Quiz One

Question 1

Define Military History

Answer 1

An objective, accurate, descriptive, and interpretive record of all the activities of armed forces in peace and war

Question 2

What is a working definition of war?

Answer 2

the DoD accepted this official def. of war: a conflict among well organized and lead masses with unknown resolve (we don’t know their will to continue fighting/what it’s worth) with each side seeking to impose its will upon each other

Question 3

Who was Powhatan?

Answer 3

• The Native Amerian chief that colonists faced when they migrated here
• Lead Powatans Confederacy which fought the colonists

Question 4

What was the Iroquois Confederacy?

Answer 4

• Consisted of 5 nations (eventually 6)
• Much larger and lasted much longer than Powhatans Confederacy
• came together because they fought and lived in a similar way

Question 5

What were the 5 nations of the Iroquois Confederacy?

Answer 5

Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk

Question 6

Why did Native Americans go into war with each other?

Answer 6

For resources

Question 7

Why did Native Americans go into war with each other?

Answer 7

For resources

Question 8

Did the Native Americans typically prefer killing or capturing their enemies?

Answer 8

Capture to make them slaves or more often to try to make them part of their tribe

Question 9

What is a Mourning War?

Answer 9

When tribes would attack other tribes in order to capture other individuals to make them a part of their tribe. This was important to have enough members for the tribe to continue to succeed

Question 10

What groups of Native Americans did the colonists first meet?

Answer 10

The Algonquian and Iroquoian

Question 11

Why did the Native Americans not see the colonists as a threat initially?

Answer 11

They brought items for trade that made the N.A. lives easier

Question 12

What did the colonists want from the N.A.?

Answer 12

fur and land

Question 13

The Colonists and Iroquois Confederacy made a covenant that stated…

Answer 13

they were PARTNERS in trade

Question 14

Why did the French come to the Americas?

Answer 14

They wanted in on the fur trade

Question 15

Differences between French and British immigrants

Answer 15

• French came as single men who wanted to establish trade posts
• British came as families avoiding religious persecution who wanted to establish roots here, therefore needing land or they came specifically for the riches.
• French were more accepting of the N.A. and their lifestyle. They often intermarried.

Question 16

What did the establishment of the first settlement, Jamestown, mark?

Answer 16

The beginning of the war because Powhatan was threatened

Question 17

What was the Starving Time?

Answer 17

Almost destroyed Jamestown because they were surrounded by N.A.

Question 18

what is the French and Indian War called in Europe?

Answer 18

The Seven Years War

Question 19

The French and Indian war is the first…

Answer 19

war in which all of the major political powers were fighting against each other

Question 20

What causes the French and Indian war?

Answer 20

• The French want to expand New France

- why else?

Question 21

Who fights for the British side in the French and Indian war in the colonies?

Answer 21

Militias

Question 22

Define Militia

Answer 22

every man is a soldier

Question 23

George Washington was…

Answer 23

a colonial LTC who was promoted to Colonial and fought with the British in the French and Indian War

Question 24

What did the soldiers look like at this period of time?

Answer 24

• musket rest
• heavy armor
• know how the gunpowder system worked

Question 25

How many Anglo-Powhatan wars were there?

Answer 25

three

Question 26

when did the first Anglo-Powhatan war (the starving time) begin?

Answer 26

1610

Question 27

what saves Jamestown?

Answer 27

ships with new settlers and mercenary troops + eventually regular troops

Question 28

who were the pilgrims?

Answer 28

SPECIFICALLY the colonists who were avoiding religious persecution

Question 29

King Phillips War (what happened + where)

Answer 29

an absolute massacre in Massachusetts

Question 30

Who were the Piquants?

Answer 30

a small tribe who went on a warpath trying to push the colonists out

Question 31

Why were militias started?

Answer 31

because they were less expensive and could provide quick troops to protect the land

Question 32

How did colonists expect to defend themselves in the new world?

Answer 32

THE MILITIAS

Question 33

How did colonists expect to defend themselves in the new world?

Answer 33

THE MILITIAS

Question 34

What did the colonies exist for?

Answer 34

the good of the mother country in terms of trading resources

Question 35

What were Feed Fights?

Answer 35

colonists realized that the best way to kill native americans was to destroy/steal all of their food for the winter in order to starve them

Question 36

What did Francis Bacon do?

Answer 36

let a militia of poor farmers to rebel. they marched in Williamsburg VA and burned + took over town. Governor fled out to sea

Question 37

What happens to Bacons Rebellion?

Answer 37

• dies out because Bacon dies of illness

- British troops arrive and crush rebellion

Question 38

Why was Bacons rebellion important?

Answer 38

showed that there were individuals willing to fight the crown

Question 39

Washington hatchet story

Answer 39

• EXPLAIN STORY
• forced to surrender the fort
• signs document accidentally taking responsibility

Question 40

what are one of the things Brachich fails to do costing lives? How does Washington shine through?

Answer 40

refuses to take any NA with him on the expedition. Washington takes charge and retreats

Question 41

How many troops did the British send to the “First World War”?

Answer 41

30,000 troops

Question 42

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Answer 42

• britist title to all land east of Mississippi, including canada and Florida
• proclamation line of 1763

Question 43

What was “The Skulking Way of War”?

Answer 43

• The Native American way
• ambushes
• using cover and concealment
• the colonists recognized they needed to move towards this way instead of the old way