Unit 1 Homework Review

caravel

What small vessel was capable of carrying about 130 tons of cargo and needed little water to sail, which allowed explorers to venture up shallow inlets and to beach their ships to make repairs?

astrolabe

What is the name of the device invented by the ancient Greeks and refined by Arab navigators that uses the position of the sun to determine direction, latitude, and local time?

an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic to separate Spanish and Portuguese areas of trade.

In 1493 Pope Alexander VI established a line of demarcation, which was...

Amerigo Vespucci

In 1499 an Italian named ____?____, sailing under the Spanish flag, repeated Columbus’s attempt to sail west to Asia.

Hernán Cortés

Who is credited with leading the Spanish march into the Aztec Empire in 1519?

conquistadors

Spanish men who led expeditions to conquer the Americas were known as...

Henry the Navigator

Who invited mapmakers, astronomers, and shipbuilders from throughout the Mediterranean world to come to Portugal to study and plan voyages of exploration?

encomienda

What was the name of the system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subjected people?

 

Francisco Pizarro

Who, using a small band of soldiers but much-superior weapons, was able to defeat and plunder the wealthy Inca Empire?

New France

Giovanni da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, and Samuel de Champlain were all integral in founding...

an organization in which many investors pool funds to raise large amounts of money for large projects

Which definition best describes a joint-stock company?

headright

What system was used in Virginia to grant land to settlers who paid their own passage to the new colony?

a group of 104 men who survived the voyage across the Atlantic.

The Jamestown colonial settlement was founded in 1607 by...

founded the religiously-tolerant town of Providence in 1636

Which of the following is NOT true of John Winthrop?

Anne Hutchinson

A devout female Puritan named ____?____ began causing a stir in Boston by holding religious discussion meetings in her home where they questioned the authority of several ministers.

a ship licensed by the government to attack ships of other countries

Which of the following is the best description for a privateer?

govern the land any way that he wanted.

Under the terms of a proprietary colony, the owner of that colony could...

Captain John Smith of Jamestown

The Native American group known as the Powhatan Confederacy gave assistance to which colonial leader?

Which of the following is NOT true of Roger Williams?

Henry Hudson

Who was hired by the Dutch East India Company to search for a river that flowed through North America, but instead found a river that came to bear his name?

mercantilism

What do we call the set of ideas about the world economy and how it works that believes that a country’s wealth is measured by the amount of gold and silver it possesses?

indentured servants

What term is used to describe those people willing to sell their labor for a chance to acquire their own land?

cash crop

Which of the following terms describes a type of crop that is grown primarily to be sold at market for a profit?

Which of these involves a three-way exchange of goods?

 

triangular trade

subsistence farming.

Farming only enough crops to feed one's own family is know as....

Nathaniel Bacon

In 1676 backcountry farmers, under the leadership of a wealthy planter named ____?____, organized their own militia and first attacked the Native Americans and then with several hundred armed followers returned to Jamestown, charged Governor Berkeley with corruption, and seized power.

in town meetings.

In New England, local issues and problems were discussed, men passed legislation and elected officials...

all goods imported or exported from the colonies to be transported on English ships.

In 1660, Parliament passed a Navigation Act that required...

the English Bill of Rights

What legislation limited the powers of the king and listed the specific rights that Parliament and English citizens were guaranteed?

slavery

Less English wanting to become indentured servants and new policies by Parliament that allowed for the shipping of humans as property led to the increase of ...

promoted the new method to prevent and abate small-pox

Which of the following is NOT true of John Locke?

an individual’s devoutness and emotional union with God.

The term pietism describes the movement in colonial America that stressed...

when a group of enslaved Africans attacked their white overseers

What was the Stono Rebellion?

Baron de Montesquieu

Which influential Enlightenment writer argued that to protect people’s liberties, a government should be separated into different branches to provide checks and balances against one another?

 

the experiment to inoculate Colonists against smallpox.

Even though he was a Puritan church leader, Rev. Cotton Mather promoted...

rationalism

The emphasis on logic and reasoning by the Enlightenment thinkers was known as...

the Great Awakening.

The idea that a person had to repent and convert to God was a central idea of...

define the relationship between enslaved people and free people.

Several colonies created a slave code to...

They were large public meetings for the purpose of preaching and prayer.

What was the purpose of revivals during The Great Awakening?

Two important preachers of the Great Awakening were...

George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards.