American Yawp chapters 1-5 review for test

The first Americans arrived on the North American continent approximately_____________

12 and 20 thousand years ago

The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans, also called the "Three Sisters,"include all of the following except

Corn, Beans and Squash

What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent?

Matrilineal

What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire?

Cahokia

What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon?

Pueblo

Most Native Americans understood property rights as primarily relating to which of the following concepts?

Active use

Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early seapower. The invention of the ______________ aided Portuguese sea-faring.

Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of _______.

Spain

What was the name of the first native group that Columbus encountered?

Arawaks

Hernán Cortés relied on a native woman to conquer the Aztecs. What did he call her?

Dona Maria

In the 130 years after contact, approximately ___% of Native Americans died.

95

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

tomatoes, potatoes, grapes, and cocoa

What was the first permanent European settlement in the current American Southwest?

Santa Fe

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

Bartolomé de las Casas

The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ____________

Asia

The expansion of the Iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into the "middle ground," located in what region?

Great Lakes

Which of the following European countries offered the most religious liberty?

Netherlands

Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New Netherlands?

Trade with Indians

The Dutch used what kind of labor to construct New Amsterdam?

Enslaved Africans

England's so-called "Golden Age," that included the works of Shakespeare, occurred under the reign of which monarch?

Elizabeth I

In the late sixteenth century, England went to war with which nation?

Spain

Jamestown was established in a disastrous location. What proved to be the worst aspect of the location?

Brackish tidal water

What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?

tobacco

The Headright Policy promised which of the following?

50 acres for anyone paying the passage of an English immigrant to Virginia

When did slavery first emerge in Virginia?

The Dutch sold 20 Africans to Virginia colonists in 1619

Justification from African slavery partly derived from interpretations of a biblical curse placed on Noah. This curse was known as _______?

Curse of Ham

The Spanish king adopted which of the following policies for enslaved Africans who escaped English territory to St. Augustine, Florida?

Slaves escaping from the English were freed

Puritans derived their theology primarily from which system of Christian thought?

Calvinist

Puritans led the revolt against King Charles I in what is now called

English Civil War

What was the most common means for colonists to acquire Native American slaves?

War

What is the term that slaves used for the voyage across the Atlantic?

Middle Passage

Enslaved Africans sold in North America differed from most slave communities. What was the most important distinction?

Higher Percentage Of Women

What is the current estimate of the number of Africans forcibly relocated from Africa to the New World?

11 to 12 Million

Slave status was tracked through which family member?

Mother

What was a motivating factor in the creation of colonies such as Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?

Religion

Bacon's Rebellion and King Phillip's War occurred at approximately the same time, in Virginia and Massachusetts respectively. Both conflicts grew out of which of the following causes?

Hostilities with Indians

What crop led to the creation of large plantations and great wealth for the elite in the Carolinas?

Rice

The English survived the Yamasee War by developing an alliance with what powerful group?

Cherokees

The Walking Purchase of 1737 seized land from Indians in which colony?

Pennsylvania

Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase consumer goods EXCEPT

Standardized currency

What was the "commodity money" used in Virginia?

Tobacco

Which of the following colonies generated the most revenue?

Barbados

What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth century?

Philadelphia

Which colony outlawed slavery in 1750?

Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in the use of their time?

Task system

Which of the following colonies had a majority enslaved African population?

South Carolina

How did the culture of rice cultivation reach colonial Carolina?

Enslaved Africans

What portion of residents in 1700 New York City was enslaved?

40%

What was the first English group to turn against slavery?

Quakers

What is the name for the practice whereby a married woman loses all of her political and economic rights to her husband?

Coverture

Where did the Great Awakening begin?

New England

Which American was involved in killing a French diplomat, initiating the Seven Years' (French and Indian) War?

George Washington

The British received ____________ at the end of the Seven Years' War.

What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac's Rebellion?

Neolin

Which of the following resulted from Pontiac's War?

Creation of the Proclamation Line of 1763

Where did the ideas of the "country party," that is the emphasis on the ideology of republicanism, have the most influence?

in the colonies

Both John Locke and George Whitefield encouraged which of the following values?

Questioning authority

Why did King George III issue the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and limit settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?

To limit wars with Native Americans

What was the most important difference between the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act?

the stamp act was a direct tax while the Sugar Act modified a pre- existing duty

How did colonists respond to the repeal of the Stamp Act?

praising parliament and King George III

How did women participate in protesting the Townshend Acts?

Spinning homespun clothing to aid the trade boycott

Why was the Boston Massacre significant?

Tied the colonies together through shared sympathy for Boston

What was the purpose of the Tea Act?

all of the above

The Coercive or Intolerable Acts included four specific laws. The first was the Boston Port Act. The other three are all of the following EXCEPT

glass act

The "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," produced by the Continental Congress included which of the following assertions:

Colonists retained all the rights of native Britons;

Taxes should come only from the colonists' elected representatives; Colonists should have the right to trails by juries (All of the above)

Which delegates opposed the mention of slavery in the Declaration of Independence?

all of the above

The aid of which European nation proved most helpful to the American cause?

France

Which side was the first to offer freedom to slaves willing to fight for their side?

British

Most members of the Shawnee, Creek, Cherokee, and Iroquois sided with which side during the war?

British

What turning point convinced the French to join the war against Britain?

Battle of Saratoga