APUSH CH. 1
Pueblo Revolt
Uprising in 1680 in which Pueblo Indians temporarily drove Spanish colonists out of modern-day New Mexico.
Columbus originally was determined to prove that
a westward water route to China existed
the French empire in North America succeeded because of the
fur trade
Conquistadores were in the Americas searching for all of the following EXCEPT
horses
The men largely responsible for Spain's conquest of the New World were known as
los conquistadores
Who were the Peninsulares?
persons of European birth
Who were the mestizos?
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means
subservience, submission, and servitude to God.
In their relations with the Native Americans, the French
tended to cultivate good relations because of the Native Americans' knowledge of fur trapping
Geographically, the French claimed and settled
the Mississippi Valley and Canada
Which of the following revolutionized early Native American culture?
the development of agriculture
The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was
the establishment of a trading empire in Asia
Spain became the number one power in the world during the sixteenth century because
the monarch provided leadership and support for overseas ventures
Which of these crops did NOT form the basis of Native American culture?
wheat
At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed
wheeled transportation
The Reconquista happened in
1492
The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?
1502
Zheng He
A Chinese Admiral who led seven large naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean
Popé
A Pueblo Indian who became the main organizer of an uprising that aimed to drive the Spanish from their colony and restore the Indians' traditional autonomy.
encomienda system
A Spanish system under which the first settlers had been granted authority over conquered Indian lands with the right to extract forced labor from the native inhabitants.
Cahokia
A city near present-day St. Louis that was a fortified community created by ''mound builders,'' which had a population between 10,000 and 30,000 in the year 1200
maize
A crop that formed the basis of agriculture in the Western Hemisphere.
caravel
A ship capable of long-distance travel
wampum
A string of beads used by Indians in religious rituals and as currency.
Huguenots
French Protestant colonists in America.
Which of the following European countries did NOT have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America?
Germany
The most significant factors that allowed large numbers of nomadic hunters to enter the heart of North America was
Global warming
In 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in Central and South America relied on many of which of the following groups to work fields and mines
Indians
Which was not expressed by Bartolome de Las Casas in A VERY BRIEF ACCOUNT of the DESTRUCTION of the INDIES in 1552?
He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration.
Which of the following was NOT a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?
Large cities were unknown to the Americas
During the Pueblo Revolt, which of the following names was ordered to never be spoken again?
Mary
The most advanced Native American cultures appeared in which region of North America
Mexico and Central America
patroons
Shareholders who agreed to transport tenants for agricultural labor.
In which country did the Reconquista occur?
Spain
Which was NOT a means by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?
He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.
The conquistador of Mexico was
Hernan Cortes
Black Legend
Idea that the Spanish New World empire was more oppressive toward the Indians than other European empires; was used as a justification for English imperial expansion.
mestizos
Spanish word for person of mixed Native American and European ancestry
The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhibited by Europeans is
St. Augustine, Florida
reconquista
The ''reconquest'' of Spain from the Moors by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Which of the following was NOT a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?
The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs.
Tenochtitlán
The capital city of the Aztec empire, in present-day Mexico.
Which of the following was NOT a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?
The spread of democracy to the Americas
Columbian Exchange
The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus's voyages.
Which was NOT an aspect of Native American religious beliefs?
Their written religious text was called the Wicca.
Which of the following was not a characteristic of American Indians?
There were four different tribes in the Americas
Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest?
They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor worship.
What factors helps to explain the development of different Native American communities in the New World?
Agricultural Revolution
Iroquois
An alliance of five peoples living in present-day New York and Pennsylvania - the Mohawk, Oneido, Cayuga, Seneca, and Onondaga - which formed a Great League of Peace
''Christian liberty''
An idea common in Europe that freedom would come from abandoning the life of sin to embrace the teachings of Christ
The aggressive Native American people who occupied the valley of Mexico when Hernan Cortes arrived there were the
Aztecs
Prior to 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United States was
Cahokia
which was NOT a characteristic of "coverture"?
Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.
métis
Children of marriages between Indian women and French traders or officials.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Cortes conquest of the Aztecs; Las Casa's Destruction of the In-Dies; Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement
In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following were true except
Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others' viewpoints; kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples.
Which of the following was NOT a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America?
Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance.
Which is NOT an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?
People in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders.
peninsulares
Persons of European birth living in the colonies.
The first European nation to establish contact with sub-Saharan Africa
Portugal
factories
Portuguese fortified trading posts on the western coast of Africa.
Chapter Test
Questions
A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was
an expansion of Africa's internal slave trade
Which of the following is not related to the French experience in the New World?
contact with the Aztecs
The French explorers were
determined to find gold and silver
The greatest factor that enabled Europeans to conquer natives in the New World was the
differences of population and cultural patterns among tribes
The single greatest factor that caused the destruction of Native Americans after contact with Europeans was
disease
European diseases
extensive death among Native Americans and badly disrupted Native American culture