Term Which of the following statements best describes the importance of the Virginia House of Burgesses? | | Definition it set the standard for more colonial legislative bodies that would follow. | |
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Term Mercantilism refers to an economic policy that emphasizes | | Definition establishing colonies and a favorable balance of trade fort he mother country | |
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Term 3. The immediate issue in dispute in Bacon’s Rebellion was | | Definition he perceived failure of Virginia’s governor to protect the colony’s frontier area from the depredations of raiding Indians. | |
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Term The Triangular Trade network of the eighteenth century sought to | | Definition circumvent the Navigation Acts by engaging in illegal trade | |
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Term All of the following were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation government except | | Definition it lacked the power to borrow money. | |
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Term | Definition a decrease in the reliance on indentured servants for labor | |
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Term One difference between the Middle Colonies and the other British colonies in North America was that | | Definition residents of the Middle Colonies represented more diverse nationalities | |
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Term The Molasses Act was intended to enforce England’s mercantilist policies by | | Definition forcing the colonists to buy sugar from other British colonies rather than from foreign producers. | |
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Term The intent of British mercantile legislation before 1750 was to | | Definition promote favorable trade between Great Britain and its colonies | |
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Term A weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that | | Definition nine of thirteen states were needed to pass legislation | |
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Term [image] The maps above indicate that | | Definition France had lost most of its territorial possessions in North America by 1763. | | |
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Term During the American War of Independence, the battle of Saratoga was most significant because it | | Definition persuaded France to begin supporting the Americans openly. | |
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Term Hernando Cortes is significant to the history of North America because he | | Definition fought and eventually defeated the powerful Aztecs | |
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Term The purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas was | | Definition to divide the non-European world between Spain and Portugal. | | |
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Term n the early colonial period a “Separatist” was defined as a person who | | Definition wished to break away from the impure Church of England | |
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Term The majority of people came to America in the colonial period for which of the following reasons? | | Definition |
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Term Which of the following best expresses the outcome of the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763) | | Definition It forced Great Britain to reevaluate the administration of its colonial affairs | |
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Term Reflecting a new focus on individualism, which of the following authors created the character of “Natty Bumppo,” a rugged frontiersman who struggled against the disorders of his soicety? | | Definition |
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Term | Which of the following statements about the First Great Awakening is true? | | | Definition It splintered existing congregations and churches | |
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Term The Proclamation of 1763 was designed to | | Definition protect the colonists from Native Americans in the West | | |
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Term | Definition granted acreage to any person who paid the passage of servants to the colonies. | | |
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Term [image] The cartoon shown above was drawn by Benjamin Franklin in 1756 to gain support for | | Definition |
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Term The case of John Peter Zenger is significant in that it | | Definition set the standard for future free speech and press rights | | |
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Term The primary motive of those who founded the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century was the | | Definition desire for economic gain. | | |
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Term The Great Awakening had all of the following effects on American colonial society except | | Definition increased respect for traditional ministers | | |
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Term The treatment of native populations by Spanish explorers in current-day Mexico and the American Southwest is best described as | | Definition |
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Term Which of the following statements is true about John Rolfe and his impact upon the economic development of colonial North America? | | Definition He experimented with tobacco cultivation, which soon became a profitable export | |
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Term The Salem Witch Trials in 1692 were | | Definition indicative of social and economic tensions among colonists | |
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Term | The wealthiest colonists on the eve of the American Revolution were: | | | Definition |
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Term Congress’s most successful and effective method of financing the War of Independence was | | Definition obtaining grants and loans from France and the Netherlands. | |
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Term The Republican response to the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts included | | Definition he Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. | |
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Term the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted their settlement to be primarily | | Definition an example for the rest of the world | |
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Term The chief significance of French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s alienation of the Iroquois Indians was | | Definition to prevent New France from expanding southward into what is now the United States | |
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Term The primary issue in Shay’s Rebellion was | | Definition the jailing of individuals or seizure of their property for failure to pay taxes during time of economic hardship. | |
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Term As a result of heavy debts left from the French and Indian War, Parliament decided to | | Definition force the colonists to pay for the protection they had been provided | | |
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Term The primary American objection to the Stamp Act was that | | Definition it was a measure for raising revenue from the colonies but it had not been approved by the colonists through their representatives. | | |
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Term The Mayflower Compact could be best described as | | Definition a foundation for self-government. | | |
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Term Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense | | Definition provided intellectual justification for American independence | |
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Term Which one of the following ideas would the Puritans have rejected? | | Definition Education is unimportant. | |
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Term When colonial Massachusetts’ Governor Thomas Hutchinson attempted to force the sale of taxed tea in Boston in 1773, Bostonians reacted with the | | Definition |
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Term The military turning point in the American Revolution occurred as a result of which of the following battles? | | Definition |
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Term The settlement of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia survived as a result of | | Definition the planting of tobacco as a cash crop | | |
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Term In founding the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn’s primary purpose was to | | Definition provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers | |
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Term American colonists opposed the passage of the Stamp Act (1765) primarily because it | | Definition |
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Term The introduction of the horse to the native tribes of the Great Plains | | Definition enabled them to leave their villages and follow the buffalo herds | | |
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Term Besides mass production through the use of interchangeable parts, Eli Whitney also influenced the American history by his invention of the | | Definition |
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Term As settlers from various nations arrived in North America, they interacted differently with the native tribes. A major difference between French and British settlers was that | | Definition the French treated natives with more respect and intermarried with some tribes | | |
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Term Britain’s Proclamation of 1763 | | Definition prevented the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains | | |
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Term In 1676, Bacon’s Rebellion signaled that | | Definition colonial governors struggled to contain domestic unrest | |
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Term New England’s tightly-knit colonial societies in the seventeenth century began to experience trouble when | | Definition many began to question the strict adherence to Calvinist doctrine | | |
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Term Public education was most encouraged by which of the following colonies? | | Definition |
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Term Which one of the following was an effect of the Revolutionary War? | | Definition the confiscation of Loyalists’ property | |
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Term The Navigation Laws of 1660 and 1663 | | Definition were designed to enhance Britain’s economic position at the expense of the American colonies | |
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Term In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that | | Definition government should derive its authority from the consent of those governed | | |
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Term | Definition attempted to limit colonial expansion | |
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Term merican revolutionaries sought the assistance of France in their war against the British. However, France initially refused to recognize the sovereignty of the States and withheld military aid until the American victory at | | Definition |
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Term In seeking diplomatic recognition from foreign powers during the War for Independence, the American government found it necessary to | | Definition demonstrate a determination and potential to win independence. | |
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Term One of the purposes of the 1773 Tea Act was to | | Definition save the British East India Company from financial ruin. | | |
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Term Which of the following was a slave revolt during the first half of the 18th century? | | Definition |
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Term New England women were able to | | Definition own property and enter legal contracts only as a widower or spinster | | |
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Term European contact with Native Americans between 1500 and 1700 did all of the following except | | Definition led to the extensive enslavement of the natives for work on plantations | |
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Term During the 1760s and 1770s the most effective American tactic in gaining the repeal of the Stamp and Townshend Acts was | | Definition boycotting British goods. | |
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Term The circumstances surrounding King Philip’s War (1676) suggest that | | Definition New England settlers clashed with the native tribes over territorial expansion | |
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Term Native American tribes experienced a cultural shift before Columbus landed in the New World when | | Definition knowledge of the growing of corn moved up from Mesoamerica | |
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Term | Definition wished to separate from the Church of England | | |
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Term The largest group of immigrants outside of England to colonial America by 1775 were | | Definition |
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Term By the end of the seventeenth century, the rise in the African slave trade could be attributed to | | Definition the number of indentured servants who had served their contracted time and were now free | |
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Term In April 1775, “the shot heard round the world” occurred at Lexington when British soldiers clashed with Massachusetts minutemen. The reason that General Gage dispatched troops to Lexington and Concord was to | | Definition arrest radical leaders and seize stockpiled weapons | |
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Term The Maryland Act of Toleration (1639) was passed to | | Definition maintain a safe haven for Catholics in the colonies | |
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Term The pamphlet Common Sense by Thomas Paine aided the cause of American revolutionaries because it | | Definition pushed undecided Americans to join the fight for independence | |
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Term “The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its moth under them”
- John Edwards, 1741
The quote above embodies the spirit of the Great Awakening in that | | Definition the sermon attempts to emote feelings of angst among listeners | | | |
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Term The high death rates during travel, the extensive quantity of land, the successive waves of immigrants, the harsh conditions of life, and the hostility of the weather all combined to produce by the end of the period a society that accepted a high degree of personal risk, and glorified youth and vitality over age and wisdom. What era in American history is described? | | Definition |
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Term The British government imposed the Townshend Acts on the American colonies in the belief that | | Definition the Americans would accept it as external rather than internal taxation. | | |
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Term Adam Smith condemned government regulation and intervention in the economy because | | Definition he maintained that government tended to disrupt the competitive forces of the free market. | |
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Term Many colonial assemblies imposed taxes to support official churches. All of the following colonies had establsihed churches except | | Definition |
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Term The economic theory of mercantilism would be consistent with which of the following statements? | | Definition A government should seek to direct the economy so as to maximize exports. | |
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Term Shay’s Rebellion worked to convince many Americans that: | | Definition the central government of the United States should be stronger. | | |
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Term The Puritans believed that their purpose in the colonies was to | | Definition become an example of faith for the world to see | | |
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