Preposterous People
This person was a Spanish priest and conquistador who traveled to the Americas, witnessed brutality toward the Natives, and then returned to Spain where he wrote a book about what he witnessed.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
Who is the most interesting person you have learned about for HIST 131 Exam 1 and WHY?
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3 short answer questions out of 8 options, chosen from a list of 16.
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This is the battle that launched the Revolutionary War, in which the "shot heard round the world" kicked off colonial fighting against British troops and led to a victory for American militia.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This person was a Spanish noble who set out to conquer the area of Florida but was shipwrecked on a nearby island where he joined a Native tribe before walking across Texas to Mexico, learning about tribes and advocating for their rights.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
This person was an English philosopher who championed the people's rights to life, liberty, and property. He believed government should be a social contract with the people, based on the consent of the governed.
Who is John Locke?
This is colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, where initial struggles with disease, starvation, and conflict with Native Americans eventually transitioned to an agricultural community that laid foundations for American government.
What is Jamestown?
This is a conflict where Nathaniel Bacon and his followers attacked Native American tribes and burned Jamestown over frustration on taxes, the desire to conquer land, and fighting between settlers and Native Americans.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This person was a preacher who founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts. He valued religious freedom and the separation of Church and State.
Who is Roger Williams?
This person was a Quaker leader (valuing equality, peace, and anti-violence) who founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for religious freedom.
Who is William Penn?
This is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which gave everyday people a strong stance on individual rights, the importance of their consent in government, and the right to overthrow tyrannical government.
What is Common Sense?
This is a war between the Native Americans and English colonists in the 1670s, led by the Wampanoag leader Metacom, which resulted in devastating losses of Native American lives.
What is King Philip's War?
This person was a Massachusetts minister who challenged Puritan leaders, advocated for freedom of religious beliefs, and was excommunicated to Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This person was a 17 year old maid for a family in Stamford, CT. When she experienced odd fits and symptoms, she blamed local women of bewitching her, igniting a small witch hunt that contrasted with the famous Salem witch trials.
Who is Katherine Branch?
This is an arrangement where American colonies sent revenue, profits, and natural resources back to their mother country, England, and where tariffs and fees generated discontent among Americans toward the economic control of Britain.
What is mercantilism?
This is a witch trial that tested if two Stamford women were guilty of witchcraft, showing how courts and the general public dealt with the legal, social, and spiritual sides of witchcraft in different ways.
What is the 1692 Trial of Elizabeth Clawson and Mercy Disborough?
These people sailed to Plymouth, MA in 1620 to set up a colony where religious freedom and self-governance were prioritized.
Who are the Mayflower Pilgrims?
This person was a French explorer and navigator who launched the French presence in North America through the founding of Quebec and peaceful alliances with Native people.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This is the transfer of goods, animals, plants, diseases, and people between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (the Americas).
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is a war between the French and British colonies and their Native allies that lasted for seven years, resulting in British victory and the Treaty of Paris (1763).
What is the French and Indian War?