AMERICAN YAWP TEST TERMS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Race - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Skin color became more than a superficial difference; it
became the marker of a transcendent, all-encompassing division between two distinct peoples,
two races, white and black. The modern idea of race as an inherited physical difference (most
often skin color) that is used to support systems of oppression was new in the early modern
Atlantic world.
Enslaved Indians - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅30,000-50,000 American Indians enslaved in
early 17th century in one colony. Factors to declining amount of Indian slaves- disease, political
reasons
Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the route in between the western ports of
Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade. Was home to terrible acts
against african americans and terrible conditions.
British West Indies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The british island off the coast of florida
that the colonies trade with for sugar, rum and molasse. Were the islands in and around the
Caribbean that were part of the British Empire. In 1912, the British West Indies were divided
into eight colonies: The Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica (with its
dependencies the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands), Trinidad and Tobago, the
Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands.
English Civil War - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Political and economic conflicts between
the crown and parliament, religious tensions were also a cause and a driving force. Had negative
effects on the colonies as Britain tightened its hold on the control
Navigation Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Laws that governed trade between England
and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These
acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Glorious Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A reference to the political events of
1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her
husband, Prince William of Orange.
, Dominion of New England - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1686 - The British government
combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a
single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). The Dominion ended in 1692, when the
colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros.
Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Men of middling means found greater opportunities
in Maryland, which prospered as a tobacco colony without the growing pains suffered by
Virginia.Puritans revolted, setting up a new government that prohibited both Catholicism and
Anglicanism. Governor William Stone attempted to put down the revolt in 1655 but was not
successful until 1658. Two years after the Glorious Revolution (1688-1689), the Calverts lost
control of Maryland and the province became a royal colony.
Connecticut - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Thomas Hooker and his congregation left
Massachusetts for Connecticut because the area around Boston was becoming increasingly
crowded. The Connecticut River Valley was large enough for more cattle and agriculture. In
June 1636, Hooker led one hundred people and a variety of livestock in settling an area they
called Newtown (later Hartford).
Rhode Island - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Religious radicals similarly founded Rhode
Island. After his exile from Massachusetts, Roger Williams created a settlement called
Providence in 1636. He negotiated for the land with the local Narragansett sachems Canonicus
and Miantonomi. Williams and his fellow settlers agreed on an egalitarian constitution and
established religious and political freedom in the colony. The following year, another
Massachusetts exile, Anne Hutchinson, and her followers settled near Providence. Others soon
arrived, and the colony was granted a charter by Parliament in 1644. Persistently independent
and with republican sympathies, the settlers refused a governor and instead elected a president
and council. These separate communities passed laws abolishing witchcraft trials, imprisonment
for debt and, in 1652, chattel slavery. Because of the colony's policy of toleration, it became a
haven for Quakers, Jews, and other persecuted religious groups. In 1663, Charles II granted the
colony a royal charter establishing the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
William Penn - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to
establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Race - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Skin color became more than a superficial difference; it
became the marker of a transcendent, all-encompassing division between two distinct peoples,
two races, white and black. The modern idea of race as an inherited physical difference (most
often skin color) that is used to support systems of oppression was new in the early modern
Atlantic world.
Enslaved Indians - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅30,000-50,000 American Indians enslaved in
early 17th century in one colony. Factors to declining amount of Indian slaves- disease, political
reasons
Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the route in between the western ports of
Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade. Was home to terrible acts
against african americans and terrible conditions.
British West Indies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The british island off the coast of florida
that the colonies trade with for sugar, rum and molasse. Were the islands in and around the
Caribbean that were part of the British Empire. In 1912, the British West Indies were divided
into eight colonies: The Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica (with its
dependencies the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands), Trinidad and Tobago, the
Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands.
English Civil War - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Political and economic conflicts between
the crown and parliament, religious tensions were also a cause and a driving force. Had negative
effects on the colonies as Britain tightened its hold on the control
Navigation Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Laws that governed trade between England
and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These
acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Glorious Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A reference to the political events of
1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her
husband, Prince William of Orange.
, Dominion of New England - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1686 - The British government
combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a
single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). The Dominion ended in 1692, when the
colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros.
Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Men of middling means found greater opportunities
in Maryland, which prospered as a tobacco colony without the growing pains suffered by
Virginia.Puritans revolted, setting up a new government that prohibited both Catholicism and
Anglicanism. Governor William Stone attempted to put down the revolt in 1655 but was not
successful until 1658. Two years after the Glorious Revolution (1688-1689), the Calverts lost
control of Maryland and the province became a royal colony.
Connecticut - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Thomas Hooker and his congregation left
Massachusetts for Connecticut because the area around Boston was becoming increasingly
crowded. The Connecticut River Valley was large enough for more cattle and agriculture. In
June 1636, Hooker led one hundred people and a variety of livestock in settling an area they
called Newtown (later Hartford).
Rhode Island - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Religious radicals similarly founded Rhode
Island. After his exile from Massachusetts, Roger Williams created a settlement called
Providence in 1636. He negotiated for the land with the local Narragansett sachems Canonicus
and Miantonomi. Williams and his fellow settlers agreed on an egalitarian constitution and
established religious and political freedom in the colony. The following year, another
Massachusetts exile, Anne Hutchinson, and her followers settled near Providence. Others soon
arrived, and the colony was granted a charter by Parliament in 1644. Persistently independent
and with republican sympathies, the settlers refused a governor and instead elected a president
and council. These separate communities passed laws abolishing witchcraft trials, imprisonment
for debt and, in 1652, chattel slavery. Because of the colony's policy of toleration, it became a
haven for Quakers, Jews, and other persecuted religious groups. In 1663, Charles II granted the
colony a royal charter establishing the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
William Penn - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to
establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
