HIST 2055 - exam 2 Questions And All
Correct Answers
Board of Trade - Answer an advisory council charged to oversee colonial matters. The act
testified to the colonies' growing significance to England's economy.
Code Noir - Answer an imperial slave code issued for Louisiana in 1724. Its slave provisions,
providing basic protections for chattel, were largely ignored, but the colonists upheld its many
restrictions on free blacks as they attempted to draw a distinct line between the races
East India Company - Answer joint stock company formed to pursue trade with the East
Indies. Pirate attacks on ships belonging to the subjects of India's Mughal Empire began to
create a crisis for the company
Fox Wars - Answer Indian allies of the French used diplomacy and gifts of Fox slaves to
persuade the French to fight against the Fox in three wars that decimated the Fox people.
George I - Answer Scots rebelled against his crowning, ascended the throne after the death
of Queen Anne, the Jacobites wanted to replace him with Anne's half brother
Grand Settlement of 1701 - Answer referred to a pair of treaties signed by the Iroquois that
stabilized Indian politics across the northeast and Great Lakes. In the first, the Iroquois and
Great Lakes peoples ended hostilities and exchanged captives. With the second the Iroquois
agreed to remain neutral in future Anglo-French wars and, in exchange, kept the right to trade
at Albany.
Industrious Revolution - Answer laying the foundation for future economic development and
more intensive industrialization. The colonists worked harder, diversified their production,
expanded manufacturing, and began some industrial activities.
Linen Act of 1705 - Answer encouraged the export of Irish Linen to North America
Louis XV - Answer was fed up with bad news from Louisiana, so he took control of the colony
and then ignored it.
Manumission - Answer In an attempt to limit the number of free blacks, colonists
increasingly discouraged private acts of freeing slaves, or manumission, in the 1720s by forcing
freed slaves to leave the colony or making former owners financially accountable for the people
they free
, Maroons - Answer were runaway slaves who often formed communities in Brazil and the
Caribbean where they attracted further fugitives and sometimes engaged in raids on plantations
and towns.
Cotton Mather - Answer minister who at first celebrated Ulsterite immigration as a way to
bolster local defenses against French and Indian foes, but he changed his mind and declared the
Presbyterian newcomers had disturbed the peace of the church
Mississippi Bubble - Answer when the value of the company of the Indies stock plummeted
the bubble "burst"
Natchez War - Answer French incursions into Natchez territory provoked a devastating attack
from the Natchez and runaway slaves in 1729. However, employing Choctaw warriors, the
French won the War and sold many of the Natchez into Caribbean slavery.
Navigation Acts - Answer a series of acts to tighten regulations on colonial trade and
established vice-admirality courts in the colonies to enforce law // regulated and taxed colonial
trade. However, with the policy of salutary neglect and colonists' defiance, the laws had rarely
been enforced or obeyed.
Pietism - Answer Originating in a Lutheran reform movement begun by German pastor
Philipp Jakob Spener in 1670, Pietism became a larger transatlantic Protestant movement that
encouraged personal godliness and the evangelization of all peoples. Both were supposed to
bring about the second coming.
Polygamy - Answer marriage that include more than two partners, something African men
had to promise to abandon
Queen Anne's War - Answer Taking place from 1702 to 1713, fought to determine the
Spanish succession, pitted France and Spain against Great Britain. Indian peoples arrayed on
each side in North America, including the Mohawk who lobbied for an invasion of Canada.
John Saffin - Answer debated the slave trade as the 18th century dawned
Salutary Neglect - Answer an unofficial policy of the British into the 1760s that allowed the
American colonies to develop on their own largely outside imperial law and oversight.
The Pretender - Answer the Catholic Stuart who claimed the British throne during the 1715
Jacobite rebellion
Samuel Sewall - Answer a judge that debated slave trade
Correct Answers
Board of Trade - Answer an advisory council charged to oversee colonial matters. The act
testified to the colonies' growing significance to England's economy.
Code Noir - Answer an imperial slave code issued for Louisiana in 1724. Its slave provisions,
providing basic protections for chattel, were largely ignored, but the colonists upheld its many
restrictions on free blacks as they attempted to draw a distinct line between the races
East India Company - Answer joint stock company formed to pursue trade with the East
Indies. Pirate attacks on ships belonging to the subjects of India's Mughal Empire began to
create a crisis for the company
Fox Wars - Answer Indian allies of the French used diplomacy and gifts of Fox slaves to
persuade the French to fight against the Fox in three wars that decimated the Fox people.
George I - Answer Scots rebelled against his crowning, ascended the throne after the death
of Queen Anne, the Jacobites wanted to replace him with Anne's half brother
Grand Settlement of 1701 - Answer referred to a pair of treaties signed by the Iroquois that
stabilized Indian politics across the northeast and Great Lakes. In the first, the Iroquois and
Great Lakes peoples ended hostilities and exchanged captives. With the second the Iroquois
agreed to remain neutral in future Anglo-French wars and, in exchange, kept the right to trade
at Albany.
Industrious Revolution - Answer laying the foundation for future economic development and
more intensive industrialization. The colonists worked harder, diversified their production,
expanded manufacturing, and began some industrial activities.
Linen Act of 1705 - Answer encouraged the export of Irish Linen to North America
Louis XV - Answer was fed up with bad news from Louisiana, so he took control of the colony
and then ignored it.
Manumission - Answer In an attempt to limit the number of free blacks, colonists
increasingly discouraged private acts of freeing slaves, or manumission, in the 1720s by forcing
freed slaves to leave the colony or making former owners financially accountable for the people
they free
, Maroons - Answer were runaway slaves who often formed communities in Brazil and the
Caribbean where they attracted further fugitives and sometimes engaged in raids on plantations
and towns.
Cotton Mather - Answer minister who at first celebrated Ulsterite immigration as a way to
bolster local defenses against French and Indian foes, but he changed his mind and declared the
Presbyterian newcomers had disturbed the peace of the church
Mississippi Bubble - Answer when the value of the company of the Indies stock plummeted
the bubble "burst"
Natchez War - Answer French incursions into Natchez territory provoked a devastating attack
from the Natchez and runaway slaves in 1729. However, employing Choctaw warriors, the
French won the War and sold many of the Natchez into Caribbean slavery.
Navigation Acts - Answer a series of acts to tighten regulations on colonial trade and
established vice-admirality courts in the colonies to enforce law // regulated and taxed colonial
trade. However, with the policy of salutary neglect and colonists' defiance, the laws had rarely
been enforced or obeyed.
Pietism - Answer Originating in a Lutheran reform movement begun by German pastor
Philipp Jakob Spener in 1670, Pietism became a larger transatlantic Protestant movement that
encouraged personal godliness and the evangelization of all peoples. Both were supposed to
bring about the second coming.
Polygamy - Answer marriage that include more than two partners, something African men
had to promise to abandon
Queen Anne's War - Answer Taking place from 1702 to 1713, fought to determine the
Spanish succession, pitted France and Spain against Great Britain. Indian peoples arrayed on
each side in North America, including the Mohawk who lobbied for an invasion of Canada.
John Saffin - Answer debated the slave trade as the 18th century dawned
Salutary Neglect - Answer an unofficial policy of the British into the 1760s that allowed the
American colonies to develop on their own largely outside imperial law and oversight.
The Pretender - Answer the Catholic Stuart who claimed the British throne during the 1715
Jacobite rebellion
Samuel Sewall - Answer a judge that debated slave trade
