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History of U.S. to 1865 Exam 1
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10/09/2010

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T/F The U.S. is a nation.
Definition
Answer: False the U.S. is not a nation because a nation is an ethno-linguistic and religious entity, the U.S. does not fit that category due to its many ethnicities, religion, and languages
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T/F. The U.S. is a nation of immigrants
Definition
Answer: True
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T/F The U.S. is a state
Definition
Answer: False, in other words is it a geo-political entity that slowly absorb, occupy, and/or colonize other provinces, unless you are Native American then no (this is what the notes say)
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What are the 3 characteristics that make you not primitive?
Definition
1. Mobility
2. adaptability
3. diversity
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T/F The colonists recognized the fact that the Natives had these 3 characteristics so they didn't consider them primitives
Definition
Answer: False, the colonists thought the Natives did not possess these 3 characteristics even though in reality they actually did
Term
. T/F The Iroquois Wampum Belt indicated that the Native wearing it was powerful and wealthy.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
what did Natives use to ensure the trade deal would hold true and why did they need to do this?
Definition
They had no contracts so they would sometimes exchange gifts to assure the trade deal would hold true
Term
What enabled the Natives to trade fish, why couldn't they do this before, and what characteristic of non-primitive does this represent?
Definition
Answer: they couldn't trade fish initially because they didn't know how to preserve the salmon, so they adapted and put the salmon in salmon cakes enabling it to be preserved for a very long time and enabling them the ability of trading it
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T/F The strongest evidence that the Natives were diverse is the different types of housing they had.
Definition
Answer: False, while the answer above is true, the strongest evidence that showed the Natives were diverse was the sheer amount of languages they had, 329 completely different languages, the different housing actually is more evidence toward adaptability rather than diversity
Term
T/F Language is an identity, a cultural resource
Definition
Answer: True
Term
What did the English fur traders call the Seminoles, why did they call them this, and what were the Seminoles' native lands?
Definition
Answer: The English fur trader called the Seminoles Creeks because they lived by creeks, there are no native Seminoles in Florida they actually migrated from Georgia and Alabama.
Term
What did the Spanish called the Seminoles and what does this mean?
Definition
Answer: Spanish called the Seminoles, or the Creeks according to the English, Cimarrones which means renegades
Term
Which statement(s) is/are ture
a. The Spanish called the Creeks: Cimarrones
b. The Spanish called the Seminoles: Cimarrones
c. The English called the Seminoles: Cimarrones
d. The English called the Seminoles: Creeks
e. Seminoles, Creeks, and Cimarrones are all the same native group
Definition
Answer: A, B, D, E, they are all true except C. which is false, the English never called the Seminoles Cimarrones, the Spanish did, the English called them Creeks
due to speech problem Cimarrones became pronounced Seminoles
Term
. T/F Seminole is a negative term
Definition
Answer: True, it technically means Cimarrones which means renegade
Term
T/F Natives travelled the seas before the Europeans
Definition
Answer: True, the Europeans weren't the first people to travel the seas
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T/F The Europeans were more diverse than the Natives
Definition
Answer: False, the Natives were more diverse than the Europeans
Term
What did Europeans encounter in North America when they first got on shore?
Definition
Answer: an aftermath of an epidemic, many Natives were dead to diseases, disease doesn't discriminate, Natives were suffering horribly due to diseases they were not at their peak, Europeans didn't realize that Natives were suffering due to diseases and thus thought they were weak
English would've viewed Natives differently if they came earlier before epidemic
Term
What is the difference between pushes and pulls?
Definition
Answer:
- pushes: domestic factors driving Englishmen into the wider world
- pulls: external factors: national security, foreign affairs
Term
T/F England is the same thing as Great Britain
Definition
Answer: False, England is NOT just Great Britain, there is NO Great Britain until the 18th century, the 1700s
Term
What were New England's pushes into the new world?
Definition
Answer:
1. population boom (population doubles), demographic change
2. economic change (the enclosures)
3. religious conflict
Term
Why was population growth a problem?
Definition
Answer: normally population growth is good because economy is developing and expanding, however in this case economy and innovative expansion were occurring at a slower rate than population growth so bad things began to occur:
- inflation: more people fighting for fixed resources results in higher prices for those exchanges
- reduction in real wages: what your pay will buy falls, which means you basically are being paid less (wages fell by as much as half)
Term
T/F The year 1550 is in the 16th century
Definition
Answer: True
Term
Why did England's Monarchs allowed enclosures?
Definition
Answer: because the Monarchs wanted money, they could put export taxes on the owner's sheep raised in these enclosures when they traded them with other countries
Term
What did the enclosures do?
Definition
Answer: drove large numbers of peasants from the land due to sheep requiring less hands to work on then crops, so people were fired
Term
What were cotiers?
Definition
Answer: a new class of landless peasants named for the cots they carried around with them
Term
What were the consequences of population boom and enclosures?
Definition
Answer:
- more people and little expansion of resources = high prices, less work resulting in:
crime, vagrancy, idleness (not being productively employed is a crime back then), revolt?
- more people, less resources, not enough work due to enclosed lands and switch from agricultural crops to sheep
Term
What was England's solution to the problem above (population boom and unemployment problem)?
Definition
Answer: send those unemployed people to another land where they can be productive and England will be less crowded.
Term
Did England actually do that? the whole sending unemployed people to America
Definition
Answer: NO:
Massachusetts: they sent middle class families, not much lower class work needed
Virginia: colonists who were sent didn't do the work, Natives didn't do the work either, at first indentured servants did most of the work and then eventually slaves did most of the work
- important to note that those indentured servants weren't lower class in England
- so unlike England's plan: not that many poor, unemployed Englishman going to America for work
Term
What were England's pulls?
Definition
Answer:
1. National Security (global contest for Christianity)
2. Trade (economic problems)
Term
T/F England wanted Catholics to get out of England
Definition
Answer: True
Term
Why was Spain the dominant world power at the time?
Definition
Answer: due to expanding and finding vast quantities of gold and silver
Term
T/F Spain also wanted Catholics to get out of Spain
Definition
Answer: FALSE, Spain was a Catholic Empire
Term
. T/F Spain was okay with England getting rid of Catholics in their country
Definition
Answer: False, rich Catholics cared that the poor England wasn't Catholic, other countries wanted to convert England into Catholic and in fact attacked England due to this, thus proving England wasn't safe
Term
What year did Spain attempt to seize England due to them not being Catholic?
Definition
Answer: 1588
Term
What was England's cheaper way for doing what Spain did (expanding to America and extracting resources)?
Definition
Answer: hiring privateers (state-sponsored pirates)
Term
What is the name of a famous privateer?
Definition
Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Term
How can England supply their privateers if they are so far away?
Definition
Answer: by creating colonies
- 1585 Sir Water Ralegh establishes a colony
Term
What economic problems was England facing? What good did they use to trade that is no longer valuable?
Definition
Answer: collapse of Antwerp wool market:
- so many people and countries were selling Antwerp wool so prices dramatically decreased
- Antwerp wool was England's primary export, so they looked for another place to sell
Term
Where was the best place for England to sell its wool to?
Definition
Answer: East Indies (Asia) however the East Indies isn't easy to reach due to Portuguese controlling the Eastern sea routes to Asia
England would be able to trade their worthless Antwerp wool for pearls and other valuables
Term
. T/F Virginia was the first colony built in North America.
Definition
Answer: False, Roanoke was the first colony built in North America. (NOT SURE BECAUSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ROANOKE MIGHT BE IN VIRGINIA)
Term
Which war had the greatest percentage of deaths in all of America's history, in all of the wars America has fought in?
Definition
Answer: Metacom's war (King Phillip's War
Term
What year was Roanoke created in and by who, was it successful?
Definition
Answer: 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh , complete failure
Term
What year was Virignia created in?
Definition
Answer: 1607
Term
T/F Virginia was named as the colony for the virgin queen
Definition
Answer: True
Term
T/F Virginia at first was a complete failure
Definition
Answer: True
Term
T/F Virginia was territory granted by the English crown to a private enterprise
Definition
Answer: True, private enterprise was The Virginia Company/ or The London Company since its proprietors came from London
Term
Virginia at first was a ___ enterprise. What does this mean?
Definition
Answer: Virginia was an extractive enterprise meaning the purpose of the colony was to make money for its shareholders by extracting valuable resources from the land
Term
What is the name of one of the towns in Virginia?
Definition
Answer: Jamestown
Term
T/F From 1607 to 1624 the population in Jamestown flourished and grew exponentially
Definition
Answer: False, population declined severely due to The Virginia's Company disregard of human's lives
Term
What type of people initially went to Virginia, which type of people were missing initially?
Definition
Answer:
- initially young aristocratic gentlemen or soldiers of fortune, goldsmiths, perfumers, jewelers, and basically people ill-equipped to sustain in a distant province
- missing: farmers, joiners (carpenters), and laborers (gentlemen do not do labor)
Term
Due to Virginia Company's emphasis on short term profits rather than long term longevity what happened to Virginia initially?
Definition
Answer: Virginia starved, epidemics, famine, no food, no resistance to malaria, humans ate each other, company continued to send more people and more people kept dying
Term
In what year did Virginia Company reformed its business plan and they changed their ___ colony to a ___ colony? What was this change called?
Definition
Answer: 1618, changed from an extractive colony to a settlement colony, Reforms of 1618
Term
What was England or Virginia's Company (not sure which) lottery all about?
Definition
Answer: due to the fact that coming to America was expensive England had a lottery to allow people to go to America (NOT ENTIRELY CERTAIN ABOUT THIS ANSWER)
Term
Even though Virginia's Company switched Virginia from an extractive colony to a settlement colony, the colony overall initially still failed, why?
Definition
Answer: plan failed due to land already being inhabited by Indians, Powhattan Rebellion killed 1/3 of colonists and destroyed farms
Term
What year did Powhattan Rebellion occur in?
Definition
Answer: 1622
Term
What year did Virginia Company go bankrupt and England government took over Virginia?
Definition
Answer: 1624
Term
What enabled Virginia to survive (become moderately successful) and why couldn't this be fully taken advantage of at first?
Definition
Answer: they started growing the profitable tobacco but tobacco requires a lot of labor which initially Virginia lacked, however later indentured servants fixed this and then even later slaves fixed this
Term
What religion was Rowlandson?
Definition
Answer: she was a Puritan
Term
T/F The main dividing factor between Europeans and Indians was language
Definition
Answer: False, the main dividing factor between Europeans and Indians was race
Term
What do Puritans believe in?
Definition
Answer: believe in pre-determination, God does not like us, they believe in an angry spiteful God, humans can't control their fate, God is the only person in control of human's fate, human's actions don't cause good or bad things to happen to them rather God chooses what good/bad things happen to you, when something bad happens to a Puritan they don't think the devil caused it rather they think God did
Term
In what year was Massachusetts Bay Colony formed?
Definition
Answer: 1630
Term
T/F Virginia, Jamestown, and Massachusetts were all formed in the 16th century?
Definition
Answer: False they were all formed in the 17th Century
Term
T/F Massachusetts Bay Company started Massachusetts and their slogan was: "Come over and help us"
Definition
Answer: True, they were asking the Indians for help
Term
Name one town in Virginia (besides Jamestown) and one town in Massachusetts, and in which town did people live longer?
Definition
Answer:
- Virginia town: Middlesex
- Massachusetts town: Andover
- people lived much longer in Massachusetts than in Virginia
Term
T/F People lived longer in Andover Township than in Middlesex County
Definition
Answer: True
Term
. T/F New England refers to Virginia.
Definition
Answer: False, New England refers to Massachusetts (pretty sure)
Term
. T/F Initially more people lived in Massachusetts than Virginia and those people in Massachusetts lived longer.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
What were the names of the first governors in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay?
Definition
Answer:
- John Smith: first governor of Virginia Colony
- military figure
- soldier of fortune
- John Winthrop: first governor of Massachusetts Bay
- religious, delicate hands
- pious well educated attorney
Term
T/F Upper classmen have delicate hands due to them not doing labor
Definition
Answer: True
Term
Why did England choose John Smith to be the governor of __?
Definition
Answer: England thought John Smith's rough background would make him a good leader for Virginia
Term
T/F As soon as Virginia formed John Smith was governor.
Definition
Answer: False, John Smith wasn't initially governor when Virginia formed, he wasn't there during Virginia's failure period
Term
T/F John Smith and John Winthrop were successful governors
Definition
Answer: True
Term
T/F People say the term Puritan in a good way.
Definition
Answer: False, Puritan is a name that people who don't like you call you (NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ANSWER)
Term
T/F John Winthrop was profit seeking
Definition
Answer: False, Winthrop wasn't profit seeking, instead he has an intense sense of piety, his sermon said that they were going to build something that everybody is going to look at
Term
What were the motives of the colonists in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay?
Definition
Answer:
- Virginia: pride and glory (profits I think also)
- Massachusetts: Piety
Term
Describe the people who came to Virginia and who came to Massachusetts
Definition
Answer:
- Virginia:
- mostly soldiers of fortune, later servants
- male (single white males)
- young
- not particularly well-equipped to build settlements (few laborers, farmers)
- mostly either very poor (servants) or wealthy (gentlemen) Not much in between, come from extremes
- Massachusetts:
- families
- people suited to build settlements
- mostly middling people (people in the middle of class spectrum) ex: carpenters
- note gender parity and mostly trades people or farmers, mostly families
Term
What can families do?
Definition
Answer: work (labor) and reproduce
Term
T/F Unlike Virginia, Massachusetts Bay Colony brought the most crucial productive parts of society.
Definition
Answer: True, the crucial most productive parts of society were families, trades people (carpenters), and farmers
Term
Why did Massachusetts succeed while Virginia failed?
Definition
Answer: because Winthrop threw the business plan out of the picture and instead focused on building a place that other people could look at
Term
What was John Winthrop's sermon called and what was it about?
Definition
Answer: called Model of Christian Society and was about making Massachusetts Bay colony a colony for others all over to look at and admire
Term
What made Massachusetts different from Virginia?
Definition
Answer:
1. religion: mostly pious "Puritans" seeking to build a "City on a Hill"
2. demographics: most of the immigrants to Massachusetts came with their families (not just single white men)
3. economics: families provide one thing that was terribly scarce in Virginia: labor
Term
What beneficial environmental factor did Massachusetts have?
Definition
Answer: colonies were found during ice age meaning water was frozen so no mosquitoes killing people with malaria in Massachusetts (NOT SURE if I need to know this)
Term
In Virginia and Massachusetts who provided the labor?
Definition
Answer:
- Virginia: at first indentured servants and then slaves
- Massachusetts: families did most of the work
Term
After John Smith, who was the governor of Virginia in 1660-1677? (Not sure if I need to know this)
Definition
Answer: Sir William Berkeley who was elected (I think) twice (MIGHT NOT need to know this)
Term
In the 17th century (the 1600s) what makes the man?
Definition
Answer: clothing
Term
T/F Winthrop wore colorful clothing.
Definition
Answer: False, Winthrop was religious so he didn't, Berkeley did wear colorful clothing to show his wealthy status
Term
T/F Clothing back in the 1700s represented the social status of cars today. Wealthy people wore extravagant clothes.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
In England and New England what were most houses made of?
Definition
Answer:
- England: not many trees so more buildings made from brick despite the fact that wood is cheaper
- new England: lots of trees meaning lots of wood and since wood is cheaper than bricks most houses/buildings were made out of wood, EXCEPT some people had brick houses to indicate their wealthy status, brick houses in New England= wealthy person
Term
T/F Massachusetts was an urbanized society.
Definition
Answer: False, most work is on farms, not factories, most stuff comes from family-owned farms
Term
Describe the economy in Massachusetts and Virginia.
Definition
Answer:
- Massachusetts made: wood products, timber products, boats, charcoal, fur business (sold animal hides including skin and fur), fishing, dried meat (exported a lot of beef), rum (late 18th century), household goods: candles and soap (from animal fat), agricultural but though they didn't export that much they kept most for themselves, grew rye instead of wheat, very few manufacturing places but they did make iron
- Virginia: 80% of the products Virginia made was tobacco, some fur trading but mostly tobacco
- so in other words: New England Massachusetts was a very diverse export economy and Virginia had one primary export (tobacco)
Term
What type of labor systems are there and which are dominant in Massachusetts and Virginia?
Definition
Answer:
1. Family (dominant in Massachusetts)
2. Indentured Servants (dominant initially in Virginia however that later changes)
3. Slaves (some slaves in Massachusetts but not many, eventually becomes the dominant labor force in Virginia)
4. wage labor (work in which you get paid, this was very rare and uncommon for both places)
Term
What town is Mary Rowlandson's house in?
Definition
Answer: Lanchester, Massachusetts
Term
T/F In the 17th Century Massachusetts, a young girl is an essential part of the economic progress.
Definition
Answer: True, the household is an economic productive unit, families didn't buy what they needed they had to make it themselves, labor included people of all ages and genders
Term
T/F In 17th Century Massachusetts most of the men who were unemployed were wealthy
Definition
Answer: True, more unemployed men than woman (woman were a productive part of the household), however those unemployed men would be considered to be wealthy because they have enough money to not need to work
Term
T/F When an England person in England commits a crime (doesn't pay a debt back) they have the option to become an indentured servant in America.
Definition
Answer: True (I think)
Term
What were Virginia's two primary labor work forces:
Definition
Answer:
- at first European indentured servants
- later African Slaves (blacks)
Term
T/F Indentured servants were treated just like slaves.
Definition
Answer: True (pretty sure)
Term
T/F At least 1/2 of all European immigrants came to colonial North America as indentured servants.
Definition
Answer: true
Term
During most of the 17th century where did roughly half of all indentured servants go to?
Definition
Answer: Chesapeake (which is in Virginia)
Term
When does the events described in Rowlandson's tale take place?
Definition
Answer: 17th century
Term
What religion was Rowlandson?
Definition
Answer: Puritan
Term
Geographically speaking where was Lanchester, Massachusetts located?
Definition
Answer: on the edge of New England settlements, right next to the Natives
Term
T/F Percentage of slaves in 1750 were lower than in 1729
Definition
Answer: False: percentages were higher, as time went on the percentage of slaves in Virginia increased and the percentage of indentured servants in Virginia decreased
Term
When was Lanchester attacked by the natives?
Definition
Answer: mid 1670s
Term
What is one reason the Natives did not like the English colonists being so near to them?
Definition
Answer: the England's livestock was eating Native's crops and deer that they hunted
Term
When did Virginia first ship tobacco?
Definition
Answer 1614
Term
When did people of African descent first arrive in Vriginia?
Definition
Answer: 1619
Term
T/F By 1750 46% of the total population of Virginia were African descents.
Definition
Answer: true number of slaves from 1680-1750 grew exponentially
Term
T/F There were no slaves in Massachusetts.
Definition
Answer: False, there were slaves and indentured servants in Massachusetts just nowhere near as many as in Virginia
Term
T/F Most servants immigrating from London went to Maryland, than Virginia, very few went to Massachusetts.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
T/F As time passes in Virginia, the number of African slaves increase and the number of indentured servants decreases.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
What happened between 1680 and 1750 in Virginia to the slave population?
Definition
Answer: the slave population increased from 7% to 49%
Term
Initially at first which was cheaper, a slave or an indentured servant?
Definition
Answer: initially an indentured servant cost roughly half as much as a slave, however that eventually changes
Term
Why do white Virginias begin buying the more expensive slaves in such large numbers?
Definition
Answer:
1. changes in the labor supply
2. changes in the distribution of wealth
3. changes in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Term
What happened to London in 1660?
Definition
Answer: London burnt to the ground
Term
From 1660-1685 what happened to Virginia's population?
Definition
Answer: it grew from 25,000 to 60,000
Term
What resulted due to London burning to the ground?
Definition
Answer: there was a surge of demand for unskilled labor in England in the 1660s and 1670s as the country tries to rebuild itself
- people who were unemployed who might have originally have gone to Virginia as an indentured servant are now suddenly employed.
Term
Why did the cost of land increased in Virginia and what did this mean for indentured servants?
Definition
Answer: easiest way to move tobacco was by the rivers so the land by the rivers were extremely valuable, as Virginia's population increased that means less land available for everybody meaning higher land prices especially by the rivers
- this is bad for indentured servants because indentured servants planned on serving their term and then eventually buying land themselves to raise their own crop, due to increased land prices indentured servants could no longer buy land once their term was up so less indentured servants went to North America due to the loss in incentive
- as supply of indentured servants goes down, price goes up
Term
What is the primary cost in the production of tobacco?
Definition
Answer: labor
Term
Why did the richer become richer in Virginia?
Definition
Answer: due the increasing prices of labor and land only the rich people could afford to produce tobacco, this created less competition for the rich people and thus enabled them to increase thier prices, thus richer becomes richer and poorer becomes pooorer
Term
. In what year did the English crown charter the Royal African Company?
Definition
Answer: 1672
Term
In what year did the Royal African Company monopoly end?
Definition
Answer: 1698
Term
T/F Most of the slaves imported by English slave traders are taken to Virginia.
Definition
Answer: False, a bulk of slaves imported by English slave traders are taken to the West Indies (Jamaica..)
Term
Besides the West Indies, which two colonies did the English slave traders give a lot of slaves to?
Definition
Answer: Virginia and Maryland
Term
T/F In Virginia rising land costs were its biggest problem that caused social stratification
Definition
Answer: False, labor costs were the biggest problem that caused social stratification
Term
. T/F Labor costs were the chief input in tobacco production.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
Why were slaves expensive in the short run but yet cheap in the long run?
Definition
Answer: Slaves are expensive at first but due to owning the slaves forever and due to them reproducing and thus increasing the number of slaves you have, in the long run your labor costs decrease and since labor is the chief input in tobacco production if the labor costs are decreasing your income is increasing, so initially slaves are expensive but in the long run they are worth it
Term
William Byrd owned 43,000 acres of land and 200 slaves, was his land or were his slaves more valuable?
Definition
Answer: his slaves were worth much more money than the land
Term
. T/F Land was the biggest sign of wealth back in the 17-18th century.
Definition
Answer: False, labor (slaves) was the biggest sign of wealth
Term
. T/F Virginia was a "slave society" from its very beginnings.
Definition
Answer: False, at first Virginia was not a "slave society", however in the 18th century it became a "slave society"
Term
When did Virginia become a "slave society"?
Definition
Answer: 18th century
Term
T/F Most Indians after Metacom's war were sold as slaves to West Indies (Jamaica)
Definition
Answer: True (I'm pretty sure)
Term
What was the dividing line between slaves and woman?
Definition
Answer: race
Term
Back in the 17th and 18th century what determined how free you were?
Definition
Answer: race and gender
Term
T/F The Virginia economy depended on the labor of enslaved Africans from its very beginning.
Definition
Answer: False
Term
T/F The Virginia economy depended on the labor of indenture servants from its very beginning. In other words Virginia produced tobacco from its very beginning
Definition
Answer: False (I'm pretty sure)
Term
Where in 18th century America would you find a "slave society"?
Definition
Answer: Virginia, Chessapeake region
Term
Where in 18th century would you find a society with slaves?
Definition
Answer: Massachusetts
Term
What is the difference between a "slave society" and a society with slaves and give an example of each.
Definition
Answer:
- a "slave society" is a society whose economy depends on slave labor, ex: Chessapeake Virginia
- a society with slaves is a society whose economy has slaves but does not depend on them, ex: Massachusetts
Term
What is a chattel?
Definition
Answer: a type of slavery where slaves are captured
Term
T/F Most white people were rich.
Definition
Answer: False, in order to become wealthy one must have slaves but slaves are expensive, so thus richer gets richer and poorer gets poorer
Term
Where are the slaves societies located?
Definition
Answer: no slave societies until you cross Atlantic, ex: West Indies, Jamaica, southern islands, Virginia
Term
What explains the transition to slavery in 17th century Virginia?
Definition
1. changes in the labor supply
2. changes in the distribution of wealth
3. changes in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Term
Due to an increase demand of labor in London what happened to America?
Definition
Answer: many people that would've came to America has indentured servants instead remained in London, since supply of indentured servants in America decreased that means prices of indentured servants went up
Term
Who did the English take over the Atlantic Slave trade from and what did this mean for the price of slaves?
Definition
Answer: Dutch and Portuguese, thus causing the price of an African slave to decrease
Term
. T/F Many years in the future Virginia reduces tobacco exportation and instead export slaves.
Definition
Answer: true
Term
What were the two similarities between Chesapeake (Virginia) and Massachusetts (New England)?
Definition
Answer: both were Protestant and both were hailed from England, other than that they were extremely different
Term
What year was St. Augustine (Spanish), Jamestown (Virginia), and Massachusetts Bay founded?
Definition
Answer: 1565, 1607, 1630 respectively
Term
T/F England owned Florida during the 17th century.
Definition
Answer: False, Spain did
Term
What was the religion in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Florida?
Definition
Answer: Protestant, Protestant, Catholic (Catholic church was a state, they had money and military powers), respectively
Term
T/F More people were living in Massachusetts and Virginia than in Florida.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
What was the economy in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Floirda?
Definition
Answer:
- diverse agricultural and modest mercantile
- plantation agriculture (tobacco)
- livestock and modest agriculture (respectively)
Term
Describe the settlement patterns of Massachusetts, Virginia, and Florida?
Definition
Answer:
- towns
- tobacco plantations
- Catholic missions
Term
T/F In the early 18th century there was no United States yet.
Definition
Answer: True, there was no republic yet, nobody thought a republic was a viable form of government, no one thought that human beings were able to govern themselves
Term
What were the two main purposes Spain was in America?
Definition
Answer: 1. to extract resources from North America to make money for Spanish monarch 2. to convert people into joining the Catholic church
Term
. T/F The Spanish Missions were purely religious entities.
Definition
Answer: False, while they were there to convert people into joining the Catholic Church they were also there to extract resources to get money for Spain's monarchs
Term
What materials did Spain extract from America?
Definition
Answer: gold, silver, and also sugar
Term
Why did the Spaniards choose to settle in Florida over the West Indies?
Definition
Answer: livestock could survive better in Florida than the West Indie islands, also there was no firewood in the West Indie island, not the case in Florida
Term
Who lives in the Spanish missions?
Definition
Answer: Spanish Friars (the priest who fulfill the Catholic Mission of bringing Natives to the Catholic Church), Spanish soldiers, Spanish artisans and merchants, and local Appalachee Indians
Term
Who makes the food in the Spanish missions, how do they survive? Who substains the mission?
Definition
Answer: the Natives
Term
T/F Over the course of the 17th century, Timucua abandon traditional economy and became dependent on European trade goods and forgot how to sustain themselves.
Definition
Answer: True,
Term
What happened as a result of the Timucua forgetting how to sustain themselves?
Definition
Answer: increasingly dependent on Spanish for security and sustainability, have to settle near missions because forgot how to sustain themselves
Term
What were some of the consequences of the Timucua living near missions?
Definition
Answer:
- Epidemics: diseases from Spaniards
- War: concentrations of natives around missions much more vulnerable to outside military attack, much harder to fight enemies when you forget how to feed yourself and when you can't sustain yourself, located in one central location so very easy to attack
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What year was the Carolina Colony founded?
Definition
Answer: 1663
Term
T/F The Carolina Colony was a society with slaves.
Definition
Answer: False, the Carolina Colony was a "slave society"
Term
What did the Carolina Colony export?
Definition
Answer: rice was produced and sold in Carolina to be consumed by slaves in the West Indies, ironically enough slaves were the ones that grew the rice in Carolina Colony
Term
What was a self-manumitted slave?
Definition
Answer: slaves realized that Carolina was right next to Florida and they knew that if they escaped and reached Florida that the Spaniards wouldn't return them back to Carolina, so slaves from Carolina fled to Florida sort of freeing themselves
Term
When Europeans first got to America what did they find?
Definition
Answer: not robust civilizations, found societies devastated due to diseases, Englishmen came after several epidemics and pandemics to Natives through diseases, Europeans didn't get to to see the Natives at their peak
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T/F Indentured servants in America were originally NOT lower class in England.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
. What was Paine's original job in England before he came to America?
Definition
Answer: he was a tax collector
Term
Who wrote Paine a recommendation letter and what was described in that recommendation letter?
Definition
Answer: Benjamin Franklin wrote Paine a recommendation letter and in that letter he said Paine was going to be only mediocre and thought Paine should become a tutor
Term
When did London burn to the ground?
Definition
Answer: 1660
Term
T/F The the percentage of indentured servants in Virginia in 1750 was higher than in 1729.
Definition
Answer: False, the percentage was lower, percentage of slaves increased while the percentage of indentured servants decreased.
Term
In what direction do Mary and the natives keep moving toward?
Definition
North-West to escape the British soldiers
Term
T/F The natives asked Rowlandson how much she thinks her husband would pay for her.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
how many removes are in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God?
Definition
19
Term
T/F Mary smoked tobacco.
Definition
Answer: False
Term
T/F Wettimore, Quannopin’s wife (Mary's owner) is very vain showing that violence is not the only negative side of Natives.
Definition
Answer: True
Term
When did the history of the United States begin?
Definition
at least 30, 000 years ago with the Bering Land Bridge
Term
When did the Colonial era begin?
Definition
1492
Term
How many languages existed in America before the colonists arrived?
Definition
The Natives had 329 languages
Term
T/F Colonization eroded the distinction between language and identity for native peoples
Definition
Answer: True
Term
T/F The "Virginia Company" is another name for the "London Company".
Definition
Answer: True because its owners originate from London
Term
T/F Enclosed pastures in England led to vagrancy
Definition
Answer: True, enclosed pastures in England led to vagrancy and idleness
Term
After Treaty of Paris is signed and Spain gives Florida to English where do Timucua go?
Definition
Answer: Guanabacoa, Cuba
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