APUSH: Period 1 Review

Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs?

• the Southwest
• the Northwest
• the Great Plains
• the Eastern Seaboard

Which of the following shows how Native Americans adapted to an transformed the environment in which they lived?

• the creation of large-scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize
• the development of highly structured systems of social stratification
• the construction of monuments to nature-based deities
• the organization of self-governing confederacies among disparate tribes

Which of the following tribes was encountered by English settlers and best known for their highly evolved system of government?

• the Pueblo

• the Chinook

• the Sioux

• the Iroquois

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the New World gained...

• a significant new source of staple food crops
• an influx of gold and silver capital for the construction of new urban centers
• advanced medical techniques that extended the life-span of Native Americans
• new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden

European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly because...

• little medical aid was available so far from European urban centers
• the European conquerors deliberately accelerated the spread of the most deadly strains
• the Native Americans had no natural resistance to these diseases
• the vast devastation of warfare with the Europeans left few to care for the sick

One significant impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old World was...

• the growth of the food supply and subsequent population increase
• the introduction of slavery as a significant source of labor for European landowners
• the widespread devastation of new diseases among the poor
• a drainin gof capital from the royal families and a shift of wealth to the hands of the merchant class

All of the following contributed to European expansion into the New World EXCEPT...

• the development of new navigational technology
• an end to European wars between competing royal families
• a rise of nationalism among European states
• the desire to spread Christianity

Which European nation was first to lay claim to the New World?

• Portugal

• Spain
• France
• England

In the view of the encomienda system, Native Americans were seen primarily as...

• a source of labor
• a group to be protected
• a focus of evangelization
• outcasts to be excluded from Spanish settlement

American Indian cultures...

• established a common written language
• established trade networks and communication over relatively large areas
• had peaceful relationship with each other that included voluntary emigration
• formed major alliances to combat attempts by Europeans to encroach on their lands