CLEP US History 1 Crash Course 2024

Belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essense - Answer-Animism (Native American belief) What is true of Native American societies pre-European? - Answer-Adapted to their diverse environments Native American products pre-European? - Answer-Maize, hunted buffalo Which Native American group was a mix of agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies? - Answer-Iroquois Why did Europe expand to the Americas? - Answer-Gold: Wealth Glory: Power God: Converting others to Christianity Trans-Atlantic exchange of people, diseases, food, animals - Answer-Columbian Exchange What animal dramatically changed Native life? - Answer-Horses Who were the first countries to explore the Americas? - Answer-Portugal, Spain First spanish settlement in NA? - Answer-St. Augustine, 1565 Agreement between Spain & Portugal to divide up the Americas into west and east - Answer-Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Spanish system that gave colonists land and right to native slave labor - Answer- encomienda system People of mixed Indian and European heritage - Answer-Mestizo People of mixed white and black heritage - Answer-Mulatto Revolt in 1680 by Pueblo Indian Pope, killed 100s of spanish - Answer-Pope/Pueblo Revolt Wrote "Just Causes for War against the Indians" that justified Spanish colonization - Answer-Juan de Sepulveda Wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" that talked about the mistreatment of natives - Answer-Bartolome de las Casas Who were the first countries to use Native American and African slave labor? - Answer-Spanish and Portugal Belief that colonies exist to enrich the Mother country - Answer-Merchantilism When did England defeat the Spanish Armada and started their colonization of America? - Answer-1588 What was the religious affiliation of England? - Answer-Protestant Stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits or losses from the colony - Answer-Joint Stock Company land given by the king to an individual or group - Answer-Proprietorship