HIST 1301 Exam 1 review questions Flashcards

1532611453	The British commander who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 was	cornwallis	0
1532611454	Essential to the establishment of a colonial alliance with the French was the work of	Benjamin Franklin	1
1537706905	The author of the Declaration of Independence was	Thomas Jefferson	2
1537706906	Provided colonists with a rationale for revolution	common sense	3
1537706907	In December 1775 Parliament passed the _____ which declared war on American international commerce	Prohibitory Act	4
1537706908	A major Difficulty that confronted the First Continental congress was	the fact that the delegates from different regions were unfamiliar with one another	5
1537706909	The suffolk resolves advocated	forcible resistance to the coercive Acts	6
1537706910	The Tea Act of 1773 was passed in order to	save the indian company	7
1537706911	England passed the Coercive Acts in response to	The Boston Tea Party	8
1537706912	The _______ extended Canadian boundaries into Ohio Valley and recognized civil rights for Roman catholics	Quebec Act	9
1537706913	Massachusetts reacted to the passage of the Townshed Acts with the	Circular letter	10
1537706914	The fundamental issue leading to the Boston Massacre in 1770 was the	presence of so many British troops in American cities	11
1537706915	The Boston Massacre	rained the possibility of colonial armed resistance	12
1537706916	The tone of the Stamp Act Congress reflected	restraint and conciliation with no mention of independence or disloyalty	13
1537706917	The boycott movement against the Stamp Act	mobilized colonial women to action	14
1537706918	__________ States that Parliament's belief in its own sovereignty?	Declaratory Act	15
1537706919	One consequence of the Townshend Acts was	The strengthening of intercolonial unity	16
1537706920	The handbill printed by Boston leaders during 1770 would be most directly connected to what group?	sons of Liberty	17
1537706921	The radical American group which is first emerged during the stamp act crisis was known as	the sons of liberty	18
1537706922	_________ prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?	Proclamation of 1763	19
1537706923	as a result of the Sugar Act, the duty on molasses was	reduced significantly	20
1537706924	The leader of the anti-stamp movement in Virginia was	Patrick Henry	21
1537706925	The most significant consequence of the Seven Years of War was	that it left Britain with an enormous debt	22
1537706926	The English political philosopher most often cited by american rebels was	John Locke	23
1537706927	George III believed	the monarch should make policed for the empire	24
1537706928	The failure of the Albany Plan can be attributed, primarily to the	fiscal jealousies of colonial assemblies	25
1537706929	The man who led Great Britain to victory in the Seven years of war was	William pitt	26
1537706930	The British general responsible for the seizure of Quebec in 1759 was	James wolfe	27
1537706931	The Leading figured at the Albany Congress and designer of the Albany plan was	Benjamin Franklin	28
1537706932	What did the Great awakening, intercolonial trade, and rise of the colonial assemblies have in common?	they all contributed to a growing sense of shared identity	29
1537706933	Colonial ministers who opposed the great awakening were known as	"old lights"	30
1537706934	Followers of the Great awakening, who emphasized a powerful, emotional religion, were know as	"New Lights"	31
1537706935	The preaching of Johnathan Edwars Emphasized	The calvanistic teachings of the puritans	32
1537706936	The two most important leaders of the Great awakening in the colonial America were	Johnathan Edwards and George Whitefield	33
1537706937	The one American who, more than anyone else, symbolized the spirit of the Enlightenment was	Benjamin Franklin	34
1537706938	The largest group of white non-english immigrants to the colonies were	the scots-irish	35
1537706939	As a result of the salem witchcraft trials	nineteen people were hanged	36
1537706940	A major objective of the Navigation Acts were to eliminate the _______ from american trade	dutch	37
1537706941	Enumerated goods	Could be only sold to the mother country	38
1537706942	British authorities based their colonial commercial policies on the theory of	Mercantilism	39
1537706943	The invention of the Navigation Acts was to	allow England to monopolize American trade	40
1537728529	The first Institution of higher learning founded in England's mainland colonies was	Harvard	41
1537728530	The half-way covenant of the seventeenth-Centry New England	lessened someone the requirements for baptism as a congregationalist	42
1537728531	The colony of Pennsylvania was established as a religious Sanctuary for	Quakers	43
1537728532	William Penn guaranteed the commercial success of Philadelphia by purchasing	Delaware	44
1537728533	In 1636, authorities in Massachusetts Bay banished Roger Williams because	of his defense of native American rights an demanded for separation of church and state	45
1537728534	Puritan dissenter roger williams established the colony of	Rhode Island	46
1537728535	Anne Hutchingson's skillful self-defense at her trail before the magistrates of Massachusetts bay was ruined by	her claim of personal revelation	47
1537738384	columbus originally was determined to prove that	a west water route to china existed	48
1537738385	columbus first voyage was in	1492	49
1537738386	Whose voyages established the claims in North america	John Cabot	50
1537813880	What sixteenth century European upheaval had a profound impact on England's settlement of the New World?	The reformation	51
1537813881	_________ was responsible for starting the protestant revolt in Europe?	Martin Luther	52
1537813882	The most influential early protestant thinker was	John Calvin	53
1537813883	Calvinists in Scotland founded the	Presbyterian churt	54
1537813884	In the 1580's the English attempted to make a settlement at	Roanoke	55
1537813885	The sponsor of the failed Roanoke colony was	Walter Raleigh	56
1537813886	To solve the problem of vast expenses New world settlement required, English Merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of	the joint stock company	57
1537813887	The______Company was responsible for settlement of jamestown in virginia	Virginia	58
1537813888	Jamestown might have gone the way of Roanoke had it not been for the perseverance of	captain John smith	59
1537813889	The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was	John rolfe	60
1537813890	After the Virginia company's principal means of attracting new settlers was	a system of land grants	61
1537813891	Under the "headlight" system Virginia	all new arrivals who had paid their trans-atlantic fares received fifty-acre land grants	62
1537813892	Indentured servants	were working off the cost of their passage to america	63
1537813893	After 1618, the Virginia colonist were allowed to elect a representative assembly known as the	House of Burgesses	64
1537813894	In 1642 virginia became	a royal colony	65
1537813895	The most important institution of local government in colonial Virginia was the	country court	66
1537813896	The individual largely responsible for Maryland's settlement was	Sir George Calvert	67
1537813897	Initially, Lord baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for	Catholics	68
1537813898	Lord baltimore's settlement in maryland	never succeeded in becoming a feudal society	69
1537813899	The document in which the pilgrims established a civil government for their plymouth colony become known as the	Mayflower compact	70
1537813900	The puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the church of England was to	remain in the church ad reform it form the inside	71