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History US 1877

UNIT 1 (1,2,3,4,5,6)

Question	Answer
the oldest major mountain range in north america is the app. mountains T OR F	true
before the arrival of columbus the indian people of north america spoke essentially the same language T OR F	false
the largest and most sophisticated indian civilizations were in the area of the pacific northwest	false
most north american indian people relied on a rich agricultural diet of corn maize beans and squash	true
the largest north american confederacy was created by the legendary hiawatha in the 16th centtury	true
viking expolorere created small but permanent settlement along the northest coast beginning about 1300 ad	false
spices from asia were extremely expensive in euarope due to the high costs paid to muslim "middlemen"	true
african slavery essentially began becaause of the low economic and cultural condition of african sociesties	false
before setting out on his voyage across the atlantic colubmus had already rounded the souther tip of afirca in seach of a route to asia	false
the primary cause of declining indian population after columbuss arrival was military assault on indian civilians	false
the conquest of mexico and peru solidified spains position as the wealthiest colonial power of thr 16 cenrury	true
the aztecs under moctezuma launched a military attack on cortez and the spnahish as soon as they landed in mexico	false
the spanish were largely uninterested in developing colonial settelemnets north of present day mexico city	false
the spanish settlements in new mexico and california depeneded more on catholic missionary efforts than on the discovery of gold and silver	true
despite their extremely harsh tremaent of the indians the spanish conquerors created culture laws and religion that laid the basis for later latin american civilization	true
the final landscape of the north american continent were determeined about 10,000 years ago by	the last retreat of the great ice age galciers
the most persuasive theory regarding the origins of american indians is they orgininally came from	siberia
the most sophisiticated indian civilzations were those erected by the	mayas incas and aztecs
the largest and most powerful indian confederacy in the territory of the present us was estblish in the sixteenth century by the	iriquois
the 1st european nation to sail around africa and establish large slave labor plantations was	portugal
among the indian agricultural products the eventually contributed to the eropean diet were	corn maise beans and tomatoes
the primary cause of the death of about 90 percent of the orginial indian population in the centuries after colombus's arrival was	diseases like smallpox malaria and yellow fever
spain gained the greatest riches of its american empire by	seizing indian gold and silver and mining more of the precious metals
what was not among the motives that drove the spanish conquistadors in their new world exploits	a humanitarian desire to end practices like human sacrifice
the spanish conquistador hernan cotes was able to defeat the ateca partly because	the aztec emporer moctezuma initially welcomed cortez into his captial city
the term mesizto refers to	people of mixed indian and european descent
the first universities established in the americas were those of	mexico city and lima peru
the primary motive for the spansish to establish settlements in florida and teas was	to prevent the encorashment of other eruopean powers especially france
the primary motive for the first spanish settlements in california was	to convert the indians to christianity
the black legened refers to the unfounded beleif that	the spanish only killed and stole the wealth of the americas without creating any lasting cutlure
englands rivalry with catholic spain intensified during the reing of protestant queen elizabeth	true
englands first colonies in newfoundland and north carolina were more succesful than the colonies of spain	false
englands colonization efforts were substantially delayed after its navy was defeated by the spanish armada	false
the defeat of the spanish armada helped fuel a strong english patriotism that was expressed in both literature and colonial adventures	true
it was difficult to recruit english settlers for the colonies because propersity and full employment mean that few wanted to leave england	false
the primary purpose of the colonial virginia company was to earn quick profits for it stockholders	true
the jamestown colony enjoyed a great succes in its early years	false
the marriage between pocahantas and john rolfe guranteed permanent peaceful relations between the powhatan indians and the virgian colonists	false
disease and white attacks quickly devastated and then destroyed most of the indian population along the atlanctic seaboard	true
virginias economic prosperity rested on the production of corn and rice	false
marylands catholic founder lord baltimore established a policy of harsh persecution of protestants	false
south carolina was closed tied to the slave and sugar growing economy of the west indies	true
north carolina generally resisted the alrge scale plantations and aristocratic social system that dominated south carolina	true
the georgia colony was established by poor whites fleeing the planter controlled society of south carolina	false
the dominant religion in the souther colonies was the established church of englash	true
the english protestant reformation was first launched by..	king henry VIII
in 1585 sir walter raleigh launched the failed english colonial settlement of roanoke in present day	north carolina
the english law of primogeniture contributed to colonial settlements because	ambitious younger sons were unable to inherit property
even though the purpose of the virginia company was to earn quick profits for stockholders the companys charter guaranteed	that settlers would enjoy all the rights of englishmen that they had at home
lord de la warr's use of irish tactics in virginia led to	fierce raids on indian villages and destruction of their crops
the english settlers policy of killing or driving out the Indians emerged partly because	the indians served no economic function for the colonists
during its first forty years of virginias existence, african slaves had	only a small presence in the colony
the maryland colony was orginially established as	a haven for persecuted english catholics
marylands 1649 act of toleration still contained provisions for harsh persectuion of what races	jews and atheists
sugar cane contributed greatly to the expansion of slavery because	it could only grow on large plantations with extensive labor
many of the early settlers of south carolina originally came from	englands west indies colonies like barbados
the primary agricultural crop of south carolina turned out to be	rice
the colony of north carolina was originally settled by	poor white squatters fleeing aristocratic virginia
the 3 most powerful indian peoples who controlled the appalachian mountains and valleys in the 18th century were the	cherokees creeks and iroquois
the prominent english christian missionary who worked temporarily among debtors and indians the the georgia colony was	john wesley
the primary form of protestantism that shaped englands north american colonies was reformed calvanism	true
the most devout puritans believed that the church of england should re-emphasize its role as a bridge chruch between protestantism and catholicism	false
unlike the puritans the pilgrims of plymouth bay believed that they should stay within the church of england in order to reform it	false
the original colonists of mass bay brough their royal charter along with them as a basic constitution	true
most of the original settler in massachussetss were poor and largely uneducated	false
although mass bay had an established chruch wih voting dependent on church membership it barred clergy from actually holding political office	true
anne hutchinson was exiled for teach that the saved need not obey the law and that she had recieved a direct revelation from god	true
roger williams made rhode island the most religiously tolerant of englands north american colonies	true
in contrast to virginia, relations between the english settlers in new england and the indians were generally peaceful	false
the new england confederation succeeded in defying king charles II and establishing greater autonomy for all of englands north american colonies	false
dutch new netherland was and authoritarian colony with little toleration for religious dissent or democracy	true
williams penns colony on the delware river struggled for many years until penn invited german colonists to settl there	false
williams penn established an autocratic gov't that brought prospertiy but denied freedom of worship and freedom of speech	false
the middle colonies had a more ethnically and religiously diverse population that either the souther or new england colonies	true
the swedish settled colony of delaware was originally under the governance of new york	false
what was not among the religous groups heavily influened by john calvins version of protestant christianity	german lutherans
the most fervent puritans beleved that the church should consist only of	visible saints who could demonstrate the working of grace in their lives to their fellow puritans
the number of puritan immigrants who came to new england on the first eleven ships in 1630 was approximately	1000
voting rights in the mass bay colony provinicial governments was restricted to	adult male members of the congregrational church
the punishment the puritans infliced on the religous dissenters anne hutchinson and roger williams was	exile from mass
the new england colonies with the closest connections to puritan mass were	conneticut and new haven
the pequot war of 1637 resulted in	the complete annihilation of the pequot tribe and 40 years of relative calm between puritans and indians
englands glorious revolution of 1688-89 resulted in	american attacks on royal authority and the collapse of the dominion of new england
the primary initial goal of the dutch west india company in establishing its new netherland colony was	to make quick profits from the fur trade for company investors
the small swedish colony of new sweden was conquered in 1655 by	`the dutch from new netherland
what was not among the distinctive features of the quakers religous beleif and practice	a denial of the christian doctrine of the trinity
which of the following was not among the unusual features of williams penns colony	the communal ownership of land
economically the quakers of pa were	shrewd businesspeople who attained considerable prosperity through trade
the 2 middle colonies most closely assosicated with quaker pa were	new jersey and delaware
while born is mass ben franklins life and career was essentially linked with the colony of	pennsylvania
the population of 17th century virgnia and maryland expanded rapidly through natural population growth	false
the primary source of labor in the 17th century tobacco colonies came from white indentured servants	true
the headright system for importing indentured servant labor contributed to the growth of large and wealthy plantations in the chesapeake region	true
by the end of the 17th century former indentured servants enjoyed greater oppurtunity for land ownership and upward mobility into the virginia gentry	false
virginias governor william berkely brutally crushed bacons rebellions and hanged more than 20 of the rebels	true
bacons rebellions and the crisis of indentured servitude led virginia planters to look to african slaves as a better source of labor	true
the primary reason few african slaves were brough to north america before 1700 was that most european settlers originally objected to slavery on religious and moral grounds	false
the leading center of slave trading in the northern british colonies was rhode island	true
the highest death rate for captured africans occrued during the middle passage from african to the americas	true
the treatment of slave and thier life expectancy was worse in the chesapeake colonies than in the deep south colonies like south carolina	false
the life expectancy of colonial new englanders was not much shorter than that of present day americans	true
most new england married women experienced fewer than four pregnancies during their child bearing years	false
new england families were more stable and multi generational than those in the southern colonies	true
colonial new england laws permitted and actually encouraged male spouses to physically abuse their wives	false
the new england town was a compact center and forum for managing government education and religion	true
the great majority of immigrants to seventeenth century virginia and maryland were	single men in their late teens and early twenties
as tobacco production expanded and prices for the leaf fell seventeenth century chesapkeake tobacco farmers	planted even more tobacco on newly acquired lands
by the end of the 17th century the institution of white indentured servitituve was	in a state of sever crisis that led to a major rebellion by landless former indentured servantws
the main reason that american plantation owners turned from white indentured servitude to african slavery was	they were afraid that masses of disconeteneted whites would rebel and overthrow their social system
most of the africans who came to north america were originally from	western africa from senegal to angola
which of the following were not provisions of the colonial slave codes written in the late seventheenth century english colonies	slaves could legally marry other slaves
the african american population of north america was one of the few slave societies in history to	perpetuate itself by natural reproduction
a primary reason that souther colonial women generally enjoyed more legal rights than new england women was that	southern men frequently died young leaving their widows with small children to support
the primary purpose of new englands family was to	defend the integrity of marriage
what was not a function of the traditional new england town	relations with the indians
the jermiad sermons that became common after mid 17th century generally	scolded parishioners for their wanting religious zeal
the half way covenant established in new england after 1662 provided that	unconverted children of church members could be baptized but not admitted to communion
a primary cause of the salem witchcraafts of 1692 was	the increasing social change and growing social stratification in new england towns
the generally unfavorable conditions for new england agriculture led to	an increasing economic turn to fishing shipbuilding and commerce
most of the english colonists in 17th century noth american were the descendents of	the middle layers of enlgish and europenan society
most of the increase in american population up to 1755 came from eurpean immigration and african slave importation	false
the center of the german ethnic population in the colonies was pennsylvania	true
there was less economic oppurtunity for ordinary americans in the 18th century than for contemporary britons	false
scots-irish immigrants generally settled in the mountain frontier areas because the better coastal land was already taken	true
the british gov't forcibly sent about fifty thousand convicted criminals and paupers to the american colonies	true
members of the ordinated clergy enjoyed little repect or social status in britains north american colonies	false
before the american revolution about 90 percent of the american population worked in agriculture	true
the largest portion of colonial commerse consisted of the triangular trade among new england west africa and the west indies	false
the best educated and most repsected clergy in colonial americfa belondged to the anglican chruch	false
the great awakening represented a spiritual and emotional challenge to the loss of earlier religious fervor in the colonies	true
the great awakenings leaders were hostile to and educated clergy and refused to support colonial colleges	false
the great awakening represented one of the first spontaneous movement of colonists as americans rather than as residents of seperate colonies	true
schools and colleges were more highly developed and better supported in colonial new england that in the middle colonies or the south	true
because they resented british political control american colonists looked to france and italy for much of their cultural goods and ideals	false
in the zenger case of 1734 a ny jury held that a newspaper could not be punished for libel it its statemetns about puclic officials were truthful	true
by 1775 appro what percent of the american pop was african american	20
the scots irish immigrants to the american colonies were known for their	individualism and hostility to governmental officials
the french settler crevecourer attributed the complex ethinic makeup of the american colonists to	the fact that americans of many diverse ethnic groups were intermingling and intermarrying
the vast majority of american colonists before the revolution were	small landowning farmers
the very lowest social class among white colonists consisted of	convicts and paupers
the worst disease in the colonies was	smallpox
the largest colonial manufacturing activity consisted of	lumbering shipbuilding and naval stores
colonial taverns were especially important as centers of	political conversation and orginization
the 2 colonial denominations that were most hostile to british authority and active in rebellious agitation were	presbyterians and congregationalists
the anglican church in america was severly handicapped by	its poorly educated clergy and lack of a resident bishop
clergy and believers who strongly supported the great awakeneing were called	new lights
the great awakening led to the founding of several new colleges including	princeton brown and dartmouth
many colonial southerners chose to educate their sons in	elite enlgish universisties
besides his classsic autobiography ben franklin was best known as a writer for	poor richards almanack
a primary means that colonial assemblies used to challenge royalr governors was	using to withhold the governors salary unless he yielded to their demands
samuel de champlain the father of new france allied french colonization with the huron indians in hostility to the iroguois	true
the strongest source of french colonists were the dissenting protestant french hugenots	false
the greatest economic foundation of frances new world empire was the fur trade	true
the french were unable to expand much beyond canada due to the spanish and british occupancy of the mouth of the mississippi river system	false
most of the colonial wars of the early 18th century featured britain and spain allied against the expanding french empire	false
george washingtons crucial role in the french british war for empire began when he successfuly defended virginia against a french invasion	false
at the albany congress of 1754 ben franklin attempted unsuccessfully to forge a plan for intercolonial unity	true
the british victory in the battle of quebec effectively makred the end of frances colonial empire in north america	TRUE
the successful performance of colonial soldiers and officers like george washington earned the respect of the professional british military	false
the experience of fighting together in the french and indian war created new and bitter divisions among citizens of the diverse 13 colonies	false
pride in the victorious british empire made american colonists feel a stronger sense of british partriotism after 1763	false
among the major winners from the treaty of paris were the iriquois creeks and other interior indian trives	false
the british defeat of the ottawa cheif ponitact in 1763 openened the door to american colonial migration across the apps	true
the british prohibition of colonial expansion in the proclomation of 1763 aroused americans resentment and defiance	true
in the wake of their great victory in the seven years ware britons were filled with pride and determined to put upstart colonials back in line	true
the primary center of french imperial activity in north american was	quebec
what was not a reason that new france grew slowly	there were no valuable resources to be exploited in canada
the catholic religious order that played a large role in explorartion and attempted conversion of the indians to christianity was	the jesuits
what was not among the 18th century was fought between britain and france	the war of jenkins ear
when did the french and indian war begin	when the governor of virginia sent george washington into the french controlled ohio country
ben franklins famous cartoon published to promote the 1754 albany congress contained the slogan...	join or die
the french success in the early phases of the seven years war was greatled aid by their alliance with...	the indians
general james wolfe effectively ended frances new world empire with his daring victory in	the battle of quebec
the colonial view of the proffesional british army altered when	they saw the arrogance and vulnerability of the british redcoats
british officials grew very angry and impatient with their colonial subjects during the 7 years ware because	many of the colonists refused to provide funds to support the conflict and their own defense
perhaps the greatest political benefit of the war for the american colonists was that	their discovery that they were all americans who spoke a common language and shared common ideals
of the french settler of louisianne were largely drawn from	refugees from british conquered nova scotia new brunswick and prince edward island
the american colonists felt a new sence of freedom after the seven years war because	they no longer felt the need for british militairy protection from the menacing french
the ottawa chief pontiacs 1763 campaign to drive the british out the the ohio country led to	a crushing indian defeate and british determination to stabilize the frontier at colonial expense
the british proclamation of 1763 forbidding futher colonial settlement beyond the apps led to	A growing westward migration and outright defiance of british authority

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