Midterm exam HIST 2010

England's King enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them slaves in Europe

False

Europeans in the 1500s held firmly to the view that all men are created equal

False

Horses, cows, and pigs were plentiful in the Americas before Europeans arrived

False

In 1508, Spain establish the first permanent colony in the Americas in what is now Cuba.

False

Intermarriage was coming between Indians and English settlers.

False

Perhaps 8 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact, the greatest loss of human life in history.

False

Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.

False

The Half-Way Covenant (1662) held that membership should come from religious conversion rather ancestry if one hoped to become one of the elect.

False

The Indian belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things is called "existentialism"

False

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by European colonial authorities.

False

The early settlers of English America enjoyed the least amount of rights compared to colonist of other empires

False

In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if

God predestined you to heaven or hell and no earthly act could change that.

The Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida created the?

Great League of Peace

Which of the following was a feature of indentured servitude in 17th century Virginia?

Indentured servants were held in bondage only for a limited period of time.

A major achievement of North American Indians in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival was?

Large earthen burial mounds in the Ohio River Valley.

A "borderland" is a

Meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly defined

Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?

Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.

Which of the following was a theme of Puritan thought?

People enter this world as either the "elect" or the "damned"

Which of the following was a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?

Populous urban centers

Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as trading partners and allies in the English, Native Americans exercised more

Power and freedom with Europeans in relations with the settlements

Indian societies of North America possessed the cultural beliefs that

Spiritual power resided in all aspects of the natural world

One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was

The desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England

Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was

Tobacco

Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders

True

Believing they knew the secret to winning the Indians' affection, the French adopted a more human policy of dealing with the Indians than their imperial rivals.

True

Historians no longer use the term "discovery" to describe the Europeans' conquest and colonization of Native American society after 1492

True

Indentured contracts usually bound indentured servants for periods of 5 to 7 years.

True

Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.

True

The "Rights of Englishmen" we're established in the Magna Carta

True

Towns banished individuals for such offenses as complaining about the colony in their letters home to England.

True

Under the head right system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately inherit large estate

True

In 1498, the explorer Vasco de Gama proved that?

an eastern sea route existed to Asian countries.

Slaves, in the traditional African example, tended to be?

criminals, debtors, captives of war

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease.

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

indentured servants

Under the Dutch in North America, "half freedom" referred to?

A labor and land relationship with enslaved Africans.

Which of the following was an outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?

A rush of English newcomers in pursuit of land

Which of the following events happened in the 1630s?

Anne Hutchinson's trial

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics

A common conception throughout Europe was that freedom was more political or social in status than a moral or spiritual condition.

False