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100 Cards in this Set
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T/F:__________ Material wealth mattered much less to Native Americans than to Europeans, but inherited social status was paramount. |
True. Indians lacked genuine religion: False |
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William Penn professed a belief in the __________ religion. |
Quaker Religion |
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The Native American civilization that lived in the Mississippi Valley over 3,500 years ago was known as the_______________. |
Mound Builders?? |
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In Colonial America life in the New England area was said to be more ____________ oriented. |
Family oriented |
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The ____________ colony sided with King Charles I during the English Civil War. |
Virginia |
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Henry Hudson’s quest was to find ________________________. |
a Northwest passage to Asia |
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T/F:_____ Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans was eventually outlawed by the Virginia legislature in 1691. |
True |
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___________________ was the wealthiest group of mainland colonists. |
South Carolina Plantation Owners |
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T/F: ______ In order to acquire lands the English resorted to displacing Native Americans without compensation. |
True |
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________________ is the name given to the first written frame of government in what is now the U.S. |
The Mayflower Compact |
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Of the early colonies, ______________ was unique in that it had no official church. |
Rhode Island |
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______________ and _______________ was the scene of colonial uprisings as a result of the Glorious Revolution in England. |
Massachusetts and New York |
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T/F: _____ At the time of the Spanish arrival both the Aztec and Inca empires were declining both in wealth and population. |
False. They were large, wealthy, and sophisticated |
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A vast system of ___________ trading existed long before Columbus’ arrival in the New World. |
Inter-tribal trading |
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Native American religious ceremonies were related to the belief that _____________ could be found in living and inanimate things. |
Sacred Spirits |
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In Great Britain in the 17th century freedom of speech was limited to members of _______________________. |
Members of commons? during parliamentary sessions |
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The English decision to establish _______________ made conflict with Native Americans inevitable. |
Permanent Settlements |
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Of the three major European powers competing in the New World ___________established limited but enduring alliances with Native Americans. |
France |
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The ___________ believed that the Anglican church retained too many residual elements of Catholicism. |
Puritans |
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Adam Smith believed ________________ and the discovery of a sea route around Africa to Asia were the “two greatest and most important” events in the history of mankind. |
the discovery of America |
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The autocratic rule of _______________ alienated many of the Jamestown settlers. |
John Smith |
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____________ was known as “Virginia Gold.” |
Tobacco |
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At her trial Anne Hutchinson sealed her fate when she claimed _________________________. |
God had spoken directly to her |
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The ______________ came to the New World to trade. |
Dutch |
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The _________________ charter was granted in an attempt to settle a debt owed by the King. |
Pennsylvania Charter |
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T/F: ______ Unlike other religious groups decisions in Puritan households were decided in democratic fashion. |
False ... |
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The ______________ returned a Protestant to the English throne. |
Glorious Revolution |
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According to the theory known as ________________ the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power. |
Mercantilism |
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One major stabilizing event for the Jamestown settlers was the marriage of Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhatan chief, and _______________________. |
John Rolfe |
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In the _________________ colony married women were allowed to retain a separate legal identity. |
The New Netherlands Colony |
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The Pilgrims, whose charter permitted them to settle in the ____________ area were mistakenly delivered to the area known to us today as Massachusetts. |
the Virginia area |
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___________________ was the name given by Columbus to the Island that would serve as the first center of the Spanish empire in the New World. |
Hispaniola |
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The government of the ______________ colony was considered to be the most liberal of the colonial era. |
Pennsylvania colony |
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Regarding the 1692, Salem, Massachusetts witchcraft scare the requirement that the accused must _____________ and ____________ as the only means of avoiding prosecution resulted in a multitude of accusations. |
Confess and Name Others |
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In Massachusetts, free man status was only granted to those adult males who were __________ and ___________________. |
Land Owners and Church Members |
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The ritual human sacrifices as practiced by the __________ disgusted Europeans despite their practices of publicly executing criminals and burning witches at the stake. |
Aztecs |
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The marriage between ____________ and ______________ symbolized Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success. |
John Rolfe and Pocahontas |
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Those colonials blessed with _____________ and ____________ believed their status also meant the right to rule. |
wealth and prominence |
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The Pennsylvania requirement of ________________ virtually eliminated Jews from serving in any governmental capacity. |
a belief in Jesus Christ |
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By instituting the _____________ system in which each colonist who paid their own or another's passage and was given 50 acres of land helped shape the development of the Virginia colony. |
Headright system |
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For the most part English settlers believed __________ was the basis of liberty. |
land |
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In the 17th century it was believed that ____________ v. ______________ was the main lines of division within humanity. |
Christianity v. Heathenism |
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_____________ was banished from Massachusetts because he differed with the Puritans on the issue of Church-state relations. |
Roger Williams |
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T/F:______ Within some Native American groups individual families might use a specific plot of land for a single season but had no claim to that plot beyond that single season. |
True |
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The _____________ of 1680, is recognized as the most complete victory for Native Americans over Europeans until the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn. |
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 |
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____________ production in Virginia enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government. |
Tobacco |
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A central element in the definition of ____________ liberty was then right to a trial by jury. |
English liberty |
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T/F: ______ The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina insisted upon the elimination of a feudal society and hereditary nobility. |
False |
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T/F: ______ Christians were never enslaved in the New World. |
False |
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Most New Englanders viewed most ________________ as savages. |
Native Americans |
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The underlying purpose of the 1651 _____________ Act was to control the colonial mercantilist system. |
1651 Navigation Act |
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The trans-Atlantic flow of goods is called the _____________ Exchange. |
Colombian Exchange |
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As a symbol of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success _______________ became a sensation in the court of James I. |
Pocahontas |
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Columbus’ major navigational error was his grossly underestimate of ___________________. |
the circumference of the earth |
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At the time of the Spanish arrival the _________ capital of Tenochtitlan already had a complex system of canals, bridges, and dams. |
Aztec capital |
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The _________________ of 1688, occurred when English aristocrats feared the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession. |
Glorious Revoluion |
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In his 1645, speech to the Massachusetts General Court _____________ identified two kinds of liberties, natural and civil. |
John Winthrop |
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In the 17th century in the Chesapeake region social distinctions were between one group, __________________ and everybody else. |
White Planters |
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T/F:_____One major distinction between the treatment of Indentured Servants and slaves was Indentured Servants could not be bought and sold. |
False |
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England’s first attempt at colonization in ______________ would influence its later attempts in the New World. |
Ireland |
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The “_______________ Purchase” of 1737 was an orchestrated attempt to defraud the Lenni Lanape Indians. |
"Walking Purchase" |
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_______________was the common economic bond between Maryland and Virginia. |
Tobacco
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To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the ____________ system of awarding lands to those who paid for their own passage. |
Headright system
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The _________________ is the name given to the successful efforts of the Spanish to evict the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula. |
The Reconquista |
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In early colonial times _________________ was most often described as the “capital of the New World.” |
Philadelphia
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________________ made up about two-thirds of English settlers in the New World in the 17th century. |
Indentured Servants
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In 1649, ____________ adopted the Act Concerning Religion, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration. |
Maryland |
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T/F:______ Europeans thought Native Americans were “too free” for their own good, lacking rules to live by. |
True |
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The belief that the surrounding culture was ____________________ convinced the Pilgrims to flee the Netherlands. |
Corrupting their Children |
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____________________ was one of the first settlers to argue that church and state must be totally separated. |
Roger Williams |
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When the House Of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage it essentially legalized the concept of _________________________. |
One christian owning another |
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The colony of _______________ was founded to thwart further Spanish expansion. |
Carolina |
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The inland site selected for Jamestown was selected to prevent _____________________. |
Attacks by Spanish Ships
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T/F:______ When the British assumed control of the New Netherlands Colony it decided to retain the Dutch practice of allowing freedom for married women. |
False |
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In response to the Glorious Revolution in England, _________________, who captured and controlled the government in the southern section of New York from 1689-1691, was himself overthrown and unlike King James II, was killed in a most grisly manner. |
Jacob Leisler |
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Giovanni Caboto also known as John Cabot is believed to have landed on the coast of _________________ in 1497, claiming that country and all of North America for England. |
Newfoundland |
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It can be said that __________________ is the one element that unified the far-flung elements of the British Empire. |
Trade |
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To the Quakers, ______________ was a universal entitlement. |
Liberty |
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For the most part European settlers, particularly English settlers, believed that in comparison to the Native Americans that they, the Europeans, had a higher and better use for ______________. |
land |
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Carolina grew slowly until _______________ was discovered as a staple crop. |
Rice |
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The 1675-1676 conflict known as ________________ saw 112 Massachusetts towns destroyed. |
King Phillip's War |
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___________ was the commodity driving the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies. |
Sugar |
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English ________________ believed the Anglican church still closely resembled the Catholic church in its rituals. |
Puritans |
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The belief that spiritual intercessors were unnecessary separated the ____________ from the Catholics. |
Protestants |
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T/F: ______ Property registers in the 1640’s in which blacks were being shown with no terms of service is evidence of slavery in that period. |
true |
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In the absence of a legal Charter the __________________ established the framework for a civil government for the Pilgrims. |
Mayflower Compact |
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T/F:_____ Rhode Island remained a renegade colony throughout Roger Williams’ life. |
False |
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New England’s economy was based on ______________. |
Trade
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The 1215 documents known as the _______________ established many liberties but mostly for the nobility. |
Magna Carta
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T/F:_____ Slavery existed in Africa long before the first Europeans arrived. |
True |
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T/F:_____ The “Walking Purchase” refers to the right of Massachusetts settlers to venture beyond the Appalachian Mountains. |
False |
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Nearly ____________ of early English settlers came as Indentured Servants. |
2/3 |
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Slavery in ___________ was much more repressive than that found in the Spanish empire. |
America |
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Columbus first landed in ____________________. |
The Caribbean |
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T/F:_____ King James I believed Tobacco was harmful to one’s health. |
True |
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T/F:_____ The original Jamestown settlers were all men. |
True |
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The first Portuguese sailed to Africa in search of ____________. |
Gold |
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T/F: _____ Following the Glorious revolution Massachusetts was declared exempt from the Toleration Act. |
False |
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T/F: _____ Increased connections with Europeans increased the incidents of warfare between Europeans and Native Americans. |
True |
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_______________ was the single most contributing factor to the decline in Native populations in Spanish America. |
Lack of immunity to European diseases |