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Our first lecture is called "Three Worlds Meet." What worlds met around 1492? **
Answ** Africans, Europeans, and the Native Americans
Aftegthe voyages of Columbus, the single greatest cause of death among Native
American people was ** Answ** Disease
Who was chosen to command the Continental Army? ** Answ** George Washington
indentured servants were ** Answ** People who were contracted for several years
to work, like a temporary slave.
Which of the following was NOT associated with the movement known as the
Enlightenment? ** Answ** Political and legal rights for women
Which of the following eventually made the southern colonies profitable? ** Answ**
Tobacco
During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army had all of the following EXCEPT:
** Answ** Enough supplies, including food and ammunition.
The following are true about the Native American and West African cultures EXCEPT:
** Answ** They did not have any forms of advanced civilization by the time of
Columbus,
During the American Revolutionary War, one major contribution of Black Americans
included serving ** Answ** As spies
The first English colony at Jamestown nearly failed because colonists ** Answ** All
the above are true
The Bill of Rights: ** Answ** protected individual liberties.
The three-fifths compromise stated that ** Answ** Slaves would count as 3/5 of a
person for seats in Congress.
The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from: ** Answ** France
The Indian Removal Act forced the relocation of American Indian tribes east of the
Mississippi River to Indian territory in present day: ** Answ** Oklahoma
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, Which group was forcibly removed by the "Trail of Tears"? ** Answ** Cherokee
What did the Temperance movement work towards? ** Answ** Prohibiting the
drinking of alcohol
Manifest Destiny is: ** Answ** The belief that the US should own all of the land
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
The US obtained the present state of California as a result of: ** Answ** The
Mexican American war
The Dawes Act was designed to Americanize which of the following: ** Answ**
Native Americans
Native Americans who agreed to go to reservations: ** Answ** Discovered that the
U.S. government did not honor the treaties it had made with them.
What did the abolitionists hope for? ** Answ** Ending slavery
Ethnocentrism is: ** Answ** Feeling that your ethnicity/race/culture is better than
another
Lincoln's original purpose in fighting the Civil War was to: ** Answ** Keep the nation
together
The goal of the Emancipation Proclamation was to: ** Answ** Free slaves in areas
in rebellion (The Confederacy)
Jim Crow laws: ** Answ** Segregated the races
Most historians today believe that the Civil War was largely caused by ** Answ**
Slavery
What led to a dramatic rise in the number of slaves in the Southern United States? **
Answ** Cotton gin
This allowed citizens of new territories to vote whether or not to permit slavery: **
Answ** Popular sovereignty
Africans were used as slaves because: ** Answ** All the above
Which of the following events most encouraged the South to begin leaving the Union?
** Answ** Election of Abraham Lincoln
The Middle Passage was a name commonly associated with: ** Answ** The horrific
Atlantic voyage slaves had to endure on their way to the Americas
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