APUSH Period 1: 1491-1607

Pre-Columbian Southwest Indians were most noted for which environmental transformation practice?

• Irrigation

• Burning Grasslands and Forests

• Mound-Building

• Overhunting

Which 15th century European country dominated the African slave trade?

• England

• Portugal

• Holland

• France

One factor not responsible for European expansion into the Western Hemisphere was

• desire for economic expansion

• desire to expand Christianity

• democratization of European society

• better shipbuilding and navigational tools

North American Native American tribes

• displayed a uniformity of lifestyle

• modeled themselves after tribes from Central America and Mexico

• were greatly varied in lifestyle and economic systems

• formed alliances on numerous occasions to fight competing tribes

The very First Americans

• were nomadic wanderers

• lived in permanent sites

• were subsistence farmers

• predated Spain's arrival in the New World by only two centuries

The encomienda system primarily relied on labor from

• African slaves

• Spanish indentured slaves

• women

• American Indians

Which of the following was not an initial result of interaction between Spanish explorers and Native Americans?

• Diseases that killed many of the Native Americans

• Domestication by Native Americans of animals brought by Spanish explorers

• Spread of Catholicism among Native Americans

• Plants from South and Central America being sent back to Europe

Slavor labor was brought to the Western Hemisphere by colonists because

• the region was lightly populated when the Spanish arrived

• Native Americans were unfamiliar with the tools and methods necessary to harvest sugrcane

• Aztec and Inca leaders had already begun to import slaves even before Spanish explorers arrived

• there was a lack of manpower to do the labor-intensive work of harvesting sugarcane

Which of the following best describes the impact European colonization had on the Western Hemisphere's native population?

• the native population was highly respected in terms of territorial possessions and religious beliefs

• the Europeans for the most part did not interact with the native population

• the Europeans for the most part did not interact with the native population

• Native populations were often killed off or driven away by the Europeans

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 Atlantic Eastern Seaboard

• The Great Plains