TTU Hist 2300 Midterm Review
Questions with Complete Solutions
2025-2026 Updated.
Land Bridge Theory - Answer The theory that Native Americans crossed into North America
from Asia over a land bridge that once connected North America and Asia.
Mississippian Culture - Answer a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished
in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately
800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally.
Colonialism - Answer Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its
political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
Columbian Exchange - Answer The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans
and Europeans
Iroquois - Answer A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture
and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests
Christopher Columbus - Answer An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish
Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New
World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to
the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journies
until the time of his death in 1503.
Encomienda System - Answer A system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors
the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians; it was a disguised form of slavery.
East India Company - Answer a British trading company that set up large, profitable trading
post colonies in India
Roanoke Colony - Answer The first attempted colony in the Americas (1584). it ultimately
failed
John Smith - Answer English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
Headright System - Answer The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family
members who came with them each received 50 acres of land
, Pilgrims - Answer English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
Great Migration - Answer movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south
into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
Squanto - Answer Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts
develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the
Wampanoag.
King Philip's War - Answer 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists
and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the
Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists
won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for
expansion.
New Amsterdam - Answer Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New
Netherland. This later became "New York City"
Pueblo Revolt - Answer 1680, revolt of indigenous laborers led by shaman named Pope'.
killed colonists and priests and got Spanish out of modern-day New Mexico for 12 years
First Great Awakening - Answer Religious revival in the colonies in 1730s and 1740s; George
Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards preached a message of atonement for sins by admitting them
to God. The movement attempted to combat the growing secularism and rationalism of mid-
eighteenth century America. Religious splits in the colonies became deeper.
Stono Rebellion - Answer The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period which
occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed
several whites then tried to escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants
executed. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go.
Seven Years' War - Answer (1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was
the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be
the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms
of controlled regions.
Pontiac's Rebellion - Answer 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led
by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley
and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed.
Questions with Complete Solutions
2025-2026 Updated.
Land Bridge Theory - Answer The theory that Native Americans crossed into North America
from Asia over a land bridge that once connected North America and Asia.
Mississippian Culture - Answer a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished
in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately
800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally.
Colonialism - Answer Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its
political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
Columbian Exchange - Answer The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans
and Europeans
Iroquois - Answer A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture
and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests
Christopher Columbus - Answer An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish
Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New
World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to
the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journies
until the time of his death in 1503.
Encomienda System - Answer A system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors
the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians; it was a disguised form of slavery.
East India Company - Answer a British trading company that set up large, profitable trading
post colonies in India
Roanoke Colony - Answer The first attempted colony in the Americas (1584). it ultimately
failed
John Smith - Answer English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
Headright System - Answer The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family
members who came with them each received 50 acres of land
, Pilgrims - Answer English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
Great Migration - Answer movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south
into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
Squanto - Answer Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts
develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the
Wampanoag.
King Philip's War - Answer 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists
and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the
Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists
won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for
expansion.
New Amsterdam - Answer Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New
Netherland. This later became "New York City"
Pueblo Revolt - Answer 1680, revolt of indigenous laborers led by shaman named Pope'.
killed colonists and priests and got Spanish out of modern-day New Mexico for 12 years
First Great Awakening - Answer Religious revival in the colonies in 1730s and 1740s; George
Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards preached a message of atonement for sins by admitting them
to God. The movement attempted to combat the growing secularism and rationalism of mid-
eighteenth century America. Religious splits in the colonies became deeper.
Stono Rebellion - Answer The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period which
occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed
several whites then tried to escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants
executed. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go.
Seven Years' War - Answer (1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was
the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be
the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms
of controlled regions.
Pontiac's Rebellion - Answer 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led
by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley
and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed.
