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| 198105232 | T/F: Life expectancy amog the seventeenth-century settlers of Maryland and Virginia was about sixty years. | False, it was under 50 for New Englanders | |
| 198105233 | T/F: Because men greatly outnumbered women in the Chesapeake region, a fierce competition arose among men for scarce females | True | |
| 198105234 | T/F: By the eighteenth century, the Chesapeake population was growing on the basis of natural increase | True | |
| 198105235 | T/F: Chesapeake Bay tobacco planters responded to falling prices by cutting back production | False, they moved westward and started planting more | |
| 198105236 | T/F: The "headright" system of land grants to those who brought laborers to America primarily benefited wealthy planters rather than the poor indentured servants | True | |
| 198105237 | T/F: Most of the European immigrants who came to Virginia and Maryland in the seventeenth century were indentured servants | True | |
| 198105238 | T/F: Bacon's Rebellion involved an alliance of white indentured servants and Indians who attacked the elite planter class | False, the Indians were attacked instead of being the attackers | |
| 198105239 | T/F: African slaves began to replace white indentured servants as the primary labor supply in the plantation colonies in the 1680s | True | |
| 198105240 | T/F: Slaves brought to North America developed a culture that mixed African and American elements | True | |
| 198105241 | T/F: Directly beneath the wealthy slaveowning planters in the southern social structure were the white indentured servants | False, the small farmers and landless laborers came before them | |
| 198105242 | T/F: New Englanders' long lives contributed to the general stability and order of their childbearing and family life | True | |
| 198105243 | T/F: New England expansion was carried out primarily by independent pioneers and land speculators who bought up large plots and then sold them to individual farmers | False, it wa carried out by town fathers that obtained charters and distributed land for settlement towns | |
| 198105244 | T/F: New England women enjoyed fewer rights to inherit and own property than women in the South | True | |
| 198105245 | T/F: New England's commercial wealth was based on the export of agricultural crops to England and elsewhere | False, they had poor soil so they relied on shipbuilding, commerence, fishing, and lumber | |
| 198105246 | T/F: Seventeenth-century American life was generally simple and lacking in displays of wealth or elaborate class distinctions | True | |
| 198105247 | For most of their early history, the colonies of Maryland and Virginia: A) provided a healthy environment for child rearing B) contained far more men than women C) had harsh laws punishing premarital sex relations D) encouraged the formation of stable and long-lasting marriages | B | |
| 198105248 | The primary beneficiaries of the "headright" system were: A) landowners who paid the transalantic passage for indentured servants B) widows who acquired new husbands from England C) indentured servants who were able to acquire their own land D) English ship owners who transported new laborers across the Atlantic | A | |
| 198105249 | The primary cause of Bacon's Rebellion was: A) Governor Berkeley's harsh treatment of the Indians B) the refusal of landlords to grant indentured servants their freedom C) the poverty and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire land D) the persecution of the colonists by King Charles II | C | |
| 198105250 | African slavery became the prevalent form of labor in the 1680s when: A) planters were no longer able to rely on white indentured servants as a labor force B) the first captives were brought from Africa to the New World C) blacks could be brought to the New World in safer and healthier condition D) the once-clear legal difference between a servant and a slave began to be blurred | A | |
| 198105251 | The culture that developed among the slaves in the English colonies of North America was: A) derived primarily from that of the white masters B) based mainly on the traditions of southern Asia C) a combination of several African and American cultures D) originally developed in the West Indies and spread northward | C | |
| 198105252 | Political and economic power in the southern colonies was dominated by: A) urban professional classes such as lawyers and bankers B) small landowners C) wealthy planters D) the English royal governors | C | |
| 198126686 | Because there were few urban centers in the colonial South: A) good roads between the isolated plantations were constructed early on B) a professional class of lawyers and financiers was slow to develop C) the rural church became the central focus of southern social and economic life D) there were almost no people of wealth and culture in the region | B | |
| 198126687 | Puritan lawmakers in New England prevented married women from having property rights because: A) they believed that property should be held by towns, not private citizens B) they feared that too much property would fall into control of the numerous widows C) they feared that separate property rights for women should undercut the unity of married couples D) the Bible plainly prohibited women from owning property | C | |
| 198126688 | In New England, elementary education: A) was mandatory for any town with more than fifty families B) failed to provide even basic literary to the large majority of citizens C) was less widespread than in the South D) was oriented to preparing students for entering college | A | |
| 198126689 | The Congregational Church of the Puritans contributed to: A) the development of basic democracy in the New England town meeting B) the extremely hierarchical character of New England life C) the social harmony and unity displayed throughout the seventeenth century in New England towns D) the growing movement toward women's rights in New England | A | |
| 198126690 | In contrast to the Chesapeake Bay colonists, those in New England: A) had fewer women and more men in their population B) had shorter life expectancies C) practiced birth control as a means of preventing overpopulation D) enjoyed longer lives and more stable families | D | |
| 198126691 | The focus of much of New England's politics, religion, and education was the institution of: A) the colonial legislature B) the town C) the milita company D) the college | B | |
| 198126692 | The "Half-Way Covenant" provided: A) baptism but not "full communion" to people who had not had a conversion experience B) partial participation in politics to people who were not church members C) admission to communion but not voting membership in the church D) partial participation in church affairs for women | A | |
| 198126693 | Those people accused of being witches in Salem were generally: A) from the poorer and more uneducated segments of the town B) notorious for their deviation from teh moral norms of the community C) outspoken opponents of the Puritan clergy D) from families associated with Salem's burgeoning market economy | D | |
| 198126694 | English settlers greatly altered the character of the New England environment by: A) raising wheat and oats rather than the corn grown by Indians B) their extensive introduction of livestock C) beating trails through the woods as they pursued seasonal hunting and fishing D) building an extensive system of roads and canals | B | |
| 198126695 | Name: Early Maryland and Virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last | family | |
| 198126696 | Name: Primary cause of death among tobacco-growing settlers | diseases | |
| 198126697 | Name: Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor | indentured servants | |
| 198141894 | Name: Maryland and Virginia's system of granting land to anyone who would pay trans-Atlantic passage for laborers | headright | |
| 198141895 | Name: Fate of many of Nathaniel Bacon's followers, though not of Bacon himself | hanging (bacon died from disease) | |
| 198141896 | Name: American colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders | Rhode Island | |
| 198141897 | Name: English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 1698 | Royal African Company | |
| 198141898 | Name: African American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa | Gullah | |
| 198141899 | Name: Uprisings that occured in New York City in 1712 and in South Carolina in 1739 | slave revolt | |
| 198141900 | Name: Wealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in the most populous colony | First Familes of Virginia | |
| 198141901 | Name: Approximate marriage age of most New England women | Early 20s | |
| 198141902 | Name: the basic local political institution of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs | town meetings | |
| 198141903 | Name: Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion | Half-way covenants | |
| 198141904 | Name: Late seventeenth-century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige | Salem witch trials | |
| 198141905 | Name: Primary occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans | farming (moo) | |
| 198141906 | Match: Major middle-colonies rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths | New York City slave revolt of 1712 | |
| 198141907 | Match: Helped erase the earlier puritan distinction between the converted "elect" and other members of the society | Half-Way Covenant | |
| 198141908 | Match: Small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that relfected class antagonism between landlords and merchants | Leisler's Rebellion | |
| 198141909 | Match: Primary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680s | Indentured servants | |
| 198141910 | Match: Experience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived | Middle passage | |
| 198141911 | Match: Author of a novel about the early New England practice of requiring adulterers to wear the letter "A" | Nathanael Hawthrone | |
| 198141912 | Match: West African religious rite, retained by African Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher | Ringshout | |
| 198141913 | Match: Phenomena started by adolescent girls' accusations that ended with the deaths of twenty people | Salem witch trials | |
| 198141914 | Match: Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements | Chesapeake | |
| 198141915 | Match: The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans | "New England conscience" | |
| 198145296 | Match: Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge | Governor Berkeley | |
| 198145297 | Match: The oldest college in the South, founded in 1793 | William and Mary | |
| 198145298 | Match: Organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise expansion of the business | Royal African Company | |
| 198145299 | Match: agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government | Nathaniel Bacon | |
| 198145300 | Match: The oldest college in America, originally based on the Puritan commitment to an educated ministry | Harvard | |
| 198145301 | Order (first 5): -Poor Virginia whites revolt against governor and rich planters -Partial church membership is opened to the unconverted -First Africans arrive in Virginia -Landless whites in Virginia lose the right to vote -First colonial college is founded | -First Africans arrive in Virginia -First colonial college is founded -Partial church membership is opened to the unconverted -Landless whites in Virginia lose the right to vote -Poor Virginia whites revolt against governor and rich planters | |
| 198145302 | Order (last 5): -Major rebellion by African Americans occurs in one of the middle colonies -African slaves begin to replace white indentured labor on southern plantations -Poor Virginia whites revolt against governor and rich planters -Royal slave trade monopoly ends -southern slaves in revolt try but fail to march to Spanish Florida -"Legal Lynching" of twenty accused witches occurs | -Poor Virginia whites revolt against governor and rich planters -African slaves begin to replace white indentured labor on southern plantations -"Legal Lynching" of twenty accused witches occurs -Royal slave trade monopoly ends -Major rebellion by African Americans occurs in one of the middle colonies -southern slaves in revolt try but fail to march to Spanish Florida | |
| 198147962 | C/E: This inspired passage of strict "slave codes" | The dramatic increase in colonial slave population after 1680s | |
| 198147963 | C/E: This sparked Bacon's Rebellion | Poor white males' anger at their inability to acquire land or start families | |
| 198147964 | C/E: This produced a large number of unattached males and a weak family structure | The severe shortage of females in southern colonies | |
| 198147965 | C/E: This thwarted success in agriculture but helped create the tough New England character | The rocky soil and harsh climate of New England | |
| 198147966 | C/E: This inspired the Half-Way Covenant and jeremiad preaching | The decline of religious devotion and in number of conversions in New England | |
| 198147967 | C/E: This reduced forests and damaged the soil | New Englanders' introduction of livestock and intensive agriculture | |
| 198147968 | C/E: This produced high birthrates and a very stable family structure | The healthier climate and more equal male-female ratio in New England | |
| 198147969 | C/E: This fostered stronger slave families and growth of slave population through natural reproduction of children | The growing proportion of female slaves in the Chesapeake region after 1720 | |
| 198147970 | C/E: Caused the Salem witchcraft persecutions | Unsettled New England social conditions and anxieties about the decline of the Puritan religious heritage | |
| 198147971 | C/E: This caused southern planters to switch from indentured-servant labor to African slavery | Planters' fear of indentured servants' rebellion, coupled with rising wages in England |
US History vocab chapter 1 Flashcards
US history vocab chapter 1
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| 432339794 | nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | |
| 432339795 | kinship | a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | |
| 432339796 | division of labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers | |
| 432339797 | plantation | a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America) | |
| 432339798 | savanna | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | |
| 432339799 | lineage | inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | |
| 432339800 | prince henry | Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration | |
| 432339801 | renaissance | the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | |
| 432339802 | hierarchy | the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | |
| 432339803 | nuclear family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner | |
| 432339804 | crusades | a series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims | |
| 432339805 | reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches | |
| 432339806 | colonization | the act of colonizing | |
| 432339807 | columbian exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | |
| 432339808 | treaty of tordesillas | Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | |
| 433227155 | conquistador | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | |
| 433227156 | New Spain | Spanish colony in North America including Mexico, Central America, the southwest United States, and many of the Carribean islands from the 1500s to the 1800s | |
| 433227157 | mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | |
| 433227158 | encomlenda | Under this system, Spain granted landowners the right to use native American laborers | |
| 433227159 | New Mexico | a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border | |
| 433227160 | joint-stock companies | an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business | |
| 433227161 | headright system | Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. | |
| 433227162 | indentured servant | Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America | |
| 433227163 | royal colony | A colony under the direct control of a monarch | |
| 433227164 | puritans | Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization. | |
| 433227165 | separatist | an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | |
| 433227166 | pequot war | The Bay colonists wanted to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed. | |
| 433227167 | metacom | Native American chief who fought against English colonists in the King Philip's War | |
| 433227168 | king phillips war | War between the Native American tribes of New England and British colonists that took place from 1675-1676. The war was the result of tension caused by encroaching white settlers. The chief of the Wampanoags, King Philip lead the natives. The war ended Indian resistance in New England and left a hatred of whites. | |
| 433227169 | plymouth colony | Colony founded by the Separatist Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Located in New England. | |
| 433227170 | proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | |
| 433227171 | quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania | |
| 433227172 | new netherland | a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam |
US History: Chapter 3 Vocab Flashcards
US History Honors
Chapter 3 Vocab
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| 83850072 | Adams-Onis Treaty | Transcontinental Treaty; Spain agreed to the loss of Florida | |
| 83850073 | Republican Virtues | The virtues the American people would need to govern themselves in the new republic. | |
| 83850074 | Industrial Revolution | Effort, beginning in Britain in the late 1700s, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals. | |
| 83850075 | Interchangeable Parts | system in which all parts are made to an exact same standard. | |
| 83850076 | Cotton Gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers (gin means machine) | |
| 83850077 | Second Great Awakening | Great religious movement of the early 1800s; Took place among Protestant Christians. | |
| 83850078 | Denominations | religious subgroups | |
| 83850079 | Spirituals | Folk Hymns, Religious folk songs | |
| 83850080 | Manufacturing | the making of products by machinery | |
| 83850081 | Free Enterprise System | changes of the Market Revolution, an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods | |
| 83850082 | Capital | wealth that can be invested to produce goods and make money | |
| 83850083 | Industrialization | growth of industry | |
| 83850084 | Strike | work stoppage | |
| 83850085 | Labor Union | an organization of workers formed to protect interests | |
| 83850086 | Nullify | reject (states had the authority/right to declare when the federal government had exceeded its authority. | |
| 83850087 | States' Rights | the powers that the constitution neither gives to the Federal government nor denies to the states. | |
| 83850088 | Secede | Withdrawal; SC was the first to secede from the Union. | |
| 83850089 | Trail of Tears | nightmare journey; name given by the Cherokees; 116 day forced march, the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma | |
| 83850090 | Transcendentalism | philosophical movement of the mid 1800s that emphasized spiritual discovery and insight rather than reason, philosophy that emphasized the truth to be found in nature and intuition | |
| 83850091 | Temperance movement | a campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption; the first and most widespread of the reform efforts of the 1800s. | |
| 83850092 | Abstinence | refraining from doing something; people made pledges to abstain from drinking. | |
| 83850093 | Utopian Communities | small societies dedicated to perfection in social and political conditions | |
| 83850094 | Abolitionist movement | the movement to end slavery; started by a group of free African Americans and whites | |
| 83850095 | Underground Railroad | a network of escape routes that provided protection and transportation for slaves fleeing north to freedom. | |
| 83850096 | Seneca Falls Convention | The first women's rights convention in US history, held in 1848; At this, Stanton herself wrote and presented a historic set of resolutions called a Declaration of Sentiments. | |
| 83850097 | Suffrage | right to vote | |
| 83850098 | Manifest Destiny | undeniable fate; used by John L. O'Sullivan when he captured this sense of mission when he wrote that it was the nation's manifest destiny to possess the entire continent. | |
| 83850099 | Annex | to join or attach; The Republic of Texas voted to be _____ by the US. | |
| 83850100 | Mexican War | Conflict b/w the US and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, ending with a US victory; Polk pushed for the declaration of this war & congress gave it to him. | |
| 83850101 | Compromise of 1850 | proposed by Henry Clay; five separate laws, two of which favored the North and two of which favored the South; Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories. | |
| 83850102 | Prejudice | an unreasonable, usually favorable, opinion of another group that is not based on fact; Many people were prejudiced against African Americans. | |
| 83850103 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | introduced by Senator Douglas of Illinois; called for the creation of two new territories, Kansas & Nebraska | |
| 83850104 | Nativism | a movement to ensure that native-born Americans receive better treatment than immigrants. | |
| 83850105 | Border States | Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri; a few politicians from these states formed the Constitutional Union Party. | |
| 83850106 | Confederate States of America | aka Confederacy; Association of seven seceding southern states, formed in 1861. | |
| 83851036 | Delaware Maryland Kentucky Missouri | List the border states. |
AP World History Chapter One Flashcards
Chapter one vocab in AP World History
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| 461067514 | Paleolithic Rock Art | Cave paintings of animals and people indicating rituals and or everyday life. | |
| 461067515 | Venus Figurines | small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features | |
| 461067516 | Dreamtime | a time that consisted with simplicity and traditionalism that had created a development of elaborate and complex outlook to the world | |
| 461067517 | Clovis Culture | the earliest widespread and distinctive culture of N. America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point | |
| 461067518 | Megafaunal Extinction | Dying out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels, that occurred around 11,000-10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age. The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era. (pron. meg-ah-FAWN-al) | |
| 461067519 | Austronesian Migration | The Austronesian migrations began from the Chinese mainland, reaching Taiwan first in 3500 BC then the Philippines by 3000 BC. They reached Sumatra and Java by 2000 BC, Northern New Guinea by 1600 BC, Samoa by 1200 BC, Hawaii, Easter Island, and Madagascar by 500 AD, etc. | |
| 461067520 | "The Original Affluent Society" | saying that paleolithic people wanted or needed little | |
| 461067521 | Shamans | religious specialists who possessed supernatural powers, communicated with the gods and nature spirits, invoked divine aid on behalf of their communities, and informed their companions of their gods' will | |
| 461067522 | Trance Dance | In San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors. | |
| 461067523 | Paleolithic Settling Down | one of the great turning points in human history as people went from being nomadic to establishing communities and provided the conditions for which the agricultural revolution could take place | |
| 461067524 | San Culture | located on the northern fringe of the Kalahari desert; live as a hunter gatherer society; Khoisan linguistic family; displaced by the Bantu peoples; still practiced a Paleolithic way of life; consisted of various bands; complex social relations, but a largely egalitarian society | |
| 461067525 | "Insulting the Meat" | so young men don't become arrogant and refuse to share, shows that everyone is equal, whether good or bad hunter | |
| 461067526 | Chumash Culture | A Paleolithic culture of southern California that survived until the modern era. They occupied a rich and varied environment. They were a very sophisticated group who "created an entirely new society". | |
| 461067527 | Brotherhood of the Tomol | A prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of the large, oceangoing canoes (tomols) among the Chumash people |
STUDY: AP World History Practice 1 Flashcards
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AP World History Themes Flashcards
Themes from the intro unit of AP World.
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| 441037748 | Interaction Between Humans and the Environment | Demography and disease Migration Patterns of settlement Technology | |
| 441037749 | Social and Gender Structure | Gender roles and relations Family and kinship Racial and ethnic constructions Social and economic classes | |
| 441037750 | Culture | Religions Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies Science and technology Arts and architecture | |
| 441037751 | State-Building | Political structures and forms of government Empires, nations and nationalism Revolts and revolutions Regional, transregional and global organizations | |
| 441037752 | Economic Systems | Agricultural and pastoral production Trade and commerce Labor systems Industrialization, capitalism, and socialism |
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