Unit 1 Study Guide

Question 1

What Native American Empire was based out of Tenochtitlan (one of the largest cities of its time) and controlled southern Mexico?

Answer 1

Aztec

Question 2

What crop was the foundation of Native American agriculture?

Answer 2

Corn

Question 3

Which of the following from Europe had the greatest impact on Native American life?

Answer 3

European diseases

Question 4

In what region of the modern USA were the Pueblo tribes found?

Answer 4

Southwest

Question 5

T/F:
West American societies were isolated from any international trade before the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

What is the name of the movement in 16th century Europe that divided the Church into Protestant and Catholic?

Answer 6

The Reformation

Question 7

This term refers to the global transfer of living things after Columbus’ discovery of the New World.

Answer 7

Columbian Exchange

Question 8

What plants/animals/things were in the Old World.

Answer 8

Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, and diseases.

Question 9

What plants/animals/things were in the New World.

Answer 9

Gold silver, corn, potatoes, pineapple, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, and syphilis.

Question 10

What English King led his nation to Protestantism because of his desire for a divorce?

Answer 10

Henry VIII

Question 11

This Queen provided stability to the English monarchy. She also witnessed the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Answer 11

Elizabeth I

Question 12

What religious group opposed the compromises in the Church of England? They wanted it to be more Reformed/Calvanistic.

Answer 12

Puritans

Question 13

This economic system sought a “favorable balance of trade” with other nations.

Answer 13

Mercantilism

Question 14

The Roanoke Colony is famous for what?

Answer 14

The disappearance of all the colonists

Question 15

This current city is the oldest European settlement in the US.

Answer 15

St. Augustine

Question 16

This city was originally settled by Dutch colonists.

Answer 16

New York

Question 17

By 1688, England had developed into this kind of monarchy.

Answer 17

Constitutional

Question 18

How did America get its name?

Answer 18

After Amerigo Vespucci

Question 19

How did the British Empire further its empire and gain the loyalty of Dutch colonists?

Answer 19

life, liberty, and property

Question 20

Who founded the Virginia colony in Jamestown and why?

Answer 20

it was founded by the Virginia Company to make money

Question 21

Why was Massachusetts founded?

Answer 21

As a place where puritans could worship the way they wanted to

Question 22

Who were the majority of the Early immigrants to Virginia?

Answer 22

indentured servants from England

Question 23

The Virginia House of Burgesses is an early example of what?

Answer 23

Self-government

Question 24

The middle passage is a term that refers to what?

Answer 24

the voyage of slaves from West Africa to the Americas

Question 25

What college was founded by the Puritans in 1636 to train their pastors?

Answer 25

Harvard

Question 26

What states were in the New England Colony?

Answer 26

-Maine -Vermont -New Hampshire -Massachusetts -Rhode Island -Connecticut

Question 27

What states were in the Middle Colonies?

Answer 27

-New York -Pennsylvania -New Jersey -Delaware

Question 28

What states were in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 28

-Maryland -Virginia -N. Carolina -S. Carolina -Georgia

Question 29

What bible verse did John Smith use to turn around the economic situation of the colony?

Answer 29

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Question 30

What is the name for the first self-governing assembly in the New World?

Answer 30

House of Burgesses

Question 31

Who desired that the Massachusetts colony would be a "city on a hill"?

Answer 31

John Winthrop

Question 32

What were the two places that most slaves that journeyed to the New World went to?

Answer 32

Caribbean and Brazil

Question 33

Which colony had the largest percentage of slaves?

Answer 33

South Carolina

Question 34

Most residence of the colonies were from where?

Answer 34

England

Question 35

T/F: Between 1700 and 1775 the population of the colonies declined because of epidemic disease.

Answer 35

False

Question 36

Where did the Scots-Irish tend to settle?

Answer 36

Appalachian Mountains

Question 37

What area of the colonies offered the best opportunities for education?

Answer 37

New England

Question 38

Name a toy that Colonial Children would commonly play with?

Answer 38

Dolls

Question 39

What was the New England Primer?

Answer 39

To help teach the ABC's

Question 40

Who wrote: "Glass, china, and reputation are easily crack'd and never well mended".

Answer 40

Ben Franklin

Question 41

This law mandated schools in every Massachusetts town.

Answer 41

Old Deluder Satan Act

Question 42

This term refers to the voyage of slaves from Africa to the New World.

Answer 42

Middle Passage

Question 43

A corn meal pancake eaten in colonial times was called what?

Answer 43

hoe cake

Question 44

This agreement adopted by the Congregational churches of New England in the 1600s that allowed baptized but unconverted church members to have children who could be baptized and become church members with political rights.

Answer 44

Halfway covenant

Question 45

These were staunch Protestants who rejected the rule of bishops and Anglican ceremonies. They wanted a more protestant church of England.

Answer 45

Puritans

Question 46

This group believed the whole church of England was corrupt.

Answer 46

Separatists

Question 47

This monarch brought the Protestant Reformation to England because of his desire for a divorce.

Answer 47

Henry VIII

Question 48

This group founded by George Fox believed in following a person's "inner light".

Answer 48

Quakers

Question 49

This founder of Rhode Island was an early promoter of the Separation of Church and State.

Answer 49

Roger Williams

Question 50

This current religious group are the inheritors of the Anabaptist tradition.

Answer 50

Amish.

Question 51

Who was the most outstanding evangelist of the Great Awakening?

Answer 51

George Whitefield

Question 52

What Massachusetts pastor was the greatest theologian of the Great Awakening?

Answer 52

Jonathan Edwards

Question 53

A summary of a denominations doctine in question-and-answer form.

Answer 53

Catechism

Question 54

In Virginia and the Carolinas, this type of church was established.

Answer 54

Anglican

Question 55

In Massachusetts and Connecticut, this type of church was established.

Answer 55

Congregationalist

Question 56

In Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, this type of church was established.

Answer 56

No establishment

Question 57

The intellectual movement that Emphasized the ability to human reason to answer life's issues is called what?

Answer 57

The Enlightenment

Question 58

Short Answer: Who were the Puritans, what did they want and what were their goals? name a person/event that had to do with Puritans.

Answer 58

-believed in having Protestantism in the England Church. -they wanted to reject the rule of Anglican ceremonies -Martin Luther was a puritan and the one who began the protestant reformation

Question 59

Short Answer: How did the Puritans impact education?

Answer 59

-They wanted to learn about God -Founded Harvard in 1636 which was the first college -They built this college to train pastors -They passed the Old Deluder Satan Act in 1647. This stated that a town with 50+ people had to have a school -Also created the New England Primer which taught them how to read.

Question 60

Short Answer: When and where did the Colonies practice self-government?

Answer 60

-In 1620 in Plymouth Colony. It came from the Mayflower compact which was that self-government was the consent of the governed. -In 1630 in Massachusetts Bay Colony. It came from John Winthrop and his belief in a city on a hill.