Test#1 Review
History 1301
EXPLRATION and EXPLORERS
1) Who was Erick the Red?
2) Who was Leif Eriksson?
3) How did the Crusades stimulate trade?
4) What impact did the Renaissance have on The Era of Discovery?
5) Who was Prince Henry, the Navigator?
6) Where did Columbus land in 1492?
7) Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
8) What areas of America did the following explorers explore, claim or conquer for Spain?
a. Cortes
b. Pizarro
c. Ponce De Leon
d. Coronado
9) What areas of America did the following explorers claim for France?
a. Cartier
b. Champlain
c. LaSalle
10) Who was Henry Hudson, what two countries did he sail for, and what area did he claim for each?
NATIVE AMERICANS
1) 1. What was the “Columbian Exchange”?
2) Which diseases, animals, plants were brought from the Old World to the New World
3) Which diseases, animals, plants were brought from the New World to the Old World
4) Where did the first Native Americans come from?
5) Who were the Indians of the South and what were the characteristics of each?
6) Who were the Indians of the North and what were the characteristics of each?
7) What diseases helped destroy the Native American culture?
COLINIZATIONATION IN AMERICA
1) Who was Sir Walter Raleigh and what happened to the Roanoke colony?
2) What is a "joint stock company"?
3) What was the "enclosure movement" and why was it significant?
4) What was primogeniture and how did it relate to the English settlement of America?
5) How did the Protestant Reformation and religious dissent bring English colonies to America?
6) How did the criminal "justice" system contribute to American colonization?
7) What other reasons caused the English people to come to America?
COLONIAL AMERICAS
1) What areas did Spain settle in the New World?
2) What major reasons did the Spanish have for coming to America?
3) How did the Spanish treat the Indians?
4) How were the Spanish colonies ruled?
5) What is the encomienda system?
6) What areas did France settle in the New World?
7) What major reason did the French have for coming to America?
8) How were the Indians treated in New France?
9) Why were there few French who came to America?
10) Where did the English settle?
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Who came to colonize the early English colonies (what type of settler)?
Where did the Dutch settle, and what were their settlements like?
Who was Peter Minuet and what is he credited with?
Where is New Sweden?
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
1) What were the Southern colonies?
2) What was the most important and typical colony?
3) What was the first permanent English settlement in the present day U.S.?
4) What problems did the colonists face at Jamestown?
5) What was the "starving time"?
6) What product saved the Virginia colony?
7) What was the "head right system"?
8) In what colony was the first elected legislature in what the United States is today and what was it called?
9) What family founded the Maryland colony?
10) What were the Chesapeake colonies?
11) What were the primary purposes of the founding of Maryland?
12) Who were the Carolinas given to?
13) Who settled North Carolina?
14) What kind of people settled South Carolina?
15) What were the main crops of South Carolina?
16) Why was Georgia founded?
17) What kinds of people settled Georgia?
18) What were indentured servants?
19) What was the economy of the South based on?
20) What was the African American experience like in the South?
21) What was Bacon’s Rebellion and what were the results of it?
THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
1) What were the New England colonies?
2) What was the most important and typical New England colony?
3) Who were the Pilgrims?
4) What was life like in Plymouth for the Pilgrims?
5) What was the difference between the Separatists and Puritans?
6) Who was Roger Williams and how was the Rhode Island colony established?
7) Who was Anne Hutchinson and what happened to her?
8) Why and by whom was Connecticut founded?
9) How did New Hampshire become a colony?
10) What colony was Maine a part of during the colonial period?
11) What kinds of people settled in New England?
12) What was life like in Puritan New England?
13) What was the economy of New England like?
14) What were the "triangular trade" and the "middle passage"?
15) Which New England colony allowed some religious freedom?
THE MIDDLE COLONIES
1) What were the colonies in the Middle Colonies?
2) What were the two most important and typical of the Middle Colonies?
3) Who first settled the New York colony?
4) Who was the Duke of York?
5) Who was the proprietor of Pennsylvania, and why did he settle it?
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What did the Quakers believe?
What kinds of people settled in Pennsylvania?
Who originally settled in Delaware?
Delaware was originally the lower three counties of what other colony?
What kinds of settlers settled in the Middle Colonies?
What was the economy of the Middle Colonies based on?
ROAD TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1) What three major powers fought for world supremacy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
2) What were the names that the colonists gave the first three of these colonial wars
3) What advantages did the English and the French have in these colonial wars?
4) What was the French and Indian War called in Europe?
5) Why and where did the French and Indian War start?
6) What were the provisions of the Peace of Paris, 1763?
7) What were the basic purposes or ideas of mercantilism?
8) In the theory of mercantilism, what was the purpose of colonies?
9) What restrictions were placed on colonial commerce by the mercantile system?
10) How did the distance from England and her colonies and the amount of freedom that the colonists had
cause conflict between England and her colonies?
11) What was the natural rights theory and who popularized it?
12) How does the concept of virtual representation differ with the idea of geographic or actual
representation, and how did this contribute to colonial dissatisfaction?
13) What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
14) What were some of the Navigation Acts?
15) What was the Quebec Act and why did it upset the colonists?
16) What was the Sugar Act?
17) What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?
18) What kind of tax did the colonists have to pay as the result of the Stamp Act?
19) What was the Declaratory Act and what did it say?
20) What were the Townsend Revenue Acts?
21) Who were the Sons of Liberty?
22) What was the Boston Massacre and who was responsible for it?
23) Who was Samuel Adams and what were the Committees of Correspondence?
24) What was the purpose of the Tea Act and why were the colonists against it?
25) What were the Intolerable Acts and what were they called in England?
26) What were the circumstances of the “Gaspee Incident”?
27) Where was the First Continental Congress held?
28) What did the first Continental Congress do?