History Quiz 1

Front 1

Mestizo

Back 1

an individual of indigenous and European parentage;
A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry.

Front 2

Which of these is NOT a factor behind the collapse of the Aztec Empire?

Back 2

massive conversion of aztecs to christian

Front 3

What became South Carolina's stable crop in the 1600s?

Back 3

Rice

Front 4

Which statement accurately describes the role of religion in the chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?

Back 4

It was virtually nonexistent.

Front 5

Which of the following statments does not correctly portray an aspect of the Columbian exhange?

Back 5

The Americas sent horses and sheep to Europe.

Front 6

What did the Navigation Acts Do?

Back 6

They required most colonial trade to go through England and be transported on Enlglish ships.

Front 7

How did Bacon's Rebellion transform labor systems in Virginia?

Back 7

It influenced planters to abandon indentured servants in favor of slaves.

Front 8

What characterized the first generation of New England land settlement?

Back 8

households situated in the villiage, with farmland placed outside the villiage

Front 9

When comparing slaves with indentured servants, which statement is true?

Back 9

slaves worked for a far longer portion of their lives

Front 10

What was the typical qualification for holding office in English colonies, except for New England?

Back 10

Property ownership of a least 1,000 acres.

Front 11

Mestizo

Back 11

an individual of indigenous and European parentage;
A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry.

Front 12

Which of these is NOT a factor behind the collapse of the Aztec Empire?

Back 12

massive conversion of aztecs to christian

Front 13

What became South Carolina's stable crop in the 1600s?

Back 13

Rice

Front 14

Which statement accurately describes the role of religion in the chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?

Back 14

It was virtually nonexistent.

Front 15

Which of the following statments does not correctly portray an aspect of the Columbian exhange?

Back 15

The Americas sent horses and sheep to Europe.

Front 16

What did the Navigation Acts Do?

Back 16

They required most colonial trade to go through England and be transported on Enlglish ships.

Front 17

How did Bacon's Rebellion transform labor systems in Virginia?

Back 17

It influenced planters to abandon indentured servants in favor of slaves.

Front 18

What characterized the first generation of New England land settlement?

Back 18

households situated in the villiage, with farmland placed outside the villiage

Front 19

When comparing slaves with indentured servants, which statement is true?

Back 19

slaves worked for a far longer portion of their lives

Front 20

What was the typical qualification for holding office in English colonies, except for New England?

Back 20

Property ownership of a least 1,000 acres.

Front 21

Which crop was curcial to the survival of Virginia?

Back 21

tobacco

Front 22

What described the nature of New England society during the 1600's?

Back 22

it was a society where religous authorities regulated peoples daily lives.

Front 23

Meso-America refers to

Back 23

Central and Southern Mexico and central America

Front 24

Why did the Puritans adopt the Halfway Covenant in 1662?

Back 24

they wanted to expand church membership by allowing children of church members to join.

Front 25

Dona Marina was

Back 25

an Indian woman who served as an interpreter for Cortez.

Front 26

What accurately describes eighteenth-century European immigrants to the Brittish North American colonies?

Back 26

They included large numbers of Irish and Germans and declining proportions of English.

Front 27

How did the West Indies influence British North America?

Back 27

The Caribbean islands became the major market for New England's surplus foodstuffs, dried fish, and lumber.

Front 28

Why did class tensions in the Chesapeake region lessen after 1690?

Back 28

Poor whites shared a common interest with upper-class whites in maintaining social control over blacks.

Front 29

Why did Puritans decide they needed to leave England?

Back 29

They were a prosecuted minority under the Church of England.

Front 30

Who were the Antinomians?

Back 30

Followers who believed that anyone can be saved,rather than the Elect.

Front 31

_ was established in 1607, twenty years after the failure of Roanoke.

Back 31

Jamestown

Front 32

The__ was the legislative body of Virginia which eventually limited the vote to property owners.

Back 32

House of Burgesses

Front 33

The__ were laws created by England in the 1650's to curb the crime of smuggling.

Back 33

Navigation Acts

Front 34

_ was the govenor of Virginia in 1676 during Bacon's Rebellion.

Back 34

William Berekely

Front 35

__ had to work for seven years in exchange for payment for their passage to Virginia.

Back 35

Indentured Servants

Front 36

South Carolina was founded in the mid 1600s by planters from__

Back 36

Barbodos

Front 37

__ was a Portuguese prince who financed the first European voyages of exploration in the late 1400s and early 1500s.

Back 37

Henry the Navigator

Front 38

The __ was a watered down version of Puritanism

Back 38

Halfway Covenant

Front 39

Together with Anne Hutchinson, ___ was banished from Massachusettes by the Puritans in 1636.

Back 39

Roger William

Front 40

___was the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam before it was taken by the English.

Back 40

Peter Stuyvesant

Front 41

Unlike the Puritans, the ___ wanted nothing to do with the Church of England.

Back 41

Separatists

Front 42

Even though__ died in the Philippines in 1521, his crew was the first to sail around the world.

Back 42

Magellan

Front 43

European exploreres searched for the ___, which was a northern sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Back 43

NorthWest Passage

Front 44

In the Spanish Colonies, the___ were European -born settlers who enjoyed the highest social status.

Back 44

Peninsulares

Front 45

__'s disagreements with the Catholic Church sparked the Protestant Reformation.

Back 45

Martin Luther

Front 46

___was the first European explorerer to reach the southern tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope in 1485, before returning to Portugal.

Back 46

Bartolomeu Dias

Front 47

___is the scientific name for modern humans

Back 47

Homo sapiens

Front 48

___ were Europeans born in Latin America, who even though they were part of the elite, were not given top positions in the colonies.

Back 48

Creoles

Front 49

___ was the predominant economic system, based on a countrys self-sufficiency, with colonies existing purely for the benifit of the home county in Europe.

Back 49

Mercantilism

Front 50

The__ made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England

Back 50

Act of Supremacy