History 11 Test 1 Study guide

Which of the following was not a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World?

A long English legal tradition of discrimination against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery.

Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and native Americans during the seventeenth century?

Among the colonist, it generated a stein sense of superiority

During the eighteenth century, colonial assemblies :

Became more assertive

Who drafted Albany Plan of Union?

Benjamin Franklin

True or False Under English law, married women held many legal rights and privileges.

False

True or False: "Christian liberty" was the basis for religious toleration.

False

True or False: Cortés conquered the capital city of the Aztec empire with an army of over 1,000 men.

False

True or False: The Glorious Revolution in England was tragically bloody.

False

True or False: The cities were the most rapidly growing region in North America by the mid-eighteenth century.

False

How did John Locke reconcile his belief in natural rights and his support for slavery?

He believed that the free individual in liberal thought was the propertied white man.

Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Year's War?

It strengthened pride among American colonists about being part of the British empire

Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Awakening?

Its more subdued style of preaching appealed to a wider audience than the older, bombastic style employed by the Puritans.

Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to the latest?

Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island

In 1517, the German priest ___________ began the Protestant Reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses, which accused the Catholic Church of worldliness and corruption.

Martin Luther

Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became:

New Jersey

_______ in New Netherland meant that shareholders received large estates for transporting tenants for agricultural labor.

Patroonship

Which of the following is true of eighteenth century slavery in South Carolina and Georgia?

Plantations slaves enjoyed far more autonomy than they did in other colonies, allowing them to maintain more of they African culture.

Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers, namely that:

Science could uncover God's laws that governed the natural order

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 one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world?

Slightly more than half of slaves from Africa were taken to mainland North America (what became the United States).

Which one of the following lists the events in proper chronological order, from first to last?

Spain adopts New Laws, Pueblo Revolt, Quebec founded, the Dutch settle Manhattan.

Deists concluded that the best form of religious devotion was to:

Study the workings of nature

What did the Paxton Boys demand?

That the Indians be removed from Pennsylvania

The American Philosophical Society in its modest beginnings was called

The Junto

What ironic consequence did William Penn's generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have?

They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor.

What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

To bring stability to the colonial frontier

True or False: After the English Civil War, it was generally believed that freedom was the common heritage of all Englishmen.

True

True or False: Father Junípero Serra established the first mission in California and converted many Indians to Christianity, but his missions also relied on forced Indian labor and brought devastating diseases.

True

True or False: Peninsulares stood atop the social hierarchy in Spanish America.

True

True or False: Some contemporaries spoke of British America as a "rising empire" that would one day eclipse the mother country in population and wealth.

True

True or False: Treatment of the Indians by members of the Virginia colony was influenced in part by Las Casas's condemnation of Spanish behavior.

True

Indians in ______ were well integrated into the British imperial system.

eighteenth-century British America:

Virginia's colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations:

followed a precedent established by the English in Ireland

In the 1640s, ______ accused the king of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent

leaders of the House of Commons

Property qualifications for holding office:

meant that the landed gentry wielded considerable power in colonial legislatures.

Which one of the following statements is true of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán? a. It had a complex system of canals, bridges, and dams, with the Great Temple at the center. b. It was located in the dense jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula. c. Its defeat was due to its leader surrendering too soon to Hernán Cortés, who was in fact outnumbered and outgunned. d. Technologically and architecturally, it was so far behind European capitals that its defeat was certain. e. It had the New World's first mass transit system.

a. It had a complex system of canals, bridges, and dams, with the Great Temple at the center.

Pontiac's Rebellion:

although named for an Ottawa warrior, owed its origins as much to the teachings of a religious prophet.

How did Native Americans conceive of property? a. Native Americans believed that land should never be claimed. b. Families might use a specific plot of land for a season. c. Individuals could own land outright and pass it on to family members. d. A family could claim land forever, but an individual could not. e. Native Americans and Europeans conceived of property in the same way, though Europeans claimed otherwise as an excuse to take Indian land.

b. Families might use a specific plot of land for a season.

Which one of the following is true of agriculture in Spanish America? a. African-American slaves performed most of the labor. b. The main crops were vastly different than they had been before Spain's arrival. c. Spain introduced wheat as a crop. d. Indian slaves did the work on small-scale farms. e. Catholic priests were forbidden to be involved in farming.

c. Spain introduced wheat as a crop.

Which statement about gender relations is FALSE for most Native American societies? a. Men and women engaged in premarital sex. b. It was acceptable for a woman to seek a divorce. c. Tribal leaders were almost always women. d. Women owned dwellings and tools. e. Societies were matrilineal.

c. Tribal leaders were almost always women.

In the seventeenth century, New England's economy:

centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber

Revivalist preachers during ________ frequently criticized commercial society

the Great Awakening

William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because:

the king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America.

What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid seventeenth century?

the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

The most successful colonial governors:

used their appointive powers and control of land grants to win allies in colonial legislatures