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Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
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Most West Africans were ________

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Farmers

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2
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In Order to fund his voyage, Columbus tried to convince King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain that?

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Spain could grow rich from Asian Trade, they could send missionaries to Asia, and Spain could enlist the help of the Great Khan of China as an ally against Islam.

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3
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Who wrote “In Defense of the Indians”?

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Las Casas

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4
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What urban center dominated the Mississippi Valley?

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Cahokia

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5
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When did Luther Start the Protestant Reformation?

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AD 1517

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6
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According to Luther, Salvation in the result of ?

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Faith

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7
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Which religion took root in West Africa in the eleventh century?

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Islam

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8
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What period marks the European Renaissance?

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AD 1400-1600

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9
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What was a part of “the Columbus exchange”?

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The spread of European diseases to America

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10
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Hakluyt argued that the Indians, once civilized, would be?

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purchasers of English goods

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11
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The economic base of France’s New World empire was?

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Fishing and Furs

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12
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What did French authorities prohibit?

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further westward expansion into North America

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13
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After Charles I was executed, this man ruled England until his death in 1658

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Oliver Cromwell

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14
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An antinomian is someone who?

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claims to be free from obedience to moral law

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15
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The first document to establish self-government - and the decisions of the majority- in North America was?

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the Mayflower Compact

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16
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In early New England, women’s economic contributions were?

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Central to a family’s success

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17
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The first New England settlement, founded in 1620 was the?

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Plymouth colony

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18
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The dutch colony of New Netherlands split to become the two proprietary colonies of?

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New Jersey and New York

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19
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The settlers in which area adopted the Fundamental orders?

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Connecticut

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20
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What was the house of Burgesses

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The first legislative body in English America

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21
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Which law passes in 1649, called for freedom of worship for all Christians?

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The Act for Religious Toleration

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22
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Which French relies order sent missionaries to convert the Indians in Canada?

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The Jesuits

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23
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What was the first settlement established by the Virginia company?

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Jamestown

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24
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The switch to sugar as the primary crop in the West Indies let to?

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more use of African Slaves

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25
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Tobacco production caused settlers in Virginia to?

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disperse throughout the countryside

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26
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Who argued for a separation of church and state?

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Roger Williams

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27
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The pequot war began primarily along the

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Connecticut River Valley

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28
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Who envisioned his settlement as a “holy experiment”?

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Penn

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29
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Which people assisted in establishing a French presence along the St. Lawrence?

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Fur Traders

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30
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Who founded a permanent settlement in Quebec in 1608 along the St. Lawrence River?

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Samuel de Champlain

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31
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Puritan Missionaries emphasized what concerning potential converts?

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direct study of scripture

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32
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The first people forced into slavery in America by the Europeans were?

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Indians

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33
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Emigrants flowed in places where?

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land was cheap and labor most in demand

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34
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The Pueblo Revolt in 1680 caused the Spanish to treat the Indians with…

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greater accommodations

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35
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When French traders approached the Hurons/Wyandots to establish trade, the Indians insisted what?

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that the French help the, fight the Iroquois

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36
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After the Beaver Wars, the Iroquois

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remained neutral with respect to European powers

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37
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By the fifteen century, slaves represented a ________ proportion of Northern European labor.

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Declining

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38
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What was the rarest form of slave resistance?

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organized rebellion

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39
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Franciscan missionaries insisted that Indian converts

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abandon their former ways of life and adopt everything from Spanish culture and life

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40
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Property right among the Indians were held?

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Collectively

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41
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The English called which Indian leader King Phillip?

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Metacom

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42
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James Oglethorpe, who founded Georgia in 1732, originally thought of this group as a labor pool more desirable than slaves.

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English debtors

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43
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By 1750, which group dominated most of North America?

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Native Americans

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44
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Rebels led by Nathaniel Bacon burned what colonial city

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Jamestown

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45
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William Penn Acquired land from the Indians by?

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paying for it

46
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Pope was a leader within which Indian Tribe?

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Pueblos

47
Q

What were two things slaves sought to do?

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sought to forge community ties and preserve elements of their African heritage

48
Q

King Philip’s War took place in

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1675

49
Q

What was the largest slave uprising?

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the Stono Rebellion

50
Q

Which groups first brought African Slaves to America?

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Spanish and Portuguese

51
Q

Chesapeake planters used which unfree labor source?

A

English Convicts

52
Q

Maine was originally part of which colony?

A

Massachusetts

53
Q

A 1691 royal charter granted “Liberty of Conscience” to?

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all Protestants

54
Q

By 1770, the largest British provincial town was

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Philadelphia

55
Q

Those converted in religious revival were called

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new lights

56
Q

William Tennent, Sr. led a faction of what religious group?

A

Presbyterians

57
Q

King James created this out of eight previously separate colonies stretching from Maine to New Jersey.

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The Dominion of New England

58
Q

England’s economic system between 1651 and 1733 could best be described as

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mercantilist

59
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An example of an Enlightenment thinker popular among the colonists is

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Locke

60
Q

What was the name of the body formed in 1675 to oversee colonial affairs?

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The Lords of Trade

61
Q

Which colonial region dominated transatlantic shipping?

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New England

62
Q

Who put forth the Albany Plan of Union?

A

Benjamin Franklin

63
Q

The Navigation Act of 1651 required that?

A

All trade carried out in the English Empire must be conducted in English ships

64
Q

The eighteenth-century Governor’s Palace of Virginia was located in

A

Williamsburg

65
Q

The Halfway Covenant allowed whom to be baptized?

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The children of those who had been baptized but had not experienced conversion

66
Q

The Majority of Colonists _____ the styles and cultures of the British elite.

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had little interest in copying

67
Q

Which product was the most important agricultural export from the colonies in mainland America and the Caribbean?

A

Sugar

68
Q

George Whitefield belonged to the clergy of which religion?

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The Anglican religion

69
Q

William of Orange took over the throne of England after the?

A

Glorious Revolution

70
Q

The Bill fo Rights passed by the British parliament in 1689 did what three things?

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1) advocated for freedom of religious conscience.
2) reinforced individual rights such as prohibition from cruel and unusual punishment.
3) laid down limits on the powers of the monarch and enumerated rights of Parliament.

71
Q

What was one of the political legacies of the Great Awakening?

A

an emphasis on individual choice

72
Q

Who wrote under the pen name “A Farmer in Pennsylvania”?

A

John Dickson

73
Q

After the French and Indian War, colonists paid _____ taxes.

A

lower

74
Q

The British reacted to the Boston tea party by passing

A

The Coercive Acts

75
Q

According to John Locke, rulers have the authority to enforce law for?

A

only for the public good

76
Q

The First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in 1775 to protest the Intolerable acts, resulted in?

A

the endorsement of the Suffolk Resolves

77
Q

The continental Congress created this to organize and enforce sanctions against the Bristish

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The Continental Association

78
Q

What act was passed by Parliament along with the real of the Stamp Act?

A

The Declaratory Act

79
Q

The Proclamation of 1763 forbade white settlement where?

A

West of the Appalachians

80
Q

The Stamp Act Congress adopted the?

A

Declaration fo Rights and Grievances

81
Q

The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was help in?

A

New York

82
Q

he said, “When the people are oppressed, “ they are, “discontented” and are not to be blamed for resisting.

A

Samuel Adams

83
Q

Under the Quebec Act the southern boundary of Quebec became?

A

The Ohio River

84
Q

The Two Penny Act involved Anglican Ministers in which colony?

A

Virginia

85
Q

Included in the leadership of the Sons of Liberty was?

A

Samuel Adams

86
Q

Whose ship was named the Liberty?

A

John Hancock

87
Q

The Tea Act of 1773

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exempted British tea from duties

88
Q

Crispus Attucks died during?

A

The Boston Massacre

89
Q

Which Act was the first to impose an internal tax on the colonies?

A

The Stamp Act

90
Q

At the end of the French and Indian Was, which country gained possession of Louisiana?

A

Spain

91
Q

Pontiac, who led the Indians against the colonists and British troop was an ______ Chief.

A

Ottawa

92
Q

General Gage and his troops were given orders to arrest John Hancock and whom on April 18. 1775?

A

Samuel Adams

93
Q

Which battle took place the day after Christmas 1776?

A

The Battle of Trenton

94
Q

The Military key to the Lower south was?

A

Charleston

95
Q

In the Declaration of Independence phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” the third element was originally?

A

property

96
Q

France’s main goal in aiding the Americans was to?

A

weaken the British

97
Q

Most whigs subscribed to the political ideology known as

A

republicanism

98
Q

Who said “I have not yet begun to fight?”

A

Jones

99
Q

During the late colonial period, the headquarters of the British Army in America was in ?

A

New York

100
Q

After what battle did General Burgoyne surrender to the American leader Gates

A

The Battle of Saratoga

101
Q

Which of the following was not a British settlement in the Mississippi Valley in 1778?

A

St. Louis

102
Q

What was the last major military engagement in the North in the Revolutionary War?

A

The battle of Monmouth Court House

103
Q

Benedict Arnold offered to surrender what to the British?

A

West Point

104
Q

What document asserted American patriots would “die freemen, rather than live as slaves”?

A

The Declarations of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms?

105
Q

Who composed the first draft go the Declaration of Independence?

A

Thomas Jefferson

106
Q

Fort Ticonderoga was located at the southern end of?

A

lake Champlain

107
Q

General Cornwallis surrendered to American troops at?

A

Yorktown

108
Q

America’s senior negotiator at the Paris peace talks ending the Revolutionary War war?

A

Franklin

109
Q

The American naval flag during the Revolution bore the motto

A

Don’t Tread on Me

110
Q

The First American Casualties of the Revolutionary War were killed in?

A

Lexington

111
Q

Which Battle represented the worst American defeat of the Revolutionary War?

A

The Battle of Charleston

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