Midterm

Question 1

Smallpox

Answer 1

• One of the chief results of the Columbian Exchange
• Indian pop experienced catastrophic decline due to western illness, especially this one (due to not having the immunity)
• death of perhaps 80 million people by this illness and others, made it much easier for Europeans to conquer them.

Question 2

Jamestown

Answer 2

VA, Site in 1607 of the first permanent English settlement in the New World

Question 3

Covenant of Grace

Answer 3

Puritan theology - salvation doesn’t depend on outward behavior, it is faith not works that is the key.

Question 4

Triangular Trade

Answer 4

trading routes criss-crossing the Atlantic (carrying British goods to Africa and the colonies, colonial products to Europe, and slaves from Africa to the New World)

Question 5

Navigation Acts

Answer 5

Passed by the English Parliament to control colonial trade and bolster the mercantile system, 1650-1775; enforcement of the acts led to growing resentment by colonies.

Question 6

Edward Braddock

Answer 6

• British General during the Seven Years War
• led attack against Fort Duquesne but was ambushed and killed along with a ton of his men at the Battle of Monongehela. Huge defeat.
• too confident in his large numbers

Question 7

Proclamation Line of 1763

Answer 7

The Royal directive issued after the French and Indian war prohibiting settlement, surveys, and land grants west of the Appalachian mountains; caused resentment among the colonists hoping to move west.

Question 8

Pontiac’s War

Answer 8

• defeat of French (their allies) in Seven Years War and dependence on British led to the Indian uprising
• Ottowa war leader - Pontiac; rebellion also owed to teachings of Neolin, Delaware religious prophet
• Indians of Ohio Valley seized forts, killed hundreds of settlers in 1763, led to Proclamation of 1763