Test #1 Study Questions

STUDY QUESTIONS FROM OF THE PEOPLE

Examination No. 1
Chapter 1

1. Who was Malinche and what was her primary occupation?

2. What was Cahokia and where was it?
3. What was the Reconquista?
4. What did the Latin root of the word slave refer to?
5. What was the principal right that the Spanish possessed under the encomienda system?
6. What two countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494?
7. Who did Henry VII of England send to the New World to seek the Northwest Passage
to China?
8. What was the Requerimiento?
9. Who was the first European explorer to reach the mainland of what would later be called
the U.S.?
10. Whose ideas did the Spanish Crown adopt in their policy toward regulating the Native
Americans and preventing further enslavement?
11. What was the name of the city so beautiful that it seemed like an enchanted vision?
12. In what year did Cortes finally defeat Moctezumas successor?
13. What Spaniard left the greatest mark on the southeastern part of the future United
States?
14. After a smallpox epidemic in Hispaniola some years after the Spanish conquest, the
Native American population dropped from a half million to about _________.
15. As the result of the arrival of the Europeans, the indigenous (Native American)
population dropped by about what percent over the course of the first century?
16. What was the Columbian Exchange?
17. What was the term used for offspring of the Spanish conquistadors and Indian women,
which also refers to mixed blood?

Chapter 2

1. Don Luis de Velasco was a member of what tribe?

2. Who landed in North America in 1497 and was the first to claim the land for England?
3. Why did the Spanish establish their series of forts in Florida?
4. What is the oldest, continuously inhabited city of European origin on the U.S. mainland?
5. What tribes established a league of defense called the Five Nations?
6. What French king ended the civil war in France and eventually allowed the Protestants
limited religious toleration under the Edict of Nantes?
7. Who founded Quebec?
8. On what tribes did the French concentrate with regard to maintaining them as allies?
9. In what kind of living accommodations did the Huron Indians live?
10. Who were the best diplomats in North America?
11. What person established New York?
12. What were the main principles of mercantilism?
13. Who explored part of North America on the Halve Maen (Half Moon)?
14. Who discovered the Hudson River?
15. What was the primary source of religious tolerance in New Netherland?
16. In the 40 years of New Netherlands existence, its most profitable activity was what
trade?
17. Who was the winner of the Beaver Wars, 1648-1660s?
18. Whose plans and writings in England became a blueprint for colonization?
19. Who was the English version of the conquistador?
20. What famous Native American welcome American colonists in perfect English, because
he had already been to England?
21. Who was knighted but not allowed to lead the expedition for Englands first colony?
22. What colony do the authors believe was abandoned rather than lost?
20. What became the military model for Englands colonial ventures?

Chapter 3

1. Who was the first Englishman to encounter Pocahontas and teach her some English?
2. Who was the Virginia Company named after?
3. Of the original 104 colonists to Virginia in 1607, how many were left by January 1608?
4. What person started the Anglo-Powhatan Wars of 1610-1646?
5. What ended the first Anglo-Powhatan War of 1610-1614?
6. What was the economic salvation of the Virginia colony?
7. Who established or was granted the land for the first proprietary colony?
8. What was the name of the first proprietary colony?
9. What were the 3 types of colonies?
10. About how many indentured servants died before completing their term of service?
11. Chesapeake society was shaped by what four forces (All are forces except ___)?
12. Where was the first clear evidence of slavery dating to 1639 in an act by what colonial
assembly?
13. What was Arminianism?
14. What were the names of the two ships that were to carry Pilgrims to America?
15. Who was the Englishman who broke into the Portuguese slave trade?
16. By 1660, about what were the populations of the New England and Chesapeake colonies?
17. Who made the famous speech about Puritans being as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all
people are upon us?
18. A little church and a little commonwealth referred to what?
19. The viewpoint of the classic New England village with a steepled church and two-story,
white-clapboard colonial homes with black shutters comes from what century?
20. New England turned especially to what type of farming?
21. Where was the sewer of New England?
22. Anne Hutchinson opened herself up to charges of what heresy?
23. What caused the Pequot War?

Chapter 4

1. Who was Tituba and where does she fit in colonial history?
2. What English king was beheaded afer the English Civil War?
3. What economic theory set England and other countries against each other in the race for
wealth?
4. What was the Charter of Libertyes and Priviledges?
5. What colony drafted the Fundamental Constitutions?
6. Who was John Lawson?
7. Where was Britains first slave society?
8. After about 1690, what staple crop became the mainstay of the Carolina colony?
9. Where was the race line first drawn between Africans and Europeans, so that Africans
were portrayed as beasts?
10. What staple crop developed in Carolina after 1690 that increased the demand for slave
labor?
11. What was the issue in Bacons Rebellion?
12. Why was it called Bacons Rebellion?
13. How many (or what percent or fraction) of the Europeans who immigrated to British
America before the Revolution were unfree, i.e., servants and redemptioners?
14. What was a jeremiad?
15. What was the Half-Way Covenant?
16. King Philip was also known by what name?
17. What man and group turned the tide in King Philips War?
18. Who headed the Dominion of New England? What happened to the Dominion?
19. In what documents did John Locke explain his theory of human rights?
20. About half of all prosecutions for witchcraft took place in ______________.
21. What person attempted to regulate every aspect of Quebec life?
22. What was colonial Louisianas major cash crop?
23. What was the most valuable region economically in Frances New World empire?
24. What is the significance of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose?
25. What was the most successful Indian revolt ever in North America?

Chapter 5

1. Who was George Whitefield?

2. How many people immigrated to the U.S. in the eighteenth century?
3. Where did the Scotch-Irish tend to settle?
4. By 1808, how many slaves had been imported into the U.S.?
5. By the American Revolution, how many servants had been imported into the U.S.?
6. What was the approximate mortality rate among Europeans and slaves?
7. By the nineteenth century, what country in the Western Hemisphere had the largest
population of African descent in the New World?
8. What were the three factors shaping the economy of colonial America?
9. What was the most productive region of colonial America?
10. By 1700, what two new items made it easier to attend to ones appearance?
11. What were the important addictive products that drove the colonial plantation economy?
12. Who was John Peter Zenger and why is he important?
13. What was the bloodiest slave revolt ever in the American colonies?
14. What were the major movements (one intellectual, one religious) of the 18th century?
15. What was Jeffersons trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced?
16. What famous book did Adam Smith write?
17. Who was the first minister in Massachusetts that people gravitated toward in the new
religious movement of the eighteenth century?
18. Who was the Grand Itinerant?
19. For American slaves, what was the major result of the religious revivalism?
20. For education, what was the major result of the religious revivalism?