HISTORY 2111 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔New Netherland - ✔✔began in the early 16th century (sometime after 1614) ruled by
Peter Stuyvesant until 1664; enslaved black slaves and hired out black labor; populated,
prosperous, and ethically diverse
✔✔Virginia Company - ✔✔Charted by England King James I in 1606, group of London
based merchants that took charge of colonizing Chesapeake Bay region
✔✔Jamestown - ✔✔first permanent English settlement in the New World founded in
1607, plagued with lack of supplies, drought, and unstable crops, the Starving Time in
the winter led to reliance on Indians and cannibalism, saved by tobacco crop in 1612
despite labor and land problems (John Rolfe)
✔✔Plymouth - ✔✔established in 1620 by the Puritans, this colony was in present day
Massachusetts (Cape Cod), joined with Massachusetts colony in the charter in 1691
✔✔Puritans - ✔✔self appointed saints that separated from Anglican Church of England
and sought refuge in the New World; responsible for death of King Charles I in 1649
✔✔Roger Williams - ✔✔Puritan dissenter that eventually established Rhode Island
colony
✔✔Anne Hutchinson - ✔✔leader of the Antinomian Crisis- banished to Rhode Island
and eventually New Netherland
✔✔Pequot War - ✔✔1637; fears fanned by John Winthrop lead to war with Pequot tribe
that was recently weakened by smallpox; claimed that Pequot conflict was a sign from
God; disturbed by arrival of English settlers trying to compete with Dutch in the
Plymouth colony; led to the destruction of an entire Pequot village
, ✔✔smallpox - ✔✔a disease that came from cattle and caused painful blisters on the
body; if you survived you were immune; began to spread to the new world in 15th
century and became a virgin soil epidemic due to a lack of domesticated animals,
devastating Indian population used for labor and causing Indian resentment for
Europeans
✔✔René-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle - ✔✔New France adventurer that explored
the Mississippi Valley by establishing several outposts along the way and became the
first explorer to travel the entire Mississippi River in 1682; claimed Louisiana for France
on April 9th
✔✔mercantilism - ✔✔a commercial policy that sought to achieve a favorable balance of
trade by establishing colonies overseas to get cheap raw materials for manufacturing;
used by King Louis XIV of France (1661-1715) with New France and in England
beginning in the early 1660s
✔✔Pueblo Indians - ✔✔revolted in New Mexico0 in 1680 due to drought, famine, and
resentment for the encomienda system used for the mines; managed to get rid of
Spanish rule for 12 years until 1692; Catholicism forced on them by the Spanish
✔✔Kachina - ✔✔an Indian religious system inspired by Mesoamerican traditions
✔✔Navajo Indians - ✔✔the tribe that Pueblo refugees joined, formed a settlement in
present day Texas where they began to trade with French Lousiana
✔✔Navigation Act of 1660 - ✔✔laid out strict tules and regulations for colonial trade in
order to aid the homeland
✔✔New York - ✔✔founded in 1626 by English Duke of York who claimed it as New
York rather than the Dutch's New Netherland; coverture status forced on Dutch women
to prevent them from having legal rights
✔✔New Hampshire - ✔✔developed as a proprietorship in 1638 by John Mason and
John Wheelright but failed
✔✔Pennsylvania - ✔✔founded in 1682 by Quaker William Penn when King Charles II
granted him a charter; became a refuge for Quakers and other religiously persecuted
people; Penn sold land to Quakers who paid a Quitrent (fixed tax) and created a
progressive frame of government
✔✔New Jersey - ✔✔East and West Jersey combined in 1664 to form a new royal
colony
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔New Netherland - ✔✔began in the early 16th century (sometime after 1614) ruled by
Peter Stuyvesant until 1664; enslaved black slaves and hired out black labor; populated,
prosperous, and ethically diverse
✔✔Virginia Company - ✔✔Charted by England King James I in 1606, group of London
based merchants that took charge of colonizing Chesapeake Bay region
✔✔Jamestown - ✔✔first permanent English settlement in the New World founded in
1607, plagued with lack of supplies, drought, and unstable crops, the Starving Time in
the winter led to reliance on Indians and cannibalism, saved by tobacco crop in 1612
despite labor and land problems (John Rolfe)
✔✔Plymouth - ✔✔established in 1620 by the Puritans, this colony was in present day
Massachusetts (Cape Cod), joined with Massachusetts colony in the charter in 1691
✔✔Puritans - ✔✔self appointed saints that separated from Anglican Church of England
and sought refuge in the New World; responsible for death of King Charles I in 1649
✔✔Roger Williams - ✔✔Puritan dissenter that eventually established Rhode Island
colony
✔✔Anne Hutchinson - ✔✔leader of the Antinomian Crisis- banished to Rhode Island
and eventually New Netherland
✔✔Pequot War - ✔✔1637; fears fanned by John Winthrop lead to war with Pequot tribe
that was recently weakened by smallpox; claimed that Pequot conflict was a sign from
God; disturbed by arrival of English settlers trying to compete with Dutch in the
Plymouth colony; led to the destruction of an entire Pequot village
, ✔✔smallpox - ✔✔a disease that came from cattle and caused painful blisters on the
body; if you survived you were immune; began to spread to the new world in 15th
century and became a virgin soil epidemic due to a lack of domesticated animals,
devastating Indian population used for labor and causing Indian resentment for
Europeans
✔✔René-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle - ✔✔New France adventurer that explored
the Mississippi Valley by establishing several outposts along the way and became the
first explorer to travel the entire Mississippi River in 1682; claimed Louisiana for France
on April 9th
✔✔mercantilism - ✔✔a commercial policy that sought to achieve a favorable balance of
trade by establishing colonies overseas to get cheap raw materials for manufacturing;
used by King Louis XIV of France (1661-1715) with New France and in England
beginning in the early 1660s
✔✔Pueblo Indians - ✔✔revolted in New Mexico0 in 1680 due to drought, famine, and
resentment for the encomienda system used for the mines; managed to get rid of
Spanish rule for 12 years until 1692; Catholicism forced on them by the Spanish
✔✔Kachina - ✔✔an Indian religious system inspired by Mesoamerican traditions
✔✔Navajo Indians - ✔✔the tribe that Pueblo refugees joined, formed a settlement in
present day Texas where they began to trade with French Lousiana
✔✔Navigation Act of 1660 - ✔✔laid out strict tules and regulations for colonial trade in
order to aid the homeland
✔✔New York - ✔✔founded in 1626 by English Duke of York who claimed it as New
York rather than the Dutch's New Netherland; coverture status forced on Dutch women
to prevent them from having legal rights
✔✔New Hampshire - ✔✔developed as a proprietorship in 1638 by John Mason and
John Wheelright but failed
✔✔Pennsylvania - ✔✔founded in 1682 by Quaker William Penn when King Charles II
granted him a charter; became a refuge for Quakers and other religiously persecuted
people; Penn sold land to Quakers who paid a Quitrent (fixed tax) and created a
progressive frame of government
✔✔New Jersey - ✔✔East and West Jersey combined in 1664 to form a new royal
colony
