Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

US History 1 - Great State Game > US History 1 and Other Cool Facts with Mr. Newhall > Flashcards

US History 1 and Other Cool Facts with Mr. Newhall Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
AP® U.S. History flashcards U.S. Geography flashcards European History 101 flashcards AP® European History flashcards AP® World History flashcards World History 102 flashcards U.S. History 102 flashcards World History 101 flashcards U.S. History 101 flashcards
1
Q

How long ago is the first truly solid evidence for people living in the Americas?

A

15,000 years ago

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

We have reasonable but not perfect evidence people lived in the Americas as long ago as:

A

17,000 years ago

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What are two countries Christopher Columbus may have been from?

A

Italy or Spain

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What is a nomadic lifestyle?

A

Moving around instead of living in one spot.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

The Mississippian culture is best known for building what?

A

Large mounds

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What land bridge did people probably cross to reach America thousands of years ago?

A

Beringia

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What invention revolutionized life in the Americas around 10,000 years ago?

A

Farming/agriculture

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Before people could farm what was the main food source for people in the Americas?

A

Hunting large animals (like woolly mammoths)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

The Olmec culture was located in:

A

Southern Mexico

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The Olmec culture is best known for making:

A

Giant stone heads

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Name a major city of the Mississippian culture of Native Americans

A

Cahokia or Moundville (two places)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

The Aztec civilization was located in:

A

Central Mexico

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

The Incan civilization was located in:

A

West Coast of South America (Andes Mountains; Peru/Chile)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

The Kwakiutl people of America lived in:

A

Northern California

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Kwakiutl people were known for this kind of celebration and gift-giving:

A

Potlatch

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

The Kwakiutl recorded their family histories on:

A

Totem poles

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Some Native American societies were Matrilineal. Matrilineal means:

A

Family line goes through the mother (man takes woman’s name opposite to how we do it).

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What year did Christopher Columbus reach the Americas?

A

1492

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

This device improved how quickly new information could spread, helping to popularize America in Europe in the late 1400s

A

Printing Press

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

This theory said a country should try to get as much money as it can by being self-sufficient and never trading away its gold.

A

Mercantilism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Europe was a world leader in this, which allowed them to sail long distances and overcome tough odds to conquer new lands.

A

Military Technology

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

What is the term for an ability to change your status in society, usually by changing job or moving to live somewhere else?

A

Social Mobility

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What was the name of the first culture Christopher Columbus encountered when he landed on San Salvador?

A

Arawak

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

What was Columbus’s primary objective in his quest to reach India?

A

Find money (gold/silver).

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

What is the “Great Spirit”?

A

A supreme deity (god) common to many Native American religions, often under slightly different names.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

During the Renaissance Europeans were obsessed with what cultures?

A

Ancient Greece / Ancient Rome

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

What was a new style of ship the Europeans had invented which was well-suited to both oceanic and coastal sailing?

A

Caravel

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Before 1492 much of Spain was controlled by this non-Spanish group:

A

Muslims

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Who were king and queen of Spain in 1492?

A

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Columbus wanted to repay the cost of his second expedition to the Americas with these two things:

A

Slaves & gold

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

This is the Spanish term for systematic use of slave plantations (large farms with slaves).

A

Encomienda System

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

By 1650 how many Natives survived on the Caribbean islands conquered by Columbus?

A

Around zero

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

What was the biggest cause of premature death for Natives after contact with the Europeans in the 1400s?

A

Disease

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

This man conquered Florida for Spain in the early 1500s.

A

Juan Ponce de Leon

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

Spanish term for an explorer/conqueror in the period 1490-1700.

A

Conquistador

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

This conquistador began the conquest of the Incas in South America.

A

Francisco Pizarro

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

This conquistador explored the American Southeast and crossed the Mississippi River in the 1530s and 1540s.

A

Hernando de Soto

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

This conquistador took his followers around the American Southwest looking for gold unsuccessfully

A

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

This conquistador conquered Mexico from the Aztecs around 1520

A

Hernando Cortes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

What three factors led to the downfall of the Aztec Empire?

A
  • Mistook Spanish as gods
  • Conquered tribes didn’t like them
  • Disease
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

Bartolome de Las Casas’s job was:

A

Friar (priest/monk)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

Bartolome de Las Casas was famous for his position taken against:

A

Enslaving Native Americans

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

Bartolome de Las Casas is controversial because:

A

He recommended using African Slaves instead of Native Americans

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
44
Q

The Columbian Exchange was:

A

The flow of goods and ideas between Europe, Africa, and North America

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
45
Q

In the Columbian exchange what things flowed out of Europe?

A

Technology/tools, livestock, disease

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
46
Q

In the Columbian exchange what things flowed out of Africa?

A

Slaves

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
47
Q

In the Columbian exchange what things flowed out of America?

A

New crops (corn, potatoes, etc.), gold/silver.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
48
Q

Who saved Jamestown from starvation?

A

John Smith

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
49
Q

What enabled the English to start colonizing America?

A

Sank Spanish Armada in 1588

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
50
Q

What was the first English attempt at colonizing America?

A

Roanoke

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
51
Q

When was Jamestown founded?

A

1607

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
52
Q

Delaware is named after what man?

A

Lord de la warr (Thomas West)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
53
Q

Who first successfully grew Tobacco in Virginia for Jamestown?

A

John Rolfe

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
54
Q

Who married Pocahontas to end a war between Jamestown and the Powhatan?

A

John Rolfe

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
55
Q

When did Africans first arrive in Jamestown (potentially as slaves or servants)?

A

1619

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
56
Q

When was tobacco first successfully grown in Jamestown?

A

1612

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
57
Q

When was Plymouth colony founded in Massachusetts?

A

1620

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
58
Q

After the London Company went bankrupt in 1624 control of Jamestown reverted to:

A

King James I of England

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
59
Q

Why didn’t King James stop Jamestown from growing tobacco even though he hated it?

A

Probably because it was making him rich.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
60
Q

What was the result of the Pequot war?

A

Colonists ambush and kill almost all Pequots.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
61
Q

The English Civil War took place in which decade?

A

1640s

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
62
Q

The English Civil War began as a conflict between the King of England and Parliament over:

A

Raising money with taxes

63
Q

Thomas Hobbes wrote The Leviathan in 1651 after which major historical event?

A

The English Civil War

64
Q

Oliver Cromwell headed the democratic Commonwealth of England after the English Civil War. How did this government end up?

A

Failed shortly after he died.

65
Q

What is the main idea of Hobbes’ book The Leviathan?

A

Weak government and too much freedom doesn’t work. It’ll be chaos.

66
Q

Thomas Hobbes’ view in The Leviathan was inspired by which historical event?

A

The English Civil War

67
Q

One inspiration for our Bill of Rights was issued after the English Civil War, called:

A

The English Bill of Rights

68
Q

The French & Indian War began in what decade?

A

1750s

69
Q

The French & Indian War ended in what decade?

A

1760s

70
Q

How much did American colonists like being part of England in the 1750s?

A

They thought it was great. Couldn’t imagine leaving.

71
Q

The French & Indian War is also sometimes called what (especially in Europe)?

A

Seven Years’ War

72
Q

The first laws creating official slavery in Virginia were passed in what year?

A

1660

73
Q

The French & Indian War involved which major nations in America?

A

France, England (+ US colonies), and Native American tribes

74
Q

What was the result of King Phillip’s War in the 1670s?

A

Around 1 in 3 American colonists dead, but Native Americans defeated.

75
Q

Who was “King Phillip” of the 1670s?

A

A Native American chieftain

76
Q

The French & Indian War was fought over what?

A

Ownership of the Ohio River Valley

77
Q

Who won the French & Indian war?

A

British

78
Q

How did the French & Indian War lead to the American Revolution?

A

War debt led to taxes led to unhappy colonists

79
Q

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

A

American colonists can’t go past the Appalachian Mountains

80
Q

What were the main two sources of labor in the Virginia colony in early America?

A

Indentured Servants and Slaves

81
Q

What made colonizing the northeastern US so easy for early British settlers?

A

Natives had died of disease and left all their stuff lying around for free.

82
Q

Why did the Pilgrims need the Mayflower Compact?

A

They brought settlers with them who thought they were going to Jamestown and were really angry they had been tricked.

83
Q

What are the other common names for the Pilgrims?

A

Puritans / Separatists

84
Q

What rebellion in Virginia in the 1670s was about a lack of protection against Native American raids on frontier farms?

A

Bacon’s Rebellion

85
Q

What is the main concept in the Mayflower Compact?

A

Body Politic

86
Q

What is Body Politic?

A

People cooperating to form a government in the way a person’s body cooperates to make them.

87
Q

Who was the first political philosopher who proposed a theory of body politic?

A

Plato

88
Q

What were the three parts of a person in Plato’s Republic?

A

Intelligence/Appetite/Honor (social emotions)

89
Q

What were the three parts of Plato’s ideal government?

A

Leader (smart) / People (dumb but productive) / Guardians (enforces Leader’s decisions)

90
Q

What was similar about Thomas Hobbes’ and Plato’s theory of ideal government?

A

Both believed that democracy wouldn’t work because people can’t have that much freedom or they’ll ruin society.

91
Q

The Revenue Act of 1764 is also known as:

A

The Sugar Act

92
Q

The Sugar Act did what to the tax on sugar (molasses)?

A

Lowered it from 6 pence per gallon to 3 pence per gallon.

93
Q

Which act of Parliament taxed paper with special stamps?

A

Stamp Act

94
Q

Which act of Parliament taxed many goods including lead, glass, paint, and paper?

A

Townshend Acts of 1765

95
Q

Which act of Parliament introduced vice-admiralty court trials for American smugglers?

A

Sugar Act

96
Q

Which act of Parliament introduced tax collectors immune to bribery?

A

Sugar Act

97
Q

Which act of Parliament created annoying new paperwork for merchant ship captains?

A

Sugar Act

98
Q

What is the name of the invention that lets you control distant places using paperwork and clerks?

A

Bureaucracy

99
Q

In addition to taxing certain goods the Townshend Acts also did what?

A

Punished New York for failing to quarter British troops properly

100
Q

Parliament’s plan to pay for the French & Indian War included which two parts?

A

Taxing America and stationing troops in America

101
Q

What did the Massachusetts assembly do to respond to the Townshend acts?

A

Issued the Circular Letter (asking for cooperation between colonies).

102
Q

Before the 1770s how unified were the American colonies?

A

Not at all unified

103
Q

What were the governors ordered to do if the colonies did not take back the circular letter?

A

Dissolve the local governments and get emergency powers.

104
Q

What three ways did the colonists protest British taxes?

A
  1. Political protest / petitions
  2. Mob action (rioting)
  3. Boycotting (nonimportation)
105
Q

Give an example of political protests or petitions by the colonists upset by British policy.

A

Any of the following:

  • Olive Branch petition
  • Patrick Henry’s “no taxation without representation” resolves
  • Benjamin Franklin & Jared Ingersoll’s letter to Parliament
106
Q

Give an example of mob action or rioting by the colonists upset by British policy.

A
  • Destroying tax collectors’ homes (like in Boston)
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • Publishing threats on tax collectors’ lives in the newspapers
107
Q

How did local politicians in America take advantage of the hatred of British taxes?

A

They claimed their local opponents supported the taxes.

108
Q

Where was it decided that in response to the Intolerable Acts the American colonies would all boycott Britain (except Georgia)?

A

First Continental Congress

109
Q

At what event was the Declaration of Independence written?

A

Second Continental Congress

110
Q

Was every colony at the Second Continental Congress?

A

Yes

111
Q

Samuel Adams was best known for his role as:

A

A leader of the sons of liberty

112
Q

What incident in Boston eventually led to British troops garrisoning Boston?

A

Impounding John Hancock’s ship Liberty

113
Q

The “Incident on King’s Street” used for patriot propaganda

A

Boston Massacre

114
Q

Why did the patriots put John Adams as the defense lawyer in the Boston Massacre trial?

A

To make the patriots seem fair compared to the British vice-admiralty courts so more colonists would join them.

115
Q

Who was king of Britain during the Revolutionary war?

A

King George III

116
Q

Who was in command of the British army at the time of the battles of Lexington & Concord?

A

General Gage

117
Q

What was General Gage’s plan that led to the battles of Lexington & Concord?

A

To take militia’s weapons from Concord and maybe capture some Sons of Liberty in Lexington along the way.

118
Q

Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

A

Thomas Jefferson

119
Q

The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was inspired by this British philosopher and his phrase “Life, Liberty, and Property”

A

John Locke

120
Q

Who was commander-in-chief of the American army after the Battle of Bunker Hill until the end of the revolutionary war?

A

George Washington

121
Q

What date did the Declaration of Independence go into effect?

A

July 4th, 1776

122
Q

Patrick Henry was a lawyer and great speaker whose job was:

A

Member of the Virginia Assembly

123
Q

“Give me liberty or give me death!” comes from a speech by which famous Virginian politician?

A

Patrick Henry

124
Q

What did Thomas Paine do in terms of the American Revolution?

A

Wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense.”

125
Q

What was so “common sense” in the pamphlet by the same name?

A

To be independent from Britain.

126
Q

This intolerable act allowed British government officials and soldiers to optionally stand trial in England.

A

Impartial Administration of Justice Act

127
Q

This intolerable act expanded the size of a Canadian province that was predominantly French & Catholic.

A

Quebec Act

128
Q

This intolerable act closed Boston harbor in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party.

A

Boston Port Act

129
Q

This intolerable act revised and earlier law by the same name. It now required regular people to house soldiers in their private homes.

A

Quartering Act

130
Q

This intolerable act gave the British governors emergency powers over colonial governments and revoked the Massachusetts colony charter.

A

Massachusetts Government Act (or Massachusetts Regulatory Act)

131
Q

This costly British victory outside Boston before the Declaration of Independence featured the phrase “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.”

A

Bunker Hill

132
Q

Which two American commanders took control of Fort Ticonderoga?

A

Allen Green and Benedict Arnold

133
Q

After putting the guns from Fort Ticonderoga outside Boston and forcing the British soldiers to evacuate, those same soldiers returned where?

A

New York City (Staten Island)

134
Q

How well did the Continental Army do defending New York?

A

Real bad chief.

135
Q

After losing battle after battle in New York, Washington wanted some quick victories over winter 1776-7. Which victories were those?

A

Trenton & Princeton

136
Q

Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold defeated Burgoyne’s British army at this location after another British army failed to show up as planned.

A

Saratoga

137
Q

Where did the other British army go instead of Saratoga during the American Revolution?

A

Philadelphia

138
Q

What was the original British strategy in the Revolutionary War?

A

To take over the north and split it in half.

139
Q

What was the British strategy after their initial strategy didn’t work in the Revolutionary War?

A

Take over the south, it has fewer patriots.

140
Q

American General Horatio Gates was badly defeated by the British in the South at which battle?

A

Camden

141
Q

This was the final major battle of the Revolutionary War where a British army surrendered to a combined force of French and American troops and ships.

A

Yorktown

142
Q

This treaty ended the Revolutionary War.

A

Treaty of Paris.

143
Q

Americans won the Revolutionary War primarily because of:

A

Will to fight and foreign aid (France, Spain).

144
Q

In the Treaty of Paris the British gave away their territory West of the new United States to what nation?

A

Spain

145
Q

Under the Articles of Confederation Congress had difficulty running the country in which three areas?

A

Debt/taxation/money, foreign relations, and economy/trade.

146
Q

“Printing & Promising” refers to raising money by doing what?

A

Creating (printing) new money and promising to collect taxes for it later.

147
Q

What did the states often do in response to an unpredictable and low-value Congressional money in the 1780s?

A

Print their own currency.

148
Q

What does inflation mean?

A

Value of money goes down (or prices go up).

149
Q

What does deflation mean?

A

Value of money goes up (or prices go down).

150
Q

Why is deflation often worse than inflation?

A

Nobody will spend their money because it is getting worth more the longer they hold onto it. This damages business, which causes more deflation.

151
Q

Who held most of the power in the New Jersey state government of the 1770s and 1780s?

A

Legislative branch (Legislative Council & Assembly).

152
Q

Who held most of the power in the Virginia state government of the 1770s and 1780s?

A

Legislative branch (House of Delegates & Senate).

153
Q

Would most state constitutions of the 1780s have made a good basis for the national government of America? Why?

A

No, they did not have enough separation of power / checks and balances. The Legislature was too powerful.

US History 1 - Great State Game (1 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions