HIST 1301

FINAL EXAM

1.The New Laws of 1542

Commanding that Indians no longer be enslaved. In 1550, Spain abolished the encomienda system,

2.What was in the “Declaration of Josephe”?

• The cause of the pueblo revolt; ill treatment of the Indians.

• He declared that the Spanish God was dead.

  
  

3. How did the meaning of the Magna Carta change with time?

As serfdom disappeared, its rights applied to a greater percentage of the population.

• “rights of Englishmen” applied to all within the kingdom.

4."Enumerated" goods

• essentially, the most valuable colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar

• were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that could only be sold initially in English ports.

5. How did the Dutch lose New Netherland to England?

• The Dutch saw New York as being on the periphery of its empire, so they didn't protect it

• they surrendered New Netherland in 1664 without a fight.
  

6. Which group made up the bulk of Nathaniel Bacon's army?

discontented men who had recently been servants

7. According to New England Puritans, witchcraft

resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.

8. Who finally ended the Salem witch trials?

The Massachusetts governor

Governor William Phips

9. What area was the major producer of revenue for the British crown in the eighteenth century?

the Caribbean

10. What was the most significant bonding factor for the diverse groups of Africans brought to the mainland colonies?

Slavery.

11. Which human capability did Enlightenment thinkers consider to be of the greatest importance?

• insisted that every human institution, authority, and tradition be judged before the bar of reason

• Rational understanding

12. Abigail Adams

• became one of the revolutionary era's most articulate and influential women.
  
  - keen observer of public affairs
  
  - did not believe in female equality in a modern sense.

13. For which three accomplishments did Thomas Jefferson wish to be remembered?

The Declaration of Independence, the University of Virginia, the "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom."

14. How would one describe the men who attended the Constitutional Convention?

Most had more wealth than the average American.

15. How did southern states react to the Constitution's provisions regarding slavery?

immediately began importing increased numbers of Africans, because in twenty years, the international slave trade could be constitutionally prohibited.

16. When was the principle of "birthright citizenship" established?

during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War

17. Which of the following statements is true of New Orleans under Spanish rule?

Slave women had the right to go to court for protection against cruelty or rape by their owners.

18. How does Sarah Bagley explain her employment in a Lowell mill in the Voice of Industry

She is made to work there in order to provide money for her family back home.

19. What motivated the actions that resulted in the Dorr War?

A desire to expand Rhode Island's voting laws to include those who didn't own property.

20. Which is true of paper money in America in the early nineteenth century?

It represented a promise to pay the bearer, on demand, a specific amount of gold or silver.

21. Which president's vision for America most resembled Alexander Hamilton's plans?

John Quincy Adams.

22. Frederick Douglass argued that

​​slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.

23. What was true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?

• The Old South had developed into the largest and most powerful slave society the modern world has known.
  
  - The rate of natural increase in the slave population had more than made up for the ban on the international slave trade that was enacted in 1808.

24. Harriet Tubman

risked her life by making numerous trips back to her state of birth to lead relatives and other slaves to freedom.

25. What was the source of the term "utopia" as applied to utopian communities in America in the nineteenth century?

a sixteenth-century novel by Thomas More.

26. Which idea did John Humphrey Noyes profess?

People could achieve a state of sinlessness.

27. How did the views of William Lloyd Garrison differ from those of Frederick Douglass?

- Garrison renounced political remedies; Douglass embraced them.

- Garrison described the Constitution as an evil document.

28. Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850s to the original design of the Statue of Freedom that now adorns the U.S. Capitol dome?

Its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on "Freedom" raised a touchy matter about slaves' longing for freedom.

29. Which of the following was a critic of the Mexican War?

Abraham Lincoln

30. The opening of Japan to U.S. trade led to what?

Japan became a modernized military power

31. The Free Soil Party

A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.

32. Which was a component of the Know-Nothing Party?

anti-Catholicism

33. How did John Brown differ from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison?

- He was willing to take violent action to end slavery.

- Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves.

34. What is one reason the Civil War is often called the first modern war?

Industrial technology had created deadlier weapons.

35. Copperheads were

Northern Democrats who opposed the Union war effort.

36. The Thirteenth Amendment

- Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

- The law that banned any form of slavery in any place under the influence of the United States.

37. What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

A man from a state that had seceded was now president.

38. The authors of the Reconstruction amendments gave the federal government the power to do which of the following?

enforce Americans' rights and act as the "custodian of freedom"

39. The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

Women were excluded from the suffrage amendment.

40. Why did Abby Kelley and Lucy Stone disagree with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's opposition to the Fifteenth Amendment?

Kelley and Stone believed that the Fifteenth Amendment's ban on racial discrimination in voting was an important step toward truly universal suffrage