Give Me Liberty Chapters 1-14 Review
Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the seventeenth century?
Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority.
Which man was once a slave, only to be freed and own slaves himself?
Anthony Johnson
As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there?
As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there?
The Glorious Revolution witnessed uprisings in colonial America, including ones in:
New York and Maryland.
John Cabot sailed to:
Newfoundland
In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism?
Oliver Cromwell
Anne Hutchinson is?
Opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints in the Damned Through Church's attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace.
Which one of the following statements about Spanish America is true?
Over time, Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture-part Spanish, part Indian, and, in some areas, part African.
Pennsylvania's treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way?
Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies.
The first European country to reach India by an all water route and gain riches was
Portugal
William Penn was a member of which religious group?
Quakers
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded:
Quebec
What were the "unalienable rights" that Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration of Independence?
Rights that were so basic and rooted in human nature itself that no government could take them away.
Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?
She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England.
Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century?
They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines.
Which of the following was true of the colonial elite?
They controlled colonial government.
What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century?
They did much of the fighting in the wars.
Which statement about gender relations is FALSE for most Native American societies?
Tribal leaders were almost always women.
When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624:
Virginia became the first royal colony
As English colonial society became more structured in the eighteenth century, what were the effects on women?
Women's work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home.
What was the Covenant Chain?
an alliance made by the governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy
The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following EXCEPT:
defeating the English fleet in 1588.
The Virginia House of Burgesses?
was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival.
Virtual representation was the idea:
that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, no just his own district.
The transatlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugarcane is called:
the Columbian Exchange.
Who finally ended the Salem witch trials?
the Massachusetts governor
In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England
was more family-oriented
According to the economic theory known as mercantilism:
the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.
Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because:
the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time.
Portuguese trading posts along the western coast of Africa were called factories because:
the merchants were known as factors.
Pueblo Indians lived in what is now:
the southwestern United States.
Europeans-particularly the English, French, and Dutch-generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on:
their view that Indians did not use the land properly.
The Sugar Act alarmed colonists, in part because it:
threatened the profits of colonial merchants already in economic trouble.
The biggest reason Jews left Europe was:
to escape rigid religious restrictions in German-speaking areas of Europe.
What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity?
tobacco
Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689:
was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years.
The first center of the Spanish empire in America:
was the island of Hispaniola.
The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home
were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.
What geographic error did Columbus make?
He grossly underestimated the size of the earth.
Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church?
He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it.
In 1519, who became the first European explorer to encounter the Aztec empire?
Hernán Cortés
Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?
Because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic.
What American soldier abandoned Washington's army and almost gave away a fort at West Point?
Benedict Arnold
Which statement about the Pueblo Revolt is FALSE?
It was inspired by the Pope, but he died before the actual revolt took place.
The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents in the year 1200 is today known as:
Cahokia
In the Pequot War of 1637
Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots
What did the Second Continental Congress approve of that formally declared American Independence?
Declaration of Independence.
All of the following were nations that led in explorations to the New World EXCEPT
Italy
Which of the following is true of Spain's explorations of the New World?
Florida was the first region in the present-day United States that Spain colonized
A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was:
France became an ally to the United States.
This man was known as the "Swamp Fox."
Francis Marion
What was the impact of King Philip's War (1675-1676)?
In the long run the war produced a broadening of freedom for whites in New England.
When Columbus reached the New World, what name did he give to the people he encountered because he thought he had reached the outskirts of Asia
Indians
Which statement about the Indians of North America is FALSE?
Indians lacked genuine religion.
Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America?
Ireland
The powerful Native American Confederation in the Northeast was the
Iroquois
How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?
It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage
The German migration to the English colonies:
Led to the formation of many farming communities.
Europeans tended to think which one of the following about Native Americans and their cultures?
Native Americans failed to make use of the land, so it was acceptable for Europeans to take it and use it.
In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans
Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.
The terms God, Glory, Gold apply most readily to the explorations to the New World of which country
Spain
The Black Legend described:
Spain as a uniquely brutal colonizer.
According to Bartolomé de Las Casas:
Spain had caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the New World.
Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party with:
The Intolerable Acts.
How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans?
The Spanish believed that enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery and introduce them to Christian civilization.
All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT:
The correct answer is: cheap and safe transatlantic transportation.
Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown?
The death rate was extraordinarily high.
Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others.
Which of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers?
Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them
All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT?
a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries. [EXCEPT]
Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?
a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell:
aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.
During the colonial era, Philadelphia:
became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen.
The negotiation of the Treaty of Paris of 1783:
began only after the Battle of Yorktown.
"Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT:
colonists imported the latest London fashions and literature.
The New Laws of 1542:
commanded that Indians no longer be enslaved in Spanish possessions.
Most of the text of the Declaration of Independence:
consists of a list of grievances against King George III.
The Boston Massacre occurred when British Soldiers:
fired in a mob and killed a number of Boston residents.
The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker?
founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut
The Magna Carta?
granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons
Cornwallis was defeated at Yorktown because:
he had no land or water escape route.
When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:
he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
The government of the Spanish empire in America:
included local officials who held a great deal of control.
Slavery in Africa:
involved the enslavement of criminals, debtors, and war captives.
Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:
it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.
The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because:
it was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the colonies.
What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?
land
Both the Aztec and Inca empires were:
large, wealthy, and sophisticated.
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina:
proposed a feudal society in the New World, complete with hereditary nobility.
What was William Penn's most fundamental principle?
religious freedom
According to New England Puritans, witchcraft:
resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.
For most New Englanders, Indians represented
savagery
The Treaty of Paris did NOT:
sever the alliance between the United States and France.
"Enumerated" goods:
were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be imported to England
By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates:
were found in many colonial residents' homes.
Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England
were lower-class men
North American crops and products:
were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire.
Native American religious ceremonies:
were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things.
Bacon's Rebellion was a response to:
worsening economic conditions in Virginia.
