Petersons test 1 Flashcards
In general, Native American groups prior to contact with Europeans
had adapted to a variety of geographic and climate conditions.
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the success of the Spanish in conquering Native American peoples?
the importation of Africans
Which of the following was NOT a direct result of the dumping of precious metals from the Americas into European markets?
introduction of joint-stock companies
What is a true statement about Puritanism?
Puritanism was based on a set of religious, political, and social values.
The first published poet in the North American colonies was
Anne Bradstreet
William Penn called his colony a “Holy Experiment” because he
wanted to establish a self-governing colony with political and religious freedom
The Bodies of Liberty, the first set of laws in the English colonies, was passed by the
Massachusetts General Court
Tobacco was the most important export commodity in the late seventeenth century for which of the following?
Virginia and Maryland
True or False:The colonies had no colleges, so young men had to go to England for higher education.
False: The first century of colonization saw the founding of Harvard, William and Mary, and Yale. Other colleges such as Princeton (College of New Jersey) followed in the 1700s.
King Philip’s War was a battle between who and why?
Colonists and Native Americans:: King Philip is his English name, but to his Wampanoag nation he was known as Metacom. He led a war against the colonists in New England over land rights.
Bacon’s Rebellion was:
a rebellion of frontiersmen against the governor and House of Burgesses in the Virginia colony.
Shays’s Rebellion was:
a rebellion on the frontier in the early days of the new United States.
Stono Uprising had to do with what group?
Slaves in South Carolina and Georgia in 1739
A major difference in government structure between royal colonies and charter colonies was
the colonists elected their own governor in charter colonies, whereas the monarch appointed the governor in a royal colony
The development of enslaved Africans as the chief labor supply after Bacon’s Rebellion occurred because of:
the growing number of white landless and discontented former servants
The first colony in the 1600s to require that each town establish a public primary school was
Massachusetts
While the English were the largest group of people to immigrate to the colonies, the second largest group were:
Scots Irish ( By 1700, some 150,000 English had immigrated to North America. The Scots Irish, had originally immigrated to Ireland from Scotland, and the end of the cloth-making industry in Ireland in the 1700s forced many of their descendants to emigrate.)
A significant characteristic of the social class structure in the English colonies was:
the size and wealth of the middle class (About 70 percent of all white colonists were considered middle class. They were the small farm owners, shopkeepers, and craftworkers.)
Puritans viewed children as:
small adults.
“The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on deck for the fresh air . . . “
This quotation probably describes
a slave ship bound for the Americas
The religious group that had the greatest influence in New England after the initial phase of settlement was
Congregational Church
Over time, which of the following rights were married women in the colonies able to exercise?
conduct business
The Great Awakening spurred:
a. the development of religious pluralism
b. establishment of nonsectarian colleges
c. separation of church and state
d. active participation in church affairs by ordinary people
A major difference between slavery in Virginia and in the Carolinas and Georgia was that
most slaves in Virginia had been born in the colony rather than imported