Content Quiz #1

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

Columbus’ voyage to the Caribbean begins the homogenocene between Eastern & Western hemisphere

Question 2

1607

Answer 2

First permanent English colony in America at Jamestown, VA

Question 3

1619

Answer 3

First domestic assembly in English Colonial America (House of Burgesses)
First enslaved Africans brought to English America

Question 4

1676

Answer 4

Bacon’s Rebellion; uprising of poor White and Black people who believed the VA govt. was impeding their access to land and wealth/did nothing to clear the land of Natives; hastened the transition to African slavery in the Chesapeake colonies

Question 5

1730

Answer 5

First Great Awakening; Protestant revival that emphasised individual, experiential faith over Church doctrine/hierarchy and the close study of scripture

Question 6

1763

Answer 6

End of French & Indian War; Proclamation Line established so that colonists could not settle West of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 7

1776

Answer 7

Declaration of Independence is written & signed

Question 8

1789

Answer 8

American Constitution ratified; Washington is elected first President

Question 9

Black Legend

Answer 9

Spain’s reputation as terrorizing, horrible, bloodthirsty conquistadors; served as self-justification to other colonizers moving to N. America

Question 10

Mercantilism

Answer 10

The protectionists economic principle that nations should control trade with their colonies to ensure a favourable balance of trade

Question 11

Patroonship

Answer 11

New Netherland; granted large tracts of land to investors who could successfully settle 50 colonists within 4 years at the investor’s expense

Question 12

Headright System

Answer 12

English colonies; allowed landowners to purchase fifty acres of land for every immigrant whose journey they sponsored (including indentured servants & slaves)

Question 13

Encomienda

Answer 13

System of enforced labour imposed on Indigenous workers by Spanish colonists; land was granted to Conquistadors who fought for Spain during the Reconquista; used to encourage colonisation

Question 14

Salutary Neglect

Answer 14

English Crown was very relaxed in enforcing the Navigation Acts in the 1700s

Question 15

Navigation Acts

Answer 15

Series of English mercantilist laws enacted between 1651 and 1696 in order to control trade with the colonies

Question 16

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 16

Colonial extralegal shadow govt’s that convened to coordinate plans of resistance against the British

Question 17

Couverture

Answer 17

The legal status of married women is the US, which included complete legal and economic dependence on husbands

Question 18

Connecticut Compromise

Answer 18

AKA Great Compromise; proposal at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature, upper house having equal representation for all states, lower house having proportional representation

Question 19

Electoral College

Answer 19

Mechanism by which electors, based on the number of representatives from each state, choose the president (basically some elitist hogwash)

Question 20

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 20

Agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three out of every five enslaved persons would be counted when determining a state’s population for purposes of representation (basically racist elitist hogwash)

Question 21

Democratic-Republicans

Answer 21

Advocates of limited government who were troubled by the expansive domestic policies of Washington’s administration; opposed the Federalists

Question 22

Spanish Colonial Empire

Answer 22

South America (except Brasil), Central America

Question 23

English Colonial Empire

Answer 23

West Indies, North America

Question 24

French Colonial Empire

Answer 24

Northern North America (Canada)

Question 25

Dutch Colonial Empire

Answer 25

New York/Northern North America region

Question 26

New England vs. Chesapeake Colonies

Answer 26

New England: Puritan values, self-sufficient, colonists seeking religious freedom
Chesapeake: economic raisons d’être, slave labour

Question 27

North vs. Middle vs. Southern Colonies

Answer 27

North: ports, manufacturing, self-sustenance, slaves & indentured servants, tied heavily to the Crown
Middle: trade, ports, slave labour, more independent from Crown
South: large plantations, dependent on slave labour, huge economic and social divides, most independent from Crown

Question 28

13 Original Colonies

Answer 28

From North to South:
New England- New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Middle- NY, Pennsylvania, NJ, Delaware
Southern- Maryland, Virginia, NC, SC, Georgia

Question 29

Start of Revolutionary War

Answer 29

Lexington & Concord, Massachusetts, 1775

Question 30

Turning Point of Revolutionary War (French join)

Answer 30

Saratoga, NY, 1777

Question 31

End of Revolutionary War

Answer 31

Yorktown, VA, 1781

Question 32

USA Capital before Washington DC

Answer 32

Philadelphia, PA