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WorksheetsUS History Final Review: Chapters 1-12 (Part 2)
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Europeans came to the Americas
Looking for land to acquire.
To spread their religious beliefs.
To expand the influence of their home nations.
All of the above.
Christopher Columbus’ FIRST concern when meeting Native peoples was
Their spiritual welfare.
Whether or not they had gold.
Their physical safety.
Their knowledge of products because of his hope for trade.
In the American Southwest, the Spanish policy was to
Use missionaries to assimilate the natives.
Allow the native peoples to keep their land.
Follow a policy of religious toleration.
Mine for silver and gold and ignore agriculture.
While horses provided Plains Indians a new source of mobility, the horses appearance in the New World overall lead to great ecological damages. Such as?
Indians killed more bison than the herds could replace.
Horses competed with bison for food often depleting the prairie grass.
Horses allowed Indians to travel further distances which caused infectious disease to spread more widely.
All of the above.
The best description of the encomienda is
A large farm or ranch used by the Spanish in California.
A religious institution for assimilation created by the Catholic Church.
A Spanish economic system used to control African slaves.
A socioeconomic system that gave control of Indian villages to favored Spanish soldiers.
Cahokia
Was a small fishing village of a few hundred people.
Was a well-developed trade center near present-day St. Louis.
Was destroyed by Europeans.
Was a military stronghold.
The Eastern Woodlands peoples along the Atlantic seaboard had three regional groups distinguished by their different languages. This includes all BUT?
The Iroquoian.
The Mayan.
The Algonquian.
The Muskogean.
After defeating the Aztecs and hanging their leaders, ___________________ appointed himself first governor of New Spain.
Juan Ponce de León
Francisco Pizarro
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Vázquez
He was able to utilize Native farming techniques to grow tobacco in Virginia, making it a staple product for the colony.
John Smith
Peter Minuit
John Rolfe
Jonathan Edwards
The Southern Colonies pursued an agriculturally based economy, whereas the New England colonies
Had to rely on the Native Americans for food.
Had a more diverse economy including trade, farming, and fishing.
Relied almost exclusively on the raising of cattle.
NEVER engaged in agriculture.
This colony was created with the idea of it being a utopian society, which it failed at. It furthermore was used as a buffer between the British colonist and the Spanish residing in Florida.
South Carolina
North Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Why would colonist switch from as labor force of indentured servants to one that was based on slaves?
There was an indentured servants revolt called “The Stono Rebellion” that discouraged all future employers to shy away from them.
It was a shrewd business venture, since owners got slaves for life.
The 13 original colonies created laws to protect indentured servants, which required their employers to pay them more.
Indentured servants were demanding a higher wage due to the rising standard of living.
The burst of intellectual inquiry known as the Enlightenment
Championed scientific thinking.
Encouraged religion.
Spread from the English Colonies to Europe.
Was a Protestant faith.
Itinerants are
Individuals who come to the “New World” and profit off of indentured servants.
Traveling preachers who hope to revitalized a passion for religion.
People living in the MIddle Colonies prior the Britain taken over the originally Dutch Colony.
What you call Natives who came to live with Colonists.
Slavery was prevalent throughout the world prior to the discovery of the “New World”, what made slavery in the British colonies different from the preexisting institution?
The British colonies were more violent towards their slaves.
The use of slaves had never been so centrally used for plantation efforts.
This was the first time that slavery was based off of race.
Slavery had only existed between native tribes.
All of these are types of Colonial governments EXCEPT
Proprietary C=colony.
Charter colony.
Institutional colony.
Royal colony.
These people believed that God planned the universe and set it in motion, but no longer interacted directly. Rather a “natural law” controlled things.
Separatists.
Quakers.
Deist.
Evangelist.
The policy of Great Britain and other imperial powers of regulating colonial economies to benefit the mother country is called?
Mercantilism.
Puritanism.
Capitalism.
Socialism.
As a result of the French and Indian War, England believed ________________ should play an increasing part in paying off their national debt.
The colonists.
The defeated French.
The defeated Spanish.
The Native Americans.
Which group denied British claims to their lands in the Treaty of Paris of 1763 thus resulting in the creation of the Royal Proclamation Line?
Spain.
France.
The colonists.
The Native Americans.
“Virtual Representation” is the idea that the American Colonies
That although they had no actual representative in parliament, the colonists were virtually represented by members of parliament.
That because the colonists were boycotting, their voices were still being heard in parliament.
That because the British government appointed governors for their colonies, the colonists were represented by them.
That because colonists were allowed to elect assemblies within their region, they were virtually represented.
The _________________’s, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were a cluster of harsh laws enacted by the British as a way of punishing the rebellious Boston after the events of the Boston Tea Party.
The Coercive Act
The Navigation Act
The Quartering Act
The American Revenue Act
On April 18, 1775, after realizing the redcoats were attempting a sneak attack on the colonies, __________________ and William Dawes mounted their horses for their famous “midnight ride” where they warned that “the British are coming.”
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel de Champlain
Paul Revere
On June 15, 1775, the Second Continental Congress unanimously selected ___________________to lead a new national professional army.
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Jackson
George Washington
__________________was a popular pamphlet written by Thomas Paine attacking British principles of hereditary rule.
Common Sense
The American Crisis
Committee of Correspondence
Grenville's Colonial Policy
The British troops during the American Revolutionary War included all of the following except
Germans.
Native Americans.
French Citizens.
African Americans.
The Battle of Saratoga was particularly significant because?
It demonstrated General Burgoyne’s incompetence.
This quick victory showed American superiority.
It resulted in an alliance between the Americans and the French.
After the battle the native american population switch its allegiance from Britain to the Americans.
During the American Revolutionary War, The British tried to recruit African slaves to fight against their colonial masters. This policy
Convinced Patriots that slavery was wrong.
Only worked in the North.
Was stopped by the French.
Backfired as southerners took up arms to protect their property from the British.
During the winter at Morristown in 1777, George Washington’s army facing brutal weather, inadequate food and widespread disease had difficulty getting men to enlist. As spring came the Continental Congress began to offer __________________ to anyone who would enlist for 3 years.
A position in their local government
Freedom from slavery
$20 and 100 acres
40 acres and a mule
During the American Revolution, the Americans would follow a strategy of ________________ punctuated by selective confrontations. George Washington’s hope was to wear down the enemy forces in a long war.
Evasion
Guerrilla warfare
Invasion
Using citizen-soliders
