Midterm 1

Question 1

Most West Africans were ________

Answer 1

Farmers

Question 2

In Order to fund his voyage, Columbus tried to convince King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain that?

Answer 2

Spain could grow rich from Asian Trade, they could send missionaries to Asia, and Spain could enlist the help of the Great Khan of China as an ally against Islam.

Question 3

Who wrote “In Defense of the Indians”?

Answer 3

Las Casas

Question 4

What urban center dominated the Mississippi Valley?

Answer 4

Cahokia

Question 5

When did Luther Start the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 5

AD 1517

Question 6

According to Luther, Salvation in the result of ?

Answer 6

Faith

Question 7

Which religion took root in West Africa in the eleventh century?

Answer 7

Islam

Question 8

What period marks the European Renaissance?

Answer 8

AD 1400-1600

Question 9

What was a part of “the Columbus exchange”?

Answer 9

The spread of European diseases to America

Question 10

Hakluyt argued that the Indians, once civilized, would be?

Answer 10

purchasers of English goods

Question 11

The economic base of France’s New World empire was?

Answer 11

Fishing and Furs

Question 12

What did French authorities prohibit?

Answer 12

further westward expansion into North America

Question 13

After Charles I was executed, this man ruled England until his death in 1658

Answer 13

Oliver Cromwell

Question 14

An antinomian is someone who?

Answer 14

claims to be free from obedience to moral law

Question 15

The first document to establish self-government - and the decisions of the majority- in North America was?

Answer 15

the Mayflower Compact

Question 16

In early New England, women’s economic contributions were?

Answer 16

Central to a family’s success

Question 17

The first New England settlement, founded in 1620 was the?

Answer 17

Plymouth colony

Question 18

The dutch colony of New Netherlands split to become the two proprietary colonies of?

Answer 18

New Jersey and New York

Question 19

The settlers in which area adopted the Fundamental orders?

Answer 19

Connecticut

Question 20

What was the house of Burgesses

Answer 20

The first legislative body in English America

Question 21

Which law passes in 1649, called for freedom of worship for all Christians?

Answer 21

The Act for Religious Toleration

Question 22

Which French relies order sent missionaries to convert the Indians in Canada?

Answer 22

The Jesuits

Question 23

What was the first settlement established by the Virginia company?

Answer 23

Jamestown

Question 24

The switch to sugar as the primary crop in the West Indies let to?

Answer 24

more use of African Slaves

Question 25

Tobacco production caused settlers in Virginia to?

Answer 25

disperse throughout the countryside

Question 26

Who argued for a separation of church and state?

Answer 26

Roger Williams

Question 27

The pequot war began primarily along the

Answer 27

Connecticut River Valley

Question 28

Who envisioned his settlement as a "holy experiment"?

Answer 28

Penn

Question 29

Which people assisted in establishing a French presence along the St. Lawrence?

Answer 29

Fur Traders

Question 30

Who founded a permanent settlement in Quebec in 1608 along the St. Lawrence River?

Answer 30

Samuel de Champlain

Question 31

Puritan Missionaries emphasized what concerning potential converts?

Answer 31

direct study of scripture

Question 32

The first people forced into slavery in America by the Europeans were?

Answer 32

Indians

Question 33

Emigrants flowed in places where?

Answer 33

land was cheap and labor most in demand

Question 34

The Pueblo Revolt in 1680 caused the Spanish to treat the Indians with...

Answer 34

greater accommodations

Question 35

When French traders approached the Hurons/Wyandots to establish trade, the Indians insisted what?

Answer 35

that the French help the, fight the Iroquois

Question 36

After the Beaver Wars, the Iroquois

Answer 36

remained neutral with respect to European powers

Question 37

By the fifteen century, slaves represented a ________ proportion of Northern European labor.

Answer 37

Declining

Question 38

What was the rarest form of slave resistance?

Answer 38

organized rebellion

Question 39

Franciscan missionaries insisted that Indian converts

Answer 39

abandon their former ways of life and adopt everything from Spanish culture and life

Question 40

Property right among the Indians were held?

Answer 40

Collectively

Question 41

The English called which Indian leader King Phillip?

Answer 41

Metacom

Question 42

James Oglethorpe, who founded Georgia in 1732, originally thought of this group as a labor pool more desirable than slaves.

Answer 42

English debtors

Question 43

By 1750, which group dominated most of North America?

Answer 43

Native Americans

Question 44

Rebels led by Nathaniel Bacon burned what colonial city

Answer 44

Jamestown

Question 45

William Penn Acquired land from the Indians by?

Answer 45

paying for it

Question 46

Pope was a leader within which Indian Tribe?

Answer 46

Pueblos

Question 47

What were two things slaves sought to do?

Answer 47

sought to forge community ties and preserve elements of their African heritage

Question 48

King Philip's War took place in

Answer 48

1675

Question 49

What was the largest slave uprising?

Answer 49

the Stono Rebellion

Question 50

Which groups first brought African Slaves to America?

Answer 50

Spanish and Portuguese

Question 51

Chesapeake planters used which unfree labor source?

Answer 51

English Convicts

Question 52

Maine was originally part of which colony?

Answer 52

Massachusetts

Question 53

A 1691 royal charter granted "Liberty of Conscience" to?

Answer 53

all Protestants

Question 54

By 1770, the largest British provincial town was

Answer 54

Philadelphia

Question 55

Those converted in religious revival were called

Answer 55

new lights

Question 56

William Tennent, Sr. led a faction of what religious group?

Answer 56

Presbyterians

Question 57

King James created this out of eight previously separate colonies stretching from Maine to New Jersey.

Answer 57

The Dominion of New England

Question 58

England's economic system between 1651 and 1733 could best be described as

Answer 58

mercantilist

Question 59

An example of an Enlightenment thinker popular among the colonists is

Answer 59

Locke

Question 60

What was the name of the body formed in 1675 to oversee colonial affairs?

Answer 60

The Lords of Trade

Question 61

Which colonial region dominated transatlantic shipping?

Answer 61

New England

Question 62

Who put forth the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 62

Benjamin Franklin

Question 63

The Navigation Act of 1651 required that?

Answer 63

All trade carried out in the English Empire must be conducted in English ships

Question 64

The eighteenth-century Governor's Palace of Virginia was located in

Answer 64

Williamsburg

Question 65

The Halfway Covenant allowed whom to be baptized?

Answer 65

The children of those who had been baptized but had not experienced conversion

Question 66

The Majority of Colonists _____ the styles and cultures of the British elite.

Answer 66

had little interest in copying

Question 67

Which product was the most important agricultural export from the colonies in mainland America and the Caribbean?

Answer 67

Sugar

Question 68

George Whitefield belonged to the clergy of which religion?

Answer 68

The Anglican religion

Question 69

William of Orange took over the throne of England after the?

Answer 69

Glorious Revolution

Question 70

The Bill fo Rights passed by the British parliament in 1689 did what three things?

Answer 70

1) advocated for freedom of religious conscience. 2) reinforced individual rights such as prohibition from cruel and unusual punishment. 3) laid down limits on the powers of the monarch and enumerated rights of Parliament.

Question 71

What was one of the political legacies of the Great Awakening?

Answer 71

an emphasis on individual choice

Question 72

Who wrote under the pen name "A Farmer in Pennsylvania"?

Answer 72

John Dickson

Question 73

After the French and Indian War, colonists paid _____ taxes.

Answer 73

lower

Question 74

The British reacted to the Boston tea party by passing

Answer 74

The Coercive Acts

Question 75

According to John Locke, rulers have the authority to enforce law for?

Answer 75

only for the public good

Question 76

The First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in 1775 to protest the Intolerable acts, resulted in?

Answer 76

the endorsement of the Suffolk Resolves

Question 77

The continental Congress created this to organize and enforce sanctions against the Bristish

Answer 77

The Continental Association

Question 78

What act was passed by Parliament along with the real of the Stamp Act?

Answer 78

The Declaratory Act

Question 79

The Proclamation of 1763 forbade white settlement where?

Answer 79

West of the Appalachians

Question 80

The Stamp Act Congress adopted the?

Answer 80

Declaration fo Rights and Grievances

Question 81

The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was help in?

Answer 81

New York

Question 82

he said, "When the people are oppressed, " they are, "discontented" and are not to be blamed for resisting.

Answer 82

Samuel Adams

Question 83

Under the Quebec Act the southern boundary of Quebec became?

Answer 83

The Ohio River

Question 84

The Two Penny Act involved Anglican Ministers in which colony?

Answer 84

Virginia

Question 85

Included in the leadership of the Sons of Liberty was?

Answer 85

Samuel Adams

Question 86

Whose ship was named the Liberty?

Answer 86

John Hancock

Question 87

The Tea Act of 1773

Answer 87

exempted British tea from duties

Question 88

Crispus Attucks died during?

Answer 88

The Boston Massacre

Question 89

Which Act was the first to impose an internal tax on the colonies?

Answer 89

The Stamp Act

Question 90

At the end of the French and Indian Was, which country gained possession of Louisiana?

Answer 90

Spain

Question 91

Pontiac, who led the Indians against the colonists and British troop was an ______ Chief.

Answer 91

Ottawa

Question 92

General Gage and his troops were given orders to arrest John Hancock and whom on April 18. 1775?

Answer 92

Samuel Adams

Question 93

Which battle took place the day after Christmas 1776?

Answer 93

The Battle of Trenton

Question 94

The Military key to the Lower south was?

Answer 94

Charleston

Question 95

In the Declaration of Independence phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," the third element was originally?

Answer 95

property

Question 96

France's main goal in aiding the Americans was to?

Answer 96

weaken the British

Question 97

Most whigs subscribed to the political ideology known as

Answer 97

republicanism

Question 98

Who said "I have not yet begun to fight?"

Answer 98

Jones

Question 99

During the late colonial period, the headquarters of the British Army in America was in ?

Answer 99

New York

Question 100

After what battle did General Burgoyne surrender to the American leader Gates

Answer 100

The Battle of Saratoga

Question 101

Which of the following was not a British settlement in the Mississippi Valley in 1778?

Answer 101

St. Louis

Question 102

What was the last major military engagement in the North in the Revolutionary War?

Answer 102

The battle of Monmouth Court House

Question 103

Benedict Arnold offered to surrender what to the British?

Answer 103

West Point

Question 104

What document asserted American patriots would "die freemen, rather than live as slaves"?

Answer 104

The Declarations of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms?

Question 105

Who composed the first draft go the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 105

Thomas Jefferson

Question 106

Fort Ticonderoga was located at the southern end of?

Answer 106

lake Champlain

Question 107

General Cornwallis surrendered to American troops at?

Answer 107

Yorktown

Question 108

America's senior negotiator at the Paris peace talks ending the Revolutionary War war?

Answer 108

Franklin

Question 109

The American naval flag during the Revolution bore the motto

Answer 109

Don't Tread on Me

Question 110

The First American Casualties of the Revolutionary War were killed in?

Answer 110

Lexington

Question 111

Which Battle represented the worst American defeat of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 111

The Battle of Charleston