THURSDAY VCC 7pm - Midterm - Prep Questions

Chapter 1


1. Name the three boats Columbus used on his first voyage?

2. The Anasazi tribe settled in what is known as the Four Corners; what states make up the four corners?

3. What year did Columbus sail the Atlantic?

4. In the early 1500’s approximately how many Indians lived within the Americas?

5. With the arrival of the Spanish to Mexico what deadly disease was brought over and eventually killed off one third of the Indian population?.

6. What were the three most urbanized/developed civilizations of Indian cultures in North America?

8. Who was the Norse Icelander, who colonized Greenland?

9. Name three pathogens/diseases that were brought from Europe to the Americas?

10. What were Hernando Cortes’ soldiers called?



Chapter 2

1. In 1643 which four colonies united to form the New England confederation.

2. Which was the last British colony established.

3. What is the colony of New Netherlands more commonly known as?

4. What was the “Rump Parliment?”

6. What current U.S. state was the first British colony established in?

-Name one event that ultimately led to Bacon’s Rebellion

-Maryland, the first proprietary colony, was named after what British Queen?

-Name one Catholic tradition that the Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of?



Chapter 4



1. Who authored the “Two treatises on Government”?

2. When did Mexico declare independence from Spain?

3. What reason did the Jesuits have for converting the Indians to Catholicism?

4. What did Benjamin Franklin’s popular political cartoon state?

5. What is the name of the Seven Years’ War in America?

The British parliament adopted what system that assume the total of the worlds gold and silver remained essentially fixed with only a nations share in that wealth subject to change?

The Treaty of Paris in 1763 brought an end to what?

King George III resolved to seek what?

In compensation for the loss of Florida, Spain received what from France?





All chapters

1. What was the treaty of Paris?

3.What where the two main reasons why the French (Jesuits) try to convert the Indians?

5. What was the Navigation Act?

1. What are the three types of colony’s?

2.What is the significance of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

3. What was the first permanent English colony that was established

4.What two animals were incorporated into Indian society that came from Europe?

5. What did Columbus name the first island that he discovered?

AMH2020 T-R 4pm - Midterm Questions

Chapter 1
-Who did the Pueblos establish a thriving horse trade with in the 1690s?
-What disease ran ramped between 1610 and 1675 wiping out tens of thousands of Indians?
-What is the name of the document Martin Luther posted on his church door in 1517?
-Archaeologists assume that the first humans in the Western Hemisphere crossed what to reach Alaska?
-What was the name of the confederation of four small kingdoms independent of and opposed the Aztecs?
-What did Bartolome de Las Casa, a priest in Cuba, renounce?

Chapter 2
-What Caribbean Island did the British government recruit settlers from to replicate the west-indie sugar-plantation system in South Carolina?
-Which British colony was created as a buffer from the Spanish Empire?
-Where did the Quaker’s call home in the New World?
-Who issued the Massachusetts Bay Charter?
-What happened in the Pequot war?
-Who succeeded King James I (the first) of England?
Chapter 4
-What did the Navigation Act of 1660 entail?
-After the Peace of Paris in 1763, what happened to France?
-Who said “ I know that I can save England and no one else can” in order to instill confidence at home and abroad?
-What was the first American political cartoon?
-For compensation for the loss of Florida, what did Spain receive?
What treaty brought an end to the seven years wars?
Chapter 5
-What act required that stamps be purchased and affixed on all legal documents?
-Who’s “letters” appeared in the Pennsylvania Chronicle?
-Who was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre?
-What was “The Gaspee” affair/incident?
-What was the name of Thomas Paine’s political pamphlet? 
-On September 5, 1774 the First ____ _____ assembled in Philadelphia.
-What are the names of the British generals who were brought in for reinforcements at the battle of Bunker Hill?
-what sea served as center of Spanish power in the new world?
-what event in Spain resulted in the need for a new Asian trade route and Columbus’ voyage?
-what happened in 1588 that allowed access to the New World to all European nations?
What act, passed in 1764, outlawed individual state currency?
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-Who colonized Greenland and why was it named Greenland?
-Where did Columbus land (modern-day) and what did he name the island?
-What disease, brought by Europeans, killed millions of Indians?
-What was Rhode Island the first colony to accomplish?
-Which Spanish Conquistador invaded the Aztec Empire?
-What cause led to the French and Indian War?
-Who was the winner of the Seven Year’s War? Who left the America’s for good?
-Which colony was the first to be established of the 13 colonies?
-Who led 3 entire church congregations from the Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River towns of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford?
-Who defeated the Spanish Armada?
-How many voyages to the “New World” did Columbus make?
-Which Aztec leader was stoned to death in a rebellion for being a traitor?
-Who was named “the Father of New France?”

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Anand Giridharadas, New York Times columnist, to speak Tues. Oct. 5th at UCF

The UCF Global Perspectives Office is pleased to announce that Anand Giridharadas, columnist for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune, will speak Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at the University of Central Florida.

Giridharadas will give a presentation titled "The Rise of India and What It Means for the World" at 3 p.m. in the Key West Ballroom of the Student Union. The event is free and open to the public.

Giridharadas was The New York Times first Bombay-based correspondent in the modern era, beginning in 2005. He reported for four years on Indias transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. Giridharadas was appointed a columnist in 2008, writing the "Letter from India" series, and now pens the twice-monthly column, "Currents," on new ideas, global culture and the social implications of technology. He is among the newspaper's youngest columnists to date.

Giridharadas first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing two articles on money and politics. After college, in 2003, he moved to Bombay to work as a management consultant where he advised the local government on urban development; a pharmaceutical company on organizational redesign and leadership development; and Indian and Chinese businesses on their internationalization strategies.

Giridharadas first book, titled "India Calling," is a work of narrative nonfiction about his return to the India his parents left, and is due out in early 2011.

In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors include The India Program at UCF, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Nicholson School of Communication, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our office at 407-823-0935, global@mail.ucf.edu or visit our website at www.ucfglobalperspectives.org for further information.