APUSH Vocabulary Quiz UNIT 1

A staple crop domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica, central to Native American diets.

• Animism

• Buffalo

• Maize (corn)

• Tomatoes

A Native American culture in the southeastern United States, known for their large earthen mounds and complex societies.

• Mississippians

• Incas

• Iroquois

• Aztecs

A social system in which family lineage and inheritance are traced through the mother's side.

• Mestizo

• Assimilation

• Matrilineal

• Requerimiento

A powerful group of Native American tribes in the northeastern United States, known for forming a confederacy.

• Cahokia

• Great Plains Natives

• Pueblos

• Iroquois

Indigenous peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their adobe and stone dwellings.

• Iroquois

• Pueblos

• Aztecs

• Incas

Tribes living in the central area of North America, known for their nomadic lifestyle and reliance on a particular animal, the buffalo.

• Iroquois

• Mississippians

• Great Plains Natives

• Pueblos

A highly advanced civilization in South America, known for their vast empire and monumental architecture.

• Aztecs

• Five Nation Confederacy

• Incas

• Cahokia

A belief system in which spirits are believed to reside in natural objects and phenomena.

• Catholicism

• Animism

• Mercantilism

• Protestant Reformation

A Mesoamerican civilization in central Mexico, known for their advanced social systems and their capital city.

• Iroquois

• Mississippians

• Incas

• Aztecs

A land connection that once linked Asia and North America, used by the first peoples to migrate to the Americas.

• Caravel

• Hispaniola

• Bering Strait Land Bridge

• Middle Passage