Edpuzzle: Period 1 APUSH Review

Link to housing styles Which form of housing represented the resources available and lifestyle of the Southwest Indians?

Adobe Houses

The first migrations of people to the Americas came thousands of years ago at the end of the last ice age across a land bridge connecting North America to___.

Asia

As a result of the Treaty of Tordesillas, the only New World colony held by Portugal was

Brazil

Where did the cultivation of maize (corn) originate?

Central Mexico

The trans-Atlantic exchange (beginning with Columbus) of people, food, ideas, diseases between the Western Hemisphere (Americas) and Europe, Africa was called

Columbian Exchange.

Christopher Columbus was sailing for Spain (1492) was motivated by

Gold, Glory, and God.

Which tribe was a mix hunter- gatherer and agricultural society (growing the three sisters, CORN, BEANS, and SQUASH)?

Iroquois

An economic theory that colonies existed to benefit the mother country through a favorable balance of trade was called

Mercantilism

The Spanish Encomienda System established a forced labor system that used (at first)

Native Americans.

The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided the Western Hemisphere between Spain and

Portugal

Which tribe adapted to their desert like environment by engineering irrigation systems to water their crops (such as corn?)

Pueblo

Pope's Rebellion (1680) was the result of

Pueblo Indians resistance to Spanish missions attempts to limit Indian cultural and political autonomy.

Which tribe adapted to an arid (little rain) and flat grassland environment to live a nomadic lifestyle hunting the buffalo?

Sioux

The first European country to begin a sustained effort to colonize the Americas was

Spain

The Valladolid Debates in Spain included Sepulveda's argument that

Spanish culture was superior and justified in claiming Native lands.

Link to housing styles Which form of housing represented the resources available and lifestyle of the Plains Indians?

Tepees

Don't forget the Pacific Northwest! Tribes such as the Haida and Kuakiutl tribes were hunters and gatherers but also relied on what resource from their unique environment?

fish, seals, and other vast resources from the ocean

Migrations across the Beringia Land Bridge were motivated by

hunting big game, such as the mastodon.

Encomenderos (plantation owners) that were supervising the Encomienda System were supposed to be also

introducing Catholicism to their workforce.

One of the most devastating results of the Columbian Exchange on Native American life was

introduction of European diseases, Native populations had no immunity.

The Pueblo Revolt (1680) took place in

modern day New Mexico.

The French and Dutch will be unique from the English and the Spanish in that their relationships will be

more cooperative, the French and Dutch come in smaller numbers and intermarry with native peoples (French especially.)

One of the results of the Columbian Exchange on Europe was

new food sources balanced the diet and led to population growth.

Spanish missions developed racially mixed CASTE SYSTEMS whereby the Spanish were at the top of the racial hierarchy followed by those of mixed blood including mestizo

people of mixed Indian and European heritage

The introduction of the Spanish horse to America had the most significant impact on

the Plains Indians who expanded their nomadic lifeways to hunt the buffalo (violent interactions with other tribes.)

The result of the Pueblo Revolt (1680) was

the Spanish accommodated some aspects of Pueblo culture (they could practice their religion as long as the "true" faith was still Catholicism)

The main point of Bartolome de las Casas' "Destruction of the Indies" was to expose

the cruel mistreatment of Native peoples at the hands of the Spanish.

Most Native American religion was based on___.

the sacredness of nature

Diversity among Native American tribes in 1491 was largely due to interactions with each other (cultural exchanges) and ___.

their environment/ geography

One reason European explorers were motivated to push west during the Age of Exploration was

to find faster and more direct routes to Asia.

Algonquin tribes (language group) in the Northeast and Atlantic coast had a matrilineal society whereby women had significant power. Unlike European society, women

worked in the fields and cultivated crops, such as the three sisters (CORN, SQUASH, and BEANS).