Midterm 1 Review

Question 1

House of Burgesses

Answer 1

Virginia’s new legislative body, first convened in July 1619.

Question 2

Cash crop

Answer 2

Agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit.

Question 3

Pocahontas

Answer 3

Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

Question 4

Colombian exchange

Answer 4

A name that acknowledges the crucial role that Columbus played in instigating this transformation between the two sides of the Atlantic

Question 5

Indentured servant

Answer 5

A form of bound labor in which a number of years of service were specified as payment for passage to America.

Question 6

Enclosure

Answer 6

an area sealed off with a natural or artificial barrier.

Question 7

Head right system

Answer 7

An incentive system to encourage additional immigrants by giving 50 acres to any man who would pay for his own fare to Virginia and 50 additional acres for each person brought with him.

Question 8

Royal African Company

Answer 8

The Royal African Company was a mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa. It was led by James, Duke of York, Charles II’s brother

Question 9

Thomas Payne

Answer 9

Thomas Payne was an important bookseller and publisher in 18th-century London. He was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire. From 1750 he ran a shop at Mews Gate in Castle Street near Leicester Fields. Wrote Common Sense

Question 10

Stamp Tax

Answer 10

Legislation that required colonists to purchase special stamps and place them on all legal documents. Newspapers and playing cards had to be printed on special stamped paper.

Question 11

John Calvin

Answer 11

Believed in Predestination. John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.

Question 12

Shays Rebellion

Answer 12

was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts (mostly in and around Springfield) during 1786 and 1787, which some historians believe “fundamentally altered the course of United States’ [sic] history.”

Question 13

7 years war

Answer 13

The Seven Years’ War took place between 1754 and 1763 with the main conflict being in the seven-year period 1756–1763. It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.

Question 14

Salutary Neglect

Answer 14

was Britain’s unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole , to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.

Question 15

Great Awakening

Answer 15

called by historians the First Great Awakening, was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

Question 16

George Whitefield

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George Whitefield, also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies.

Question 17

Writs of assistance

Answer 17

served as general search warrants that did not expire, allowing customs officials to search anywhere for smuggled goods without having to obtain a specific warrant.

Question 18

John locke

Answer 18

Early enlightenment thinker. an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the “Father of Classical Liberalism”