CLEP US History 1 Questions and Answers Already Graded A

CLEP US History 1 Questions and Answers Already Graded A John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as a "city upon a hill." But first he explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statement best illustrate the Puritans' Acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks. The Portuguese prince who sponsored the explorations and mapping of previously unknown African coastlines which led eventually to Columbus sailing across the Atlantic. Prince Henry the Navigator Columbus sailed to America in 1492 Columbus landed in the... Caribbean This Conquistador overthrew the Aztec Empire in Mexico Hernan Cortez Central and South America was invaded by Spanish conquistadors in the early 1500s What animal did the Spanish bring to the Americas? The Horse A large grant of land from the Spanish crown on which conquistadors took 'tribute' from the local Indians in the form of a large share of the crops they grew or the gold and silver they mined. Encomienda A friar who became an unrelenting critic of colonial violence against Indians Bartolome de Las Casas Even though he was killed in the Philippines, his crew went on to be the first to circumnavigate the globe. Ferdinand Magellan First British colony in the Americas was located in Roanoke Island The first state was named...by the British Virginia Jamestown Established by Raleigh. Leadership under John Smith. Powhatan and Pocahontas First Tobacco crops Sir Walter Raleigh introduced smoking to British court