APUSH Unit 1- The American Pageant 13th edition (to do well) Flashcards

Founding the New Nation
c. 33,000 B.C.- A.D. 1783
Chapters 1- 8

1411446564	Which of the following best describes the impact European colonization had onthe Western Hemisphere's native population	native populations were often killed or driven away by Europeans	1
1411446565	This imperial power originally settled the Hudson River Valley	Holland	2
1411446566	Georgia was established	by England as a penal colony	3
1411446567	This English colony was est. by proprietors who had investments in the slave trade, and therefore introduced slavery.	Virginia	4
1411446568	Duke of Baltimore established Maryland	as a haven for English Catholics	5
1411446569	French immigrants to the New World tended to live in	Canada	6
1411446570	The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams	est. complete religious freedom for all of RI's settlers	7
1411446571	These two groups sought the fur trade in North America the most	French, Dutch	8
1411446572	John Winthrop is associated with the _______ colony	Massachusetts Bay	9
1411446573	A major goal the French had in trying to control the Ohio Valley was	to merge its landholdings from Canada to the Mississippi Valley	10
1411446574	The biggest objective of the Albany Congress was to	improve relations with Iroquois tribes	11
1411446575	Under Britain's mercantilist policy	the colonies were to supply Great Britain with raw materials	12
1411446576	Prior to the 1760's, Britain's Navigation Acts	were only loosely enforced in the American colonies	13
1411446577	This piece of legislation was declared null and void by the Declaration of Rights	the Intolerable Acts	14
1411446578	The Quebec Act	Provided that Catholicism was the official religion of French Quebec, caused suspicion among Americans because of non-representative assembly set up there by Brits, angered Americans b/c the territory was extended to the Ohio River, and was an attempt to incorporate French Canadians into the British empire	15
1411446579	The British had the following advantages over the American rebellion	larger military, colonists who were loyalist or neutral, a powerful navy, and better financial resources	16
1411446580	the declaration of Rights	was rejected by the British parliament	17
1411446581	The opening shots of the american Revolution	were fired at Lexington and Concord	18
1411446582	The Olive Branch Petition	was an attempt by the first continental Congress to prevent further hostilities after the battle of Bunker Hill	19
1411446583	Thomas Pain	wrote Common Sense, appealing to colonists to resist the British and create a republican gov't	20
1411446584	The battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the American Revolution because	the French entered the war to help America	21
1411446585	This document argued that King George III and his gov't were guilty of "abuses and usurpations"	The Declaration of Independence	22
1411446586	The Regulator Movement, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Paxton boys all	indicate to some historians the undemocratic nature of colonial america	23
1411446587	The treaty of Paris in 1783 provided that	American independence was recognized, American fishing ships could use the coast of Newfoundland, Americans would provide compensation to Loyalists who had lost property, and the American gov't would not legally interfere with Brits who were asking for American debts to be repaid	24
1411446588	The colonists who wished for an independent America had these characteristics	desire to create an agricultural society, to live without royal authority, to live without official religion, to live without social hierarchy	25
1411446589	the most important colonial settlement in the 1600s for future America was	Jamestown	26
1411446590	The long-term purpose of the Albany Congress was	to achieve colonial unity and defend against the French threat	27
1411446591	The Proclamation of 1763	set a boundary along the Appalachians that English Colonists were forbidden to settle west of	28
1411446592	The navigation acts were part of the British policy of	mercantilism	29
1411446593	The biggest contributor to American victory in the Revolution was	French military and financial assistance	30
1411446594	The 1649 Maryland Toleration Act	Granted religious freedom to Christians who accepted the Trinity	31
1411446595	The first Great Awakening	resulted in divisions within the Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches	32
1411446596	The system of indentured labor in the colonial period	allowed poor people to seek opportunity in America	33
1411446597	The Dutch settled New Netherlands to	expand their commercial and mercantile network	34
1411446598	France negotiated a treaty of alliance with America in 1778 after	the defeat of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga	35
1411446599	This colony required each community with over 50 families to have a teacher of reading and writing	Massachusetts	36
1411446600	The "great Awakening" was	a wage of religious revivals in the Colonies in the 1740's	37
1411446601	Which American colonies had formally established slavery by the early 1700's?	All of them	38
1411446602	Discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army came from	The army's inadequate arms and ammo, the payment of soldiers in depreciated paper money, the lack of adequate food or clothing for soldiers, and the fact that they were drafted	39
1411446603	Most of the puritans in 17th century new England	considered themselves non-separatists	40
1411446604	the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was	to avoid conflict with Trans-Appalachian Indians	41
1411446605	#44	is probably incorrect	42
1411446606	In the 17th century, slavery was characterized by	a rapid increase in the number of slaves in the last quarter century	43
1411446607	Most patriots at the time of revolution believed that sovereignty in republican gov't was	located in the people	44
1411446608	When the Europeans began colonizing N. America, the northeast American Indian tribes	were divided by political and linguistic differences, hindering their united opposition to Europeans	45
1411446609	The stamp act crisis was important in the coming of the American revolution because	colonists showed their willingness to be violent, it coincided with the British decision to put regular troops in American cities, the British maintained that colonies couldn't be independent from Parliament, and Patriot leaders claimed that the act denied them their American birthrights	46
1411446610	The halfway covenant allowed for	the baptism of children of baptized but unconverted puritans	47
1411446611	the purpose of the stamp act	was to raise money for British troops in America	48
1411446612	51	is easy	49
1411446613	The late 15th century contact between Europeans and indians	cause the deaths of 80 million people in the next 150 years	50
1411446614	The 1858 Roanoke settlement	disappeared	51
1411446615	Pre-Columbian American Indians	established trading networks with other tribal groups	52
1411446616	The Aztecs and Mayans	developed sophisticated cultures prior to contact with Euroepans	53
1411446617	Before Columbus arrived in the New World,	the land route to asia was controlled by Italian city-states and middle-eastern rulers	54
1411446618	An important ideological source of colonial resistance to British authority in the pre-revolution era was	the great awakening	55
1411446619	British political leadership after the French and Indian war	was characterized by misunderstanding and lack of knowledge of conditions and attitudes in the colonies	56
1411446620	The 1764 Sugar Act	actually reduced the tax on molasses, hindered colonial trade with French west indies. Colonists mostly evaded the previous taxes under the Molasses act	57
1411446621	#60 c	don't worry about it	58
1411446622	Western and backcountry regions of the 18th century American colonies	had largest scots-irish immigrant concentration	59
1411446623	These colonists consistently opposed slavery	Quakers (They had it all right from the beginning.)	60
1411446624	The French and indian war	brought recognition to George Washington both in the colonies and in Great Britain for his bravery	61
1411446625	Ben Franklin	Printed papers, founded American Philosophical Society, invented many things, and opened the first colonial library	62
1411446626	The Great Awakening	resulted in a split between the New Light and Old Light, had preachers who appealed to the heart rather than the rationale, challenged religious authority and tax-supported churches, and converted many African americans in the Chesapeake region to Christianity	63
1411446627	The 18th century Enlightenment	focused on reason and the natural world for truth	64
1411446628	This colony was the least tolerant toward Roman Catholics	Massachusetts Bay	65
1411446629	Bacon's rebellion was not supported by	wealthy landowners	66
1411446630	The Glorious Revolution	resulted in colonial unrest in NY and Massachusetts	67
1411446631	In 17th Century Virginia, most women	came as indentured servants and faced a life of hard labor in tobacco fields	68
1411446632	The beginning of representative gov't in N. America was the legislative body of	the British settlement of Virginia, 1619	69
1411446633	Most immigrants to the English Colonies in the 1600s were	indentured servants	70