Unit One

Question 0

What was the purpose of the crusades? Did it work?

Answer 0

Reclaim the holy land; failed

Question 1

What are the cultural similarities of Native American societies?

Answer 1

Trading networks, land (source of life), religious beliefs, social order( family, friends, division of labor)

Question 2

What effects did the crusades have on the explorations of Columbus?

Answer 2

Increased power of monarchs in which Spain sent Columbus on boat to sail.

Question 3

What were the reasons for the voyage?

Answer 3

Gold, land, religion

Question 4

T or F Columbus never landed in America

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Where did Columbus land?

Answer 5

San Salvador

Question 6

Who started the modern slave origin?

Answer 6

Portuguese people

Question 7

Where did the modern slave trade start?

Answer 7

West Indies

Question 8

Effects of the crusades

Answer 8

Increased trade with Asia
Increase power of monarchs
Decreased the popes power (increasing monarchy)
Columbus wanted to make Spain more powerful and wealthier

Question 9

What is the reformation?

Answer 9

West Europe split between Catholics and Protestantism.

Protestants sought religious freedom and began to look to America as a refuge.

Question 10

How did the Spanish differ from the English colonies?

Answer 10

Spanish colonies were paid for by the rulers.

English colonies were funded by joint-stock companies

Question 11

What was Columbus’ impact on native Americans and the shave trade?

Answer 11

Wanted to colonize them but they fought back; they enslaved them and brought deadly diseases that the native Americans had no immunity to.
Helped the salve trade continue.

Question 12

What saved Jamestown?

Answer 12

“Brown gold” or tobacco

Question 13

Difference between indentured servants and slaves

Answer 13

IS: worked 5-7 years, got land or some thing in return, trip was paid for, white from Europe
S: no freedom, worked whole life, native Americans, costed more but you got them for life

Question 14

You had to be —– to vote

Answer 14

White man and own land

Question 15

What action did the king start with the native Americans?

Answer 15

Proclamation of 1763 which banned all settlement west of the Appalachians. But colonists were still settling in their land.

Question 16

What actions did the king take that may have caused tension to start the revolution?

Answer 16

Revoked colonists charter and made them a royal colony

Under direct control of the king (controlled their trade and could search ships and buildings whenever)

Question 17

Difference between n. England and Virginia on coming to America

Answer 17

N.eng: religious society, escape religious persecution

V: come make a profit

Question 18

Voting rights differences

Answer 18

N.e: anyone who belonged to the church (white)

V:white male that owns land

Question 19

Religious differences

Answer 19

N.e: left England known as the separatists

V: Church of England (Anglican)

Question 20

Family differences

Answer 20

N.e: Crossed the Atlantic as families (puritans)

V: single men and single women

Question 21

Relationships with the n. Americans (difference between the two)

Answer 21

N.e: dispute over land, sold their land to new owners

V: tried to claim their land, fighting broke out

Question 22

Who were the most valuable slaves?

Answer 22

Men under 20

Women under 20 were second most valuable

Question 23

Why were slaves oiled down and fed a good meal prior to being put on auction block?

Answer 23

Slave owner wanted slaves looking thick and strong

Question 24

What were punishments for a slave trying to escape?

Answer 24

Whipped, branded, castrated, ears cut off, branded again

Question 25

Why was the fear of Sundays by slave owners? How did they respond to threat?

Answer 25

Slaves day off they were scared they would revolt.started carrying guns to church

Question 26

During stone rebellion, why did slaves head towards Florida?

Answer 26

If got to Florida they were considered free

Question 27

What did slave owners do to Slaves that were caught in the rebellion

Answer 27

Shot and chopped off the heads of slaves and put it where other slaves could see

Question 28

System to have a better population in Jamestown that said whoever paid for their way to Virginia or paid for anyone else’s way would receive 50 acres of land

Answer 28

Headright system

Question 29

System created by British to gain power and gold, became a competition who could gain the most between countries

Answer 29

Mercantilism

Question 30

Colonial policy that released the rules due to the loyalty of the colonies

Answer 30

Salutary neglect

Question 31

At parliament created to tax all good and services within British colonies in North America

Answer 31

Stamp act

Question 32

Act parliament created to tax imported goods from the British colonies in North America indirectly (glass, paper)

Answer 32

Townshed act

Question 33

Law enforced by military forces in which to keep peace; temporary

Answer 33

Martial law

Question 34

Congress prints too much money and the value of money decreases

Answer 34

Inflation

Question 35

Belief that everyone is equal and everyone has equal rights

Answer 35

Egalitarianism

Question 36

Who won in French and Indian war

Answer 36

Britain

Question 37

What was the tray of Paris?

Answer 37

British claims all of n. America east of Mississippi River
French left with almost nothing
British were more difficult to negotiate w. n. Americans

Question 38

Treaty of Paris followed which battle?

Answer 38

French Dan Indian war

Question 39

Reasons for being a loyalist?

Answer 39

Lived far from cities-didn’t know about events
Fear of punishment by British if British won
Rights would be more protected

Question 40

Reasons for being a patriot

Answer 40

Desired independence from Britain.
Economic opportunities (no government influence, be free)

Question 41

One last push for peace between the two sides before revolution in which the king rejected

Answer 41

Olive branch petition

Question 42

Effects of the revolution?

Answer 42

The stamp act: directly taxing goods boycotting buying products from Britain
Townshed act: indirectly taxing goods
Didn’t like this so British soldiers were sent in

Question 43

Why did the British tax the colonies so much?

Answer 43

Debt from the French and Indian war