unit one exam ch 1-3

This letter is the oldest known reference to Peter Minuit's purchase of Manhattan from the Native Americans for 60 guilders. What do we believe Minuit actually traded to the Native Americans for Manhattan?

$24 worth of goods (iron pots, beads, blankets, etc.)

The Crusades lasted roughly from:

1095 - 1291

Jerusalem, a holy city with ties to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, was captured and retaken multiple times during the Crusades. When was the last time the city was retaken by Muslim forces?

1244

How did the African slave trade affect worldwide trading systems?

A triangular trade system developed, involving British manufactured goods, slaves, sugar and rum.

How was slavery in the low country different from slavery in the Chesapeake?

African slaves outnumbered European whites, most of whom arrived from Barbados.

Which of the following Native-American civilizations was located north of the Rio Grande River?

Anasazi

What does the story of Anthony Johnson, a black man in early Virginia, tell us about blacks in general in the colonies before the 1670s?

Blacks could own fairly substantial amounts of property, and have their own servants and slaves.

In the English Reformation,

Henry VIII proclaimed himself the "only Supreme Head" of the Church of England.

Which of following Native-American civilizations is thought to have possibly been the largest in the world at its height?

Inca

Which of the following is not true of Metacom's (King Philip's) War?

It involved only the Wampanoags.

Which of the following is NOT true of the colony Jamestown?

It was the first English colony in North America

Marco Polo claimed to have 20 years in China as a personal aid to what great emperor?

Kublai Khan

Which of the following had North American Civilizations NOT developed before European contact?

Large Domesticated Animals

The life-transforming crop that allowed nomadic hunter/gather peoples of North America to settle into villages and later develop complex civilizations was:

Maize

All of the following were French Explorers except:

Marquis de Lafayette

The colony that was established as a Catholic refuge was

Maryland.

The leader of the Aztecs at the time of their defeat in 1519 was

Moctezuma

Roger Williams and a handful of disciples founded

Providence.

The colony of Massachusetts Bay was settled by

Puritans

What effect did the discovery of tobacco as a cash crop in Virginia have on the colony's labor supply?

The British needed more labor, although they initially turned to their "undesirables" as a source.

Which of the following accurately distinguishes between the original Whigs and Tories?

The Whigs favored limiting the king's power; the Tories were a court party that favored legitimate royal succession.

Which best describes the situation in Jamestown in 1610?

The situation was so bad that the remaining settlers had packed up and were leaving when a resupply ship arrived.

Nathaniel Bacon was

a rebellious Virginia planter who murdered peaceful Indians and burned Jamestown.

Sir William Berkeley

all of these choices are correct

The era of European exploration

brought previously isolated societies into contact with other nations and cultures.

The Puritan idea that God would not punish the whole community for misdeeds of individuals stemmed from the

community covenant.

The crusades influenced European expansion by:

developing a colonial economic system based on the production of staple crops by slave labor.

The Norse settlements founded in the 1000s on the coast of Newfoundland

died out before Columbus's voyages, and had no lasting impact on history.

The most devastating factor brought to the Americas by the Europeans was

disease

Anne Hutchinson was

expelled from Massachusetts for claiming that she communicated directly with God.

t/f Humans did not actually live on Beringia; it was used only as a means of travel between Siberia and Alaska.

false

John Smith is noted for helping to stabilize Jamestown by

forcing the colonists to work for their own survival.

England's "mixed and balanced" constitution meant that

government by King, Lords, and Commons balanced power.

The significance of Marco Polo's travels to China is:

his tales peaked Europeans' interest in traveling to the Asia and inspired explorers that lead to the so-called "Age of Discovery"

Colonists objected to the Dominion of New England because

it established an autocratic government without an elected assembly.

In spite of being the most complex culture in the world, China did not expand outward because

it was a self-contained system that believed it did not need the rest of the world.

Of the 13,000 settlers who went to New England by 1641, were families.

most

Indentured servants were

people who agreed to work for a term in exchange for their passage to America.

Seventeenth-century philosophers discussed the struggle between

power and liberty.

The Restoration colonies were

proprietary colonies founded by cavalier supporters of Charles II and James II.

After the Glorious Revolution, colonists assumed that their governments would be

representative governments.

The major source of wealth exploited by the Spaniards in the Americas was

silver

Under slavery as it existed in Africa

slaves' descendents were often assimilated into the captor's society.

This image shows quipu that were used by the Inca as a:

system of knots for recording and transmitting messages

Beringia refers to the:

temporary land bridge across the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska

Both French settlers and Dutch settlers became entangled in Native American relations due to the fur trade in beaver pelts. Which group did the French supply weapons to during these Iroquois wars, also known as the "beaver wars"?

the Hurons

What was the motivation for both early French and Dutch explorers to travel to North America?

the Northwest Passage

The most likely reason for European success in conquering the American Indian population is

the prolonged isolation of the Americas from the rest of the world.

All of the following were problems faced by the early settlers of Jamestown except that

there were not enough specialized craftsmen in the colony.

Where in the Western Hemisphere did most of the slaves from Africa directly go?

to the Caribbean to work on sugar and other plantations

The crop that saved the Jamestown settlement was:

tobacco

The English colonies in North America were united by all but which of the following?

traditional English inheritance laws

t/f Mercantilists assumed that the colonies only existed to enrich the mother country.

true

t/f New Netherland welcomed ethnic and religious pluralism so much so that it was even known as a same haven for Jews.

true

t/f William Penn received his Pennsylvania grant in payment of a debt owed by Charles II to his father.

true