World because of the labor needs on large plantations that cultivated tobacco, sugar and later cotton and rice.

True

The Coercive Acts (also known as the Intolerable Acts in the colonies) were a series of acts devised to punish the rebellious Bostonians and included the Boston Port Bill, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Quartering Act that applied to all colonies.

True

The Europeans brought diseases like small pox, chicken pox, measles, mumps and influenza to the New World, decimating and even completely destroying entire indigenous populations because they lacked immunity to these diseases.

True

The First Continental Congress was convened by the colonies in response to the Coercive Acts. One action by Congress was to write a list of resolutions ("Declaration and Resolves") that demanded the repeal of all repressive acts passed by Parliament since 1773.

True

The Mayflower Compact signed by men on board the Mayflower before disembarkation in the New World was a religious rationale for colonization, not an economic one.

True

The Puritans emphasized literacy so that everyone could access the Bible.

True

The basics of the Olmecs', Mayas' and Aztecs' diets were squash, beans and maize.

True

The colonists were angered by King George's issuance of the Proclamation of 1763 that banned settlement west of the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.

True

The most important early domesticates in the Americas, beans, corn, and squash, or the "Mesoamerican Triad," became the dietary staple foods of most North American agriculuralists in the pre-contract era.

True

A contract for passage to the New World that poor, young, and often illiterate English citizens signed was called a(n) __________.

indenture

In the early years of the colony Virginia settlers were heavily dependent upon ________ to fill its labor gap on tobacco plantations.

indentured servants

What was the Massachusetts Circular?

it declared taxation without representation unconstitutional and encouraged the other colonies to again protest the taxes by boycotting British goods.

Which of the following is NOT true of Georgia?

it succeeded in keeping out slavery

In the days of English colonization a group of investors called a __________ ___________ would put up the capital to establish a colony and the investors assumed the risk in hopes of making significant profits over time

joint stock company

The Virginia Company of London was a _____________ in which wealthy investors put up the capital and assumed a high degree of risk for a relatively quick profit.

joint stock company

Colonial Committees of Correspondence were established to _______.

keep colonial activists in contact with each other.

When the Revolutionary War broke out, the British had the advantage over the colonies in all of the following except

logistical ease

The European explorers and colonists were surprised by the ___________ societies they found when they encountered the indigenous people.

matriarchal

Between 1500 and the late 1700s European nations espoused the _____________ system, an economic philosophy that there was a limited amount of wealth in the world and that gaining power mean mining precious metals from their colonial holdings, believed in controlled trade and that colonies existed to strengthen the mother country.

mercantilist

The Paxton Boys' violence on the frontier in Pennsylvania and Pontiac's Rebellion in the Ohio Country are examples of _________.

race wars in early America

During the Revolutionary War, Loyalists or Tories

represented not one category of Americans but came from many different ranks of the people

Of all the cash crops in the New World, the most important commodity was __________.

sugar

Out of all the commodities in the Atlantic World, which proved to be the most important per the textbook?

sugar

The 1st Anglo-Powhatan War (1609-1614) was caused by __________.

the English settlers' encroachment on Powhatan lands the English settlers' refusal to give tributes to the Powhatan people

Economic stability in Virginia only came with

the cultivation of tobacco

Mercantilism was

the exercise of government controls over imports, exports and economic activities generally

One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in its initial years was

the high mortality rate among its settlers

Which law had the greatest impact on the legal status of Africans in North America in the 1600s?

the law making slavery a hereditary condition inherited through a child's mother

Pontiac's Rebellion involved all of the following EXCEPT

the return of French soldiers to Canada

By the 1620s Virginia had established ________ as its very profitable cash crop.

tobacco