History Midterm
What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to India, China, and the East Indies
To find markets for Portugal's surplus manufactured goods
Which statement about women in the early Virginia colony is False
Women consisted of about half the white population
Great Britain's debt from colonial wars was how many pounds?
150 million
Approximately how many free Americans remained loyal to the British during the war?
20 to 25 percent
During the eight years of war, approximately how many Americans bore arms in the Continental army and state militias?
200,000
It is estimated that between ______ percent of adult whit men could vote in eighteenth-century colonial British America
50 and 80
Religious dissension in England the first half of the seventeenth century resulted in
A civil War
John Locke's political Philosophy stressed
A contrat system between the people and the government
Who would southern colonists have seen as the best candidate for serving as the town's judge
A wealthy planter
Who might be considered an ideal woman in late eighteenth century America?
An educated Mother
Before being captured, slaves in the forest regions of West Africa worshipped
Aspects of nature
Pre-Columbian Native Americans lacked metal tools
Because no metal deposits existed in the Americas
The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents in the year 1200 is today know as
Cahokia
Maryland was established as a refuge for which group
Catholics
Who received the most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?
Colonial and European merchants
New Netherland never became an important or sizable colony in the Dutch empire.
False
The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following Except
Defeating the English fleet in 1588
The assumption among ordinary people that wealth, education, and social prominence entitled leaders to public office was called
Deference
The Spanish reconquista required that all Muslims and Jews convert to Catholicism or leave Spain immediately
False
The Spanish were the first to sail down the western coast of Africa, establishing trading posts called factories
False
The first Continental Congress raised an army and appointed George Washington as its commander.
False
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush promoted what to help with American virtue?
Education
During the reign of, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphry Gilbert and Walter Raleigh of the establishment of colonies there.
Elizabeth I
The mound builders were a sophisticated ancient people living in the American southwest
False
The immigrant group most likely to settle on the colonial western-most frontier was
English
According to Noah Webster, what was the very soul of a republic?
Equality
All thirteen colonies attended the Stamp Act Congress.
False
Although a few were outraged by the stamp act, most politically active colonists actually supported it.
False
Bacon's Rebellion was caused by a conflict between blacks and whites in Virginia.
False
Columbus established the first permanent settlement on Hispaniola in 1502
False
Like the first Jamestown settlers, the settlers of Massachusetts were mostly families
False
Thomas Paine wrote common sense as a response to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
False
With the Peace of Paris
France lost its North American empire
What does the seal of New Netherland, adopted by the Dutch West India Company in 1630, suggest is central to the colony's economic prospects?
Fur
The ultimate goal for the English in gaining New Amsterdam and New Netherland from the Dutch was to
Gain slaves
The most famous Great Awakening revivalist minister was
George Whitefield
The language spoken by African American slaves on the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia during the eighteenth century was known as
Gullah
What geographic error did Columbus make?
He grossly underestimated the size of the Earth.
Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church
He wanted a divorce and the Pope refused to grant it.
In 1519, who became the first European explorer to encounter the Aztec empire?
Hernan Cortes
By the end of the seventeenth century, who was most successful at using diplomacy in securing rights to use land
Iroquois
Who in the American colonies benefited the most from the Glorious Revolution
Jacob Leisler
Virtually every founding father owned at least one slave at some point in his life, who was a notable exception?
John Adams
Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian
John Calvin
Which colonial leader warned that independence from England would lead to constant internal disputes and possible civil war
Joseph Galloway
Both Aztecs and Inca empires were
Large, Wealthy, and sophisticated
The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the
Moors
Which Statement about the Indians of North America is False
Many Indian Societies were Matrilineal
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
Around 7000 BCE agriculture developed in the Americas around
Mexico and the Andes
Why did Parliament think the colonists would accept the Townshend duties?
Most colonists wanted to stop smuggling, too
What area of North America was most like England in regards to ethnicity?
New England
The Jesuit religious order was particularly influenced in
New France
Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became
New Jersey
Which state's constitution granted suffrage to all inhabitants who met a property qualification, allowing property owning women to vote until an 1807 amendment limited suffrage to males
New Jersey
John Cabot sailed to
Newfoundland
In regards to voting for the states, what was a contentious issue?
Owning property
What was Virginia's gold, which ensured its survival and prosperity?
tobacco
Who was most likely to build the best relationships with the Native Americans
Pilgrims
William Penn was a member of which religious group
Quakers
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded
Quebec
What was William Penn's most fundamental principle
Religious Freedom
The English Toleration Act of 1690
Set the stage for the Salem Witch Trials
Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe, whose causes included improved conditions for imprisioned debtors and abolition of
Slavery
Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest
South Carolina rice planters
What commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?
Sugar
What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony?
Swearing
Which of the following created the largest political consensus in the American colonies
The buying and selling of tea
Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia
was rare
The transatlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugar cane is called
The Columbian Exchange
Who finally ended the Salem Witch Trials?
The Massachusetts governor
Which European country dominated international commerce int he early seventeenth century
The Netherland
What armed group, motivated by deep frustrations with the corruption of North Carolina's county officials, was defeated by the colony's militia at the 1771 Battle of Alamance?
The Sons of Liberty
The treatment of John Wilkes resembled which act of Parliament against the colonies?
The Tea Act
A west African captured and sold into slavery in 1650 most likely ended up in
The West Indies
Bacon's Rebellion was a response to
worsening economic conditions in Virigina
Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party with
The intolerable Acts
Who demanded to elect their own officers
The lower house of the state legislatures
A commonality shared between the Asians who crossed the Bering Strait and theEuropeans who creased the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years later was
The search for food items
What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire
The seven years' war
Which one of the following is true of indentured servants?
Their masters could determine whether they could marry
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's biggest influence in regards to natural rights came from?
Thomas Paine
Who wrote the following," one of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in Kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an ass for a lion."?
Thomas Paine
Most of the slaves carried to the new world were destined for mainland North America
True
Only a few West African societies participated in the slave trade
True
Prior to the Seven Years' war, Britain had not tried to regulate the colonies' economy.
True
France's relations with Native American tribes can be described as a marriage of necessity because
Very few French came to North America
Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?
Virginia
The constitutions of which states retained property qualifications for voting?
Virginia and South Carolina
In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England
Was more family-oriented
In regards to geography, English colonies
Were in colder climates when compared to Spanish Colonies
The English finally became successful in defeating the French in the Seven Years' War under the leadership of
William Pitt
Virginia law gave the American veteran land and
a slave
A rising demand for sugar, rice, and tobacco led to
an increase in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Why was the Proclamation of 1763 difficult to enforce?
it involved a large geographical area
Which English group did the most to reshape the Native American environment in the seventeenth century
settlers farming the land.
Ordinary citizens were most likely to debate politics in
taverns
What did the invisible hand refer to
the free market
Europeans-particularly the English, French, and Dutch- generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on
their view that Indians did not use the land properly
What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763
to protect the Indians