Exam American Yawp

Question 1

The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans, also called the “Three sisters,” include all of the following except-

Answer 1

Wheat

Question 2

What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent?

Answer 2

Matrilineal

Question 3

Most Native Americans understood property rights as primarily relating to which of the following concepts?

Answer 3

Active use

Question 4

Christopher columbus sailed under the flag of which nation?

Answer 4

Spain

Question 5

Hernan Cortes relied on a native woman to conquer the Aztecs. What did he call her?

Answer 5

Dona Marina

Question 6

The northwest passage allegedly promised a water-route to-

Answer 6

Asia

Question 7

The expansion of the iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into “middle ground,” located in what region?

Answer 7

Great Lakes

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New Netherlands?

Answer 8

Trade with Indians

Question 9

Jamestown was established in a disatrous location. What proved to be the worst aspect of the location?

Answer 9

Brackish tidal water

Question 10

What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?

Answer 10

Tobacco

Question 11

Justification for African slavery partly derived from interpretations of a biblical curse placed on Noah. This curse was known as-?

Answer 11

Curse of Ham

Question 12

Puritans derived their theology primarily from which system of Christian thought?

Answer 12

Calvinist

Question 13

What crop led to the creation of large plantations and great wealth for the elite in the Carolinas?

Answer 13

Rice

Question 14

What was a motivating factor in the creation of colonies such as Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?

Answer 14

Religion

Question 15

What is the term that slaves used for the voyage across the Atlantic?

Answer 15

Middle Passage

Question 16

Puritans led the revolt against KIng Charles I in what is now called-

Answer 16

The glorious revolution

Question 17

Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase consumer goods EXCEPT-

Answer 17

Standardized currency

Question 18

Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in the use of their time?

Answer 18

Task system

Question 19

What was the first English group to turn against slavery?

Answer 19

Quakers

Question 20

Where did the great awakening begin?

Answer 20

New England

Question 21

How did women participate in protesting the Townshend Acts?

Answer 21

Spinning homespun clothing to aid the trade boycott

Question 22

What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiacs rebellion?

Answer 22

Neolin

Question 23

Why was the Boston massacre significant?

Answer 23

Tied the colonies together through shared sympathy for Boston

Question 24

What was the purpose of the Tea Act?

Answer 24

All of the above

Question 25

Which side was the first to offer freedom to slaves willing to fight for their side?

Answer 25

British

Question 26

What turning point convinced the french to join the war against Britain?

Answer 26

Battle of saratoga

Question 27

What was the primary cause of shays rebellion?

Answer 27

Farmers struggling because of debts

Question 28

How were slaves counted for purposes for proportional representation?

Answer 28

They were counted as three-fifths of a person

Question 29

what was the xyz affair

Answer 29

Scandal that occured when french diplomats demanded bribes from American officials

Question 30

what was the term for the documents arguing that states could declare federal laws unconstitutional?

Answer 30

Kentucky and Virginia resolutions

Question 31

what was the term for Americans who opposed ratifying the constitution?

Answer 31

Anti-federalists