Exam #1 Flashcards
The Origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
With migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait
Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately
11,00 years ago
Native American religions were closely linked to
the natural world
Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes?
In all tribes women cared for the children and prepared meals
Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans
were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas
The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was
Portugal
Christopher Columbus
-thought the world was much smaller than it was in reality.
Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?
The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming
In what way did sixteenth century Europeans benefit from trade between the Americas and Europe?
A large number of new crops became available in Europe.
Which of the following was NOT introduced by Europeans to the New World?
Corn
The portion of west Africa that provided the majority of slaves for the Spanish Empire of the sixteenth century
had well-developed economies and political systems
The European countries that controlled the African slave trade did so in which chronological order, from earliest to latest?
the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English
Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements
were essentially business enterprises.
The English colonists of Jamestown initially focused most on
searching for gold.
Captain John Smith strengthened the Jamestown settlement by
Imposing work and order to the colonists
The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from
the production of tobacco
The first Africans imported to Virginia in 1619
were most likely indentured servants
Which of the following is true of Bacon’s rebellion?
It was a consequence of the indentured servant system
In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America
were Christian missionaries
During its first year in North America, the Plymouth colony
Survived in large part due to assistance from Indians
The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a “city upon a hill”
felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world.
In 1638, Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she
challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society.
The development of the Carolina colony was notable in that
the northern and southern regions were economically and socially distinct from each other.
The New York colony
emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch
Like New York, the New Jersey colony
had great ethnic and religious diversity
In the seventeenth century, English Quakers
All these answers are correct
William Penn
was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism
In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was
high valued
The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the
Scotch-Irish
Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by
All these answers are correct (english parliamentary regulation, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, an inadequate transportation network)
Commerce in colonial America relied in large part on
barter
In the “triangular trade,” the North American colonies primarily contributed
raw materials
The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of
Virginia and Maryland
Primogeniture refers to the
passing of property to the firstborn son
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly
women of low social position
The witchcraft trials in Salem
saw the original accusers recant their charges
Class divisions in colonial North American cities were
more real and visible than in rural places
in the 1760s, the Revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because
cities were the centers of intellectual information
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives
The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of
the spread of printing technology
The navigation Acts primarily benefited
business and planters in the British Caribbean
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689
saw an English king, James II, flee to the European continent
What 4 factors impelled Europe settlers to look west across Atlantic?
The European conquest of America began as an offshoot of the quest for a sea route to India, china, and the islands of the East Indies, the source of the silk, tea, spices, porcelain, and other luxury goods. Profit and piety- the desire to eliminate Islamic middlemen and win control of trade for Christian western Europe- combined to inspire the quest for a direct route to Asia.
Obstacles faced by Chesapeake settlers
- the colonys leadership changed repeatedly, its inhabitants suffered an extraordinarily high death rates, an d with the company seeking a quick profit, supplies from England proved inadequate. disease and lack of food took a heavy toll.
Origins of slave trade to new world in 1600s
Incessant demand for workers spurred by the spread of tobacco cultivation eventually led Chesapeake planters to turn to the transatlantic trade in slaves. The first Africans, twenty in all, arrived in virginia in 1619. Small numbers followed in subsequent years.
