HIST 2110 EXAM 1 HABERLAND EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

HIST 2110 EXAM 1 HABERLAND EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Christopher Columbus - Answers •Italian but sailed for spain •Found Hispanola (modern day Dominican Republic and Haiti) Colombian Exchange - Answers the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa 3 levels of contact - Answers Military, economic, and biological Military contact - Answers Europeans had metal armor and firearms that were much more advanced than the natives weaponry Economic contact - Answers Trading was very important to both the Europeans and native Americans Biological contact - Answers Native Americans had no immunity to the diseases brought over by the Europeans, and it decimated their population. Europeans got syphilis from the native Americans. Women's work in a hunting society - Answers Take care of kids, make food, make clothes, teepees, carry the stuff when they're moving Men's work in a hunting society - Answers Hunting Women's work in agricultural societies - Answers Cultivation of crops, take care of kids, make food, make clothes, trading within the tribe Men's work in agricultural societies - Answers Hunting, politics, out of tribe trading Pueblo Indians - Answers Southwest US Indians, built large irrigation systems, adobe structures Anasazi - Answers Subgroup of Pueblo Indians. Abandoned their homes due to drought in 1250 AD Anasazi folktale - Answers The rain/fertility deity had abandoned them, so they moved in search of it until they landed in the Rio Grande First Contact - Answers Native Americans and Europeans meet each other for the first time. A "competition of cultures" begins Headwright System - Answers Awarded 50 acres of land to any colonist that paid their own or another's passage House of Burgesses, 1619 - Answers The first elected lawmaking body in North America, established by the Virginia Company to allow representative government in Virginia. Uprising of 1622 - Answers Unsuccessful uprising of Virginia Native Americans that wiped out one-quarter of the settler population, but ultimately led to the settlers gaining supremacy. dower rights - Answers The right of a married woman to one-third of her husband's property in the event that he died before she did. Puritans - Answers Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization. Generally more literate because they believed in reading the Bible for themselves John Calvin - Answers Taught that you were either selected or damned. John Winthrop - Answers Massachusetts colony governor. Taught two types of liberty- "natural liberty" (the liberty to do evil) and "subjection to authority" Pilgrims - Answers The first Puritans to emigrate to America. Separatists John Rolfe - Answers Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia. Married Pocahontas Mayflower Compact - Answers Adult men going on shore agreed to obey "just and equal laws" enacted by representatives of their own choosing. First written frame of government in what is now the USA First permanent colony in the US (give me liberty) - Answers Puerto Rico (1508) Jamestown colony - Answers Started as a Proprietary colony with the Virginia Company, but then changed to a Royal colony because the king wanted that Tobacco money. Royal Colony - Answers Under direct control of the king. Almost all colonies became royal. Propriety colony - Answers a colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family. Virginia started out as this Charter Colony - Answers colonies that settlers were given a charter, or a grant of rights and privileges. Massachusetts bay colony Massachusetts Bay Colony - Answers Puritans secured a royal charter to form this colony, located in the infertile MA area. Boston soon became its hub. They used their charter as a kind of constitution. They had a well-equipped expedition in 1630 and started the colony off on a large scale. Many fairly prosperous, educated persons immigrated here. John Winthrop was its first governor, saying he had a "calling" from God to lead the new religious experiment. Its economy consisted of fur trading, fishing, and shipbuilding. Its settlers had a shared sense of purpose, wanting to be a "city on a hill," or beacon to humanity, which led to a high degree of social harmony. It was liberal for the standards of the time, but not a democracy. Only Puritans could be freemen who voted, but nonbelievers had to pay taxes to support the church. Endorsed the separation of church and state, because clergymen were barred from holding office. This large colony absorbed Maine and New Hampshire, but the king was annoyed at their greediness so he separated NH from it. The colony was a member of the New England Confederation. The colony's charter was revoked in 1684. King Henry VIII - Answers Launched the reformation in England because the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine. He created the Church of England(Anglican church) The start of English colonization - Answers Started when Elizabeth I reigned. Granted Charters to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh to establish colonies in North America, but they still had to pay their own way. Ann Hutchinson - Answers A woman who believed that many of the clergy in the Puritan church were not of the elect (except John Cotton and her brother-in-law). Challenges church authority, and champions rights for women in religious affairs, prevents John Winthrop's re-election. Enclosure movement - Answers Landlords sought profits by evicting small farmers by fencing in previously "common" areas Indentured Servants - Answers Voluntary surrendered their freedom for a specified time (5-7 yrs avg) in exchange for passage to America. Like slaves, servants could not marry without permission of the owner, could be bought and sold, were subject to physical punishment and saw their obligation to labor enforced by courts. Unlike slaves, indentured servants were to be released from bondage after their contract was up. Freedom Dues - Answers necessities given to indentured servants once they were freed. Often so small they couldn't purchase land The glorious revolution - Answers the overthrow of King James II of England. Mary replaces him The destruction caused by the uprising of 1622 - Answers Last in a series of blows to the Virginia Company. Two years later it surrenders its charter and becomes the first Royal colony. sex ratio imbalance - Answers Demand for male workers in tobacco fields outweighed demand for women. Five men to one woman ratio John Locke - Answers 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. treatise 1 - Answers Contract theory of government. Unwritten contract between the rulers and the ruled. Rulers give safety and the ruled pay taxes Treatise 2 - Answers Establishes the theory of natural rights. All men by virtue of birth are entitled to certain natural things: life, liberty, and property. If the leader violates these rights, the citizens must revolt. Jonathan Edwards - Answers Preacher during the First Great Awakening; "Sinners in the hands of angry god" George Whitefield - Answers Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." French and Indian War - Answers () War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won. It ended with the Treaty of Paris 1763 Treaty of Paris 1763 - Answers Ended French and Indian War, France lost Canada, land east of the Mississippi, to British, New Orleans and west of Mississippi to Spain Stamp Act of 1765 - Answers Passed by Lord Greenville. All documents in the colonies would need a stamp. A person would need to go to a stamp collector to buy stamps to put on every document. Even the arts were taxed. Cards, dice, etc Revenue (Sugar) Act 1764 - Answers 3 pence tax on every gallon of molasses. Was a reduction on the tax from 8 pence. Nobody was paying the 8 pence tax anyways