Cards For Midterm Flashcards
Three inventions that made travel around Africa possible
Quadrant, compass, caravel
Who financially backed Christopher Columbus’s voyage?
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
When did Christopher Columbus’s voyage begin?
1492
Where and when did Christopher Columbus reach during his first journey?
Bahamas on October 12, 1492
In 1493 Christopher Columbus brought over 1,000 men to new world.
No answer
Name of Italian explorer in English court
John Cabot
Name of colony founded by John Cabot in 1497
Newfoundland
What happened to John Cabot on his second voyage?
He disappeared
Where did Hernán Cortés land in 1504?
Cuba
When did Hernán Cortés land in Mexico?
1519
What empire did Hernán Cortés conquer?
The Aztec Empire
Who took possession of Newfoundland in 1583?
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Who founded Roanoke in 1585 only to find it abandoned in 1590?
Sir Walter Raleigh
When was Jamestown founded?
1607
What company founded Jamestown?
The London Company
John Rolfe began experimenting with what crop in Jamestown which resulted in mass shipments of this product from Virginia?
Tobacco
Who founded the colony of New Amsterdam?
The Dutch
What colony did New Amsterdam become after the English took over the colony?
New York
Who kept Virginia under strict military rule?
John Smith
When was the House of Burgesses enacted?
1619
How many members in the House of Burgesses?
22
What were the three sisters?
Beans, corn, and squash
What tribe controlled most other tribes in the Virginia area?
The Powhatan
What resulted in the death of 300 Virginian settlers in 1622?
A massacre lead by the Opechancanough Indians
Who founded Maryland?
Cecilius Calvert
Maryland was meant to be a refuge for what religious group?
Catholics
What religious group made up the majority of Maryland?
Prodistance
What religious group was closely connected to New England?
Puritans
Where did the pilgrims first land in 1620?
Cape Cod
What was the name of the document drawn up by the pilgrims?
Mayflower Compact
Puritanism was patriarchal. They shamed individualism.
No answer
Who made up most of the elected officials in a puritan society?
Church members
Who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for believing in religious freedom?
Roger Williams
What colony did Roger Williams found?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was a Haven for what?
Religious freedom
Connecticut was founded based on the merging of what two settlements?
Hartford and New Haven
What war began in 1637 because of the killing of a fur trader?
The Pequot War
Define mercantilism.
Wanting to make sure that more gold is coming into your country rather than leaving it.
The Carolinas got slave culture from sugar colonies from what country?
Barbados
The trade of what crop largely enriched planters in the Carolinas?
Rice
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.
No answer
The exportation of Indian slaves was greater than the importation of African slaves in the Carolinas for a certain amount of time.
No answer
Who founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn
William Penn belonged to what religion?
The Quakers
Who forbid whites to claim land owned by the Indians?
Sir William Berkeley
Who formed a militia to fight the Indians and claim their land and marched into Jamestown and burned it down?
Nathaniel Bacon
The conflict between Nathaniel Bacon’s ideals in Sir William Berkeley’s ideals was known as what conflict?
Bacon’s rebellion
The 13 colonies were ethnically diverse, contained inexpensive land, and paid some of the lowest taxes in the world.
No answer
What did African Kings usually get for selling slaves?
Manufactured goods
What are the two types of slave labor?
Task and gang
What type of slavery was common in the north?
Domestic servants
Who founded Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
What two things were banned when Georgia was founded?
Slavery and liquor
When did Georgia turn to the crown?
1751
What rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 saw slaves seizing weapons and marching to Florida?
The Stono Rebellion
What promoted active participation in public life by property owners?
Republicanism
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?
Liberalism
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?
Potiac’s War
What line formed in 1763 established Indian territory in the Americas?
Proclamation Line of 1763
Tax formed in 1699
Wool act
Tax formed in 1732
Hat act
Tax formed in 1733
Molasses act
During the French and Indian war, what fort did George Washington get defeated at?
Fort necessity
How were the colonist treated by the English during the French and Indian war?
As allies
What act cut existing taxes on imported molasses in half but also cracked down on smuggling?
The Sugar Act 1764
1768 ship liberty seized in Boston for breaking trade regulation.
No answer
Name of event that resulted in five Boston people being killed in 1768?
The Boston massacre
What’s the name of the first casualty of the American revolution?
Crispus Attucks
Tax formed in 1773?
Tea act
What company got tax exemptions due to the tea act?
East India Company
When was the Boston tea party?
December 16, 1773
What was the consequence of the Boston tea party?
Boston Harbor was closed until the debt of the tea was paid for
Why did the continental Congress meet in 1774?
To oppose the intolerable acts
When did the Continental Congress pledge to meet again?
May of 1775
What battle occurred on April 19, 1775
Lexington and Concord
When did the British capture Boston?
March 1776
What event in 1778 led to the French and Spanish to enter the war?
Treaty of Amity
When was Burgoyne forced to surrender?
October 17, 1777
When did America win Cowpen?
January 1781
When was the treaty of Paris?
September 1783
What protest in 1786 and 1787 protested land getting taken for not paying debts?
Shays’s Rebellion
Who came up with a five point financial plan for the United States?
Alexander Hamilton
Who opposed Hamilton’s five step financial plan?
Thomas Jefferson
