Early America : History

Question 1

John Locke (17th century)

Answer 1

• 17th century
• An English political philosopher.
• Argued legitimacy of government rested upon consent of governed, and all individuals had the right to life, liberty and property.

Question 2

Columbian Exchange (15-16th century)

Answer 2

• 15 through 16th century
• The introduction of goods and people between Natives, Americans, Africans, and Europeans.
• Foods like; horses, maize, sugar, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
• Various diseases like influenza, smallpox and yellow fever.

Question 3

Primogeniture (15-18th century)

Answer 3

• 15 through 18th century
• A system in Europe and Colonial America where father’s give all their land to their eldest son.
• This forced many younger children to join ranks of the roaming poor.
• Mass immigration of many sons settled in the New World to gain access to land and wealth.

Question 4

House of Burgesses (1619)

Answer 4

• 1619
• The first representative government in English colonies of America, located in Virginia.
• They could make laws and levy taxes, but could be overruled by the colonial governor and company council in England.

Question 5

Navigation Acts (1651)

Answer 5

• 1651
• British North America and Great Britain
• A series of laws was implemented to restrict colonial trade to the mother country.
• It reflected the policy of mercantilism, but colonists violated the act and traded with the Dutch and French.

Question 6

Stamp Act (1765)

Answer 6

• 1765
• British North America
• Tax on ALL printed items ranging from newspapers, stamps to playing cards.
• The hope was that tax would raise to help cove the cost of stationing British troops to North America
• Benjamin Franklin proposed Americans be represented in British Parliament
• Beginning of American Revolution

Question 7

Coercive Act (1774)

Answer 7

• 1774
• British North America
• Series of four acts passed by British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party
• Boston Harbor closed
• capital crimes prosecuted in other colonies or in England
• Patriotic American leaders labeled these acts as the “Intolerable Acts”

Question 8

Philipsburg Proclamation (1779)

Answer 8

• 1779
• In the United States
• British military strategy against southern United States during Revolutionary war
• Declared that any slave who deserted their master would receive protection, freedom, and land from Great Britain
• George Washington allowed black people to join the Continental Army in exchange for their freedom

Question 9

Treaty of Paris (April 1782 - Sep 1783)

Answer 9

• April 1782 through September 1783
• Paris, France
• peace talks between United States and Great Britain
• Britain recognized American independence and relinquished all claims to lands south of the Great lakes and east of Mississippi river
• Granted American fishing rights
• Giving freedom to American slaves

Question 10

What is the term defining ownership of human beings including hereditary status of one’s Mother?

Answer 10

Chattel Slavery

Question 11

What was the interaction between the Spanish and Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere that included the introduction of food, technology, culture, and diseases between these two peoples?

Answer 11

Columbian Exchange

Question 12

What is the system of state-assisted manufacturing and trade?

Answer 12

Mercantilism

Question 13

What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

Answer 13

Jamestown, Virginia

Question 14

What was the first system of representative government in the English colonies of North America?

Answer 14

House of Burgesses

Question 15

What colony was settled for the religious freedom of Catholics in America?

Answer 15

Maryland

Question 16

What institution granted fifty acres of land to any settler within the English colonies who paid for the passage of a new immigrant to that colony?

Answer 16

Headright System

Question 17

What religious dogma stated that God only saved a few chosen people?

Answer 17

Predestination

Question 18

What three colonies were established as proprietorships?

Answer 18

Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas

Question 19

What agricultural and commercial trading order in the Western Hemisphere accelerated British wealth and power in the world?

Answer 19

South Atlantic System

Question 20

What was the name of the sea route that brought hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans to the New World?

Answer 20

Middle Passage

Question 21

What was the name of the first slave rebellion in America?

Answer 21

Stono Rebellion

Question 22

What is the term that defines illegal tenants of land who hope to legally acquire land ownership?

Answer 22

Squatters

Question 23

What primary ethnic group settled large portions of the Carolinas?

Answer 23

Scots-Irish

Question 24

What European cultural movement emphasizes the power of human reason to understand and shape the world?

Answer 24

The Enlightenment

Question 25

What religion advocates the existence of a Supreme being who created the world and
then allowed it to operate by natural law and not direct interference?

Answer 25

Deism

Question 26

What political idea called for the unification of British colonies in America under a central government that could regulate trade, create Indian policy, and establish a military force for mutual aid between the colonies?

Answer 26

Albany Plan

Question 27

What were military tribunals that governed the high seas and staffed by British-appointed Judges?

Answer 27

Vice - Admiralty Courts

Question 28

What legislation imposed duties on colonial imports of paper, glass, paint, and tea?

Answer 28

Townshend Act of 1767

Question 29

What is the name for the event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of American demonstrators killing five colonials?

Answer 29

Boston Massacre

Question 30

What is the name for colonial militiamen who could be immediately ready to fight the British?

Answer 30

Minutemen

Question 31

Who wrote Common Sense?

Answer 31

Thomas Paine

Question 32

What battle during the Revolutionary War resulted in the defeat and surrender of John Burgoyne at the hands of American general Horatio Gates?

Answer 32

Saratoga

Question 33

What British act declared that any slave who deserted from their Patriot master would receive protection, freedom, and land from Great Britain?

Answer 33

Philipsburg Proclamation

Question 34

What formally ended hostilities between the United States and Great Britain resulting in the recognition of the United States as a sovereign, independent nation?

Answer 34

Treaty of Paris, 1783