Multiple choice for midterm
Which of the following statement best explains the status of slavery before European exploration?
As early as the 7th century, Mediterranean and Arab merchants had begun to build a powerful regional system of slavery that ensnared sub-Saharan Africans.
The Genteel whites had what?
Devoted spaces in homes to entertainment, saved time and labor with imported goods, and prized consumer goods
Lethal epidemics coincided with the arrival of missionaries from this nation
France and Spain
Missionaries from this nation ultimately abandoned a major settlement
French
Blank Missionaries directed their efforts at children
French and Spanish
What was the significance of Kodiak Island's settlement?
It was an imerial power's first North American colony
Relations with the Native Americans among the most progressive in the blank colonies
Pennsylvania
Middling whites had what?
Prized consumer goods and saved time and labor with imported goods
The largest number of slaves sent to the mainland colonies were destined for the Chesapeake.
True
The spread of epidemic disease ws directly related to European exploration
True
Kodiak Island settled
1784-
When blank touched off a religious revolution that broke with the Catholic Church, the ensuing divide heightened the rivalry between blank and blank.
Martin Luther; England; Spain
Which of the following statements most accurately describe the similarities among the different national cultures of colonization (ie France, England, and Spain)?
The possibility of establishing or entrenching a state religion in the New World motivated all three nations; Each nation experienced the failure of an early outpost northern North America.
Which of the following statements best describes the immigrant populations along the coast of North Carolina and Georgia?
The proportion of enslaved people that made up Georgia's population was lower than that of South Carolina; African slaves were the largest immigrant group in this area.
Ice sheets covered large sections of Asia some 20,000 years ago
True
When does Mexica achieve dominance over Mesoamerica?
1428 CE
When do homo sapiens sapiens emerge in East Africa?
150,000 - 100,000 BCE
Queen Anne's War ends
1713-
Peace of Aix la Chapelle
1748-
San Francisco Mission founded
1776-
When does the Plains Indians adopt the bow and arrow and develop culture around bison hunting?
1-500 CE
When does the climate warm, melting ice sheets and submerging Beringia?
10,000-5000 BCE
William Berkeley
Anglican leader who belonged to faction that dominated land once promised to settlers
eA thirty year drought forced them from their home in Chaco Canyon-the epicenter of an expansive community.
Anasazi
Who actively partnered with Native Americans in developing European trade?
France
Settlers insisted on social and political order based on land ownership in
Carolina
Here immigration was the source of population growth
Chesapeake
In blank, slaves were prevented from forming bonds
Chesapeake
Men outnumbered women three to one in this colony
Chesapeake
Profit for shareholders was the purpose of this colonial settlement
Chesapeake
Whose Colonists were agriest about the Navigation Acts?
Chesapeake
In which region did early colonial settlers rely heavily on local Native American tribes for their initial survival?
Chesapeake and New England
What was the significance of Queen Anne's War?
Colonial defence floundered in European conflict
AS European exploration shifted the overseas hub of global trade, a new economic system known as blank emerged. This new system was based on outside investment in trading enterprises, and the hub of commerce shifted from blank to Amsterdam.
Commercial capitalism; Antwerp
King William
Consented to a new political system that limited monarchy
With the advent of agriculture in North America, humans:
Contracted infectious diseases and lived longer lives
Which of the following best describes the experience of Paleoindians in North America after 8000 BCE?
Distinct cultures formed among the Clovis peoples as they separated and dispersed in smaller groups in search of game
Which of the following ethnic groups were least likely to travel through Charleston?
Dutch
What do these images tell you about the operation of sugar plantations?
Enslaved laborers often outnumbered white overseers; Men, women, and children were all put to work.
What was the significance of Peace of Aix la Chapelle?
European treaty reverses colonists' gains
According to the map and your reading, what was the relationship between colonization and sugar industry?
Every nation with mainland colonies also held Caribbean colonies.
Jacob Leisler
Executed for treason after seizing power vacuum amidst leadership crisis
0France, Spain, and England all hoped to defend and extend Catholicism through exploration and colonization.
False
AS a rule, Christians and Muslims rejected slavery as against their belief systems.
False
Epidemic diseasse enabled European efforts to institute colonial systems of labor
False
Henry Hudson, an Englishman working for the Dutch East India Company, found a Northwest Passage to Asia.
False
More human migration took place before 100,000 years ago
False
Statement 20,000 years ago, the coastline of Australia appeared as it does today
False
The biologica consequences of European exploration were entirely disease-based
False
Blank immigrants to British North America predominantly settled in Pennsylvania because they were seeking religious tolerance, and most of this immigrant population was Blank. Among the roughly 37,000 German immigrants between 1749 and 1754, about one-third were redemptioners, who sold blank to secure their passage.
German; Protestant; their labor
Edmund Andros
Granted new leadership power, this Anglican alienated colony used to independence
The blank was established to settle and fortify English holdings in Canada. In the resulting military skirmishes, the leader of the French attack on English forts would later settle the first capital of blank.
Hudson's Bay Company; Louisiana
They created the most efficient and sprawling empire in the Americas.
Inca
For whom was the territory immediately to the west of the Proclamation Line of 1763 officially reserved?
Indians
Like the Aluets, they arrived in North America via the Bering Sia, but settled on mainland Alaska.
Inuit
here, planters weren't held legally responsible for the deaths of their slaves
Lowcountry and Chesapeake
Here, slaves were able to retain African languages, customs, and holidays
Lowcountry
Which of the following characteristics describe the Mexica?
Militarism was a hallmark of their society As the empire expanded, human sacrifices increased The empire collapsed less than 100 years after it achieved dominance in Mesoamerica.
They built massive structures such as Monks Mound, which is among the largest ancient structures in the Americas.
Mississippians
Theses settlers lived close to one another in towns
New England
Who began growing export crops?
New England
Colonists chose slaves over indentured servants here
New England and Chesapeake
Which of the following best describe the causes of the Pueblo revolt?
New Mexico's governor tried to destroy proctices that sustained Pueblo spirituality; The colony's growing demand for tribute disputed relations between the Pueblos and the Apache
Where were enslaved men and women peritted to work on their own?
New Netherland
Which colony depended most heavily on slaves in its early years?
New Netherland
Where did free african labor forces outnumber slaves by 1700s?
New Spain
Their initial charter gave the crown absolute power
New York
King James
Overthrown when rival hoping to block alliance with France invaded
Native Americans had what?
Saved time and labor with imported goods and prized consumer goods
What did the term Middle Passage refer to?
Slaves' transatlantic sea voyage from Africa to the colonies
I This image depicts Don Luis de Velasco murdering a Jesuit priest whom he had accompanied to North America. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the image?
Some indigenous Americans violently resisted colonization
Franciscans were a favorite of the crown in
Spain
Who relied most exclusively on forced Native American labor?
Spain
For what explicit reason did Pope Alexander VI make the Papal Donation?
Spanish and Portuguese monarchs could bring Christianity to indigenous peoples in these new territories. of
Enumeration Act
Strengthened Brit control of Atlantic trade by requiring English goods to be shipped through English ports
Navigation Acts
Strengthened Brit control of colonial Atlantic trade by requiring English goods to be shipped on English vessels
Vice-Admiralty courts
Strengthened Brit control of trade by creating framework for punishing smugglers
Customs Service
Strengthened Brit control of trade by extending a system of port inspection to North America
IAccording to this document, with whom did the Narragansett ally?
The British
TO which destination was the largest population of enslaved Afiricans shipped?
The Caribbean
In blank, the use of the task system gave slaves the ability to run their own farms
The Lowcountry
Slaves outnumbered whites by 1750 in
The Lowcountry
Whose economy was dependent of rice farming?
The Lowcountry
Which county's official church was Protestant?
The Netherlands
3&According to this document, what took place during the English attack on the Pequots?
The fort was surrounded; the Pequots were prevented from fleeing
tWhich technological advancements enabled Europeans to initiate the Age of Expansion?
The mariner's astrolabe allowed for improved navigation in uncharted waters; A revolution in ship design allowed ships to add more sails and a third mast, which allowed mariners to take advantage of oceanic winds.
What do the testimonies of Gray and Hale tell you about the social environment in Salem?
The trials seemed to offer some people a way to express grief about past losses Accusations of witchcraft helped people understand and explain mental illness
1oWhich of the following best describes the object pictured?
This image depicts the importance of corn to the Mexica of Mesoamerica.
Which of the following statements describe a territorial or geopolitical change in the North American colonies that resulted from competition and rivalry among the European powers after the Stuart Restoration?
Transfer of land claims allowed English to establish contiguous N American territory; English rival surrendered its N American claims w/o a fight; Allowed New England merchants to participate directly in Atlantic trade networks; Border skirmish led two imperial rivals to expand military fortifications
Humans migrated to North America within the last 100,000 years
True
By the end of the 18th century, English colonies actively produced how many commodity crops for export?
Two
Which colony purchased the most slaves?
Virginia
What was the significance of the San Francisco mission being founded?
Was motivated by Russian presence on the Pacific coast
King Philip
Went to war after the murder of his longtime aide
A period of religious upheaval and revival that swept Anglophone churches first appeared British North America in this region.
What is New England?
This social standard governed social relationships and access to political power in the North American colonies.
What is deference?
The development of this political philosophy was built on the same ideas that influenced Enlightenment religious thought.
What is liberalism?
This charasmatic itinerant preacher who connected various religious revivals through his travels was a founderof an evangelical Protestant denomination that gave more power to laypeople and common folkand rejected the doctrine of predestination.
Who is George Whitefield?
Which of the following colonies used offers of land grants to attract large numbers of settlers?
grants New Netherland, Mass Bay, New France, Virginia
1What does this map, known as the TO map, tell you about how Europeans understood the world in the 12th century?
how Europeans understood Europeans' understanding of the world was directly shaped by the geography of trade networks to which they had access.
