AP US History Period 1 & 2
What colonies are associated with each of these? *General Court *Mayflower Compact *Fundamental Orderes *patroonships
General court-Massachussetts Mayflower Compact- Massachussetts Fundamental orders- Connecticicut Patroonships-New York
The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of
Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
Which of the following was not considered a naval store?
Glass
King Phillp's War resulted in all of the following except
Immideate westward march of English settlement in New England
What introduction by Europeans led to some Indian tribes like the Lakotas becoming nomadic?
Introduction of the horse into North America
What were the two major exports of the Carolinas?
Manacled Indians and rice.
The origins of the modern plantation system can be found in the
Portuguese slave trade
According to Anne Hutchinson
Predestination was not a valid idea
Arrange the following in chronological order *great Puritan migration *found of Plymouth rock *Protestant Reformation *founding of Rhode Island
Protestant Reformation, found of Plymouth rock, great Puritan migration, and founding of Rhode Island
The Dominican Frair Bartolome de Las Casas is best know for?
Speaking out against the horrors of the "encomienda" system on Native Americans.
As a result of Bacon's Rebellion
Tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed
An Armed March in Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as *Regulator Movement *Shay's Rebellion *Oligarchy Revolution *March of the Paxton Boys *Bacon's Rebellion
The March of the Paxton Boys
The most ethically diverse region of colonial America was______, whereas __________ was the least ethically diverse.
The middle colonies, New England!
Which of these statements does not describe mestizos?
They were pagan slaves of Cortés' soldiers.
What would happen to slaves who attempted to fight back against physical assaults by white men, according to the 1661 Barbados slave code?
They would be whipped, have their noses cut, burned with an iron, and could be killed without consequence.
Tobacco was considered a poor man's crop because
Unlike sugar, tobacco is not labor intensive meaning one did not have to own a giant plantation with many workers to grow it.
By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was...?
Virginia
The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by?
a joint-stock company
On the eve of its colonizing adventure,England possessed a
a unified national state, a measure of religious unity, a sense of nationalism, and a popular monarch.
The New England family can best be described as *not very close knit *similar to the family in the Chesapeake colonies *relatively small in size due to the frequency of deaths from childbirth *a very stable institutions *a limiting factor in the growth of the region's population
a very stable institution
The Molasses Act of 1773 was intended to do what?
aimed at squelching North American trade with the French West Indies
Relations between the English colonies and Powhatan were at first conciliatory, but remained tense especially
as the starving colonists took to raiding Indian food supplies
What was involved in the Triangular Trade?
new england goods would go to the gold coast of africa to be traded for slaves, which would go to to the west indies to be traded for raw materials, which would go back to new england to be made into manufactured goods. significance: made a lot of people really rich
The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaborad
produced a rich diet that led to high population densities.
The Mayflower Compact can be best described as a(n)
promising step towards genuine self-government
What did the Maryland Act of Toleration guarantee?
religious tolerance against all Christians
The first English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in?
roanoke Island
One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was *restricting the right to vote to men only *the separation of powers *one man, one vote *the property qualification of voting
self-taxation through representation
In 1650, males in the Chesapeake are competed for the affections of the extremely scarce women, whom they outnumbered nearly
six to one
The Dominion of New England
(All of The Above) The Dominion of New England occurred in the time period of the 1670's & 1680's. King James II attempts to consolidate all of the New England colonies (that includes: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire) into one large colony. By doing so, he's taking away the rights of the people in those colonies, because they no longer have much say in their government. He wants to expand it eventually to include New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and make them under one rule. King James II tries to tighten his control over the colonies and curve the rights of the people. The significance of this is that the Glorious Revolution puts the end to the Dominion of New England and restores the rights of the people.
Malinche has earned a place in history as
(All of these) *The Indian slave woman who served as Cortes's translator with the Mexicans. * The woman whose name is synonymous with "traitor". * The Indian who married one of Cortes's soldiers and traveled to Spain. * The woman who was baptized with the Spanish name Dona Maria.
By 1775, which of these would not have been considered a city in colonial America?
...
Poet, scientist theologian or portrait artists? Which talent listed can you attribute to each of the people below (you won't use all four talents) *Jonathan Edwards *Benjamin Franklin *Phillis Wheatly
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The Dutch Colony of New Netherlands
...
The term "Columbian Exchange" describes
...
When was the "starving time" in the Virginia colony?( 2 year time frame)
1609-1610
By the end of the 1700s, what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America? *25% *40% *60% *75% *90%
90%
Georgia's founders were determined to
Create a haven for people in debt.
The institution of encomienda allowed the
European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them
What war was ended by the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe?
First Anglo-Powhatan War
The Great Awakening *split colonial churches into several competing denominations * ed to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges *undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies *All of these
All of these
The Half-Way Covenant *allowed full communion for all non converted members *strengthened the distinction between the elect and all others *brought an end to the jeremiads of Puritan ministers *resulted in a decreased in church members *allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full of members to be baptized but not full members of the churc
Allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church
Define the following *antinomianism *conversion *predestination
Antinomianism- one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation
In 1492, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the total of the 2 continents' population was...?(in millions)
Approximately 54 million
By 1750, all Southern plantation colonies...
Based their economies on the production of staple crops for export; Practiced slavery; Provided tax support for the Church of England
By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economics identities; the northern colonies relied on ______,the Chesapeake colonies relied on ______________, and the southern colonies relied on____________. *cattle and grain, tobacco, rice an indigo *furs and skins, lumber and timber, tobacco *ship building, iron work, cattle, and grain *cattle and grain, tobacco, fishing
Cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
By the mid- eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except *complete democracy *basically English in language *opportunity for social mobility *some degree of ethnic and religious toleration
Complete Democracy
All of the following were characterized of the original thirteen colonies except
belief they were a single people with a common destiny, who ought to beak from Britain.
North Carolina and Rhode Island were similar in that they...
both were the most democratic,
Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter rout to eastern Asia in order to
break hol that muslim merchants had on trade with Asia; reduce the price of goods from Asia; gain more profits for themselves; reduce the time it took to transport goods
Roger William's beliefs included all of the following except
breaking away from the church of England
Spain's dream of empire began to fade with this famous defeat of this navy?
defeat of the Spanish Armada
Why was the colony of Maryland founded?
exchange for a share of the income derived from the land George Calvert died and was succeeded by his son Cecilius, who sought to establish Maryland as a haven for Roman Catholics
The impact of New England on the rest of the nation can best be described as
extremely important
In contrast to the Cheasapeake colonies, those in New England *expand westward in a less ordinary fashion *had a more ethically mixed population *were more oriented toward the individual than toward community interests *followed the land use pattern established by the local Indians *had a more diversified economy
had a more diversified economy
The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they
he Virginia 1662 Slave Code stated that a woman slave's offspring would become the property of her master. The slave codes were significant because it showed how controlled the slaves were and the fact that the slave codes were a law made the slave codes have to be obeyable.
Henry VIII aide the entrance of Protestant beliefs into England when he did this?
he broke England's ties with the Catholic Church.
English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called?
indentured servants
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because *he was found guilty *it pointed the way to freedom of press *the ruling prohibited criticism of political officials *it allowed the press to print irresponsible criticisms of powerful people
it pointed the way to freedom of press
The Iroquois Confederacy was to menace native Americas an European neighbors because of
military alliance, sustained by political and organizational skills.
The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by
starvation, disease, and frequent Indian raids
One the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility in the colonies decreased for al of the following reasons except *the gap between owners of large Southern plantations and small farms widened *the average size of New England farms increased dramatically *farmers' sons and daughters were forced to hire out as wage laborers *the supply of unclaimed land in New England began to diminish *earlier wars made Northern merchants rich and created a class of widows and orpahans
the average size of New England farms increased dramatically
European contact with Native Americans led to ?
the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases
The size and sophistication of Native American civilization in Mexico and South America can be attributed to
the development of agriculture.
All of the folllowing are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except
the numbers of indentured servants continued to increase in the colonies
The Salem witchcraft trails were *a result of Roger William's activities *the results of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts *caused by ergot in the Purtian's bread *unique to the English colonies *accusations made by the daughter's of business owners
the results of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts
By the 1770s, which of the following issues helped bring about a crisis of imperial authority?
trade restrictions
The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it...
was the first of many miniatrue parliaments to convene in America
All of the following were true of Pilgrims except then
were a sect of radical Catholics
In the 17th century colonial America, all of the following are true regarding women except *abusive husbands could be punished *women dominated the profession of midwives *women were regarded as morally weaker than men *women could vote *women could not own property under any circumstances
women had no rights as individuals