The American Pageant 13th Edition
Chapter 1 Founding the Nation(pg. 8-24)
Chapter 2 The Planting of English America(pg. 25-42)
Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies(pg. 43-65)
Chapter 4 America Life in The 17th Century(pg. 66-83)
Chapter 5 Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution (pg. 84-105)
Chapter 6 The Duel for North America (pg. 106-121)
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| 2843218465 | When did King Henry VIII break away from the Roman Catholic Church and what was its after affects? | King Henry VIII broke away from the RCC in the 1530s causing the English Protestant Reformation, and intensifying the rivalry with Catholic Spain. | 0 | |
| 2843322618 | How did the victory over the Spanish Armada affect England? | 1. The victory caused England to have a stronger government/popular monarch, more religious unity, and sense of nationalism. 2. The beginning of British dominance at sea | 1 | |
| 2843342840 | What is known as Jamestown Gold? | Tobacco | 2 | |
| 2843349600 | Who were the Squatters? | The squatters were people who owned no land, usually came from virginia to the Carolinas. | 3 | |
| 2843353806 | What caused North Carolinians strong resiliency to authority? | Geographic isolationism | 4 | |
| 2843358414 | What were the two flavors of Carolinians? | 1. North Carolina: Strong-willed and independent-minded up north on small tobacco farms. 2. South Carolina: Aristocratic and wealthier down south around Charleston and rice & indigo plantations. | 5 | |
| 2843368465 | What was the colony of Georgia intending to be? | Georgia was intended to be a buffer between the British colonies and the hostile Spanish settlements in Florida and the enemy French in Louisiana. | 6 | |
| 2843218466 | What was the English Protestant Reformation? | The EPR was when King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church and made a larger rivalry with Catholic Spain. | 7 | |
| 2843218467 | Who circumnavigated the globe in 1580 and returned with a ship full of gold for spain? | Francis Drake | 8 | |
| 2843218468 | What are 2 aftermaths from the Spanish Armada? | Spain's empirical dreams and fighting spirit was weakened which helped to ensure the English's naval dominance over the North Atlantic. | 9 | |
| 2843218469 | What was the Virginia Company of London? | The Virginia Company was a joint stock company in 1606 that received a charter from King James I to start settling the New World. | 10 | |
| 2843218470 | When did The Virginia Company land in Jamestown? | They landed in Jamestown on May 24, 1607 | 11 | |
| 2843218471 | Who was Captain John Smith? | Captain John Smith was an English soldier who led the first successful English colony in North America, which was Jamestown. | 12 | |
| 2843218472 | What was the Starving Winter? | The Starving Winter diminished the inhabitants of Jamestown from 400 to 60 people. (1609-1610). | 13 | |
| 2843218473 | Who was Lord de La Warr? | He was the second Governor of Jamestown who arrived in 1610 to resupply the colony. He started the First Anglo-Powhatan War that raided and burned Indian Villages. | 14 | |
| 2843218474 | What was the biggest killer of Indians and Indian culture? | disease | 15 | |
| 2843218475 | What ended the first Anglo Powhatan War? | Pocahontas marrying John Rolfe in 1614. | 16 | |
| 2843218476 | What was the House of Burgesses? | The first democratically elected legislative body in the colonies. | 17 | |
| 2843218477 | When was Maryland formed? | Maryland was formed in 1634 by Lord Baltimore | 18 | |
| 2843218478 | Why was Maryland formed? | Maryland was formed as a refuge for Catholics to escape the wrath of the Protestant English Government. | 19 | |
| 2843218479 | What was the Act of Toleration? | The Act of Toleration was passed in 1649 by the local representative group in Maryland, which granted toleration to all christians. | 20 | |
| 2843218480 | What did England secure by the mid 17th century? | England secured claims to several West Indian Islands | 21 | |
| 2843218481 | What was the major crop on the Indian Islands and what had to happen in order to support these crops? | Sugar and the importation of millions of African Slaves to the West Indies. | 22 | |
| 2843218482 | By 1700, What was the ratio of black slaves to white settlers in the English West Indies? | 4:1 | 23 | |
| 2843218483 | What did the Barbados Slave Code of 1661 state? | The BSC of 1661 denied even the most basic rights for slaves | 24 | |
| 2843218484 | What happened in 1707 between the Quakers and the Savannah Indians? | In 1707, the Savannah Indians decided to end their alliance with the Carolinians and migrate to Maryland and Pennsylvania, where a new colony founded by Quakers under William Penn promised better relations. | 25 | |
| 2843218485 | What crop became the primary export of the carolinas? | Rice | 26 | |
| 2843218486 | Why did the English found Georgia? | The English founded Georgia to primarily serve as a buffer to protect the Carolinas from the Spanish in Florida and the French in Louisiana. | 27 | |
| 2843218487 | When was the colony of Georgia founded? | Georgia was founded in 1733 | 28 | |
| 2843218488 | What was the male to female ratio in the Chesapeake region? | 6 males: 1 Female | 29 | |
| 2843218489 | Why did half the people in early Virginia and Maryland not survive past the age of 20? | People did not survive due to a widespread of diseases. (malaria, dysentery, and typhoid) | 30 | |
| 2843218490 | How many people lived in the virginia colony? | 59,000 people | 31 | |
| 2843218491 | By the 1630s, how many pounds of tobacco was being shipped out of the Chesapeake Bay every year? | 1.5 million pounds of tobacco | 32 | |
| 2843218492 | What are indentured servants? | Poor English men who agree to work for a number of years in return for a trip to the new world. | 33 | |
| 2843218493 | What are Freedom dues? | It was the money paid to indentured servants at the end of their contract. | 34 | |
| 2843218494 | Where was the Headright sytem established and what was the Headright System? | In Virginia and Maryland they established the "headright" system to encourage the importation of servant workers. Under its terms, whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to acquire 50 acres of land. | 35 | |
| 2843218495 | How many indentured servants did the chesapeake farmers recruit by 1700? | 100,000 indentured servants | 36 | |
| 2843218496 | White slaves represented what percentage of european immigrants to Virginia and Maryland in the 17th century? | 75% | 37 | |
| 2843218497 | Who was Nathaniel Bacon? | In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon and 1,000 Virginians revolted against Virginia's Governor William Berkeley for his friendly policies towards the Indians. - Nathaniel Bacon revolted because Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of savage Indian attacks on frontier settlements (due to his monopolization of the fur trading with them). - Nathaniel Bacon's "Army" attacked Indians and chased Berkeley out of Jamestown, Virginia. They torched the capitol. | 38 | |
| 2843218498 | What did Nathaniel Bacon die from and how did that affect the civil war? | Bacon died from disease and Berkeley took advantage of this and crushed the uprising, hanging more than 20 rebels. | 39 | |
| 2843218499 | when were africans brought to jamestown, virginia? | Africans had been brought to Jamestown as early as 1619, but as late as 1670. | 40 | |
| 2843610978 | How did Blacks contribute to music? | The blacks created instruments like the banjo and the bongo drum. | 41 | |
| 2843617526 | Describe the Social Scale in Southern Society? | 1. Planters: They owned gangs of slaves and vast domains of land; ruled the region's economy and monopolized political power. 2. Small Farmers: They were the largest social groups and may have owned one or two slaves. 3. Landless Whites: They were former indentured servants. 4. Black Slaves | 42 | |
| 2843638396 | How was life in New England organized? | - New towns were legally chartered by colonial authorities. - A town usually had a meetinghouse surrounded by houses and a village green. - Towns of more than 50 families had to provide primary education. - Towns of more than 100 had to provide secondary education. | 43 | |
| 2843647471 | Who were the Jeremiads? | New type of Puritan sermons in the 1600s. Focused on the teachings of a Biblical prophet who warned of doom. Created in response to a lack of religious devotion in second-generation settlers. | 44 | |
| 2843652846 | What was the Halfway Covenant? | In the Half-Way Covenant, all people could come and participate in the church, even if they fell short of the "visible-saint" status and were somehow only half converted (with the exception of a few extremely hated groups). | 45 | |
| 2843218500 | What caused the decrease in the number of indentured servants coming to America? | In the 1680s, the wages in England rose causing less people to move to america to become indentured servants. | 46 | |
| 2843218502 | What was Gullah? | Gullah was a language made by the blacks off South Carolinas coast that was a mixture of English with several African languages, including Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa. | 47 | |
| 2843227691 | What happened 225 million years ago? | Pangea started to break apart | 48 | |
| 2843229621 | What happened 10 million years ago? | North America was shaped by nature. | 49 | |
| 2843231105 | What happened 2 million years ago? | The Great Ice Age | 50 | |
| 2843232143 | What happened 35,000 years ago? | The oceans were glaciers and the sea level dropped, leaving the isthmus connecting Asia and North America. | 51 | |
| 2843218501 | Starting in 1662 what did Virginia establish and what were they? | The slave codes made blacks and their children the property of the white masters for life. They also made teaching slaves to read a crime. | 52 | |
| 2843235564 | What happened 10,000 years ago? | Ice started to retreat and melt, raising the sea levels and covering the Bering Isthmus. | 53 | |
| 2843246916 | Who were the first american corn growers? | The Pueblo Indians | 54 | |
| 2843251246 | Who were the first Europeans to come to america? | The Vikings and the Norways | 55 | |
| 2843256346 | What is a caravel? | A caravel is a triangular sailed ship that was easier to sail in order to return to europe from the African Coast. | 56 | |
| 2843260715 | What is an astrolabe? | A sextant gizmo that could tell a ship's latitude | 57 | |
| 2843263209 | Where was the first slave trade? | In the Sahara desert | 58 | |
| 2843265556 | What was christopher Columbus's goal? | His goal was to reach the East Indies by sailing west, thus bypassing the around Africa route that Portugal monopolized. | 59 | |
| 2843275058 | What was the columbian exchange? | The columbian exchange was an exchange of plants, foods, animals, and germs between the New World and Old World. | 60 | |
| 2843282417 | What was the treaty line of Tordesillas in 1494? | Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land. The Pope drew this line as he was respected by both. The line ran North-South -Portugal got everything east of the line (Brazil and land around/under Africa) - Spain got everything west of the line (which turned out to be much more, though they didn't know it at the time) | 61 | |
| 2843292619 | Who was Vasco Balboa? | "Discovered" the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama. | 62 | |
| 2843294381 | Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | He was the first to circumnavigate the globe. | 63 | |
| 2843296491 | Who was Ponce de Leon? | He touches and names Florida looking for legendary Fountain of Youth. | 64 | |
| 2843301926 | Who was Hernando Cortes? | He enters Florida, travels up into present day Southeastern U.S, dies and is "buried" in the Mississippi River. | 65 | |
| 2843303640 | Who was Francisco Pizarro? | He conquers the Incan Empire of Peru and begins shipping tons of gold/silver back to Spain. | 66 | |
| 2843306020 | Who was Francisco Coronado? | He ventured into current Southwest U.S. looking for legendary El Dorado, city of gold. He found the Pueblo Indians. | 67 | |
| 2843413981 | What did Martin Luther do in 1517? | Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenburg Cathedral. | 68 | |
| 2843421650 | What was two ideas that Martin Luther believed in? | The bible alone was the source of God's words and that people are saved simply by faith and not christ alone. | 69 | |
| 2843424981 | What did Martin Luther's actions ignite? | The protestant reformation | 70 | |
| 2843427278 | What is predestination and who preached this ideology? | John Calvin preached predestination which was the idea that those going to heaven or hell has already been determined by god. | 71 | |
| 2843436156 | Who were the Puritans? | The Puritans, like the Pilgrims, had disagreements with the Church of England. The Puritans wanted to reform it. King Charles I didn't like this and persecuted the Puritans. In 1630, 900 Puritans left for Massachusetts and New Hampshire and were led by John Winthrop. These settlers formed the Massachusetts Bay Company. | 72 | |
| 2843448780 | What did the pilgrims want? | The pilgrims wanted a place where they were free to worship their own religion and could live and die as good Pilgrims. | 73 | |
| 2843455377 | What was the Mayflower Compact? | It was the first document in which American colonists claimed a right to govern themselves. Written by the Pilgrims before they landed in Massachusetts at Plymouth Rock. | 74 | |
| 2843456921 | Who was William Bradford? | He was the chosen governor of Plymouth 30 times in the annual elections, he was a great leader, and helped Plymouth to survive and trade fur, fish, and lumber. | 75 | |
| 2843464201 | Who was John Winthrop? | First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, also a Puritan leader | 76 | |
| 2843472680 | Who was Anne Hutchinson? | A Puritan who believed that you could go to heaven by being a good person rather that living by the bible word for word. She was brought to trial in 1638 and said her beliefs were spoken by god too her. | 77 | |
| 2843504996 | What was King Philip's War? | King Phillips united many tribes in southern New England against the English settlers, who were constantly encroaching on the American Indians' lands. In a vicious war (1675-1676) thousands on both sides were killed and dozens of towns and villages were burned. However eventually the colonial forces prevailed, killing King Phillip and ending most American Indian resistance in New England. | 78 | |
| 2843528228 | What was New Amsterdam? | New Amsterdam was a company town ran by and for the Dutch company and in the interests of stockholders. | 79 | |
| 2843552709 | What were patroonships? | Patroonships are large areas of land given by the dutch to promoters who agreed to settle at least 50 people on them. | 80 | |
| 2843580829 | Who was William Penn? | William Penn was a well-born Englishman who embraced the Quaker faith. In 1681, he managed to secure an immense grant of fertile land from the King James II. - It was called Pennsylvania, in honor of Penn, who, being the modest person that he was, had insisted that it be called Sylvania. -It was the best advertised of all the colonies. | 81 | |
| 2843482704 | Who was Roger Williams? | Roger Williams was an extreme Separatist who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, He then fled to the Rhode Island area in 1636. There, he established religious freedom for all kinds of people. | 82 | |
| 2843565850 | What were some of the Quakers characteristics? | 1. They "quaked" under deep religious emotion. 2.They were offensive to religious and civil rule. 3. Though stubborn and unreasonable, they were simple, devoted, democratic people against war and violence. | 83 | |
| 2843570673 | Why was it a problem for quakers that they couldn't swear oaths? | They didn't swear oaths because Jesus had said "Swear not at all,". That was a problem, because you had to swear a test oath to prove that you weren't Roman Catholic. | 84 | |
| 2851240334 | What event sparked the change in Spanish dominance of the colonial world and seas, and prompted England to become the dominant naval force in the world? | The Spanish Armada | 85 | |
| 2851242327 | What 5 factors contributed to the growing movement for English colonization? | 1. Peace with Spain 2. Population growth 3. Unemployment 4. Joint-stock companies 5. Adventure, markets, religious freedom | 86 | |
| 2851248197 | What is the significance of the Virginia Company Charter? | The charter of the Virginia Company guaranteed settlers the same rights as Englishmen in Britain. | 87 | |
| 2851276657 | By 1775, how many colonies did Great Britain rule in North America? | 32 Colonies | 88 | |
| 2851327566 | How did De La Warr relate to the Native Americans? What kinds of tactics did he use? | Lord De La Warr related to the native americans in an unpeaceful way. He used Irish Tactics against the Indians. His troops raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provinces, and torched cornfields. | 89 | |
| 2851376800 | How was North Carolina different than its neighbors? | North Carolina was less Aristocratic and more democratic. They were much poor and irreligious people than South Carolina. | 90 |
