Cards For Midterm

Question 1

Three inventions that made travel around Africa possible

Answer 1

Quadrant, compass, caravel

Question 2

Who financially backed Christopher Columbus’s voyage?

Answer 2

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

Question 3

When did Christopher Columbus’s voyage begin?

Answer 3

1492

Question 4

Where and when did Christopher Columbus reach during his first journey?

Answer 4

Bahamas on October 12, 1492

Question 5

In 1493 Christopher Columbus brought over 1,000 men to new world.

Answer 5

No answer

Question 6

Name of Italian explorer in English court

Answer 6

John Cabot

Question 7

Name of colony founded by John Cabot in 1497

Answer 7

Newfoundland

Question 8

What happened to John Cabot on his second voyage?

Answer 8

He disappeared

Question 9

Where did Hernán Cortés land in 1504?

Answer 9

Cuba

Question 10

When did Hernán Cortés land in Mexico?

Answer 10

1519

Question 11

What empire did Hernán Cortés conquer?

Answer 11

The Aztec Empire

Question 12

Who took possession of Newfoundland in 1583?

Answer 12

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Question 13

Who founded Roanoke in 1585 only to find it abandoned in 1590?

Answer 13

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 14

When was Jamestown founded?

Answer 14

1607

Question 15

What company founded Jamestown?

Answer 15

The London Company

Question 16

John Rolfe began experimenting with what crop in Jamestown which resulted in mass shipments of this product from Virginia?

Answer 16

Tobacco

Question 17

Who founded the colony of New Amsterdam?

Answer 17

The Dutch

Question 18

What colony did New Amsterdam become after the English took over the colony?

Answer 18

New York

Question 19

Who kept Virginia under strict military rule?

Answer 19

John Smith

Question 20

When was the House of Burgesses enacted?

Answer 20

1619

Question 21

How many members in the House of Burgesses?

Answer 21

22

Question 22

What were the three sisters?

Answer 22

Beans, corn, and squash

Question 23

What tribe controlled most other tribes in the Virginia area?

Answer 23

The Powhatan

Question 24

What resulted in the death of 300 Virginian settlers in 1622?

Answer 24

A massacre lead by the Opechancanough Indians

Question 25

Who founded Maryland?

Answer 25

Cecilius Calvert

Question 26

Maryland was meant to be a refuge for what religious group?

Answer 26

Catholics

Question 27

What religious group made up the majority of Maryland?

Answer 27

Prodistance

Question 28

What religious group was closely connected to New England?

Answer 28

Puritans

Question 29

Where did the pilgrims first land in 1620?

Answer 29

Cape Cod

Question 30

What was the name of the document drawn up by the pilgrims?

Answer 30

Mayflower Compact

Question 31

Puritanism was patriarchal. They shamed individualism.

Answer 31

No answer

Question 32

Who made up most of the elected officials in a puritan society?

Answer 32

Church members

Question 33

Who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for believing in religious freedom?

Answer 33

Roger Williams

Question 34

What colony did Roger Williams found?

Answer 34

Rhode Island

Question 35

Rhode Island was a Haven for what?

Answer 35

Religious freedom

Question 36

Connecticut was founded based on the merging of what two settlements?

Answer 36

Hartford and New Haven

Question 37

What war began in 1637 because of the killing of a fur trader?

Answer 37

The Pequot War

Question 38

Define mercantilism.

Answer 38

Wanting to make sure that more gold is coming into your country rather than leaving it.

Question 39

The Carolinas got slave culture from sugar colonies from what country?

Answer 39

Barbados

Question 40

The trade of what crop largely enriched planters in the Carolinas?

Answer 40

Rice

Question 41

Colonizers in the Carolinas provided guns to Indian tribes. these Indian tribes would then capture Indian people from other tribes and sell them to the colonist as slaves.

Answer 41

No answer

Question 42

The exportation of Indian slaves was greater than the importation of African slaves in the Carolinas for a certain amount of time.

Answer 42

No answer

Question 43

Who founded Pennsylvania?

Answer 43

William Penn

Question 44

William Penn belonged to what religion?

Answer 44

The Quakers

Question 45

Who forbid whites to claim land owned by the Indians?

Answer 45

Sir William Berkeley

Question 46

Who formed a militia to fight the Indians and claim their land and marched into Jamestown and burned it down?

Answer 46

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 47

The conflict between Nathaniel Bacon’s ideals in Sir William Berkeley’s ideals was known as what conflict?

Answer 47

Bacon’s rebellion

Question 48

The 13 colonies were ethnically diverse, contained inexpensive land, and paid some of the lowest taxes in the world.

Answer 48

No answer

Question 49

What did African Kings usually get for selling slaves?

Answer 49

Manufactured goods

Question 50

What are the two types of slave labor?

Answer 50

Task and gang

Question 51

What type of slavery was common in the north?

Answer 51

Domestic servants

Question 52

Who founded Georgia?

Answer 52

James Oglethorpe

Question 53

What two things were banned when Georgia was founded?

Answer 53

Slavery and liquor

Question 54

When did Georgia turn to the crown?

Answer 54

1751

Question 55

What rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 saw slaves seizing weapons and marching to Florida?

Answer 55

The Stono Rebellion

Question 56

What promoted active participation in public life by property owners?

Answer 56

Republicanism

Question 57

What saw government as an agreement among equals, in which some men surrendered the right to self govern in order to enjoy the benefits of a rule of law?

Answer 57

Liberalism

Question 58

What was the name of the war created by the Indians to reject European technology and end Indian independence on alcohol, which resulted in Indians attacking Detroit and other bases?

Answer 58

Potiac’s War

Question 59

What line formed in 1763 established Indian territory in the Americas?

Answer 59

Proclamation Line of 1763

Question 60

Tax formed in 1699

Answer 60

Wool act

Question 61

Tax formed in 1732

Answer 61

Hat act

Question 62

Tax formed in 1733

Answer 62

Molasses act

Question 63

During the French and Indian war, what fort did George Washington get defeated at?

Answer 63

Fort necessity

Question 64

How were the colonist treated by the English during the French and Indian war?

Answer 64

As allies

Question 65

What act cut existing taxes on imported molasses in half but also cracked down on smuggling?

Answer 65

The Sugar Act 1764

Question 66

1768 ship liberty seized in Boston for breaking trade regulation.

Answer 66

No answer

Question 67

Name of event that resulted in five Boston people being killed in 1768?

Answer 67

The Boston massacre

Question 68

What’s the name of the first casualty of the American revolution?

Answer 68

Crispus Attucks

Question 69

Tax formed in 1773?

Answer 69

Tea act

Question 70

What company got tax exemptions due to the tea act?

Answer 70

East India Company

Question 71

When was the Boston tea party?

Answer 71

December 16, 1773

Question 72

What was the consequence of the Boston tea party?

Answer 72

Boston Harbor was closed until the debt of the tea was paid for

Question 73

Why did the continental Congress meet in 1774?

Answer 73

To oppose the intolerable acts

Question 74

When did the Continental Congress pledge to meet again?

Answer 74

May of 1775

Question 75

What battle occurred on April 19, 1775

Answer 75

Lexington and Concord

Question 76

When did the British capture Boston?

Answer 76

March 1776

Question 77

What event in 1778 led to the French and Spanish to enter the war?

Answer 77

Treaty of Amity

Question 78

When was Burgoyne forced to surrender?

Answer 78

October 17, 1777

Question 79

When did America win Cowpen?

Answer 79

January 1781

Question 80

When was the treaty of Paris?

Answer 80

September 1783

Question 81

What protest in 1786 and 1787 protested land getting taken for not paying debts?

Answer 81

Shays’s Rebellion

Question 82

Who came up with a five point financial plan for the United States?

Answer 82

Alexander Hamilton

Question 83

Who opposed Hamilton’s five step financial plan?

Answer 83

Thomas Jefferson