Study Guide Exam 1 History 2010-A Term

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What was a central tenant of the Aztec religious practice?

Who created the city of Tenochtitlan?
Where did Columbus first land in the Americas?
How did most Native Americans die after the arrival of the Europeans?
What did the food from America coming to Europe mean for the Old World?
What motivated Cortes to explore Mexico?
Who led the Spanish Settlement of New Mexico?
Where was the first permanently settled town established in the future U.S.?
What did the encomienda system entail for the Spanish?
CH. 2
10.Who led the Protestant Reformation in Europe?
11.What happened to the first British colony at Roanoke?
12.What did John Smith do in Jamestown to turn around the colony?
13.In the 1600s which staple crop did both Virginia and Maryland grow?
14.What was the main cause of Bacons Rebellion?
15.Maryland was established as a religious haven for which group?
16.Which major group settled New England?
17.Why was Anne Hutchinson kicked out of Massachusetts?
18.Why did Roger Williams start the colony of Rhode Island?
19.What part of the continent did the Iroquois control?
20.Who brought the log cabin to North America?
21. Where did a large number of South Carolina planters emigrate from?
22.Identify the major North Carolina export.
23.Who owned and administered Pennsylvania?
Ch. 3
24.During the colonial period, which vocation employed nearly 2/3 of all men?
25.What percentage of the population lived in American cities?
26.Of all the slaves going to the New World which percentage went to British
Colonies?
27.How were slaves legally defined during the colonial period?
28.In spite of slavery, Africans still retained what characteristic from their own
culture?
29.How did Northern slaves work as compared with their southern counterparts?
30.What is the best explanation for the witchcraft craze in Salem?
31.Where did the first Jews in America migrate to?
32.What religious faith did the Scots-Irish practice?
33.Identify the largest American city at the end of the colonial period?
34.What did Enlightenment thinkers like Newton stress as so important to human
nature?
35.How did Benjamin Franklin live the Enlightenment?
36.What did Jonathon Edwards describe in his sermon Sinners in the hands of
an Angry God?
Ch. 4
37.What was the goal of the 1651 Navigation Acts?
38.What happened to Edmund Andros as a result of the Glorious Revolution?

39.What power did colonial governors have over the assembly during the 18 th
century?
40.Why did the Iroquois fight the Huron during the colonial period?
41.Which colony was particularly devastated by the colonial wars of the 18 th
century?
42.What region was an area of contention that led to the French and Indian War?
43.Identify the main parts of Pontiacs Rebellion?
44.What was the major goal of George Grenvilles policies in the 1760s?
45.What did the Currency Act do?
46.Identify the requirements of the Quartering Act?
47.What did the Stamp Act demand?
48.Which Bostonian is known for his genius for agitation?
49.Why did the British pass the 1773 Tea Act?
50.Why did the British march to Concord in April of 1775?