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| 478096290 | house of burgess was in: and created in:(year) | virginia, 1619 | 0 | |
| 478096291 | what kind of government was the house of burgesses | representative self-government | 1 | |
| 478282281 | north american continent was shaped by | glaciers of the great ice age | 2 | |
| 478282282 | the first settlers came to north america by | crossing over the "land bridge" | 3 | |
| 478282283 | early indian civilizations of mexico and peru were built on the economic foundation of | farming, mainly corn | 4 | |
| 478282284 | most indians lived in small | seminomadic agriculture and hunting communities | 5 | |
| 478282285 | many indian cultures traced decent through the(matrilineal) | female line | 6 | |
| 478282286 | "discovered" the pacific ocean across the isthmus of panama | Vasco Balba | 7 | |
| 478282287 | touches and names florida searching for the legendary "fountain of youth" | Ponce de Leon | 8 | |
| 478282288 | enters florida and travels up southeastern u.s and dies and is burried in the mississippi river | Hernando Cortes | 9 | |
| 478282289 | spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas and ships gold and silver back to the old world | Francisco Pizarro | 10 | |
| 478282290 | searching for the city of gold, Cibola, and found pueblo indians | Francisco Coranado | 11 | |
| 478282291 | the oldest mountains in N.america | appalachians | 12 | |
| 478282292 | indians had many____ and spoke more than ______ languages | divers cultures, two thousand | 13 | |
| 478282293 | had 5 tribes in new york state only met to discuss war/defense | Iroquois confederation | 14 | |
| 478282294 | the iroquois remained a strong political and military influence until | the american revolution | 15 | |
| 478282295 | important forces that first stimulated european interest in trade and discovery | christian crusades who brought back a taste for the silks and spices of asia | 16 | |
| 478282296 | american indian products that spread to the old world | foodstuff such as maize, beans and tomatoes | 17 | |
| 478282297 | primary staples of indian agriculture | maize, beans, and squash | 18 | |
| 478282298 | number of indians when columbus arrived was about | 20 million | 19 | |
| 478282299 | first people that set foot in north america | the norse (vikings) | 20 | |
| 478282300 | who was the first to enter the slaved trade and establish large plantations and where? | the portuguese, the atlantic sugar islands | 21 | |
| 478282301 | much impetus for spanish exploration and pursuit of glory in the early 1500s came from spain's recent | national unification and expulsion of the muslim moors | 22 | |
| 478282302 | a crucial political development that paved the way for european colonization of america was | the rise of the ventralized national monarchies such as that of spain | 23 | |
| 478282303 | primary reason for the indian decline after the encounter with the europeans was | indian's lack of resistance to european diseases | 24 | |
| 478282304 | cortes and his men were able to conquer the aztec capital tenochtitlan partly because | the aztec ruler montezuma believed that cortes was a god whos return was predicted | 25 | |
| 478282305 | the primary early colonial competitor with spain in the new world was | portugal | 26 | |
| 478282306 | the belief that the spanish only killed, tortured, and stole in the americas while doing nothing good | the black legend | 27 | |
| 478282307 | protestant england's early colonial ambitions were fueled by | its religious rivalry with catholic spain | 28 | |
| 478282308 | the defeat of the spanish armada was important to north america because | it enabled england to conquer the atlantic and have a sence of nationalism | 29 | |
| 478282309 | true or false the earliest english colonization efforts experienced a suprising success | false | 30 | |
| 478282310 | among the english citizens most interested in colonization were | unemployed yeomen and the younger sons of gentry | 31 | |
| 478282311 | the defeat of the powhatan's indian forces in virginia was achieved partly by | lord de la warr's use of brutal "irish tactics" | 32 | |
| 478282312 | the primary factor disrupting indian cultures in the early years of english settlement | introduction of disease | 33 | |
| 478282313 | maryland was founded as a religious refuge for persicuted | catholics | 34 | |
| 478282314 | south carolina had close economic ties with | british west indies | 35 | |
| 478282315 | principle export crop of the carolinas | rice | 36 | |
| 478282316 | south carolina sold __ slaves in the west indies | indian | 37 | |
| 478282317 | two colonies that avoided slavery in the early years | north carolina and georgia | 38 | |
| 478282318 | what colony was more democratic and individualistic in social outlook | north carolina | 39 | |
| 478282319 | georgia was a | buffer zone colony | 40 | |
| 478282320 | southern colonies relied on ________ for their economic prosperity | staple-crop plantation agriculture | 41 | |
| 478282321 | after decades of religious termoil, protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in england after the succession to the throne of | queen elizabeth 1 | 42 | |
| 478282322 | imperial england and english soilders developed a contemptuous attitude toward natives partly through their colonizing experiences in | ireland | 43 | |
| 478282323 | during the early colinization efforts england was | undergoing rapid economic and social transformations | 44 | |
| 478282324 | many of the early puritain settlers were | uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western england | 45 | |
| 478282325 | england's first colony was | jamestown | 46 | |
| 478282326 | jamestown was saved from failure by____'s leadership and _________ 's tabacco | john smith, john rolfe | 47 | |
| 478282327 | one important difference betweent he founding of the virginia and maryland colonies was | virginia colonist would come only if they could acquire their own land and maryland labored for their landlords | 48 | |
| 478282328 | after the act of toleration in ______ maryland provided religious freedom for | 1649 protestants and catholics | 49 | |
| 478282329 | primary reason no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 | civil war in england | 50 | |
| 478282330 | the early conflicts between the english and the indians near jamestown laid the basis for | the intermarriage of white settlers and indians | 51 | |
| 478282331 | middle ground | the neutral teritory between english soldiers and indian tribes | 52 | |
| 478282332 | after the defeat of the costal tuscarora and yamasee indians by north carolinians in 1711-1715 | powerful creeks, cherokees and iroquois remained in the appalacian mountains | 53 | |
| 478282333 | most early white settlers in morth carolina were | religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic virginia | 54 | |
| 478282334 | the high minded philanthropists who founded the georgia colony were especially interested in the cuases of | prison reform and avoiding slavery | 55 | |
| 478282335 | New governor of Jamestown who arrived in 1610, immediately imposing a military regime in Jamestown and declaring war against the Powhatan Confederacy. Employed "Irish tactics" in which his troops burned houses and cornfields. | lord de la warr | 56 | |
| 478556649 | according to Puritans, only these individuals should be admitted to church membership | visible saints | 57 | |
| 478556650 | a group of people who sought freedomfrom religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the early 1600s. wanted to purify the church | puritains | 58 | |
| 478556651 | roger williams and anne hutchinson were both banished for | their religious teachings | 59 | |
| 478556652 | what colony was the most tolerant with religion and plotics | rhode island | 60 | |
| 478556653 | true or false the wampanoag people intially befriended the english colonist | true | 61 | |
| 478556654 | He was the royal governor of the Dominion of New England. Colonists resented his enforcement of the Navigation Acts and the attempt to abolish the colonial assembly. | edmund andros | 62 | |
| 478556655 | edmund andros's dominon of new england was overthrown in connection with the | glorious revolution in england | 63 | |
| 478556656 | the indian tribe that first encountered the pilgrims | wampanoags | 64 | |
| 478556657 | dutch new netherland was conquered in _____ by ____ | 1664 sweden | 65 | |
| 478556658 | william penn founded the________ and welcomed ____ | pennsylvania colony everybody | 66 | |
| 478556659 | what kind of agriculter did the middle colonies have and why | rich because of the fertile river valleys | 67 | |
| 478556660 | william penn had what kind of polocies towards indians and who supported them | benevolent non-quakers | 68 | |
| 478556661 | what colony was characterized by being tightly knit, ethically homogeneous communities that shared a common sense of religious purpose | new england | 69 | |
| 478556662 | the principle motivation shaping the earliest settlements in new england was | religious commitment and devotion | 70 | |
| 478556663 | compared witht he plymouth colony, the massachusetts bay colony was | larger and more prosperous economically | 71 | |
| 478556664 | one reason massachusetts bay colony was not a true democracy is that | only male church members could vote for the governer and the general court | 72 | |
| 478556665 | which colony had complete religious freedom | rhode island | 73 | |
| 478556666 | before the english settlements in new england, indians in the region had been devestated by | intertribal conflicts caused by disputes over hunting grounds | 74 | |
| 478556667 | puritain missionary efforts to convert indians into christians | was unsuccessful | 75 | |
| 478556668 | king philips war represented | the last major indian effort to halt new englanders' encroachment on their land | 76 | |
| 478556669 | the primary value of the new england confederation lay in | providing the first small step on the road to intercolonial cooperation | 77 | |
| 478556670 | the even that sparked the collapse of the dominion of new england was | the glorious revolution in england | 78 | |
| 478556671 | the dutch colony of new netherland was governed | harshly and undemocratically | 79 | |
| 478556672 | the short lived colony conquered by dutch new netherland in 1655 was | new sweden | 80 | |
| 478556673 | william penn's colony of pennsylavania activley sought settlers from | germany and other non-british countries | 81 | |
| 478556674 | quakers settled mainly in | pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware | 82 | |
| 478556675 | middle colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware | 83 | |
| 478556676 | the middle colonies had more ethnic diversity than | new england and the southern colonies | 84 | |
| 478556677 | conqueror of new sweden who later lost new netherland to the english | peter stuyvesant | 85 | |
| 478556678 | wompanoag chieftain who befriended english colonists | massasoit | 86 | |
| 478556679 | reformer whose religious ideas inspired english puritans, scotch presbyterians, french huguenots, and dutch reformed | john calvin | 87 | |
| 478556680 | representative assembly of massachusetts bay | general court | 88 | |
| 478556681 | promoter of massachusetts bay as a holy "city upon a hill" | john winthrop | 89 | |
| 478556682 | colony whose government sought to enforce gods law on believers and unbeilevers alike | massachussetts bay colony | 90 | |
| 478556683 | life expectancy amoung the 17th century settlers of maryland and virginia | 40-50 years | 91 | |
| 478556684 | the chesapeake area had more men or women? this caused what | men, fierce competition for women | 92 | |
| 478556685 | chesapeake bay tobacco planters responded to falling prices by | planting more | 93 | |
| 478556686 | maryland and viriginia's system of granting land to anyone who would pay trans atlantic passage for laborers | headrights system | 94 | |
| 478556687 | most european immagrants were | indentured servants | 95 | |
| 478556688 | A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attemp to gain more land | bacon's rebellion | 96 | |
| 478556689 | african slaves began to replace white indentured servants in | the 1680s | 97 | |
| 478556690 | women of new england had fewer what than women of the south? | property rights | 98 | |
| 478556691 | new england's commercial wealth was based on | fishing,lumber, shipping | 99 | |
| 478556692 | african slavery became the prevalent form of labor in the 1680s because | they couldn't rely on white indentured servants anymore | 100 | |
| 478556693 | the culture of the slaves in the english colonies were | a mix of african and american | 101 | |
| 478556694 | political and economic power in the southern colonies was dominated by | wealthy planters | 102 | |
| 478556695 | because there were few urban centers in the colonial south what was slow to develop | lawyers and financers | 103 | |
| 478556696 | puritan lawmakers in new england prevented married women from having property rights because | they feared it would undercut the unity of married couples | 104 | |
| 478556697 | in new england, elementry education was mandatory | for any town with more than 50 families | 105 | |
| 478556698 | the congregational church of the puritains contributed to | the development of basic democracy in the new england town meeting | 106 | |
| 478556699 | who lived longer the chesapeake bay or the new englanders | new england | 107 | |
| 478556700 | the focus of much of new englands polotics, religion, and education was the institution of | the town | 108 | |
| 478556701 | half-way covenant | this admitted to baptism, but no full communion, the unconverted children of existing members | 109 | |
| 478556702 | people accused of being witches in salem were generally | from families associated with salem's burgeoning market economy | 110 | |
| 478556703 | english settlers greatly changed the character of the new england enviornment by | their extensive introduction of livestalk | 111 | |
| 478556704 | most of the spectacular growthof the colonial population stemmed from | the remarkable natural fertility of all americans, white and black | 112 | |
| 478556705 | the most numerous white ethnic group was | the germans and the scots-irish | 113 | |
| 478556706 | the lowest class of whites were | convicted criminals and prisoners shipped to america by british authorities | 114 | |
| 478556707 | jayle birds | popular term for convicted criminals dumped on colonies by British authorities | 115 | |
| 478556708 | thomas jefferons______ was removed from the declaration of independence by other members of congress | condemnation of british support of the slave trade | 116 | |
| 478556709 | the most highly regarded profession | ministers | 117 | |
| 478556710 | most important colonial economic activities | fishing, shipping, and ocean-going trade | 118 | |
| 478556711 | which church had a more powerful force in colonial life | congregational church of england | 119 | |
| 478556712 | Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. | great awakening | 120 | |
| 478556713 | johnathan edwards | Helped start great awakening and wrote sinners in the hands of an angry god | 121 | |
| 478556714 | george whitefield | Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." | 122 | |
| 478556715 | great awakening revivalists replaced older puritan ideas of conversion and salvation with __ rational and _____ emorional beliefs | less more | 123 | |
| 478556716 | early colonial education was linked with | religion | 124 | |
| 478556717 | the central point of conflict in colonial politics was the relation between | the democratically elected lower house and the governers appointed by the king or colonial proprieter | 125 | |
| 478556718 | germans settled mostly in | pennsylvania | 126 | |
| 478556719 | the scots-irish eventually became concentrated in | the frontier areas | 127 | |
| 478556720 | compared with the seventeeth century, the eighteenth centuray showed | greater gaps in wealth and status between rich and poor | 128 | |
| 478556721 | primary source of livlihood for most colonial americans was | agriculture | 129 | |
| 478556722 | indians and african-americans shaed the common american experience of | creating new cultures and societies out of the mingling of diverse ethnic groups | 130 | |
| 478556723 | involuntary immagrants that ranked below indentured servants | convicts and paupers | 131 | |
| 478556724 | triangular trade involved | new england, africa, west indies | 132 | |
| 478556725 | the passage of british restrictions on trade encouraged colonial merchants to | find ways to smuggle and otherwise evade the law by trading with other countries | 133 | |
| 478556726 | besides offering rest and refreshment, colonial taverns served an important function as centers of | news and political opinion | 134 | |
| 478556727 | the anglican church suffered in colonial america becase of its | poorly qualified clergy and close ties with british authoritiese | 135 | |
| 478556728 | the two established churches | anglican and congregational | 136 | |
| 478556729 | amoung the many important results of hte great awakening was that it | broke down sectional boundaries and created a greater sense of common american identity | 137 | |
| 478556730 | a primary weapon used by colonial legislatures in their conflicts with royal governors was | using their power of the purse to withold the governors salary | 138 | |
| 478556731 | Scots-Irish frontiersmen who protested against colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolina | paxton boys regulators | 139 | |
| 478556732 | ministers who supported the great awakening | new lights | 140 | |
| 478556733 | The case that established the precedent that true statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel | zenger case | 141 | |
| 478556734 | upper house of a colonial legislature appointed by the crown or the proprietor | council | 142 | |
| 478556735 | benjamin franklin's highly popular collection of information, parables, and advice | poor richards almanac | 143 | |
| 478556736 | former slave who became a poet at an early age | phillis wheatley | 144 | |
| 478556737 | important mississippian culture site, near present east st. louis | cahokio | 145 | |
| 478556738 | flourishing west african kingdom that had its capital and university at timbuktu | mali | 146 | |
| 478556739 | colony founded by sir walter raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580s | roanoke | 147 | |
| 478556740 | staple crop of early virginia, maryland, and north carolina | tobacco | 148 | |
| 478556741 | the only southern colony with a slave majority | south carolina | 149 | |
| 478556742 | south carolina staple crop | rice | 150 | |
| 478556743 | charles 1's political action of 1629 that led to persecution of the puritains and the formation of the massachusetts bay company | dismisal of parliment | 151 | |
| 478556744 | anne hutchinson's belief that if you are saved you don't need to obey god or the law | antinominism | 152 | |
| 478556745 | Required, sworn statements of loyalty or religious belief, resisted by Quakers | teslotes | 153 | |
| 478556746 | spanish set up_____ french set up___ and british set up____ | santa fe quebec and jamestown | 154 | |
| 478556747 | who launched the english protestant revolution | king henry the VIII | 155 | |
| 478556748 | virginia company recives a charter from ___ for ______-- | king james I for a new settlement | 156 | |
| 478556749 | after john smith who came to help james town | lord de la warr | 157 | |
| 478556750 | ruined the land, king james I detested it, | tobacco | 158 | |
| 478556751 | maryland was founded by | lord baltimore | 159 | |
| 478556752 | thousands of slaves were needed to opperate sugar plantations in | the west indies | 160 | |
| 478556753 | charles town was based on | trading furs and providing food | 161 | |
| 478556754 | original carolina settlers came from | barbados | 162 | |
| 478556755 | building block of iriquois, 25ft x 200ft long | longhouse | 163 | |
| 478556756 | difference between pilgrims and puritans | pilgrims wanted to seperate from the church while puritans wanted to purify the church | 164 | |
| 478556757 | captain shrimp was on the mayflower and he | he fought indians and he negotiaed with them | 165 | |
| 478556758 | the first winter was harsh only __ out of 102 people survived | 44 | 166 | |
| 478556759 | governer of plymouth | william bradford | 167 | |
| 478556760 | what colony sheltered abused quakers, demanded no oaths, and accepted jews and catholics | rhode island | 168 | |
| 478556761 | men fought for women, no grandparents, 1/3 of the brides were already pregnant, | southern characteristics | 169 | |
| 478556762 | few families, marriges last about 7 years because of death, half the people don't make it to their 20th birthday | family characteristics of the south | 170 | |
| 478556763 | what happened to the chesapeake bay and its tobacco | there exports rose from1.5 million to 40 million | 171 | |
| 478556764 | governer of jamestown | william berkeley | 172 | |
| 478556765 | slave rebellion that involved 20 black carolinians that killed 20 whites and 40 blacks | stuno county rebellion | 173 | |
| 478556766 | ffvs | fitzhughs, lees, and the washingtons | 174 | |
| 478556767 | what colony had drunk problems | virginia | 175 | |
| 478556768 | clean water, puritan average life span of 70 years, very fertile people | new england characteristics | 176 | |
| 478556769 | stable nurturing, childern were obiedient, recieved guidance, knew grandparents, low premarital pregnancy rates | family new england characteristics | 177 | |
| 478556770 | in ____ population was doubling every____ years | 1775 25 | 178 | |
| 478556771 | most populous colony | virginia | 179 | |
| 478556772 | what % of the pop. was germans | 6 | 180 | |
| 478556773 | what % of the pop. was the scotts-irish | 7 | 181 | |
| 478556774 | philadelphia and new york built ___ to care for the poor | almhouses | 182 | |
| 478556775 | were poorly trained, no one liked them used bleeding as a common practice | doctors | 183 | |
| 478556776 | argriculture was __% of the people | 90 | 184 | |
| 478556777 | kill devil rum was manufactured in | rhode island and mass. | 185 | |
| 478556778 | harvard | mass. | 186 | |
| 478556779 | william and mary | college in the south | 187 |
