history quizzes
(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the suppression of town meetings and local elections
(Q015) Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1552 argued that
Spanish people burned Native American children alive.
(Q016) Which of the following is true regarding free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?
They could sue or testify in court.
(Q036) In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope in life?
a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians
(Q002) One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was
a renewed sense of entitlement to political liberty for Anglican Protestants.
(Q044) Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?
expand westward
(Q041) Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Virginia.
false
(Q008) At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed
metal tools and machines.
(Q042) Henry Care, author of English Liberties (1680), demonstrates that seventeenth-century identities rested in part on negative images of
other nations.
(Q044) During the early to mid-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.
true
(Q048) Under the seventeenth-century British Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be transported in English ships and sold in ports in England.
true
(Q035) Within the Puritan community, the family was considered the foundation of a strong community while unmarried persons
were viewed as a danger to the social fabric of the community.
(Q030) One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was that
Indian use of alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive to Native American culture.
(Q047) What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?
Its members fought for both England and America.
(Q007) Which of the following was a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690s?
Many inhabitants accused others of witchcraft in order to deflect suspicion from themselves.
(Q033) Which of the following is true regarding the Middle Passage?
Ship captains sometimes threw slaves overboard, especially when they were sick.
(Q042) A "borderland" is a
meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly defined.
(Q014) Under the ideals of liberalism, the "social contract" extorted that
men retain their natural rights because these rights predated the establishment of political authority.
(Q015) Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty
required all persons to affirm Jesus Christ's divinity.
(Q020) The effect of the Enlightenment on religion resulted in
the adoption of the concept of deism.
(Q032) In the mid-eighteenth-century colonies, this area of settlement was the most rapidly growing region in North America.
the backcountry
(Q027) Despite China's growing territorial power, their purpose in exploration was
to impress other world peoples with their might.
(Q019) Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts
were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.
(Q020) Which of the following statements is true regarding Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?
Following his defeat, Leisler's body was decapitated and cut into four parts.
(Q014) How did Cortés conquer the Aztecs?
He relied on iron weapons and gun powder.
(Q021) Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?
Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.
(Q007) Which of the following was a theme of Puritan thought?
People enter this world as either the "elect" or the "damned."
(Q027) In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launched a revolt against British rule called
Pontiac's Rebellion.
(Q005) A "praying Indian" was the term for
an Indian who converted to Christianity.
(Q019) The trial of John Peter Zenger involved the issue of
freedom of the press.
(Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were
high rates of death and disease.
(Q022) The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?
indentured servants
(Q029) Following the Proclamation of 1763,
its ordinances were ignored and officials covered their involvement in land grabs.
(Q034) The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could
jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.
(Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that
just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule over others.
(Q011) Native American religious beliefs and practices included
medicine men in positions of authority.
(Q025) As a result of the Seven Years' War, a large number of French residents in Nova Scotia
moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns.
(Q023) Who were the mestizos in the Americas?
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
(Q036) Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as trading partners and allies than the English, Native Americans exercised more
power and freedom with Europeans in relations with these settlements.
(Q004) In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should
regulate economic activity to promote the nation's power.
(Q039) The Maryland Act Concerning Negroes and Other Slaves (1664) held that white women who married slaves had to
serve her husband's owner until the slave's death.
(Q038) The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called
the Enlightenment.
(Q045) Following the Seven Years' War, what factor led to a loss of power for Native American tribes in eastern North America?
the departure of the French
(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was
the desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England.
(Q039) Which of the following was promoted by Oliver Cromwell?
the expansion of Protestantism
(Q029) Why did news of the 1492 voyage of Columbus spread rapidly in Europe?
the invention of printing with movable type
(Q045) Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration.
true
(Q046) England's ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization.
true
(Q076) In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.
true
(Q011) When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by
virtual representation.
(Q038) The Levellers
wanted to greatly expand the right to vote.
(Q052) "Racism"--the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over them--was fully developed in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia.
false
(Q054) The phrase "freedom of speech" originated in colonial America.
false
(Q058) Intermarriage was common between Indians and English settlers.
false
(Q012) The European practice of "coverture" included that
in marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.
(Q009) British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because
the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.
(Q057) Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.
true
(Q042) During the first half of the eighteenth century, the flow of non-English migrants to British North America was larger than that of English migrants.
true
(Q010) The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by
sheep.
(Q001) The primary goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was
the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.
(Q064) Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.
true
(Q023) The "Sacred Experiment" carried out near present-day San Diego
was launched by the Spanish to take control and prevent occupation by foreigners.
(Q030) The Albany Plan of Union
was the attempt to create a council composed of delegates from each colony to levy taxes and settle domestic issues.
(Q046) A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadores.
false
(Q050) Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of African-based slavery.
false
(Q017) What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"
(Q015) Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
(Q021) The Great Awakening occurred because many ministers were concerned with
westward expansion.
(Q006) Which of the following was a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land
(Q047) Every European empire in the New World utilized slave labor and battled for control of the slave trade.
true
(Q053) Colonial political offices frequently passed from generation to generation within the same family.
true
(Q061) Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.
true
(Q062) On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical, top-down terms, with each level of society enjoying its own degree of freedom.
true
(Q063) During the Seven Years' War Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later the colonists were treated as subordinates again.
true
(Q070) In his work, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson demanded that the British empire be viewed as a collection of equal parts held together by loyalty to a constitutional monarch, and not a system in which one part ruled over the others.
true
(Q071) Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.
true
(Q079) The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause.
true
(Q061) Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.
true
(Q030) Which of the following are true about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs?
He viewed established churches as a major example of despotism and believed that religious liberty served God's will.
(Q027) Which of the following defines republican motherhood?
training sons to be future citizens
(Q056) Charles Willson Peale painted portraits of the founding fathers.
true
(Q031) Independence created governments democratically accountable to voters who coveted
Indian land.
(Q005) The Book of Negroes was
a list of African-Americans evacuated from New York City at the end of the Revolutionary War.
(Q038) To prevent them from being seized by British vessels and "impressed" into the British Navy, Congress in 1790 granted citizenship to
black sailors.
(Q012) Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between
church and state.
(Q014) Shays's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of
debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.
(Q001) Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to
declare war.
(Q044) What was the source of an increase in Native American tribal unity in the late 1700s?
violence directed against Indian people by white American soldiers and settlers
(Q027) Lord Baltimore's sudden voting restriction based on land accumulation resulted in
a Protestant uprising calling for his removal from office.
(Q027) The U.S. Constitution
is a purely secular document that contains no reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders.
(Q004) While some 5,000 slaves fought for American independence, far more gained liberty by
obtaining sanctuary from the British.
(Q015) Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished "primogeniture," which is defined as
passing the entirety of a family's land to the oldest son.
(Q013) The first African slaves were shipped to the New World in what year?
1502
(Q030) The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was
Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.
(Q032) Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
(Q028) Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World were that
English settlements would reduce the Spanish empire and the influence of Catholicism.
(Q018) The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were
a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.
(Q040) Under the Dutch in North America, "half freedom" referred to
a labor and land relationship with enslaved Africans.
(Q012) A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe
a person who had experienced a conversion experience.
(Q010) Which of the following is true regarding the aftermath of King Philip's War?
Puritans sold Indian children from the warring tribes into slavery.
(Q011) The Charter of Liberties and Privileges
allowed for a trial by jury and the security of property.
(Q012) Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was
called New Netherland and controlled by the Dutch empire.
(Q001) During the eighteenth century, more than half the Africans shipped to the New World as slaves were
carried on British vessels.
(Q037) Many British saw the colonists of British North America as religious dissidents, impoverished servants, and
convicts.
(Q025) Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence
declared the United States independent of British rule.
(Q024) Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued that
democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.
(Q033) Women in Dutch settlements
enjoyed more independence than in other colonies.
(Q041) What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians?
enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans
(Q038) South Carolina and Georgia were the two southern colonies that failed to take what action to help win the war?
enroll free blacks and slaves to fight
(Q021) A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed
escaped African slaves who took up arms for the king of England would be freed.
(Q035) The Constitution mandates that the President of the United States must be a(n)
"natural born citizen."
(Q033) What area did England continue to control in the Americas after the American Revolution?
Canada
(Q018) Why did the founding fathers create the initial House of Representatives with a relatively small number of members?
It was thought that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts.
(Q002) One of the leading Federalist thinkers, known as the "father of the Constitution," was
James Madison.
(Q036) What territory did the United States acquire from France in 1803?
Louisiana
(Q025) Why is Deborah Sampson significant?
She was the daughter of a Massachusetts farmer who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Revolution.
(Q014) For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant
equal opportunity rather than equality of condition.
(Q038) The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.
false
(Q039) Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch.
false
(Q044) Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early republic.
false
(Q049) Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.
false
(Q053) Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers.
false
(Q063) Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.
false
(Q026) To finance the war, Congress
issued hundreds of millions of dollars in paper money.
(Q016) Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) argued that
the "invisible hand" of the free market was more effective and fairer than government intervention in the economy.
(Q037) In what era did the U.S. Congress pass into law "birthright citizenship"?
the Reconstruction era
(Q022) Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as
a published poet and slave of African origins.
(Q008) During the Revolutionary War, a Massachusetts group of women accused a merchant of hoarding coffee, later taking matters into their own hands by
forcing open the merchant's warehouse and taking the goods.
(Q029) Jefferson's idea of the "empire of liberty" involved
the United States admitting the area's population as equal members of the political system.
(Q005) Of the possible uses for the western lands and its settlement, the Confederation government faced conflicting pressures, including
the economic health of the new republic as farmers obtained access to land in the West.
(Q023) In James Madison's view in The Federalist, the "first object of government" is
the protection of property rights.
(Q020) Federalism refers to
the relationship between the national government and the states.
(Q032) What was Thomas Jefferson's solution to tension between Indians and whites after the American Revolution?
the removal of Indians to territory beyond the Mississippi River
(Q006) As a result of the three-fifths clause,
the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted.
(Q043) One of America's earliest trade experiences was with China.
true
(Q044) The Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of a despotic national government.
true
(Q046) The 1790 Naturalization Act barred non-white foreigners from attaining American citizenship.
true
(Q049) By 1750, the Virginian population recognized "white" and "free" as virtually identical.
true
(Q053) While Abigail Adams resented the "absolute power" husbands exercised over their wives, she did not believe in female equality in a modern sense.
true
(Q059) During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.
true