History Final: American YAWP 1-15

The first American arrived on the North American continent approximately

12-20 thousand years ago

Agriculture arose in North America

Nearly simultaneously as in Asia/eastern hemisphere

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

Wheat

What is the best term to describe Native Americans 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 live in Chaco Canyon?

Pueblo

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

Active Use

How would you compare the sexual and marital freedom of Native Americans and Europeans before contact?

They enjoyed greater sexual and marital freedom

Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early sea power. Which of these inventions contributed to Portuguese sea-faring?

Astrolobe

Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of which nation?

Spain

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

Arawaks

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

Dona Marina

Which of the following proved essential to the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs?

All of the above

In the 130 years after contact, approximately what proportion of Native Americans had died?

95%

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

Grapes

What was the name of the most powerful Native American group in 16th century florida?

Timucua

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

Santa Fe

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

Bartolome de la 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?

Hostile Indians

What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?

Tobacco

The Headlight 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

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

Curse of Ham

Who led the Pueblo Revolt?

Pope

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

Slaves escaping from the English were freed

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

Catholic

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

The Glorious Revolution

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

Most slaves were taken from which region in Africa?~

West Africa

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

11 to 12 million

Slave states was tracked through which family member?

Mother

What was the motivation factor in which 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 were the major political parties in colonial America?

There were no Major political parties in colonial America

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

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 Whitfield 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 ai the trade boycott

What was the Boston Massacre significant?

Tied 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 thefollowing assertions:

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

What was the primary cause of Shays' Rebellion?

Farmers struggling because of debts

All of the following are true about the Virginia Plan EXCEPT

Proposed to reduce taxes on farmers

How were slaves counted for purposes of proportional representation?

They were counted as three-fifths of a person

What was the term for Americans who opposed ratifying the Constitution?

Anti-Federalists

How did the Constitutional Convention regulate the Atlantic slave trade?

Kept it open for twenty years

Alexander Hamilton's financial plan included all of the following EXCEPT

Dropping import duties to encourage free trade

Alexander Hamilton's policies primarily targeted which group of people for greater involvement in thenew nation?

Wealthy Americans

Who suffered the most from the Whiskey tax?

Western farmers

John Jay's Treaty included all of the following EXCEPT

Required an end to the British Navy's policy of impressments

How did most Americans initially respond to the news of the French Revolution?

Celebrating the spread of republican government

What was the X.Y.Z. Affair?

Scandal that occurred when French diplomats demanded bribes from American officials

The Alien and Sedition Acts allowed all of the following EXCEPT

Suspended elections during times of war or quasi-war

What was the term for the documents arguing that states could declare federal laws unconstitutional?

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

What is disestablishment?

Ending governmental support of a particular religious denomination

What was the most important consequence of Marbury v. Madison?

Disgraced the Federal Party

Why did Gabriel's Conspiracy fail?

Two enslaved men revealed the plot to their masters

All of the following are true about the Haitian Revolt (or Revolution) EXCEPT

Napoleon's support proved essential in the success of the Haitian Revolution

Thomas Jefferson, in Notes on the State of Virginia, argued for polygenesis. What is polygenesis?

The belief that African descended peoples were created separately from European descended

peoples

Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of most of the founding fathers as it relates to pure democracy?

Believed it was dangerous

Which of the following was a key goal for President Jefferson?

Reduce the size of the federal government

What is the term for the early American belief that women were essential in nurturing the principles of liberty in the citizenry?

Republican motherhood

Which of the following best describes Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the American military?

He distrusted the military and dramatically cut its budget and manpower

All of the following motivated Napoleon to sell the Louisiana territory EXCEPT

The French and American alliance against the Spanish

Which of the following best describes Thomas Jefferson's policy of peaceable coercion?

Attempt to use a trade embargo to force Europeans to respect American neutrality

What is the "Play-off System"?

The ability of Native Americans to manipulate rivalries between European powers for their own

advantage