History of the Americas Questions

Alexander Hamilton, as Secretary of the Treasury, advocated successfully for the establishment of the "Bank of the United States" and reduced existing State Revolutionary War debt by nearly 90%

The coronation of King George III to the British throne and his installation of a "Tory" government over the "Whig" party eventually led to attempts by the Parliament to assert control over Colonial Governance and contributed to a schism between Colonial and Royal authorities as well as popular discontent in the North American colonies.

After the adoption of the United States Constitution, slaves and free blacks found their status changing due to the emergence of the contradictory impulses of the Enlightenment, local slave uprisings, as well as fears of a general slave revolt in the United States.

Following the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763, the British Parliament took a more active and direct role in colonial governance, including the implementation of direct taxes and duties, which was opposed by many North American colonists.

John Adams, the second President of the United States, served two full terms (8 Years) as President.

Colonists boycotted British goods to get Britain to remove the _______.

As white/European populations expanded, and land requirements increased, longstanding alliances between whites and American Indians devolved into rivalry and open warfare.

The British, French and Dutch all initially disapproved of Spanish methods of colonization and attempted to establish more humane relations with the American Indian populations.

While both indentured servitude and slavery continued among colonial white and American Indian populations, by the 1700's African slavery had become the predominant form of forced labor in the central and southern colonies.

Colonists began to unite to express their concerns in groups called __________________________.

Though discovered by the Spanish, Florida was first settled by the British.

The first enduring Spanish settlements were located on Caribbean Islands prior to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire

King George III ___________ with more ________ to punish the colonists.

In British North America, Perpetual (generational/lifetime) negro Slavery was introduced in 1643 and expanded to cover both African slaves and their descendants, based primarily on the status of the mother, by the beginning of the 18th Century.

In order to conquer Mexico in 1519, Hernán Cortés was forced to rely on an overwhelming Spanish invasion force, numbering in the tens of thousands, due to the loyalty of subject peoples to the Aztec Empire.

The term "Middle Passage" referred to the voyage of African slaves during their importation from Africa to the European colonies in the Americas.

To avoid _________ some colonists smuggled goods. Britain passed the _______________ to try and stop the smuggling.

The Spanish were the only Europeans to settle Florida

Prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the entire native population of North America consisted of isolated bands of hunter-gatherer clans, with a cumulative native population of less than 100,000

Colonists believed that only their elected officials had the right to tax them. They formed protest groups, such as the______________________________.