History 1301- Chapter 1 -4 Review

John Calvin established a "holy commonwealth" that became a center of European Protestantism and later a model for English Puritan's? Where was this Calvinist stronghold?

Geneva

The first English attempt to colonize the New World failed. This attempt was led by

Gilbert

British authorities based their colonial trade policies, as embodied in the Navigation Acts, on the theory of

Mercantilism

The diverse colonial population of 1675 New Mexico included all of the following EXCEPT

Mesoamericans

Which of the following, built around 1300, contained more than 2,000 rooms and had a water and sewage removal system?

Paquime

Which of the following was NOT a reason that Pennsylvania quickly prospered?

Parliament's generous subsidy

The first European power to explore North America's interior were the

Spanish

What momentous event, which occurred through out Europe, distracted England from pursuing empire in the 1500's ?

The Reformation

John Calvin preached all the following doctrines EXCEPT

The free conscience and choice of the Individual

The Puritan program for reforming England included all of the following EXCEPT

separating the church and state

This chapter tells the story of the French activities in North Americas to make the point that ..

while the french gained a foothold especially through the work of Jesuits, their settlers were few in comparison with the English Calvinists who settled New England

After 1680, Chesapeake planters began to rely more heavily on African slave labor than on indentured white servants for all the following reasons EXCEPT

whites were developing a more egalitarian society

To the continents of the Western Hemisphere, Europeans gave the name American, from...

A Florentine geographer's name

The Mayflower compact of the pilgrim separatists was

A framework for government devised without a legal basis to do so

Which of the following was NOT a factor in inducing the migration of English Calvinists to New England?

A zeal to convert the Indians

The english mainland colonies of North America received most of their slaves directly from

Africa

In the 1630's and 1640's as the tobacco boom broke, which of the following situations developed in Virginia?

All these answers are correct

What is true about New England settlements?

Almost every adult male owned property, but few had the opportunity to get rich

Which of the following groups lived in what is now known as the Four Corners region of the United States?

Anasazi

Most modern archaeologist wold agree that the earliest inhabitants of the western hemisphere came from which of the following areas?

Asia

About 15,000 years ago, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska?

Bering Strait

While the rising demand for slaves in the Chesapeake played some role in the large growth in the atlantic slave trade between the mid-1500s and the late 1800s, it was the spread of plantation economies in other places that spurred and sustained the traffic in which places?

Caribbean and South America

The Muskogean speakers rejected hierarchical societies in favor of egalitarian ones as they matured in three great southwestern confederacies..

Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw (3 c's)

Which of the following is NOT an accurate generalization about the southern English colonies by about 1700?

Each had been founded as a private colony, but each would eventually have a royal government established

The Algonquians were part of which group?

Eastern Woodlands

The Mississippian people were from the..

Eastern Woodlands

Regarding the consequences of the English Civil War of the mid- 1600's, which of the following is NOT correctly stated?

England's internal upheaval had relatively little impact on the colonies after the monarchy was restored.

England's thrust into North America-an interest renewed a century after Cabot's voyages-can be understood in the context of a direct challenge to Spanish power. This challenge "fused" 3 elements, including all of the following EXCEPT.

English political instability

All of the following, at one time or another, were objectives of the French effort in North America EXCEPT

Finding a place to resettle dissident French Protestants

What group was key to Spanish success in North America , both in the Southwest and Southeast

Franciscans

Women in the seventeenth century Chesapeake

Had a good chance of improving their status through marriage

This chapter tells the story of the Powhatan confederacy to make the point that..

Indians initially tolerated the first English settlers as allies against rival tribes,but the cultivation of tobacco led to the white land hunger that would destroy Indian power.

Of the following, which is the most likely reason that Maryland granted religious toleration?

Its Catholic founders wished to provide a heaven for Catholics

Which wampanoag leader led southern New England's native people to attack and destroy more than 2 dozen towns in Plymouth Colony

Metacom

Which tribe of Indians actually gained strength as a result of its contacts with whites?

Mohawks

In an effort to ensure that his American colonies contributed to England's prosperity, King Charles II initiated a series of regulations known as the

Navigation acts

Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of immigrants ti Virginia during tobacco boom of the 1620's

Nearly all were recruited from peasant villages where they had lived all their lives.

In the early 1600s, migrants to New England differed from those who went to the Chesapeake in that..

New Englanders immigrated in family groups

The first colonial endeavor of the Quaker sect focused on which colony that was temporarily split in two?

New Jersey

In 1600, England's settlements in the Americas included..

None of these answers are correct

Which group was the first to build cities in the "New World"?

Olmec (oldest)

Which of the following peoples lived in a society with deep divisions among nobles,commoners and slaves?

Pacific Northwest

On what island, off the coast of what is now South Carolina, did Jean Ribault and 150 Huguenots established a simple village?

Parris

Which of the following statements is NOT accurate concerning life in Quaker Pennsylvania

Penn's colony was completely free of political strife

Which spanish explorer led the first official expedition to the North American mainland?

Ponce De Leon

Which of the following did NOT trigger the revolt led by Nathaniel Bacon?

Popular opposition to the restoration of the monarchy

King Henry VIII of England broke with the pope, establishing the Church of England and appointing himself its head. The church of England..

Remained essentially Catholic

In 1633, Bay Colony government expelled Anne Hutchinson and her followers for sedition. Where did they initially settle after being expelled?

Rhode Island

What was Anne Hutchinson's heresy?

She embraced controversial position on doctrine and shared these ideas with others.

The Mogollon, the Hohokam and the Anasazi peoples were North American Cultures from which region of the US?

Southwest

The economic and social system of the Spanish empire rested on all of the following EXCEPT

Spices

Both the Mogollan and the Hokoman peoples of the American Southwest tended to build their dwellings near what?

Streams

The inhabitants of which region moved from their summer fishing camps to berry patches in the fall, and to moose-and-caribou hunting grounds in the winter?

Subarctic

Recently scholars have begun to find evidence of incredible manipulations of landscapes and environments in the least likely of places..

The Amazon Rainforest

How did New Netherlands become New York?

The Dutch had virtually abandoned it when it was taken by an English invading fleet

Which of the following was NOT one of the ways that the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay differed from the Pilgrims of Plymouth

The Puritans were simpler, less educated folk

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the settlement patterns of early Pennsylvania ..

The county, with its dispersed farmsteads, became the dominant settlement pattern

The numic- speaking peoples were from which geographic region?

The great basin

All the following factors explain why Spain conquered the America's so rapidly EXCEPT

The persistent Indian belief that the Spanish were "gods"

The Portuguese contributions to the European impact on the Americans included all of the following EXCEPT

The routes for trade opened by Diaz and da Gama

The Iroquois League increased its power and autonomy through much of the 1700's for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Their male-dominated culture, which glorified in a fierce warrior tradition

Which of the following statements is NOT true of the French colonization efforts in North America?

They were hampered because of relatively hostile relations with native tribes

Changes in European society that galvanized the expansion of European peoples and cultures after 1450 included all the following EXCEPT

a deflationary spiral that dried up sources of capital.

The leaders of Chesapeake society by the end of the 1600s were able to foster greater unity and stability by all doing all of the following EXCEPT

accepting responsibility for the welfare of their social and economic inferiors

Elizabeth I urged the coloniztion of Ireland because..

as a monarch, she feared that foreign powers would use that contentious island as a base for invading England

The primary objective of mercantilism was to

build national self-sufficiency through a favorable balance of trade.

what economic model did the colonists of Carolina use when establishing the colony?

cash crops tended by the African slaves

The native peoples of New England..

clashed with settlers in periodic violent conflicts that threatened not only white survival but their own

The ____ was founded both as a military buffer and a philanthropic enterprise

colony of Georgia

What create the conditions of unrest in the Chesapeake that led to local rebellions?

diminishing economic opportunity

In their contests with the settlers, New England Indian tribes suffered from the disadvantages of all of the following EXCEPT

disarmament

Which of the following was NOT included in Penns vision for his colony

displacing the savage Indians

After the Glorious Revolution, English efforts to exercise closer control over the North American colonies ...

extended merely to putting teeth into commercial regulations in order to maximize profits from colonial trade.

The dutch colony of New Netherlands was marked by

great ethnic and religious diversity

Columbus succeeded in reaching the Americas because

he grossly underestimated the distance from Europe to the Indies.

Columbus mistakenly labeled the Taino people, " Indians", believing that ..

he had reach the East Indies

The king revoked the company's charter and made Virginia a royal colony in 1624 for all the following reasons EXCEPT that

he wanted to keep all the colonies profits for the royal treasury

Which of the following most characterized the Virginia colony in its first two decades?

immigrant deaths

Although the Aztec eventually drove Cortes and his conquistadors out of their capital city Teno. It eventually fell to siege primarily because of the

infectious diseases brought by the Spanish

Which of the following behaviors was a typical of a New England wife of the colonial period?

kept bees and planted vegetable gardens

The navigation acts were..

laws passed to give English merchants a monopoly on the colonial trade

The distinctive feature of Iroquois was not the temple mound, but the

longhouse

The principal institution used by the Spanish to incorporate natives into colonial society was the ..

mission

The puritan belief that god was in control of history fueled a zeal to improve society. This belief is known as

predestination

In the early decades of New England settlement, new colonies in adjacent areas were often founded because of

religious differences

The description of Massachusetts Bay Colony using biblical metaphor of a "city upon a hill" relates to the puritan founders idea that the colony should

serve as an example to the world

What was the most lucrative New World product by the later 1600s

sugar

What was the precedent set by the English colonization of Ireland?

that an inferior race justifiably be brutally repressed.

English settlements in the West indies had the greatest influeces upon the development of the mainland colonies of

the Carolinas

Which of the following does NOT account for the desperate circumstances early in the Jamestown settlement

the colonist's willingness to cooperate

Martin Luther preached all of the following doctrines EXCEPT

the need to rebel against unjust or immoral authority

Which of the following is the best description of a "headright"

the right of a free settler or sponsor of immigrants to receive 50 acres per person or head

William Penn and the Quakers differed from the Puritans of New England in their belief that

the state should guarantee all inhabitants freedom of worship

The early instability of South Carolina society was due to all of the following EXCEPT

the volatile rice boom

As with the Chesapeake colonies, so too the Carolinas followed a process from

violence and high mortality; relative stability

By 1700, the North American colonies..

were becoming permanent, firmly rooted societies