Name: Frank Robles Macassi

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Salt Lake Community College History 1700
Summer 2016 Mid-Term Examination Hansen
What are the three primary reasons historically and presently for people to migrate to America or now the
United States from their native lands?
1.

Religious

2.

Political

3. Economic

4.

What did the Vikings contribute to the discovery of North America by Columbus?
The Sagas recounted different stories about how Leif Erikson discovery the new World. It was spread by
mouth before be recorded.

5.

How did Henry the Navigator contribute to world exploration?

He contributed organizing, equipping and sending out fleets that extend farther down the African West
Coast and Indian Ocean in cases, looking for gold and new islands. He also leased his navigators to
other for money.

6.

Why did Christopher Columbus sail westward?

His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and
spice awaited.

7.

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

It is the divison of the New world between Spain and Portugal, made it by the pope.

8.

What issues did King Henry VIII of England have with the Catholic Church?
Wives and divorce, Control by the Pope in Rome and The Church Doctrine.

9.

What was the Protestant Reformation?

It starts with the separation of King Henry VIII from the Catholic Church. The Protestant Reformation
was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic
Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.

10.

What are the English laws of Primogeniture?

1) A principle of seniority and authority whereby siblings are ranked according to their ages, with the
eldest coming first;
2) A principle of inheritance, in which the firstborn child receives all or his parents' most significant and
valuable property upon their death.

What were the two types of English colonies that developed in the New World?
11.

Royal

12.

Proprietary

13.

What did Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempt to do in 1583?

He intended to establish a colony on the southeastern coast of North America to serve as a base for
attacks against the Spanish during his first expedition, later in the second expedition he attempted more
the colonization than privateering. Both of them failed.

14.

What was the result?

Both of them failed.
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15.

What did Sir Walter Raleigh do in 1585?

He sends an expedition to the east coast of North America, landing in North Carolina called the land of
Virginia, for the Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Establishes the settlement of Roanoke and leaves 100 men to
maintain the settlement.

16.

What was Roanoke?

The Lost Colony. was established on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina,
United States. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English
settlement. The colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh.

17.

What is mysterious about Roanoke?

All the residents of Roanoke died either by natural causes, disease or weather, or by the hands of the
Indians.
The settlers moved further inland away from the ocean to avoid severe weather or to find additional food
supplies.
The English settlers were absorbed into the local Indian tribes willingly or unwillingly.

18.

Which of the following reasons is NOT why the settlement of Jamestown was destined to fail in 1607?
A.
Poor location. B.
Disease.
C.
Poor leadership.
D.
Abundant supplies.

19.

What was the purpose of the headright system?

A. Take a census. B. Start black slavery.

C. Increase Labor Supply.

D. Tax standard.

20.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

The first written document forming a simple democratic form of government in America.

21.

What form of government did it establish?

Self Government Democratic

22.

What was the role of the governor under the Mayflower Compact?
Bradford helped draft its legal code and facilitated a community centered on private subsistence
agriculture and religious tolerance.

23.

What type of government was established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

A. Autocracy.
B.
Democracy.
C.
Dictatorship. D.
E. Theocracy.

24.

Fascist.

What was the problem of having John Winthrop as the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A. He was Catholic. B. He was both civil and religious leader. C. He had no power. D. He was

racist.
25.

What was John Calvins religious-political theory that influenced the Massachusetts Bay Colony
government?
A. Puritan Political Theory. B. Compact Theory of Law. C. Absolutism.
D. Royal
Absolutism.

What are the five points of TULIP?

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26. T

Total Depravity

27. U

Unconditional election

28. L

Limit Atonement

29. I
30. P

Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints

31.

What did the Act of Toleration do for the people of Maryland?

Ensure the religious liberty of Maryland's Catholics. In addition, the law made it a crime to the death
penalty could be meted out to anyone who denied the Trinity or reject Christ's son ship.

32.

Who was Roger Williams?

Popular Salem Minister who was disagreed with the Massachusetts leaders. He was banished and exiled
from Massachusetts, because he challenged the Church of England, the legality of the Massachusetts
Bay Company and the Treat of Indians.

33.

What was the primary purpose of the new colony of Rhode Island?
A. Harbor Criminals. B. Religious freedom.
C. Political Freedom.
Indians.
Whose name is associated with the religious term antinomianism?
A. Mary Rowlandson.
B. Anne Hutchinson.
Abigail Adams.

D. Protect the

34.

C.

Sarah Grimke.

D.

35.

What is antinomianism?
It is the no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality in order to gain salvation. Hutchinson
believe that is not necessary the Church and ministers to communicate with God. People could be able
and free to communicate to God.

36.

Who were the first people used by the English as slaves in North America?
A.
Africans.
B.
West Indians. C.
Native American Indians.
Moslems.

37.

What colony was known as the holy experiment?

A.
Delaware.
B.
Massachusetts.

C.

New Jersey.

D.

D.

Pennsylvania.

38.

William Penn established his model of government in 1682 based upon what document?
A. Cambridge Agreement B. Mayflower Compact.
C. Fundamental Orders.
D. Frame of
Government.
Identify three points of William Penns philosophy of government.
39.

Governor

40.

Deputy Governor

41.

Council comprised of 72 members, of most note for their wisdom, virtue and ability

42.

How did the French Indian policy differ from English Indian policy?
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French readily entered into traditional native forms of alliance, one of them were the Hurons, by
exchanging products the fur trade,and the intermarriage just to cited some of them.
The English pursued a policy of Indian removal, extermination, and enslavement.
43.

What caused ill feelings between England and the American colonists from 1688 to 1754?
The war between France and England ended with the Treaty of Utrecht.

44.

What war did Robert Walpole start that became a larger war known as King Georges War?
A. War of Jenkins Ear.
B. Queen Annes War.
C. King Williams War.
D. French Indian War.

45.

What was the key battle of the French-Indian War?

A.
Montreal.
B.
Fallen Timbers.

C.

New York.

D.

Quebec.

What were the three primary reasons for the American colonial population increase between 1700 and 1775?
46.
47.
48.

White immigration
Forced Immnigration, black slaves
Birth rate (20:1), English born ratio in America.

49.

What was the American Trade Triangle?

The 'Triangular Trade' was so-called because it was three-sided, involving voyages from:
England to Africa
Africa to the Americas
The Americas back to England

What were the three primary products of the Trade Triangle from New England to West Africa to the West
Indies back to North America?
50.
51.
52.

Iron product, Guns and ammunition, Rum

Slaves
Raw materials, rice, sugar, tobacco.

53.

What product put Charleston, South Carolina on the map during the Trade Triangle era?
A. Cotton. B. Rice.
C. Black Slaves.
D. Indigo. E. Sugar.
F. Tobacco.

54.

What was the First Great Awakening?

The Great Awakening was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe
and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent
impact on American Protestantism. It began during the 1720's in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

55.

Who was Theodore Frelinghuysen?

He was a Dutch Reformed Minister; He avoided theological abstractions concentrating on arousing his
parishioners to feel a need to be saved. (Emotion over Thought).

56.

Who was Jonathan Edwards?

Edwards was born in East Windsor, Connecticut. During the Great Awakening, Edwards contributed
perhaps the most famous sermon in American history, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."He
believed in complete dependence in Gods grace.
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Identify two points emphasized during The First Great Awakening?

57.

Emotive spirituality

58.

Fresh wave of missionary work to Indians and Blacks

59.

What was the legacy of the First Great Awakening?

The separation of church and state.
The Awakening nurtured a subtle change in values that crossed over into politics and daily life.
For ordinary people, the revival experience created a new feeling of self-worth.
By learning to oppose authority and to take part in the creation of new churches, thousands of colonists.

Identify two causative factors of the Revolutionary War?

60.
61.

Economic Subordination of the Colonies to England

Emergence of Many Skilled Leaders in America

62.

What was the purpose of the English Mercantile System?

The Plan and Method to control colonial economies, natural resources and wealth.

63.

What was the Sugar Act?

The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the
British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. It was designed to raise revenue from the
American colonists in the 13 Colonies.

64.

What were the Townshend Duties?

It was composed by new taxes on: glass, paper, painters supplies, tea

65.

Why did Parliament enact the Tea Act?

A bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea
tax it paid to the British government.

Identify the four laws of the Coercive Acts in 1774. (4 points ) Secondly, identify the rights restricted by each
law.
Laws
66.

The Boston Port Act 67. which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party
were paid.

68.
The Massachusetts Governing Act 69. which restricted Massachusetts; democratic town meetings and
turned the governors council into an appointed body.
70.

The Administration of Justice Act.

in Massachusetts.

71. which made British officials immune to criminal prosecution

72.
The Quartering Act
73. which required colonists to house and quarter British troops on
demand, including in their private homes as a last resort.
74.

Why did Thomas Paines write the pamphlet Common Sense?

To encourage the colonists to declare the colonies
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75.

What was the key battle of the Revolutionary War that brought about French involvement?
Battle of Saratoga. New York. Us wins in alliance with France

76.

What were the Articles of Confederation?

A document that creates a perpetual union between states . It has 13 articles.

77.

Under the Articles of Confederation who directed the affairs of the new country?

Article IX,7

Identify two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

78.
Could not form a national army
79. The national government could not force the states to obey its laws.
80.

After the Revolutionary War what was the meaning of equality?

First, The American Revolution was fought in the name of Liberty. To the Founders, equality meant that
no man held greater rights through hereditary birth than any other man. All men were created equal; that
is, all men had the equal opportunity to earn social privilege

81.

What event or practice spawned the word mobocracy?

Shays Rebellion in Central and Western Massachusetts

82.

What is mobocracy?
Mob rule led to control by the masses. This could lead to the attack of minorities. Anythimg that went
against the overall beliefs of the mob was attacked. This anarchist method lead to much conflict in
situations were the people opposed the government.

What were the major issues of the Post Revolutionary War period?
83.
84.
85.

Slavery
Womens Rights
Division or separation of church and state.

86.

Why did men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and others want to eliminate the
Articles of Confederation?
Due the weakness of the Articles and the impossibility to fixed it .

What were the first five individual rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights?
88.
89.
90.

Freedom of Religion
Freedom of speach
Freedom of the Press

91.
92.

Freedom of peaceful assembly

Right to Petition the government for redress of grievances

93.

Who was the man who advocated a strong central government, rule by the elite and established the
Federalist Party?
Alexander Hamilton
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95.

Who was the man who established the Democratic Republican party and wanted a Pro-Agrarian society,
universal education?
Thomas Jefferson

96.

What is a whispering campaign?

A whispering campaign or whisper campaign is a method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or
innuendo are spread about the target, while the source of the rumors seeks to avoid being detected while
spreading themWhisper campaigns in the United States began with the conflict between John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson as the two were vying for the 1800 presidential election. The Federalists (those on
Adams' side) accused Jefferson of having robbed a widow and her children of a trust fund and of having
fathered numerous mulatto children by his own slave women.

97.
Who formally elects the President of the United States if there is no clear cut winner in the Electoral
College?
A. Revote. B. State Legislatures.
C. Supreme Court. D. House of Representatives.
E. Senate.
98.

Why is the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison important to the American judicial system?
Since Marbury v. Madison the Supreme Court has been the final decision maker regarding the
Constitutionality of Congressional legislation. The Marshall Court, and this decision in particular,
established the principle of "judicial review" whereby Congressional laws and executive actions may be
judged by the Supreme Court to be within the bounds of the Constitution.

99.

What was the primary purpose of the Tariff of 1816?

The main purpose of the Tariff Act of 1816 was to bolster the growth of manufacturing in the United
States. According to Tax History, this tariff passed by the 14th Congress levied "a series of 25 percent
duties" and was intended to reduce America's dependence on British goods.

100.

What did Henry Clay want to accomplish with his idea of the American System?
The program was intended to promote economic development and diversification, reduce dependence on
imports, and tie together the different sections of the country.

101.

What was the Corrupt Bargain?

Name for the deal struck between Adams and Clay that if Adams makes Clay Secretary of State, Adams
will be guaranteed victory. Four main "Republican" candidates in the election of 1824: Andrew Jackson,
John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay. No candidate won the majority of electoral
votes. Clay convinced the house to elect John Quincy Adams as President. Adams agreed to make Clay
the Secretary of State for getting him into office. People felt that there was a "corrupt bargain" because
Andrew Jackson had the popular vote

102.

Why did the philosophy of Deism challenge the established Christian churches?
Claimed that true religious and ethical teachings did not come from the Scriptures or from the Church
but instead was acquired through the use of God-given human reason. As a result, Deists rejected many
basic Christian Biblical teachings and moral standards because they believed these were not confirmed
by human reason and scientific research.

103.

What is transcendentalism?
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A philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated
the truth found in nature and in personal and imagination
104.

The 2nd Great Awakening created more interest in what social issues?
This Second Great Awakening was marked by an emphasis on personal piety over schooling and
theology. Social activism spawned abolition groups, temperance and suffrage societies, and others
committed to prison reform, care for the handicapped and mentally ill.

105.

What are Utopian societies?

An imaginary place where everyone and everything is perfect, was sought in America through the
creation of model communities within the greater society. Utopian communities in 19th-century America
were considered by many to herald a new age in human civilization. Often led by charismatic leaders
with high religious or secular moral ideals.

106.

The Womens Movement focused on which specific rights?

The Womens Movement refers to a series of political campaigns for reforms on issues such as
reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual
harassment, and sexual violence

107.

What did the German immigrants from 1840-1860 bring to the United States adding to the new
American culture?
Although much of the prosperity that German immigrants enjoyed in North America was based on their
success in agriculture, Germans played a leading role in opposing slavery, which provided most of the
farm labor in southern U.S. states.

108.

Why were the Irish immigrants from 1840-1860 rejected by American society?

The Irish were ostracized from American society for many things besides just being
newcomers. The Irish were ostracized for being Catholic.
109.

What allegations were made against Andrew Jackson by the supporters of John Quincy Adams resulting
in the claim the election of 1828 was a mudslinging election?
Jackson was an illegitimate child
His mother was a whore
He was a bigamist

110.

What was the Tariff of Abominations?

Tariff of 1828; raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods. The tariff protected the North but
harmed the South. The South claimed that it was discriminatory and unconstitutional

111.

Which state did it most adversely affect?

A. Virginia. B. North Carolina. C. South Carolina. D.

Louisiana.

E. Georgia.

What were the three new political innovations introduced in the 1832 presidential election.
112.

National Nomination convention

113.

Publication of Party Platforms

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115.

Emergence of a 3rd Political Party - Anti-Masonic Party

What is Manifest Destiny?
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents
was both justified and inevitable.

List two major events of President Buchanans Administration:

116.

Mountain Meadow Massacre

117.

Dred Scott Decision

118.

Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice that made the crucial decisions on the Kansas-Nebraska Act
and the Dred Scott decision?
Roger B. Taney

List the three main causes of the Civil War.

119.
120.
121.

Slavery in America
Secessionism
Abraham Lincolns election

122.

What was the response by Lincolns generals in 1861when he requested action on their part?
Hallec, I am not ready to cooperate
Bruell, Too much haste will ruin everything

123.

Why is the Gettysburg Address important?

The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863,
dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of
Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and
redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that
would bring true equality to all of its citizens.

124.

Which of the following is not one of the conditions of the surrender at Appomattox Court House?
A.
Confederate officers could retain their side arms and personal possessions.
B.
All officers and soldiers claiming to own their horses could keep them
C.
Each officer and soldier could return home without penalty or harassment.
D.
Took an oath of loyalty to never take up arms against the United States of America.

125.

Who was the man that orchestrated the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865?
John Wilkes Booth

EXTRA CREDIT 5 POINTS

1.

Name the womens right activist who refused in her marriage vows to obey her husband?
Angelina Grimke

2.

What was the purpose of the book, Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw?
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Promotion of the Cult of Domesticity and prohibition. Arthur used the book to argue that women needed
to steer men to the path of morality to protect the home. Nothing was as dangerous to morality as
alcohol, so its use needed to be restricted by women .
3.

What was Nathaniel Hawthornes purpose in writing the book The Scarlet Letter?
Illustrate the difference between shaming someone in public and allowing him or her to suffer the
consequences of an unjust act privately.

4.

Who was the first woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in the 19th century and later return
to teach at Harvard?
Elizabeth Blackwell

5.

Which battle of the Civil War had the highest number of casualties?
Gettysburg ( Union 23000 casualties and CSA 28000)

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