KSU US/GA History Exemption Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What major legacies did the Spanish explorers attempting to penetrate North America
leave? - ✔✔1. Disease: diphtheria, mumps, measles, smallpox (main killer)
2. Horses and other domesticated animals
3. Metal tools and firearms
Improvements in ________ left the Native Americans dependent on whites for ________
and _______ - ✔✔weapons technology, more weapons/ammunition, metal goods
Most important crop given to the Europeans by the Native Americans - ✔✔maize (corn)
When did Columbus "discover" America? - ✔✔1492 - and he died believing he had
reached India
Who briefly visited the New World in the early 11th century? - ✔✔Scandinavians
The native peoples of North and South America arrived from ______ in a series of
migrations across a ________. - ✔✔Asia, land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska
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,Because _______ was abundant, the Native American population grew and human
settlement spread throughout the Western Hemisphere rather quickly. - ✔✔food
(mammoths, mastodons, elk, moose, bison, caribou, etc.)
culture areas - ✔✔regions in which a population shares a similar lifestyle based on
environmental conditions
Most significant North American culture areas - ✔✔Southwest, Great Plains, Eastern
Woodlands
The Great Plains people - ✔✔- Hunters
- Relied on bison for clothing, food, shelter, etc.
- Nomadic
- Minimal possessions
- Only domesticated animals were dogs
- Lived a harsh existence until the Europeans introduced them to horses
The Eastern Woodlands people - ✔✔- Adena-Hopewell people
- First true farmers of the Eastern Woodlands were the Mississippians of the central
Mississippi River Valley
kinship groups - ✔✔extended families that were key to the social relations of the native
peoples
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,Gender roles of Native Americans - ✔✔Men: Hunted, engaged in trade, made war,
were tribal leaders
Women: Cared for children, gathered food, cultivated crops
shaman - ✔✔considered to be the intermediary between the people and the gods in the
spirit world
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - ✔✔- Genoese (Italian) sailor who believed that
sailing west across the Atlantic was the shortest sea route to Asia
- His expeditions were rejected twice by Portuguese and neither England nor France
was interested
- Convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to sponsor his expedition
What did Christopher Columbus come upon in Hispaniola (Santo Domingo)? - ✔✔a
significant amount of gold
The first permanent Spanish settlement was on ______ - ✔✔Hispaniola
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - ✔✔An agreement between Portugal and Spain which
declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic
Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would
belong to Portugal.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) - ✔✔- Italian navigator following Columbus
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, - First to realize that the Indies were a "New World" and not part of Asia
- America's namesake
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) - ✔✔- Voyage around the world (1519 - 1522)
- Demonstrated the true circumference of the Earth
- Expedition was the basis for the Spanish colony in the Philippines
The conquistadors were more interested in finding _______ than in ______. - ✔✔gold
and silver, colonization
African slaves were brought to the West Indies as early as ________ - ✔✔1503
Why were African slaves brought to the West Indies? - ✔✔critical labor shortages
Juan Ponce de Leon - ✔✔- "Fountain of Youth"
- Explored the Floridian peninsula
The two oldest cities in the United States (result of Spanish exploration) were _____ and
____. - ✔✔Santa Fe, New Mexico (1609) and St. Augustine, Florida (1565)
(T/F) Fishing and colonization motivated the voyages sponsored by King Francis I of
France in the 1500s. - ✔✔False.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What major legacies did the Spanish explorers attempting to penetrate North America
leave? - ✔✔1. Disease: diphtheria, mumps, measles, smallpox (main killer)
2. Horses and other domesticated animals
3. Metal tools and firearms
Improvements in ________ left the Native Americans dependent on whites for ________
and _______ - ✔✔weapons technology, more weapons/ammunition, metal goods
Most important crop given to the Europeans by the Native Americans - ✔✔maize (corn)
When did Columbus "discover" America? - ✔✔1492 - and he died believing he had
reached India
Who briefly visited the New World in the early 11th century? - ✔✔Scandinavians
The native peoples of North and South America arrived from ______ in a series of
migrations across a ________. - ✔✔Asia, land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska
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,Because _______ was abundant, the Native American population grew and human
settlement spread throughout the Western Hemisphere rather quickly. - ✔✔food
(mammoths, mastodons, elk, moose, bison, caribou, etc.)
culture areas - ✔✔regions in which a population shares a similar lifestyle based on
environmental conditions
Most significant North American culture areas - ✔✔Southwest, Great Plains, Eastern
Woodlands
The Great Plains people - ✔✔- Hunters
- Relied on bison for clothing, food, shelter, etc.
- Nomadic
- Minimal possessions
- Only domesticated animals were dogs
- Lived a harsh existence until the Europeans introduced them to horses
The Eastern Woodlands people - ✔✔- Adena-Hopewell people
- First true farmers of the Eastern Woodlands were the Mississippians of the central
Mississippi River Valley
kinship groups - ✔✔extended families that were key to the social relations of the native
peoples
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,Gender roles of Native Americans - ✔✔Men: Hunted, engaged in trade, made war,
were tribal leaders
Women: Cared for children, gathered food, cultivated crops
shaman - ✔✔considered to be the intermediary between the people and the gods in the
spirit world
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - ✔✔- Genoese (Italian) sailor who believed that
sailing west across the Atlantic was the shortest sea route to Asia
- His expeditions were rejected twice by Portuguese and neither England nor France
was interested
- Convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to sponsor his expedition
What did Christopher Columbus come upon in Hispaniola (Santo Domingo)? - ✔✔a
significant amount of gold
The first permanent Spanish settlement was on ______ - ✔✔Hispaniola
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - ✔✔An agreement between Portugal and Spain which
declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic
Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would
belong to Portugal.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) - ✔✔- Italian navigator following Columbus
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, - First to realize that the Indies were a "New World" and not part of Asia
- America's namesake
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) - ✔✔- Voyage around the world (1519 - 1522)
- Demonstrated the true circumference of the Earth
- Expedition was the basis for the Spanish colony in the Philippines
The conquistadors were more interested in finding _______ than in ______. - ✔✔gold
and silver, colonization
African slaves were brought to the West Indies as early as ________ - ✔✔1503
Why were African slaves brought to the West Indies? - ✔✔critical labor shortages
Juan Ponce de Leon - ✔✔- "Fountain of Youth"
- Explored the Floridian peninsula
The two oldest cities in the United States (result of Spanish exploration) were _____ and
____. - ✔✔Santa Fe, New Mexico (1609) and St. Augustine, Florida (1565)
(T/F) Fishing and colonization motivated the voyages sponsored by King Francis I of
France in the 1500s. - ✔✔False.
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