Midterm Exam

Question 1

What was the chronological relationship in the rise of agriculture between the Western and Eastern hemispheres?

Answer 1

Agriculture arose at the same time

Question 2

What crop was not prominent among the first Native Americans?
Which were prominent?

Answer 2

Wheat was not prominent (beans, maize and squash all were prominent)

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Matrilineal; off or based on kinship with the mother or the female line

Question 4

Which monarchy benefited most from the Aztec and Incan Empires?

Answer 4

Spanish

Question 5

The phrase “city on a hill” applies to which society?

Answer 5

Puritans in New England

Question 6

What did grossman argue in favor of?

Answer 6

historical revisionism

Question 7

According to Grossman, critics find issues with revisionism because

Answer 7

American history has become less comforting and more provocative

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of a primary source?
- Biographies
- Atlases
- Scholarly Boooks
- Diaries

Answer 8

Diaries

Question 9

What is an example of a secondary source?

Answer 9

Textbooks

Question 10

(T/F): Historical interpretation changes over time.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, how many Native Americans were forced into slavery in the southern colonies?

Answer 11

24,000 - 51,000

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Middle Passage

Question 13

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, about how many Africans were forced across the Atlantic?

Answer 13

11,000,000 - 12,000,000

Question 14

Which religious group first turned against slavery?

Answer 14

Quakers

Question 15

What were the 3 main categories of political structures in the Colonial Era?

Answer 15

Provincial, Proprietary, and Charter

Question 16

According to John Fea, what is not considered one of historical thinking?

Answer 16

Commonality

Question 17

According to John Fea, why does revisionism carry a negative connotation?

Answer 17

because many believe facts are changed in order to fit an agenda

Question 18

(T/F): One of the main differences between Native American conception of the land (North America) and European conception has to do with religion.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What items were considered economic incentive for European colonization?

Answer 19

Fur, tobacco, and iron

Question 20

Who benefited from enslaving Africans?

Answer 20

African kings

Question 21

Which was a characteristic that contributed to the failure of Britain to define the relationship of the colonies to the empire?

Answer 21

British officials had competing visions of empire

Question 22

What was the initial post-war imperial act that targeted North American subordination?

Answer 22

The Royal Proclamation of 1763

Question 23

Which delegates opposed the mention of slavery in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 23

Delegates who represented slave trading merchants, Georgia, and South Carolina

Question 24

The Bill of Rights covered what?

Answer 24

Covered a list of rights initially promised to Virginia constituents

Question 25

(T/F): Jefferson viewed both “the revolution of 1800” and the revolution of 1776 positively.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

What impact did Gabriel’s Rebellion have on American slavery?

Answer 26

The rebellion restricted slave education

Question 27

What directly inspired Gabriel’s rebellion?

Answer 27

The Haitian Revolution

Question 28

What was the most immediate cause of the market revolution in the U.S.?

Answer 28

American integration of the Industrial Revolution

Question 29

What answer best describes the relationship between the market revolution and slavery?

Answer 29

Slave labor helped fuel the market revolution

Question 30

During the 1830s, Nativism considered this group the most important foreign threat

Answer 30

Catholic immigrants

Question 31

What did Bhopal say?

Answer 31

Said that a consensus did not arise that held race as a social construct instead of a biological determination until after world war 2

Question 32

Blumenbach’s first edition on human varieties (published in 1775) indicated how many distinct races?

Answer 32

5: Caucasians, Mongolians, Ethiopians, Americans, and Malays

Question 33

Blumenbach’s idea of monogeny aimed to combat which erroneous movement?

Answer 33

Polygeny (plurality of human species)

Question 34

According to the lecture, Fitzhugh described the White Slave Trade to mean

Answer 34

Industrial Capitalism

Question 35

According to the lecture, which revolution inspired Gabriel’s Rebellion?

Answer 35

Haitian Revolution

Question 36

What all did the Missouri Compromise do?

Answer 36

• admitted maine as a free state
• admitted missouri as a slave state
• established the 36°30’ dividing line for future state admission

Question 37

Did the missouri compromise propose sovereignty to determine whether a state would have slavery?

Answer 37

No

Question 38

Denmark Vesey’s 1822 rebellion took place where?

Answer 38

The south

Question 39

What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 39

Cut off access to coastal ports and inland waterways

Question 40

In 1864, which states voted for McClellan?

Answer 40

New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky

Question 41

What did the majority of black Americans who served in the Union army do?

Answer 41

Performed noncombat roles

Question 42

Wright’s article is about what?

Answer 42

Showing the relationship between slavery and economic growth

Question 43

According to Wright, what year did the black population in the British Caribbean reach 250,000?

Answer 43

1740

Question 44

According to Wright, what is Williams’ thesis?

Answer 44

Slavery was no longer needed by the nineteenth century

Question 45

What prompted the reform movements of the nineteenth century?

Answer 45

Second great awakening

Question 46

Did all three branches of the US govt stand united against Native Americans and support Indian Removal in the first half of the 19th century?

Answer 46

No