HIUS221 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers

HIUS221 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Columbian Exchange - answerThe exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas; no organized notion of conquest. 15th century. Atlantic Slave Trade - answerLasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. One part of a three-part economical system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade. pidgin language - answerA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. Language only understood by African slaves and foreign to English and African Americans. Geechee and Gullah - answerdeveloping form of new language New York City Slave Revolt - answer(1712) First enslaved uprising. Group of slaves set fire to white houses Stono Rebellion - answer(1739) uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws. Group gains followers while marching towards Spanish Florida. (EX: burns houses, buildings, and killing people) Wanted the same liberties as white people coming from England. New York Conspiracy - answer(1741) Similar to Stono. Series of fires in NY. Conspiracy of slaves trying to burn down NY in the name of Spanish conquest. What effect did the rise of imported slaves have? - answerFirstly, a shift in thought about race, went from fellow co-workers to possession over humans. As cash crop rice and tobacco grew in conies like Chesapeake there is a need for more labor. Indentured servants decreases. Massachusetts Bay Colony - answer(1629) New Venture for making money, but later for puritans who were escaping religious persecution after the dissolving of Parliament under Charles I (1629). John Winthrop believes it will be the "City on a Hill" (Also name of his speech) being the model for living pure life. Great Migration when king is killed increases colony. Puritian Dilemma-- living in moderation but god wholly. Church of England (Anglican Church) - answerThe national church of England was founded by King Henry VIII escaping martial law. Edward VI preceeds him. Bloody Mary next in line and instituted the "Catholic Reaction." Executes Protestants. 39 articles. Plymouth - answerThe colony settled by Separatists. Grant from Virginia Company. Pilgrims on the Mayflower (1620) for religious freedom. Granted by Virginia Company. 1/2 parish in the first winter. Combined with Mass. Bay Colony Hernan Cortes - answer1520, attacks & defeats the Aztec empire; organized colonies in order to prosper in wealth & economy - does further exploration with view of acquiring more riches North of Aztec (gold, other valuables). Panfilo de Narvaez - answerSpanish explorer that investigated Florida & claims to Spain, gets attacked by Appalachian Indians & "dies" and has his workers captured under the Indians. Henry Cabot - answer1497; involved in the "race" to colonize America & searches for N West passage - doesn't find it Found a river bank for fishing & English fishing vessels set up camp for fishing cod Jaques Cartier - answerFrench explorer, found the St. Lawrence River and laid claim to Canada as a French possesion (1534) St. Augustine - answerTrading post and 1st colony in Florida set up by Spain no gold in NAmer. created conflict btwn settlers and spanish. Were really battling French for land power. Philip's/ Metacom's War - answer(1675-76) Last effort of Native Americans trying to defeat English power. Tuscarora War - answer(1712-13) Virginia and NCar vs. Indians opens up coastal plain. Population growth Yamassee War - answer(1715) SCar vs Indians opening up of coastal plain. King Williams War - answer() Small war between French and English that had small battles fought in Northern New England. Indian raids against New eng, New York, etc. King George's War - answer(1744-48) France v. Britain- started with British victory, but gave way to defeat. Ended by Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. Queen Anne's War - answer1702-13-British vs. Spanish and French. The British attacked at St. Augustine and armed Native American slaves from missions, urging them to attack the missions and settlement at SCar and Mass. Although victories in the US were ambivalent, the