History Final Review quiz1-6
When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492, Christian Europe was entirely Catholic; twenty-five years later, following Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation had begun, and Europe was thrown into more than 100 years of Christian religious wars.
True
In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope?
a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians
Which of the following was not a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
a determination to abolish slavery in Virginia
A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe:
a person who had experienced a conversion experience.
One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was:
a renewed sense of entitlement to liberty, as the birthright of all English subjects.
Olaudah Equiano was:
a slave who purchased his freedom.
Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junípero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives.
false
Since mosquitoes bearing malaria flourished in the New World, slaves were particularly susceptible since they had not developed immunity to the disease.
false
Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Virginia.
false
Benjamin Franklin is credited with all of the following except
founding a Catholic Church in Baltimore
The largest group of immigrants from continental Europe were the:
germans
The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
grandchildren of the English Great Migration
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
The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that:
just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule.
The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:
land ownership.
In 1691, Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter, issued by the English government, absorbed Plymouth into Massachusetts, and:
made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting in General Court elections.
As a result of the Seven Years' War, a number of French residents in Nova Scotia
moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns.
The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called:
presidios
In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should
regulate economic activity to promote the nation's power.
Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty:
required persons to affirm Jesus Christ's divinity.
Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?
rice
The policy of leaving the colonists to govern themselves was called
salutary neglect.
The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by:
sheep
Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.
task
The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called:
the Enlightenment.
Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?
the elimination of gender hierarchies
When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, he called for all except:
the freeing of slaves, particularly enslaved Christians.
Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?
the increased use of African slaves
Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?
tobacco
Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was:
tobacco.
A few African societies were able to opt out of the Atlantic slave trade.
true
Russian traders established a series of forts in an attempt to challenge the Spanish for North American territory.
true
Slaves who seldom came into contact with whites, as on rice plantations, enjoyed more autonomy than elsewhere in the colonies.
true
In 1600s Virginia, a femme sole could do all of the following except:
vote
The "Sacred Experiment" carried out near present-day San Diego
was launched by the Spanish in an effort to take control to prevent occupation by foreigners.
Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts:
were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.
The reconquista happened in what year?
1492
The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?
1502
Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?
5 percent
A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadors.
False
In 1493, the Catholic pope, Alexander VI, divided all the Americas between Spain and Britain.
False
Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.
False
Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.
False
Of the 10 million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820, most were white Europeans.
False
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by Spanish authorities.
False
The exchange of goods among Spanish colonists, French colonists, and Indians in North America was known as the "triangular trade."
False
When the author, Eric Foner, uses the term "unfree labor," he refers to those persons who were performing work, not for free as volunteers, but for wages.
False
The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was
George Whitefield
Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America?
Germany
In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if:
God predestined you to heaven or hell; no earthly act could change that.
Which of the following was not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.
Which is not true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?
Indian tribes fought together under the unified leadership of Metacom.
During Pontiac's Rebellion, Neolin, the prophet, asserted all except:
Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies.
Which was not a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?
It required citizens to attend church.
Which was not part of the Glorious Revolution?
It secured Catholic succession to the throne of England.
The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at:
Jamestown, Virginia.
Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?
Large cities were unknown to the Americas.
1 / 1 pts Which was not an element in Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?
Leisler's success meant French domination of New York.
Which of the following was not a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690s?
Many were tried on charges of witchcraft, but no one was actually convicted.
Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?
She could only own property with her pastor's permission.
Which was not a means by which Cortés conquered the Aztecs?
He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.
Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?
Squanto
In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was:
The House of Burgesses in Virginia
Which of the following did not happen in the 1630s?
The House of Burgesses was established.
Which was not part of the aftermath of King Philip's War?
The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed.
Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?
The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs.
Which of the following was not a central theme of Puritan thought?
The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption.
In the eighteenth century, the British Constitution—the unwritten groundwork of British freedom—celebrated all except:
The right for all men to vote
Which was not a characteristic of American Indians?
There were four different tribes in the Americas.
Which did not characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?
They could not own African slaves.
Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.
True
Despite the influx of British goods, American craftsmen benefited from the expanding consumer market.
True
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all European nations had established churches, and religious wars between nations (and sometimes within them) were fierce.
True
Horses, cows, pigs, and sheep were unknown to the Americas until Europeans brought them there.
True
In 1705, the House of Burgesses enacted strict slave codes.
True
In the middle ground in the Ohio Valley, the Iroquois were known for their ability to play the French and British empires against each other.
True
Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade.
True
The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the Moors.
True
The transatlantic voyages of Columbus were sponsored by Spain, which had just achieved its own territorial unification.
True
A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was:
All of these (escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England. the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce. Acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence.)
The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called:
Arminianism.
Prior to 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United States was:
Cahokia
Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for:
Catholics.
In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following were true except:
Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others' viewpoints; kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples.
"Racism"—the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over them—was fully developed in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia.
False
Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America?
Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance.
The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was:
Pennsylvania.
In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port and cultural center was:
Philadelphia.
In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launched a revolt against British rule called
Pontiac's Rebellion.
Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?
Powhatan
Father Junipero Serra founded the first Catholic mission in 1769 at:
San Diego
Which was not true of the Middle Passage?
Seventy percent of slaves were destined for North America.
In the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692,
almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.
After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians.
false
Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was:
called New Netherland, and controlled by the Dutch.
Which of the following was not a significant outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?
campaigns to discourage migration by English women, who, it was feared, would distract male Virginians from their work in the fields
Slaves, in the traditional African example, tended to be
criminals, debtors, and captives in war.
Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?
equality of the sexes in church affairs, but not in government affairs
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
establishment of Dominion of New England; Glorious Revolution in England; English Toleration Act
