HIST 101 Quiz 2
Applying the ideas of mercantilism, England
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Settlers in the Carolinas, looking for a cash crop, found it when African slaves taught them how to grow and process
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The French introduced the following to the local Canadian Indians:
All of the above
In 1682, the proprietor of Pennsylvania, William Penn, wrote the __________________, which allowed for a representative assembly, no established church within the colony, wide distribution of land, and a strict code of personal morality.
Charter of Liberty
The North American fur trade was founded in Canada in the 1500s by which group of Europeans?
French
In 1607 the English succeeded in establishing _________, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown, Virginia
The Spanish were the first Europeans to enter and explore the heart of the North American continent. In 1598, who led a colonizing expedition into the area of Arizona and New Mexico, and eventually founded the city of Santa Fe?
Juan de Onate
When they arrived in 1620, English Pilgrims signed the ________________, the first document of self-government in North America.
Mayflower Compact
In 1620, Puritan settlers founded the first permanent English colony in New England and called it
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Samuel de Champlain founded the French settlement of ___________ on the St. Lawrence River, which connected North America to the Atlantic and was strategically located for the fur trade.
Quebec City
Because of their different geography and weather, New England colonies did not grow single crops such as the tobacco grown in the Chesapeake which made up the majority of their economy. Instead, New England developed a diversified economy that included
all of the above.
Virginia was the first colony in North America to create
an elected representative assembly, called the House of Burgesses.
Beginning in the 1660s under King Charles II, the English began founding colonies in
both (a) and (b) above.
After the Glorious Revolution of 1689, the philosopher John Locke wrote about radical new ideas such as
both (a) and (c) above.
Wars between Indians and settlers, like King Philip's War in New England and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, were caused by
both (a) and (c) above.
English colonies such as Connecticut and Rhode Island were founded by people like Roger Williams, a Protestant Dissenter who believed in
freedom of worship and separation of church and state.
The English, for religious and cultural reasons, believed that whites and Indians should not live together. They thus formed a ____________________, requiring Native Americans to live separately from the English.
frontier of exclusion.
Both the Spanish and the French created ______________________ in North America by mixing and intermarrying with Indian peoples, as well as adopting native customs and sharing European customs with the Indians.
frontiers of inclusion
After they began settling the American Southwest, some Spanish intermarried with Indian residents. These people formed a new mixed society which came to be called
mestizo.
English Puritans began preaching among Indians and did convert some of them. These Christian Indians lived in
separate communities they called "praying towns."
Enlightenment philosophers like John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin believed
that the universe was governed by natural laws that ordinary people could understand and use to advance themselves.
Dutch traders and merchants joined forces with ____________________, trading European manufactured products for furs.
the Iroquois Confederacy in New England
The MOST IMPORTANT part of the imperial economic system of mercantilism was
to expand your commercial (manufacturing and trading) interests, you must regulate your colonial trade.
After a "starving time," the Virginia colony of Jamestown became very successful in raising _______ and exporting it to England.
tobacco
The Spanish encomienda and repartimiento systems required the Indians to
work as forced laborers in mines and fields.
