Ch 1 -5? Flashcards by Crista Flores

What did Europeans expect to gain when Columbus discovered America?

A land of abundance that would offer them better lives and liberation from poverty

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Which of the following statements accurately describe the Americas before arrival of the Europeans?

A diverse array of Native American groups had their own languages, cultures, and conflicts

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At the time of the European arrival hou did native American tribes perceive themselves?

As many individual tribes each with their own unique cultures

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When Europeans arrived many native Americans

Tried to Use them to enhance their standing with other natives

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Native American religious ceremonies

Reflected a belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things

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Which of the following statements accurately compares to native American gender relations to those in Western Europe?

Native societies were highly gendered but much more = than the system of gender relations in Europe

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Native inhabitants of the Americas generally understood freedom

In terms of the well being of mes community, mutual obligations, and group autonomy

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In Europe on the eve of colonization one conception of freedom called Christian liberty

Combined seemingly contradictory ideas of freedom and servitude to God

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Which country first expored the Atlantic covert of ilfrica in the 14005 and soon thereafter established plantation slavery on the atlanticislands off arffricancoust

Portugal

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What was most significant in inspiring Spanish conquistadors during their exploration and conquest of the New world?

A desire to spread Catholicism gain wealth and national glory

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What factors had the greatest impact of insuring Hernan Cortes victory over the Aztecs?

A smallpox epidemic devastated Aztec society

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Which statements is accurate regarding the how of goods in the Colombian exchange?

Corn,tomateos, potentoes, peanuts, tobacco, and cotton were introduced to Europe

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Spanish, French, Dutch and English empires fought one another for dominance in early America what did these European empires have in common?

They brought Christianity and new technology to North America

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What did the Virgin of Guadalupe represent?

Mixing of Indian and Spanish cultures

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What best describes the Pueblo repolit of 1680?

It was a victory of the Pueblo Indians over the Spanish settlers in New Mexico which reestablishes Indian control of the region

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Which of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by me dates they were founded from the earliest to latest?

Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island

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Why did England consider Spain it’s enemy by he late 15005?

Because of religious differences:England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic

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Poor and working class English people generally hoped that emigrating ro the America would provide

Opportunities to become independent landowners

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What was the key difference between indentured servants from England and enslaved people from Africa?

Most indentured servants voluntarily came to colonies

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What was the primary English objective withregard to NativeS?

Displacing the natives and settling in their land

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As leader of the Jamestown colonys John smith

Used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together

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The Virginia company’s establishment of the headright system in 1618

Gave 50 acres of land to anycolonist uno paid for his own or another’s passage which in effect awarded large estates to any one who brought in a sizable # of servants

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Which colony created the first selected assembly in colonial America?

Virginia

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How did Pocahontas play a key role in jamstown society?

She served as an intermediary between Powhatan and English leaders, transported food And messages

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What was Virginias gold which ensured its survival and prosperity?

Tobacco

Puritans were

English Protestants who believed that the church of England was still too similar to the catholic church

What benefited the pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

Nature Americans decimated by disease had left behind cleared fields for farming

What is the significance of the mayflower compact?

It was the first written frame of government in American colonies

What was one difference between life in New England and the Chesapeake In the seventeenth century?

Patriarchal family patterns emerged quickly in New England but more slowly in Chesapeake

In the seventeenth century, new England economy

Centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber

What was a result of king Phillips was in 1670s?

In the long run white New englander's freedom broadened as their access to land expanded

Both king Phillip's war and Bacon’s rebellion were conflicts that

Started with disputes over native American territory

According to the economic theory known as mercantilism

The gov. Should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.

The fundamental constitutions of Carolina

Resulted in absolute power over slaves and indentured servants

What staple was the key to making Carolina an extremely hierarchal society ruled by the wealthiest elite in English North America

Rice

Pennsylvania’s treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way

Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then we sold to colonist and afraid refuse to tribes driven out of the other colonies

Which British colony profited from slave labor

How do British colonies from enslaved mean even colonies that were not directly dependent on slave labor benefited from the Atlantic slave trade

Artisans

Rose through the ranks to become masters of the craft owning their own tools and establishing their own workshops

According to last in the 17th century Chesapeake

Free black men had the right to sue and testify in court

Which of the following was the results of the Virginia law of 1662 in regard to slavery

Encourage the raping of enslaved women by white men by making the free or enslaved status of the offspring follow that of the mother

What was one factor that contributed to the unrest that led to Bacons rebellion

Giving a prickly refuse to allow White settlement in areas reserved for Indians

What is the difference between an enslaved person and an indentured servant

While indentured servants and surrendered their freedom for a limited period of time there was no end to the forced labor enslaved people endured

Bacons rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia

They replacing of indentured servants with African slaves in Virginia plantation

England’s glorious revolution of 1688

Established parliamentary supremacy once and for all

The salem witch trials of 1692

Spurred prominent colonist to seek scientific explanation for natural events

Which products produced by enslaved people with the first mass consumer goods in international trade

Sugar race coffee and tobacco

What differentiated slavery in new England in the middle colonies from slavery in the southern colones

Whereas new England and middle colonies had nonplantation based slavery slavery in the south focused on the tobacco and rice based plantation system

Which of the following statements accurately describes the task system

If Allowed slaves time for leisure or to cultivate crops on their own if they completed daily jobs

Which of the following statements about slaves in the New World and religion is accurate

What time many slaves adapted elements of Christianity while maintaining aspects of traditional African beliefs

Which of the following statements accurately describes South Carolina’s Stono rebellion

The rebellion spiked fears among lights and lead to a severe tightening of the South Carolina slave code

Republicanism in the 18th century England American political world emphasize the importance of ——— as the essence of liberty

Active participation in public life by property owning citizens

What was salutary neglect

The British government policy of leaving the colonies largely to govern themselves

The enlightenment thinkers who influenced many educated Americans in the 18th century

Taught that reason should be the basis of judging every human institution authority in tradition

What was one result of the great awakening

The revivals helps to explain the situation of newspapers and pamphlets in the colonies

Which idea was shared by deists and 18th century European enlightenment thinkers

Scientific laves Governed The natural order

Which aspects of the great awakening had significant political influence

Let’s focus on the individuals independent judgment

Why was the proclamation of 1763 difficult to enforce

Settlers in speculators ignore the new policy buying of Indian land in secret

What was the consequence of the seven years war on native cultures

It led to two decades of constant fighting Among the Tribes of the Ohio valley

Which one of the following was a consequence of the seven years war

Strengthened pride among American colonist about being part of the British empire

According to John Locke social contract exist when

People surrender freedom in exchange for protection by the rule of law

After what major event did the British government make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire

The seven years war

What was an important political origin of the American revolution

The colonist criticized their lack of representation in parliament

Virtual representation was the idea

That each member of Britain’s house of commons represented the entire empire not just his own district

What role did the committees of correspondence play in the years preceding the revolution

They helped colonial leaders to share ideas on resisting taxation

The daughters of liberty was the name given to

Lemmon who’s fun angle to create their own clothing rather than buy British goods

The underlying tension that escalated into the Boston massacre was between

Supporters and opponents of the boycott of British cloth

Which action by British parliament was labeled an intolerable act by Americans

Parliament empowered military commanders to lodge soldiers in private homes

What was the purpose of the committees of safety

To police the local population and punish those not following the boycott of British goods

What is the significance of the battle of Lexington and Concord

It is considered the battle that started the revolution war

Thomas Pauline’s common sense

Argued that America would become the home of freedom and an asylum for mankind

Which two documents both characterizing king George as a tyrant were integral to the American revolution

Common sense and the Declaration of Independence

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Declaration of Independence

It claimed a natural right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Which of the following figures is considered to have been a key influence in the arguments presented in the Declaration of Independence

John locke

At the battle of Saratoga in October 1777 Was

France becoming an ally to the United States

Was The image of Spain as a uniquely brutal and Exploitative colonizer

Black legend

What is the name given to Dutch land owners of large estates

Patroons

What is the name given to children of French traders and Indian women

Métis

Couverture

Was a married woman surrendering her legal identity

A person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry

Criollos

What is a table capable of traveling long distances

Caravel

A political movement favoring expanded liberty

Levelers

Granted 50 acres to anyone who paid his own passage

Headright system

A religious compromise for the descendants of the great migration

Half-way covenant

First written frame of gov. In British America

Mayflower compact

First elected assembly in colonial America

House of burgesses

Principles of Religious tolerance

An act concerning religion

Charter of liberties

Was demanded by the English over their former Dutch rulers

Government regulation of the nations economy to ensure national power

Mercantilism

Anglicization

Refers to elites in America becoming more culturally English

Royal African company

Had a monopoly on the slave trade

Maryland act concerning Negros and other slaves

Made all black servants in the corresponding colony slaves for life

West Jersey concessions

Was a very liberal frame of Government.

John peter zenger

Was a German bom printer of A colonial weekly journal

Was the great awakening preacher

George Whitefield

Founded the colony of Georgia

James Oglethorpe

Served as the British Prime Minister

William Pitt

Who wrote sinners in the hands of an angry god

Jonathan Edwards

What is English enlightenment political philosopher

John Locke

Founded the Junto a club for mutual improvement

Benjamin Franklin

Wrote cato'S letter

Trenchard and Gordon

William Cosby

What is a victim of zengers pen

Was the idea that each member of parliament represented the entire empire

Virtual representation

Committees of correspondence

Exchange ideas and info about resistance in Sprang up in various colonies

Street protesters that had a large following and helped in force the boycott of British goods

Sons of liberty

Regulators

Protested the Underrepresentation of western settlement in South Carolina’s assembly

Homespun virtue

What is the idea of avoiding buying British goods and making do with nonimported goods