Midterm Review (Chapters 1-22)

Question 1

When was the first colony established in North America and where?

Answer 1

1607, Jamestown Virginia

Question 2

Which country had colonized the greatest area in the 1500s?

Answer 2

Spain

Question 3

Who is considered the “Fathe rof the tobacco industry” and was married to Pocahontas?

Answer 3

John Rolfe

Question 4

What was the name of the representative self government the English colonists created in 1619?

Answer 4

House of Burgesses

Question 5

What was passed in 1641 that denied fundamental rights to slaves?

Answer 5

Barbados Slave Codes

Question 6

What was the original purpose of the Georgia colony?

Answer 6

To act as a buffer colony to protect the Carolinas from the Spanish.

Question 7

How does the Protestant Reformation begin?

Answer 7

1517: Martin Luther nails his written protest against Catholic doctrines tot he door of Wittenberg’s Cathedral.

Question 8

Why is the Protestant Reformation important to US History?

Answer 8

Because the Protestand Reformation produced Puritanism.

Question 9

Where and when did the Mayflower land in the US?

Answer 9

1620 in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts.

Question 10

(Definition) Simple agreement to form a crude government and to submit tot the will of the majority under the regulations agreed upon.

Answer 10

Mayflower Compact

Question 11

In what year did the first Thanksgiving take place?

Answer 11

1621

Question 12

Who was the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s first governor?

Answer 12

John Winthrop

Question 13

What religious group formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 13

The Puritans.

Question 14

Puritans believed the entire purpose of government was what?

Answer 14

To enforce God’s laws.

Question 15

(Person) Popular minister in Salem with radical ideas. Extreme separatist. Wanted to break from the Church of England.

Answer 15

Roger Williams

Question 16

In 1635, Williams is found guilty of what, and what was his punishment?

Answer 16

He was found guilty of disseminating “new and dangerous opinions” and was ordered banished from the Bay Colony.

Question 17

Where does Roger Williams flee to after being banished from the Bay Colony?

Answer 17

Rhode Island.

Question 18

What key feature does Rhode Island have in 1636?

Answer 18

Complete religious freedom, even for Jews and Catholics.

Question 19

What colonies make up the New England Confederation, which was formed in 1643?

Answer 19

The Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and New Haven Colony.

Question 20

What country helped Netherland win its independence from (Catholic) Spain?

Answer 20

England.

Question 21

What was New York City originally called and who founded it?

Answer 21

New Amsterdam, Henry Hudson.

Question 22

(Definition) Vast feudal estates fronting the Hudson River.

Answer 22

Patroonships

Question 23

What new religious group formed because they refused to support the Church of England with taxes and were a group of simple, devoted, democratic people?

Answer 23

The Quakers

Question 24

Who founded Pennsylvania?

Answer 24

William Penn

Question 25

In what year was Pennsylvania established?

Answer 25

1681

Question 26

What were laws called that prohibited stage plays, playing cards, dice, games, and excessive hilarity in Quaker Pennsylvania?

Answer 26

Blue Laws

Question 27

What four states were considered the "middle colonies"?

Answer 27

New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania

Question 28

Who lead the 1676 rebellion of 1,000 Virginians?

Answer 28

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 29

Where did plantation owners turn to when indentured servants from England were no longer a viable option?

Answer 29

Africa

Question 30

What colonies were the most populous in 1775 (there are 5)?

Answer 30

Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland

Question 31

For what reasons did German immigrants flee to the US?

Answer 31

Religious persecution, economic oppression, and war.

Question 32

Where did most Germans settle in the US?

Answer 32

Pennsylvania

Question 33

Where did the majority of the Scots and Irish move to in the US in 1775?

Answer 33

Pennsylvania

Question 34

`Tobacco was a less physically demanding crop than what other two crops commonly grown in the US?

Answer 34

Rice and indigo

Question 35

How many people died in the 1712 New York Slave Revolt?

Answer 35

30

Question 36

In what year was the first medical school established in the US?

Answer 36

1765

Question 37

(1733) Passed by Parliament in an effort to squelch the North American trade with the French West Indies.

Answer 37

Molasses Act

Question 38

What college was formed in 1693?

Answer 38

College of William and Mary

Question 39

The First Great Awakening, which began in Northampton, MA, occurred during what decades?

Answer 39

1730s and 1740s

Question 40

(Name the trial) 1734-1735, this case opened the door for freedom of the press.

Answer 40

Zenger Trial

Question 41

(Definition) French Protestant dissenters that were granted limited toleration under the Edict of Nantes.

Answer 41

Huguenots

Question 42

(Definition) Grants limited toleration to French protestants in 1598.

Answer 42

Edict of Nantes

Question 43

What war was fought largely between French trappers and British settlers (and their Indian allies)?

Answer 43

King William's War (1689-1697)

Question 44

What war was fought as follows in 1702-1713: English vs. French in the North English vs. Spanish in the South

Answer 44

Queen Anne's War

Question 45

What founding father was a young general during the French and Indian War?

Answer 45

George Washington

Question 46

What Indian tribe was Great Britain's ally during the French and Indian war?

Answer 46

The Iroquois

Question 47

Who was the 60 year old general sent from England, who was trained in European warfare, to teach the colony troops how to fight?

Answer 47

Edward Braddock

Question 48

(Definition) Began in 1739; small scale clash between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and in Georgia. Merged with the much larger war of Austrian Succession in 1742.

Answer 48

War of Jenkins's Ear

Question 49

(Definition) North American Theater of Europe's war of Austrian Succession that once pitted British Colonists against their French counterparts in the north. The peace settlement did not involve any territorial realignment, leading to conflict between NE settlers and the British government.

Answer 49

King George's War

Question 50

(Definition) Nine year war between the British and the French in North America. It resulted in the expulsion of the French from the North American mainland and helped spark the seven years' war in Europe.

Answer 50

French and Indian War

Question 51

(Definition) 1759. One of the most significant engagements in British and American history. Battle during the French and Indian War.

Answer 51

Battle of Quebec

Question 52

The French and Indian War shatters what myth?

Answer 52

British Invincibility.

Question 53

(Definition) Bloody campaign waged by Ottawa chief Pontiac to drive the British out of Ohio Country. It was brutally crushed by British troops, who resorted to distributing blankets infected with smallpox as a means of putting down this rebellion.

Answer 53

Pontiac's Uprising

Question 54

(Definition) Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac's Uprising prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachians.

Answer 54

Proclamation of 1763

Question 55

(Definition) Economic theory that closely linked a nation's political and military power to its bullion reserves.

Answer 55

Mercantilism

Question 56

What laws regulated all commerce flowing to and from the colonies and said that all goods could only be transported in British vessels?

Answer 56

Navigation law of 1650

Question 57

(Definition) Duty on imported sugar from the West Indies. It was the first tax levied on the colonists by the crown and was lowered substantially in response to widespread protests.

Answer 57

Sugar Act (1764)

Question 58

(Definition) Required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops.

Answer 58

Quartering Act (1765)

Question 59

(Definition) Assembly of delegates from 9 colonies who met in NYC to draft a petition for the repeal of the stamp act. Helped ease sectional suspicions and intercolonial unity.

Answer 59

Stamp Act Congress

Question 60

(Definition) Boycotts against British goods adopted in response to the stamp act.

Answer 60

Nonimportation agreements

Question 61

In what year was the Stamp Act repealed?

Answer 61

1766

Question 62

(Definition) Indirect levies on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea, the proceeds of which were used to pay colonial governors, who had previously been paid directly by colonial assemblies.

Answer 62

Townshend Acts

Question 63

How many citizens were killed in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 63

11

Question 64

(Definition) Rowdy protest against the British East India Company's newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade.

Answer 64

Boston Tea Party