History us final exam review

This week, we learned about the exchange of plants, animals, and disease between Europe, Africa, and North and South America. What is the name of this exchange?

The Columbian Exchanges

All of the following were reasons that Europeans were trying to reach Asia, except...

A. desire to convert souls to Christianity

B.A desire to access luxury goods like silks, spices, and tea

C.A desire to win the Crusades

D.A desire to break the Ottoman Empire's control over the trade from Asia

C

What was the name of the founder of New France who wished Protestants and Catholics to live in harmony in the colony?

Samuel de Champlain

What was the Protestant Reformation?

A movement to challenge the religious control of the Catholic Church

According to the "Black Legend," who was unusually cruel and greedy?

The Spanish

The Columbian Exchanges

The exchange of plants,
animals, and germs
between Europe, Africa,
and North and South
America in the aftermath

of Columbus’s Voyage

All of the following were reasons that the English wished to colonize in the Americas, except...

Converting souls to Catholicism

How was the colony of Virginia funded?

It was funded by private investors through a Joint Stock Company but given help by the monarch through land patents

All of the following were causes of the "Starving Time" of 1609-1610, except...?

An abundance of supplies

True or False? Pocahontas was likely around 11 when she encountered John Smith.

True

Bering Land Bridge

land bridge from russia to north america. When sea levels where low

Tenochtitlan

the Mexica capital

Three Sisters

Corns, beans, and squash

Which colony was settled by separatists from the Church of England (the Pilgrims)?

Plymouth Colony

At the "first Thanksgiving," the Pilgrims signed a mutual defense pact with which group?

The Wampanoags

In what colony did Bacon's Rebellion take place?

Virginia

Who were the followers of Nathaniel Bacon?

Men of African ancestry and men of English ancestry

The ? The Act of 1764 intended to cut down on smuggling by moving trials to admiralty courts.

Sugar

The Stamp Act was the first ? tax that colonists had ever experienced.

Direct

Britain countered the slogan of "No Taxation Without Representation" with the idea of

Virtual Representation

After the Stamp Act, Britain enacted another indirect tax, which was the ? Revenue Act

Townshend

banned settlement west of the Appalachians and stated that Indigenous lands could only be sold to the Crown

The Royal Proclamation

What was the Northwest Passage that European countries were searching for?

A waterway that was thought to exist in North America that would lead people through the continent to Asia.

What was the difference between settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony?

Colonists in Plymouth Colony wanted to separate from the Church of England and people in Massachusetts Bay Colony did not.

Pocahontas' father was the head of which powerful Indigenous group which confronted the settlers at Jamestown, Virginia?

The Powhatan Confederacy

The Stamp Act was what kind of tax?

A Direct tax

What major conflict left the British government in debt and caused them to begin raising taxes on colonists in the Americas?

The Seven Years' War

The Whiskey Rebellion was a protest against a tax designed to support which institution?

The National Bank

In the context of Hamilton's financial plan for the United States, what did 'discrimination' mean?

Treating the original holders of war bonds (ex., veterans) differently from the speculators who had bought them from veterans.

Was Alexander Hamilton in favor of or against "discrimination" in the context of war bonds?

Against

The Market revolution

The transition of Americans from primarily producing goods for their own families to producing goods for strangers to buy

The XYZ Affair made people hostile to which political party?

The Democratic-Republicans

What was the Market Revolution?

The spread of capitalism into many parts of the United States that previously had subsistence economies, along with changes such as the improvement of infrastructure and the rise of manufacturing.

Before it was part of the United States, Texas was part of

Mexico and Spanish empire

Which Presidential Candidate advocated for 54-40 or fight?

James Polk

The 3/5 Clause is in what document?

The Constitution

What is the name of the Treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexican War?

The Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo

What was the name of the businessmen initially invited to settle in the Mexican province of Texas?

Stephen Austin

Which of the following was a part of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford?

That Dred Scott was not a citizen

The Compromise of 1850 was created in response to the crisis caused by the admission of which state?

California

Most Free Soilers went to which political party?

The Republicans

What does the word 'free' as in 'Free Soil Party' mean?

Both A and B

At its first secession convention in March 1861, Arkansas voted to secede.True or false?

False

What was King Cotton Diplomacy?

The Confederacy's decision to ban the export of cotton.

Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?

The enslaved people in the Confederacy

The Union planned a naval blockade of the Confederacy that was called the ? plan.

Anaconda

Which President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln

Which event led to the official declaration of an insurrection?

The Firing on Ft. Sumter

True or False? Great Britain allied with the Confederacy due to King Cotton Diplomacy.

False

True or False? The 13th Amendment abolished slavery.

True

True or False? Conscription laws during the Civil War often had exemptions that favored wealthy men.

True

True or False? Income Tax Began During the Civil War.

True

True or False? Ulysses S. Grant initiated no major changes in Union military strategy during the Civil War.

False

Crusades

Christian attempts to recapture the Holy Lands from Muslim Powers

Ottoman Empire

Middleman, controlling trade from asia and africa

Black Legend

The idea that the spanish were unusually cruel

Hernan Cortes

Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

Columbian Exchanges

The exchange of goods,ideas,plants,animals, and diseases between the old and new world.

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

The Kansas

Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas

The Republican Party

Dred Scott V. Sanford

John Brown

Ft. Sumter

The Emancipation Proclamation (check readings)

King Cotton Diplomacy

Sherman's March to the Sea

Sherman's Special Field Order 15

Freedmen's Bureau

Sharecropping

Presidential Reconstruction

The Black Codes

14th Amendment

Radical Reconstruction

The 15th Amendment

Ku Klux Klan

Enforcement Acts

The Bargain of 1877

Constitutional Convention

Connecticut Compromise