Mid Term Questions

The Mayflower Compact can be best described as

a promising step towards genuine self-government. the leader that helped the pilgrims survive was William Bradford

Which country was the first to end the international slave trade?

1792-Denmark bans import of slaves to its west Indies colonies, although the new law only took effect from 1803. 1807-Brittian passes the ball a nation of the slave trade act, outlawing British Atlantic slave trade. United States passes legislation banning the slave trade affective from start of 1808

The Proclamation of 1763

A law that forbade the colonist to settle west of the Appalachian mountains. To prevent conflict and war between the native Americans and the British, proclamation line was located along the Appalachian Mountains

John Adams

A massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates' solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress

Samuel Adams

A pamphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas ind information on resisting British policy.

How did women contribute to protests against the Stamp Act?

Assembled in public and held spinning bees, they made homespun cloth not to wear British textiles, boycotted consumer goods imported by England, signed petitions

Thomas Paine called not just for independence but for a republic where power

Comes from the people themselves

What did George Washington do in late 1776 and early 1777 that restored confidence in America's military?

Defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton

Which of the following resulted from the peace arrangements that ended the French and Indian War?

France surrendered to great Britain all of its territory claims to North America

Benjamin Frankin shocked French aristocratic diplomats but charmed ordinary Parisians with

His homespun clothing and simple cap of Marten fur

What new strategy did the British develop to crush the revolution in 1777?

Isolate new England by invading New York from several directions

Despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists disliked the system because it

Kept them in a state of perpetual economic adolescence

During which protest did the colonist dress up like Indians?

Maybe - the Boston tea party

Britain was plagued by all of the following weakness during the War for Independence EXECPT

Maybe- Soldiers uncapable of fighting effectively

How did American colonist respond to the Proclamation of 1763?

Maybe- The colonist consider an act of Tyranny

Which Statement about the African slave trade in the Americas is FALSE?

Maybe- male slaves were never able to assume important political office

In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted

New England

All of the following New World crops helped to revolutionize the international economy EXECPT

Not Tomatoes- maybe cotton

What did Lord Dunmore proclaim in 1775, as royal governor of Virginia?

Offered freedom to slaves agree to fight for the British. In November 1775, Virginia's royal governor, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, issued a proclamation in response to inform that the colonist had begun forming armies and attacking British troops

Benjamin Frankin

Scientist

What advantage did the colonists have as the Revolutionary War began?

The colonist were fighting for a cause that they believed in, British soldiers were fighting because it was their job, while Americans were fighting for their freedom. Another advantage the colonist had was the fact that American forces were fighting on their own ground

Which of the following strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain?

The growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations and dishing to Brittian

What was the Middle Passage?

The journey of slaves from west Africa to the Americas

The Iroquois Confederacy succeeded by

The most powerful native American group in the Ohio Valley since the 1640', that was able to remain aloof from both the British and the French. This group consisted of five Indian nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida. These nations formed a defensive alliance in the fifteenth century. The Iroquois were able to maintain their autonomy by avoiding a close relationship with the English or the French. They traded successfully with both groups and played them against each other, as a direct result of this they maintained power in the Great Lakes region.

What name was the French and Indian War given in Europe?

The seven years

As a result of the French and Indian War, Great Britain

Went far into debt and they only thought that it was fair that Americans help to pay for the war

Crispus Attucks

a casualty of the Boston Massacre

How did the Great Ice Age facilitate the beginnings of North America's human history?

a land bridge connected Eurasia with North America; created the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska

The Great Awakening

a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. Rapid growth of Evangelical religions such as Methodist and Baptist first real colonial experience undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies, split colonial churches into several competing denominations, led to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges, was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people (All of the Above)

What is one of the events that made 1619 an important year in American history?

approx 20 slaves arrived in ajames town which led to growth and development of slavery/ the creation of the virgina house of burgesses

Columbus called the native people he encountered "indians" because

he believes that he had landed in the indies"

At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he

hoped to secure freedom of worship for his new catholics

The english colonist in the Americas introduced their own local form of representative government with

maybe burgess

Which factor played the biggest role in disrupting Native American life?

maybe diseases

The colonies had been fighting with the British for a full fourteen months before declaring independence. What was NOT one of the reasons?

maybe the reasons were stamp act/ sugar act/ tea act/boston tea party

What is a sign that early notions of women's rights began to emerge in colonial New England?

maybe- southern colonies generally allowed married women to retain seperate title to their property because southern men frequently died young

Which Indian tribe allied with the English in the colonization of New England

maybe- the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes

Which statement about slavery is FALSE?

maybe- the demand for slaves led to steady rise in the prices paid for them

What enabled Pennsylvania to grow and succeed to quickly compared to other american colonies?

maybe-the middle colonies of pennsylavania and NJ had an eaiser time growing drops. better soil and wrmer climate rendered huge wheat fields. southern colonies better geography yielded more favaroable soil and longer growing seasons. plantations were created- larger farms and lots of labor

The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native Americans and European neighbors because of the Iroquois'

military alliances, sustained by political and organizational skills

After the humiliating defeat at Saratoga in 1777, the British Parliament

passed a bill that offered Americans home rule

Phillis Wheatley

poet

What was the end result of King Philips War?

the lasting defeat of New England's Indians king phillips war resulted in the destruction of families and communities, native and colonist alike throughout new england. it took decades for the colonisit to recover from the loss of life, the property damage and the huge military expendetures. the war was devasting for the native people.

Jonathan Edwards

theologian

Why did early Jamestown settlers stare in spite of an abundance of local fish and game?

they were unaccustomed to tending for themselves and wasted time looking for gold

Which statement about tobacco in the colonial Cheapskate is FALSE?

what its not- went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles

Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, most of the labor in the tobacco fields of the Chesapeake region was performed by

white servants

Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by

young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land