28 July 2010, 4:28 pm
1. The colony of Virginia was named in honor of Elizabeth I. 2. In his first voyage in 1492, Christopher Columbus mistook Cuba for China. 3. African and American-Indian societies tended to be matrilineal which meant people traced their heredity through their mothers. 4. Which statement about French colonization in the New World is FALSE? The French, like the English, tried to remain separate from native peoples. 5. Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city? St. Louis 6. In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa generally allowed certain legal protections to the enslaved. 7. In the late fifteenth century, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred by significant population growth. 8. In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans? Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Puritan thought. 9. An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that England found the seas more open to their control. 10. In what chronological order did European countries control the African slave trade? the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English 11. What European explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name? Ferdinand Magellan 12. The origins of human existence in the Americas began with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait. 13. Between 1608 and 1609, Captain John Smith strengthened the Jamestown settlement by imposing work and order on the colonists. 14. When it was established in 1644, the colony of Rhode Island was notable for its religious toleration. 15. The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from the production of tobacco. 16. The Massachusetts Bay Puritans created a colonial "theocracy." 17. In the seventeenth century, English Quakers had a disregard for class or gender distinctions, had no paid clergy, were pacifists, believed all could attain salvation. 18. The English Restoration began with the reign of Charles II. 19. In London, the initial promoters of Jamestown encouraged colonists to focus on the search for gold. 20. Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements were essentially business enterprises. 21. Over time in the seventeenth century, an increasing number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society with fear and contempt. 22. In 1637, hostilities broke out between English settlers in the Connecticut Valley and what local Native American tribe? the Pequots 23. In 1638, Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society. 24. In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn produced yields greater than any of the European grains. 25. In colonial New England, dowries were a common feature of marriage. 26. All of the following Americans made important contributions to Enlightenment thought EXCEPT John Locke. 27. By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was about two million. 28. Over time, tensions in Puritan New England communities developed as a result of calls for gender equality. 29. "Primogeniture" refers to the passing of property to the firstborn son. 30. In the 1760s, the Revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because cities were the centers of intellectual information. 31. By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were Philadelphia and New York. 32. In the English colonies, Jews could not vote or hold office. 33. The term middle passage refers to the movement of enslaved Africans from Africa to the New World. 34. The first newspaper in colonial America, Publick Occurrences, was published in 1690 in Boston. 35. In the North American colonies, mulatto children were rarely recognized by their white fathers. . 36. Commerce in colonial America relied in large part on barter. 37. In colonial New England Puritan communities, women were expected to be major contributors to the family. 38. By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes. 39. Throughout the French and Indian War, American colonists sold and traded food and other goods with the French. 40. The Tea Act of 1773 followed a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies, lowered the price of tea for American colonists, was intended to benefit a private British company, provided no new tax on tea. 41. In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted toward Parliament. 42. During the French and Indian War, British leader William Pitt gradually loosened his tight control over the colonists. 43. What future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley? George... Read More »
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