ushistory

was an ancient American urban center which dominated the Mississippi Valley in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. At its height, this city (near what is now St. Louis) had a population of 20,000 – 30,000 people.

Cahokia

     The Reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the ________ in the late Middle Ages in Europe.

Moors

What was the name of the first Native American tribe that Columbus encountered in the Caribbean?

Arawak

The Columbian Exchange was

the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and microbes that began after Columbus reached the Americas

All of the following crops were first introduced to Europe through the Columbian Exchange except

Wheat

A French Protestant, called a __ was not allowed to settle in New France (Canada).

Huguenot

system granted large estates to wealthy landlords, who paid passage for tenants to work their land.

patroon

Catholic _ missionaries played a very important role in the colonization of New France (Canada), helping to convert Algonquian-speaking Native Americans to Catholicism.

jesuit

or state-sponsored pirate was commissioned by his country’s government to attack ships from rival countries and profited by keeping a portion of the prizes.

privateer

Whereas, in Spanish colonies, mestizos were people of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry, in French Canada, _ were people of mixed French and Native American ancestry

metis

German religious leader ______________________ began the Protestant Reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses, accusing the Catholic Church of corruption, in 1517.

Martin Luther

The writings of which Spanish missionary led most directly to the development of the Black Legend?

Bartolome de las Casas

The Black Legend described

The Spanish as a uniquely brutal colonizer

Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New Netherland

Trade with Indians

__  an English scholar, wrote A Discourse Concerning Western Planting in 1584, in large part to convince England’s Queen Elizabeth to support the establishment of colonies in North America.

Richard Hakluyt

John Rolfe helped “solve” the problems of early Virginia by experimenting with various strains of which plant, the eventual cash crop of the Chesapeake region?

tobacco

  What was the House of Burgesses?

The first legislature in English America

  How was Maryland similar to Virginia in the early colonial period?

Tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society.

After being banished from Massachusetts because of his belief in the separation of church and state, Roger Williams founded ___________________.

Rhode Island

1.     Carolina expanded in the early 1700s once planters turned to cultivating _______________, a staple crop.

rice

Richard White used the term ________________________ to refer to “a geographic region between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains … a culturally constructed space shaped by the rituals and customs that governed the fur trade and European-Indian diplomacy” (Timothy Shannon, “Dressing for Success,” 18). This is also an identification term in our textbook, and Shannon’s research locates a similar phenomenon in the Mohawk Valley of British colonial New York

Middle Ground

1.     South Carolina colonists survived the Yamasee War in part by developing an alliance with what powerful group?

the spanish in florida

William Penn was a member of which religious group?

Quakers

Bacon’s Rebellion and King Phillip’s War occurred at roughly the same time (1675-1676). Though they were not explicitly connected, both conflicts grew out of which of the following causes?

hostilities w. native americans

Bacon’s Rebellion contributed to which development in colonial Virginia

The replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia’s plantations

The Walking Purchase of 1737 involved the seizure of land from Lenape Indians in which colony?

Pennsylvania

During the eighteenth century, colonial assemblies ________________.

became more assertive

   Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe, who sought to improve conditions for poor English debtors and to abolish ___________ in the new colony.

slavery

What is the name of the legal principle whereby a married woman lost all of her political and economic rights to her husband?

coverture

In the Treaty of Paris of 1763, ending the Seven Years’ War (or French and Indian War), __________.

France lost all of its mainland North American possessions

Virtual representation was the idea __________________.

That each member of Britain’s Parliament represented the entire empire, not just his own district

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by ____________ in his statements about natural rights.

John Locke

Which was a characteristic of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1788)?

Congress couldnt tax americans (that was the state’s job/right)

1.     George Washington’s defeat of General Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781 _________________.

Immediately ended the Revolutionary war

Which was a consequence of Shays’s Rebellion?

Leading American politicians such as James Madison lost faith in the Articles of Confederation.

1.     True or false ? Every state sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

false; Rhode island didnt

_____________________ of Virginia drafted the Virginia Plan, which was the starting point for all debate at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

James madison

U.S. Senators serve _______.

6 years; no limits on term

Supreme Court Justices serve __________.

during good behavior; to life

The electoral college is _____________.

The method under the Constitution for filtering the people’s votes by state and determining who the next president will be

Which of the following freedoms is NOT guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights?

The right ot bear arms

All of the following were components of Alexander Hamilton’s financial program except _______________.

An income tax

True or False? Alexander Hamilton argued that the Bank of the United States was unconstitutional because the power to create a corporation was not among the powers listed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution.

False

Thomas Jefferson advocated for strict construction of the Constitution in the 1790s, and employed this to argue that the federal government did not have the ability to ___________________.

charter a national bank

What was the name of the new federal policy developed in the Washington administration (and continued by his successors) that called for federal control of the treaty-making process with Native Americans, fair financial compensation for purchased lands, and agricultural, educational, and spiritual assistance to Native Americans.

civilization

In the 1790s, where was support for the Republican Party weakest?

The northeast

Which was a major point of emphasis in George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address?

Warning about partisan politics and permanent alliances.

True or False? The winner of the closely contested 1796 presidential election was John Adams.

True

The independence movement in _______________________ that started as a slave revolt conjured up the deepest fears of Southern plantation owners and deepened political anxieties in the 1790s.

Haiti

Which event happened third in chronological order?

Congressional passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts --1798

_________________________, an unsuccessful slave revolt, occurred in Richmond, Virginia amid the tumult of the election of 1800.

Gabriel’s Rebellion

Which 1803 Supreme Court case established the precedent for judicial review of acts of Congress?

Marbury v. Madison

The ______________________, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, helped invigorate southern agriculture and northern manufacturing.

Cotton Gin

  Henry Clay’s political program, known as ___________________________, called for a protective tariff on imported goods to support domestic manufacturers, as well as federal financing of internal improvements.

American System

The controversy over Peggy Eaton _______________________.

Helped to erode J.Calhoun’s influence and enhance M.van Burean’s influences on the jackson administration

Which was a defining belief of the Whig Party?

Andrew jackson had TOO much power

1.     What was the motivation of the creator of this political cartoon, above?

To criticize the actions of jackson and ot get people to support his opponenets

Which crisis derailed the presidential administration of Martin Van Buren?

the panic of 1837

What was the term for the region of western New York greatly affected by the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening?

Burned over district

In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison founded which newspaper?

The liberator

Angelina and Sarah Grimke __________________.

critcized slavery and the idea of seperate spheres for men and women

Which of the following came first?

women began to join and form anti-slavery societies

By 1840, the temperance movement had _________________.

Encouraged a substantial decrease in Americans’ consumption of alcohol

Before the Civil War, most southern whites were yeoman farmers who ________________________.

Worked their own small farms and owned a small number of slaves, or none at all

Which African country was founded by African Americans during the period when moderate abolitionists supported colonization schemes?

Liberia

The Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed in 1823 in response to revolutions in __________________.

Europe

What tribe contested U.S. expansion in Florida?

Seminole

The biblical quote, “What hath God wrought,” ______________________.

Was the first message sent by Samuel Morse’s telegraph

Which of the following Native American nations destabilized the northern region of Mexico in the 1830s through their raids?

Comanche

Which Whig candidate for president in 1844 opposed the annexation of Texas?

Henry clay

What were the consequences of the Mexican-American War?

Added a lot of territory to the US, elevated zachary taylor to the presidency, provided training ground for future civil war generals

Transcendentalist author __________________ spent a night in jail in Massachusetts for refusing to pay his poll tax as a statement of opposition to the Mexican-American War.

Henry David Thoreau

During the U.S.-Mexican War, _____________, a Democratic politician from Pennsylvania, proposed legislation that would have barred slavery from any territory acquired from Mexico.

David Wilmot

____________________ occupied Mexico City during the U.S.-Mexican War, was the last Whig candidate for president in 1852, and formulated what was called “the Anaconda Plan” early in the Civil War.

winfield scott

The ___________________________________ emerged between 1854 and 1860 as a combination of former Liberty Party members, Free Soilers, Northern Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Know-Nothings.  Their first presidential candidate was John Fremont (in 1856).

republicans

Proponents of popular sovereignty believed that ____________________.

Residents of a territory should decide the issue of whether slavery should be legal in that territory

In the tightly contested 1858 senatorial race in Illinois between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, ___________________.

none of the above

The Republicans became the favorite to win the presidential election of 1860 when ___________________.

The Democratic Party split into southern and northern wings

Which slaveholding state did not secede from the Union when President Lincoln called for troops to suppress the rebellion in 1861?

Kentucky

During the Civil War, women in northern states _____________________________.

Entered the workforce in large numbers

Which event happened first?

Battle of Antietam—sept 1862

When Congress sent President Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Act of 1866, he _______________.

Vetoed it because, in his eyes, African Americans should not have citizenship rights

Thomas Nast’s “This is a White Man’s Government” is not a reliable primary source _____________.

because of his cruel caricature of the appearance of Irish immigrants

Why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins?

He was a white sheriff and tax collector who supported freedpeople’s civil rights

Radical Reconstruction ended with the election of Ulysses Grant to the presidency?

False

Columbian Exchange

The passage of goods between africa, the americas and europe. It is historically significant as it 1) introduced new goods to new areas and 2) spread diseases amongst native populations.

Middle Ground

Historical term for the cultural and geographical
region of the Great Lakes; this area enabled trade amongst french settlers and local tribes.

Iroquois

they are an native american tribe located in the north; they are signigicant because they often traded with dutch setllers in new england/ new netherland

Puritans

Wanting to remove elements of catholic rituals, hierarchy, etc; signifcance: triggering the great migration (from england to MA bay.

Middle Passage;

from trading posts to journey across the atlantic to the caribbean colonial ports; significant as it played a role in the atlantic slave trade.

Glorious Revolution

A english revolution that that removed King james the second from his throne; helped to inspire the latter american revolution and bacon’s rebellion

Bacon’s rebellion

a lingering conflict between Native Americans and English settlers as landowners and settlers who pushed west into territory controlled by Native Americans.; significant as it caused for more slaves to be imported and for indetured sertivude to phase out

great awakening

religious revival within the colonies; significant as it laid out a more republicanistic society due to print culture and individualism

7 years war

war between the colonies/britian and the native americans/french; significant as the aftermath and the cost of the war resulted in britian’s establishment of the proclamation of 1763 and increased colonial taxing

Boston tea party

means for colonist to protest aganist the tax on imports; significant as

Common Sense

a pamhplet written by thomas paine; significant as it inspired colonist to call for indepdence from britain

Battle fo saratoga

one of the first major battles in which the colonist won; significant as the victory helped convince the king of france to sign treaty of alliance with united states.

Battle of yorktown

The last/final battle of the american revolution, in which the colonies won and took down a british general ; significant as Britain surrendered.

the proclamation of 1763

A proclaimation established by britian that prevented colonist from settling west in the land that was acquired from the 7 years war. ; significant as it angered colonist and pushed them to rebel.