US History to 1877 Test 1 Chapters 1-4

Question 1

What were causes of the Age of Exploration?

Answer 1

~The desire for a quicker way to get to Asia
~The end of the Reconquista
~Technological/navigational improvements

Question 2

The courers de bois were

Answer 2

fur traders

Question 3

Hernan Cortes is infamous for having

Answer 3

defeated the Aztec empire

Question 4

Native peoples may have arrived in the Americas some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago by crossing Beringia as they sought to…

Answer 4

follow herds of animals.

Question 5

The Mayflower Compact was deemed necessary because…

Answer 5

the colonists found themselves north of Virginia and, therefore, outside Virginia’s legal jurisdiction.

Question 6

Indentured Servitude is when…

Answer 6

an individual promises to labor for 7 years in return for passage to the New World, after which he/she is given his/her freedom.

Question 7

All of the following reflect Quaker (Society of Friends) beliefs, EXCEPT

a) avoiding violence or war
b) equality
c) humility
d) a belief in predestination

Answer 7

d) a belief in predestination

Question 8

The Headright System is when

Answer 8

each head of household is given 50 acres of land for every settler he brings into the colony

Question 9

Puritans were part of a Christian non-conformist denomination that sought to “purify” which church?

Answer 9

Church of England/ The Anglican Church

Question 10

The Starving Time Refers to when

Answer 10

The Jamestown colonists protected themselves from Indian attacks by barricading themselves in their fort, only to suffer starvation due to lack of available food.

Question 11

Roger Williams threatened the Massachusetts Bay Colony when he argued that

Answer 11

a) colonists should compensate American Indians for the land

b) civil authorities should not enforce religious regulations

Question 12

True or False
By 1700, Spanish and French colonies gave greater privileges to people of lighter skin color, whereas the English colonies tolerated no mixing of the races.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Georgia was initially created as

Answer 13

a military buffer

Question 14

Robert de le Salle

Answer 14

claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

Question 15

Pennsylvania’s Charter of Liberties gave privileges to a “lower county” that eventually became which state?

Answer 15

Delaware

Question 16

The Dominion of New England did not work well because

Answer 16

it tried to represent too many different colonies and colonists.

Question 17

The French and Indian War emerged as a result of

Answer 17

French expansion into Pennsylvania

Question 18

Methodism emerged in the 1800th century thanks to the efforts of

Answer 18

John Wesley

Question 19

Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan suggested

Answer 19

a central colonial council to oversee common defense, western expansion, and Indian affairs.

Question 20

During the Great Awakening, New Lights promoted

Answer 20

revivalism as a means of bringing people to Christianity

Question 21

Contributing to the founding of Connecticut was

Answer 21

Thomas Hooker

Question 22

What type of colony was New France?

Answer 22

Mercantile

Question 23

What two groups of people were initially legally prohibited from coming into Georgia?

Answer 23

Catholics and Africans/Blacks

Question 24

What is the name for the oldest city in the continental United States?

Answer 24

St. Augustine

Question 25

Which cash crop helped save Jamestown?

Answer 25

Tobacco

Question 26

Who helped introduce tobacco to the Jamestown Colony?

Answer 26

John Rolfe

Question 27

What other colony was eventually formed out of a chunk of Pennsylvania?

Answer 27

Delaware

Question 28

What was England’s first attempt at a North American settlement?

Answer 28

Roanoke

Question 29

What became of the Roanoke settlement?

Answer 29

unknown. They disappeared.

Question 30

Name one of the causes of the Age of Exploration

Answer 30

• the Fall of Costantanople
• needed a cheaper and easier route to Asia
• the Reconquesta was over.

Question 31

Name two ways in which John Smith improved life at Jamestown

Answer 31

~he said “Those who do not work, do not eat!”

~he formed a friendship with the natives

Question 32

What colony passed the Act COncerning Religion?

Answer 32

Maryland

Question 33

What was Christopher Columbus’s “Enterprise of the Indies”?

Answer 33

it was Columbus’ journey to “Asia”

Question 34

Who brought knowledge of Florida to the Spanish?

Answer 34

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 35

What is the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 35

An agreement among the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620 to create a civil government at Plymouth Colony.

Question 36

What was the first successful permanent settlement created by the English?

Answer 36

Jamestown

Question 37

Who was the Governor of the Dominion of New England?

Answer 37

Sir Edmond Andros

Question 38

What is the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 38

the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout the era of exploration.

Question 39

Who gave the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

Answer 39

Jonathan Edwards

Question 40

What are the two major reasons for the founding of Georgia?

Answer 40

~a military buffer

~a working state for poor people from debtors from England. the “Debtors Prison”

Question 41

Which colony did Roger Williams help to found?

Answer 41

Providence

Question 42

What was the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 42

The replacement of James II by William III and Mary II as English monarchs in 1688, making the beginning of constitutional monarchy in Britain.

Question 43

Who was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope?

Answer 43

Bartolomew Dial

Question 44

What was the Dominion of New England?

Answer 44

It was England’s attempt to control the colonies by putting all of the New England colonies together s one under one governor.

Question 45

Name one specific thing that Anne Hutchinson did that got her into trouble in Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s?

Answer 45

She preached to other women in her home.

Question 46

To get settlers to come to New Netherland, the Dutch used a system called__________?

Answer 46

Patroonship

Question 47

Name the reasons why Bacon and his friends were angry with Gov. Berkeley in the 1670s.

Answer 47

~Berkeley would not send any soldiers out to the frontier to protect the Colonists who were being attacked by the natives.
~Berkeley would appoint his friends to political positions so, and would not allow voting so the people could not change what he had done.

Question 48

What were the causes of the First Great Awakening?

Answer 48

~Religious diversity
~westward expansion
~commercial prosperity
~science