Apush Warm up 9/6/22 Unit 1

Indian groups who supported themselves through a mixture of hunting, fishing, and agriculture. Sizes of settlements ranged from giant cities such as Cahokia with 30,000 people to small villages. These Indians sometimes formed powerful political alliances such as the Iroquois Confederation.

• Southwestern Indians

• Mississippi River Valley and Northeastern

• Northwestern Indians

• Great Plains and Great Basin Indians

Answer explanation

The Indians of the Mississippi River Valley are often called "mound builders" due to these massive structures that still stand today.

Indian groups who developed a nomadic lifestyle based mainly on hunting the buffalo. The arrival of horses from the Columbian Exchange would allow some of these tribes such as the Lakota and Comanche to develop powerful nomadic empires.

• Southwestern Indians

• Mississippi River Valley and Northeastern

• Northwestern Indians

• Great Plains and Great Basin Indians

Answer explanation

The image of nomadic Indians living in teepees looms large in the American imagination, but in fact, most Indians were sedentary farmers.

Indian groups who lived by hunting and gathering without being nomadic. Their lifestyle was made possible by access to the abundant fishing resources of the ocean.

• Southwestern Indians

• Mississippi River Valley and Northeastern

• Northwestern Indians

• Great Plains and Great Basin Indians

Answer explanation

The erection of totem poles is a major part of Pacific Northwestern Indian spirituality.

Which of the following is NOT a group of Protestants?

• Lutherans

• Anglicans

• Jesuits

• Puritans

Answer explanation

Jesuits were a group of Catholic missionaries who played a major role in converting the Indian populations of Latin America

During the era of exploration and colonization, some parts of Western Europe were moving away from feudalism and toward a new economic system known as:

• Manorialism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Commercialism

Answer explanation

Capitalism is based on the private ownership of property and the competitive pursuit of profit.

Which of the following characteristics did traditional European, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations of the fifteenth century hold in common?

• In all of these societies, serfdom prevailed.

• All of these societies punished heresies harshly.

• Each was a hierarchal society in which authority came from above.

• Each culture maintained a matrilineal inheritance system.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in West Africa looking for ___________________________.

• Gold

• Goods

• Salt

• Slaves

Both the Aztec and Inca empires were

• rural and poor
• small in population, but sophisticated in infrastructure 
• large, wealthy, and sophisticated
• large in geographical size, but sparsely populated 

At the time of Columbus' voyage to N. America which of the following was true?

• There were, likely, over 100 million natives in the Americas.
• There were, likely, less than 10 million natives in the Americas.
• There were significanlty more natives south of the current United States' border than north of it.
• Slavbes had begun to arrive in S. America but not N. America.