LUOA U. S. History

For all students of LUOA taking the History class

What colony was founded on the idea of complete freedom of conscience?

Rhode Island

Thomas Hooker.

Connecticut

Act of Toleration.

Maryland

What became New York?

New Netherland

Haven for Catholics.

Maryland

Peter Stuyvesant.

New Netherland

Bacon's rebellion.

Virginia

House of Burgesses.

Virginia

Fundamental orders.

Connecticut.

Cosmopolitan.

New Netherlands.

Lord Baltimore.

Maryland

Opechancanough.

Virginia

What best describes how the colony of Georgia developed over time?

Many of the colony's unique statutes were repealed, and it became more like the other Southern colonies.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, what became the new symbols of wealth and refinement?

consumer and luxury goods

George Whitefield.

the most notable international figure of the Great Awakening

William Penn.

founded the colony of Pennsylvania

James Oglethorpe.

helped found the colony of Georgia

Jonathan Edwards.

colonial America's most remembered evangelical leader during the First Great Awakening

Samuel Davies.

the most influential Presbyterian preacher in the First Great Awakening

What was NOT true about Europe before 1492?

Scholars understood what and where the land across the Atlantic was.

Entrepreneurs realized that exploration would help establish new, direct trade networks that would bypass what?

merchants and middlemen

What key technological development was invented by Johannes Gutenberg?

movable-type printing press

Quadrant.

measures latitude

Compass.

finds north

Astrolabe.

measures the angle of the horizon

chip log.

measures a ship's speed

The age of discovery began when?

in the mid fifteenth century

Who (1461-1483) reorganized the nation's financial structure and consolidated his power?

Louis XI

The Tudors ended the War of the Roses with the coronation of who in August 1485?

Henry VII

Who (1481-1492) and who (1495-1521) increased royal authority and encouraged overseas exploration?

John II and Manuel I

What is the scientific study of material evidence of the past?

Archaeology

What has some of the oldest evidence of human settlement in the New World, dating almost to the time of the pharaohs of Egypt and their great pyramids?

Cactus Hill

What city was built by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture and boasted a population of 20,000 before the 1490s?

Cahokia

Why do we know so little about most Native American tribes?

We don't have much written evidence of their history and culture.

How does the Bering Strait thesis explain how people came to the Americas?

A land bridge appeared during the Ice Age that allowed people to cross between Siberia and Alaska.

lived in a harsh, Arctic environment.

Inuit

farmers and hunters who lived in large groups in permanent housing.

Eastern Woodlands Tribes

lived in the prairie and were dependent on buffalo for most essentials.

Lakota Tribes

small, nomadic tribes, due to the harsh mountain climate.

Intermountain Tribes

lived in a rainy but pleasant environment with dense forests, rivers, and the ocean.

Kwakiutl

cliff dwellers who built and lived in adobe homes.

Pueblo Tribes

What is an island in the Caribbean and consists of the modern-day nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic?

Hispaniola

Who was a Florentine agent for the Medici family whose primary job was to equip exploration vessels in Spain?

Amerigo Vespucci

The what established Spanish rule over the territory west of an imaginary line of 100 leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands?

Treaty of Tordesillas

How did the European wars of religion impact the exploration of the New World?

They caused persecuted religious groups to emigrate to the New World.

The territory known as what encompassed the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and northern portions of South America?

New Spain

Who conquered Mexico between 1519 and 1521?

Hernán Cortés

Who conquered the Inca in Peru between 1531 and 1534?

Francisco Pizarro

In 1512, Who discovered the Florida peninsula?

Ponce de León

From 1538 to 1542, Who explored the Gulf Coastal Plain and crossed the Mississippi River into modern Arkansas?

Hernando de Soto

Who also tried to find the fabled Cities of Gold between 1540 and 1542?

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

In the earliest days of settlement, how did Native Americans and European settlers create interdependent societies?

trade of material goods

The what was the process by which many aspects of the Old World came to the New World and many aspects of the New World made their way to the Old World?

Columbian Exchange

In the earliest days of settlement, how did Native Americans and European settlers create interdependent societies?

trade of material goods

items that came to the Americas from Europe.

horses and coffee

items that came to Europe from the Americas.

turkey and corn

The first English attempts at colonization occurred on the islands of what is now North Carolina's Outer Banks, specifically on where?

Roanoke Island.

Who was given a monopoly for settlement in America by the Queen?

Sir Walter Raleigh

What was the main source of conflict between England and Spain?

England was Protestant, while Spain was Catholic.

Who funded the English Colony at Roanoke Island?

Sir Walter Raleigh

What was a joint stock company, an entity that sold shares in the company to raise capital and divide the financial risk?

The Virginia company of London

When was Jamestown founded?

1607

The winter of 1609-1610, known as the what, came partly because of the relations between the natives and the English?

Starving Time

What event eased tensions between the Jamestown settlers and Native Americans and helped lead to the end of the First Anglo-Powhatan War?

the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe

Who followed teachings originating from John Calvin of Geneva?

Puritans

The what, as we know the document, first emphasized allegiance to the Crown and denied any intent to separate themselves from the authority of England?

Mayflower Compact

After John Carver died in April 1621, who replaced him as governor of the Plymouth Colony?

William Bradford

The Pilgrims were a division of Puritans who were what?

Separatists

How many of the Plymouth colonists died during the first winter?

nearly one-half

In 1630, a large group of Puritans, led by who arrived on the shores of North America to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

John Winthrop

The what included a list of one hundred provisions, including no taxation without representation, the right to a trial by jury, the right to due process, and other rights which we consider integral to our nation's idea of liberty?

Massachusetts Body of Liberties

The goal of the Puritans was to do what?

rid the Church of England from any practice that resembled that of the Roman Catholic Church

What was the Reconquista?

the Spanish reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim peoples and rulers

Why did the Pilgrims travel to the New World?

to escape religious persecution

In return for passage to Virginia, who signed a contract that promised five to seven years of labor?

indentured servants

What is now clearly seen as a power struggle between two stubborn Englishmen from the same prominent family?

Bacon's Rebellion

From the beginning of the Virginia colony, what was the recognized official religion?

Anglicanism (Church of England)

What was the first representative assembly in the Americas?

Virginia House of Burgesses

What was the result of Bacon's Rebellion?

Bacon died of dysentery, and the rebellion failed.

Who is remembered in history for her trial in November 1637 in Massachusetts Bay, an event that was part of a religious conflict called the Antinomian Controversy.

Anne Hutchinson

In New England, how were farms inherited?

They were divided equally among siblings.

Who was the driving force behind the foundation of the colony of Maryland?

Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Maryland was founded with the intention of being a haven for those practicing what religion?

Catholicism

What social and governmental system did Lord Baltimore's charter for Maryland resemble?

feudalism

The colony of what differed from other New England colonies in that it didn't begin as a haven for religious dissenters, but rather as a commercial venture?

New Hampshire

Unhappy with the Puritan government in Massachusetts Bay, one hundred settlers established Connecticut under the leadership of who?

Thomas Hooker.

The colony of Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by who, who had been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony due to his disagreement with the leadership, particularly their stance on the separation of church and state?

Roger Williams

What means God has given us the choice to do good or evil?

Free will

According to the philosophy of what, colonies existed to enrich the mother country by supplying raw materials and providing a market for finished goods?

mercantilism

According to the lesson, once a luxury good became common, what happened?

Once a luxury became common, people wanted something different.

What is mercantilism?

an economic policy that claimed that colonies existed only for the benefit of the mother country

In New England, the what emphasized the value of education for religious reasons and economic benefit?

1647 Old Deluder Satan Act

Who was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh?

John Witherspoon

What philosophy did John Witherspoon introduce at Princeton that taught there are certain natural rights granted by God?

Scottish Common Sense

In 1669, the proprietors issued the what, written primarily by Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (later Lord Shaftsbury) and John Locke (under Cooper's patronage), as a way to address growing problems with governing such a large tract of land?

Fundamental Constitutions

What is true of the eight proprietors of the Carolinas?

They received the land as repayment for loyalty to the Crown or Charles II.

What was a primary factor contributing to the survival of aspects of African culture in South Carolina?

Many slaves were isolated from the White population.

The area that would become what and later New York began as a Dutch settlement after Henry Hudson explored what would later be named the Hudson River.

New Netherland

Only a few short years after the first representative assembly met in Maryland, another colony emerged nearby: what was it?

New Sweden

The Dutch were also the driving force behind the settlement of the colony that would become what?

New Jersey