American History 1 Online Mitchell CC Quizzes

Townshend Acts

"Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer" was a protest writing against which British Act?

freedom of religion

The 1657 petition known as the Flushing Remonstrance concerned which of the following?

Marco Polo

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

potatoes

Which New World crop soon became a dietary staple for Europeans?

the Anasazi

Which Southwestern tribe was first to build multi-room and -story dwellings from adobe?

Staple Act

Which act barred colonists from importing goods that had not been made in England, creating a profitable monopoly for English exporters and manufacturers?

rice

Which crop became popular with Europeans after slaves brought it from Africa and began growing it on southern plantations?

wheat

Which crop did the Europeans bring to the New World?

potatoes

Which crop did the Europeans first find in the New World?

English

Which group of people encouraged the most emigration to the Americas?

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

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

sedentary village life

Which of the following characterized the post-Archaic phase in North America?

wampum

Which of the following is not an item Europeans introduced to Native Americans?

A republic is governed by a monarch and the royal officials he or she appoints.

Which of the following is not true of a republic?

Only men could participate.

Which of the following is not true of the Puritan religion?

competition with each other

Which of the following most drove the governments of European nation states in colonizing the Americas?

that he would institute a Catholic absolute monarchy

Which of the following represents a concern that those in England and her colonies maintained about James II?

reducing the threat of French privateers

Which of the following was a goal of the Spanish in their destruction of Fort Caroline?

established Native American trade routes

Which of the following was most helpful to the success of the Columbian Exchange in the New World?

A majority of enslaved people in the colonies fled west of the Appalachians.

Which of the following was not a result of Dunmore's Proclamation?

Jesuits

Which religious order joined the French settlement in Canada and tried to convert the natives to Christianity?

True

The Boston Massacre was "a confrontation between a crowd of Bostonians and British soldiers on March 5, 1770, which resulted in the deaths of five people, including Crispus Attucks, the first official casualty in the war for independence."

established Native American trade routes

The Columbian Exchange between Western Europe and the native people of the New World thrived mainly due to which of the following?

True

The Daughters of Liberty's non-importation movement broadened the protest against the Stamp Act, giving women a new and active role in the political dissent of the time. True or False?

True

The Declaration also reveals a fundamental contradiction of the American Revolution: the conflict between the existence of slavery and the idea that "all men are created equal." True or False?

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence was written primarily by___________.

True

The Enlightenment was a seventeenth to eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized reason and science over superstition, religion, and tradition.

Deism

The Enlightenment-era belief in a God who created, but who has no continuing involvement in the world and the events within it was called ____________.

They had the greatest ambition and willingness to take risks.

What gave Western Europe an advantage over other world powers when it came to exploration of the New World?

People turned from hunting and gathering to farming and herding for food.

What happened as a result of climate change in North America at the beginning of the Archaic Era?

Other forms of inexpensive labor were becoming scarce.

What happened in the late 1600s that led to changes in the legal status of Africans in the United States?

Outrages committed by traders, combined with the seemingly unstoppable expansion of English settlement onto native land.

What led to the outbreak of the Yamasee War in 1715-1718?

environmental changes

What posed the biggest threat to the early peoples of the American Southwest prior to the year 1300?

Disease

What was European colonization's single greatest impact on the North American environment?

They never developed wheeled vehicles.

What was a consequence of the fact that the early people of the Americas did not have horses or oxen?

a Dutch system of granting tracts of land in New Netherland to encourage colonization

What was patroonship?

Enslaved people conspiring to burn down the city and take control

What was the "conspiracy" of the New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741?

the consolidated New England colony James II created

What was the Dominion of New England?

a Protestant revival that emphasized emotional, experiential faith over book learning

What was the First Great Awakening?

the transatlantic journey that enslaved Africans made to America

What was the Middle Passage?

being able to circumvent Arabic merchants

What was the driving force behind the Europeans' desire to find an oceanic route to Asia?

Cahokia

What was the location of the largest mound-building culture in early North America?

It attempted to make it easier for colonial traders to comply with the imperial law.

What was the main purpose of the Sugar Act of 1764?

tobacco

What was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies?

the overhunting of large mammals

What was the most significant change produced by human populations on the environment and biodiversity of North America during the Paleo-Indian Era?

Common Sense

What was the name of the 1776 pamphlet that made a powerful argument for independence?

Proclamation of 1763

What was the name of the British proclamation that forbade white settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains in 1763?

Quakerism

What was the predominant religion in Pennsylvania?

Former indentured servants wanted more opportunities to expand their territory

What was the primary cause of Bacon's Rebellion?

control of North America

What was the primary goal of Britain's wars for empire from 1688 to 1763?

The Coercive Acts

Which Acts shut down Boston Harbor until the East India Company was repaid from its losses due to the Boston Tea Party?

New York City

After evacuating Boston in March 1776, British forces successfully implemented a strategy in 1776, to take which city?

the work of the Franciscan missionaries with the native peoples

After explorers were unable to find a passage to Asia through Florida, what led the Spanish crown to continue financing the Florida colony?

Maintaining peace in the king's newly enlarged lands

After the French and Indian War, British territorial holdings extended from Canada to Florida and British military focus shifted to _______?

True

At the First Continental Congress the colonists demanded the repeal of all repressive acts passed since 1773 and agreed to a boycott on British goods until the acts were repealed.

Nathanael Greene

Which American general is responsible for improving the American military position in the South and turning the war in the Americans' favor in 1781?

Maroon communities

Escaped enslaved people created ____________ to resist recapture and build communities.

the hanging and beheading of a stamp commissioner, Andrew Oliver, in effigy

For which of the following activities were the Sons of Liberty responsible? Choose one answer.

Siberia

From where did the first migrants to North America originate?

A low point for the American forces marked by soldiers' desertion.

George Washington and the Continental soldiers' winter at Valley Forge was _____________.

Trenton

George Washington surprised an encampment of British hired Hessians on December 25, 1776 in the battle of _________.

He ordered periodic raids on towns where guns and gunpowder were stockpiled.

How did British General Thomas Gage attempt to deal with the uprising in Massachusetts in 1774?

•Aided the Algonquian in gaining power against the Iroquois, •Changed traditional patterns of authority among tribes, •Native peoples used muskets against the European colonizers

How did European muskets change life for native peoples in the Americas? Check all that apply.

Increased reliance on African enslaved labor

How did the Chesapeake colonists solve their labor problems?

They launched a coordinated rebellion against the Spanish

How did the Pueblo attempt to maintain their autonomy in the face of Spanish settlement?

by crossing the Bering Strait from the west

How did the first people to migrate to North America reach it?

Manhattan

In North America, Dutch traders established themselves first on which modern-day location?

the Bahamas

On which modern-day location did Christopher Columbus's fleet first land in the New World?

1729

Political disagreements between settlers in the northern and southern parts of Carolina led to the creation of two colonies, North and South Carolina. What year did this occur?

True

Prime Minister Grenville introduced the Currency Act of 1764, prohibiting the colonies from printing additional paper money and requiring colonists to pay British merchants in gold and silver. True or False?

rice

Slaves who were brought from West Africa to the southern plantations were the first in North America to cultivate which crop?

False

The European idea of usufruct was practiced widely in America. (T/F)

False

The First Continental Congress was made up of elected representatives of all thirteen of the American colonies. True or False? The First Continental Congress was made up of elected representatives of twelve of the thirteen American colonies. (Georgia's royal governor blocked the move to send representatives from that colony, an indication of the continued strength of the royal government despite the crisis.)

Quakers

The Flushing Remonstrance was a petition for freedom of religion written by people from what religion?

canal construction

The Hohokam people of modern-day Arizona were best known for which of the following?

the Stono Rebellion

The Negro Act of 1740 was a reaction to ________.

The Glorious Revolution

The Royal African Company's monopoly ended in 1689 as a result of ___________?

the Southwest

The Southwestern Hohokam were known for their turquoise trade. Evidence of a turquoise trade by the Aztecs indicates that the Aztec people probably migrated to central Mexico from what area?

Almost every type of printed paper colonists used

The Stamp Act imposed an internal tax on _________?

True

The Tea Act of 1773 was a straightforward order of economic protectionism for the East India Company which was on the verge of bankruptcy, not a form of punishment for American colonists. True or False?

Marco Polo

The Western European curiosity that led to the Columbian Exchange originated with which explorer's travels?

The Hopewell had a wide trade network.

The excavations of the Hopewell peoples' burial sites in the Midwestern United States and the objects discovered within have indicated which of the following?

from the west

The first migrants to North America reached it from which direction?

Puritans

The founders of the Plymouth colony were:

Salutary neglect

The lack of strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts was called__________.

the declaration of slavery as a hereditary condition

The law that caused the greatest change to the legal status of Africans in North America involved which of the following?

the Crusades

The series of attempts by Christian armies to retake the Holy Lands from Muslims was known as _______ .

The Quartering Act

The which act addressed the problem of housing British soldiers stationed in the American colonies?

the restoration of Charles II to the English throne

To what does the term "Restoration" refer?

the British and French West Indies

To which colonies were the largest number of slaves transported from West Africa during the transatlantic slave trade?

Battle of Saratoga

What battle was the major turning point in the war in favor of the Americans?

that war and aggression were wrong under all circumstances

What belief did the Quakers hold that other Protestant groups did not?

Lord George Germain

Who was the British architect of the war strategy in Georgia and South Carolina?

Great Britain against the French and their Native American allies

Who were the main combatants in the French and Indian War?

Native Americans were not able to resist diseases carried by Europeans.

Why did European colonists choose to replace the slave labor of native peoples with that of West Africans?

The southern colonies' economies depended more heavily on agriculture.

Why did slavery play a larger role in driving economic expansion in the southern colonies than those further north?

to defend St. Augustine against imperial challengers

Why did the Spanish build Castillo de San Marcos?

The colony had become an important base for missionaries.

Why did the Spanish crown continue to finance the Florida colony even after the explorers failed to find a passage to Asia?

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 West Africans preferred over the native people of the Americas for enslaved labor?