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APUSH Give Me Liberty! (Chapters 1-3)
Exam Questions With Correct Answers
Aztecs - answer✔-advanced group of Native Americans who occupied Mexico region
-Tenochitilán was capital, one of world's largest cities at time (250,000 pop.)
Incas - answer✔-advanced group of Native Americans who occupied further south in Peru region
-connected by complex system of roads, bridges, etc. in the mountains (12 million pop.)
Development of African Slavery - answer✔-slavery existed before Europeans
-Africans were enslaved by other Africans for reasons such as being captives in wars, criminals,
or debtors
-slaves still had well-defined rights and could often obtain freedom
-slavery changed due to arrival of Portuguese & Europeans (Africans shipped to other countries)
Reconquista - answer✔the effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting
from the 1100s until 1492
Christopher Columbus - answer✔1492 comes to america failure
Columbian Exchange - answer✔-transatlantic flow of goods and people
-altered millions of years of evolution
Encomienda System - answer✔Spanish settlers had been granted authority to force Natives into
labor and take thier land
Bartolome de Las Casas - answer✔-friar who believed Spain was to blame for innocent Native
American deaths; insisted Native Americans were rational beings- not barbarians
-believed goal was to convert Indians to Christianity and harming/enslaving them would
diminish the outcome of the goal
-thought enslavement of Africans would help protect Native Americans, though
Black Legand - answer✔-image of Spain as uniquely brutal and and exploitative colonizer
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-this justified other European powers to challenge Spain's predominance in the New World
Popé's Rebellion (Pueblo Revolt) - answer✔-friars tried to convert Indians to Catholicism and
arrested and humiliated Indians who practiced their tradtionial faiths
-Indian religious leader organized an uprising aimed to drive Spanish from colony to restore
Indians' traditional autonomy
-Pueblo warriers destroyed missionaries, farms, and killed people
-most complete victory for Native Americans over Europeans in history of North America;
taught Spanish a lesson to be more religiously tolerant
Richard Hakluyt - answer✔-Protestant minister and scholar (writer) who believed Queen
Elizabeth I should support the establishment of colonies
-was tired of Spanish Rule
-insisted trade would be basis of an English empire
Indentured Servants - answer✔people who voluntarily surrendered their freedom for a specified
period of time (5-10 years, typically) in exchange for passage to America; often promised
freedom dues after time of serving
Jamestown - answer✔first permanent English settlement in North America
John Smith - answer✔-forceful man who helped discipline the colony and preserve it (helped
found and govern Jamestown)
-his successors continued his iron rule
Virginia Company - answer✔-joint English stock companies which financially supported
settlement of Jamestown
-had more interest in gold than colonization
Headright System - answer✔-Virginia Company gave 50 acres of land to any man who paid for
his or anyone else's passage to the New World
-goal was to help attract settlers to populate the New World
House of Burgesses - answer✔-the first elected legislative assembly in the New World
established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619
-representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its
legistlative acts
John Calvin - answer✔-founder of Calvinism
APUSH Give Me Liberty! (Chapters 1-3)
Exam Questions With Correct Answers
Aztecs - answer✔-advanced group of Native Americans who occupied Mexico region
-Tenochitilán was capital, one of world's largest cities at time (250,000 pop.)
Incas - answer✔-advanced group of Native Americans who occupied further south in Peru region
-connected by complex system of roads, bridges, etc. in the mountains (12 million pop.)
Development of African Slavery - answer✔-slavery existed before Europeans
-Africans were enslaved by other Africans for reasons such as being captives in wars, criminals,
or debtors
-slaves still had well-defined rights and could often obtain freedom
-slavery changed due to arrival of Portuguese & Europeans (Africans shipped to other countries)
Reconquista - answer✔the effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting
from the 1100s until 1492
Christopher Columbus - answer✔1492 comes to america failure
Columbian Exchange - answer✔-transatlantic flow of goods and people
-altered millions of years of evolution
Encomienda System - answer✔Spanish settlers had been granted authority to force Natives into
labor and take thier land
Bartolome de Las Casas - answer✔-friar who believed Spain was to blame for innocent Native
American deaths; insisted Native Americans were rational beings- not barbarians
-believed goal was to convert Indians to Christianity and harming/enslaving them would
diminish the outcome of the goal
-thought enslavement of Africans would help protect Native Americans, though
Black Legand - answer✔-image of Spain as uniquely brutal and and exploitative colonizer
, ©THEBRIGHTSTARS 2024/2025
-this justified other European powers to challenge Spain's predominance in the New World
Popé's Rebellion (Pueblo Revolt) - answer✔-friars tried to convert Indians to Catholicism and
arrested and humiliated Indians who practiced their tradtionial faiths
-Indian religious leader organized an uprising aimed to drive Spanish from colony to restore
Indians' traditional autonomy
-Pueblo warriers destroyed missionaries, farms, and killed people
-most complete victory for Native Americans over Europeans in history of North America;
taught Spanish a lesson to be more religiously tolerant
Richard Hakluyt - answer✔-Protestant minister and scholar (writer) who believed Queen
Elizabeth I should support the establishment of colonies
-was tired of Spanish Rule
-insisted trade would be basis of an English empire
Indentured Servants - answer✔people who voluntarily surrendered their freedom for a specified
period of time (5-10 years, typically) in exchange for passage to America; often promised
freedom dues after time of serving
Jamestown - answer✔first permanent English settlement in North America
John Smith - answer✔-forceful man who helped discipline the colony and preserve it (helped
found and govern Jamestown)
-his successors continued his iron rule
Virginia Company - answer✔-joint English stock companies which financially supported
settlement of Jamestown
-had more interest in gold than colonization
Headright System - answer✔-Virginia Company gave 50 acres of land to any man who paid for
his or anyone else's passage to the New World
-goal was to help attract settlers to populate the New World
House of Burgesses - answer✔-the first elected legislative assembly in the New World
established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619
-representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its
legistlative acts
John Calvin - answer✔-founder of Calvinism
