CLEP US HISTORY 1 CRASH COURSE
Questions and Answers
1.Belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essence
Answer Animism (Native American belief)
2.What is true of Native American societies pre-European?
Answer Adapted to their diverse environments
3.Native American products pre-European?
Answer Maize, hunted buffalo
4.Which Native American group was a mix of agricultural and hunter-
gatherer societies?
Answer Iroquois
5.Why did Europe expand to the Americas?
Answer Gold
Wealth Glory
Power
God Converting others to Christianity
6.Trans-Atlantic exchange of people, diseases, food, animals
Answer Columbian Ex- change
,7.What animal dramatically changed Native life?
Answer Horses
8.Who were the first countries to explore the Americas?
Answer Portugal, Spain
9.First spanish settlement in NA?
Answer St. Augustine, 1565
10.Agreement between Spain & Portugal to divide up the Americas into
west and east
Answer Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
11.Spanish system that gave colonists land and right to native slave labor
Answer -
encomienda system
12.People of mixed Indian and European heritage
Answer Mestizo
13.People of mixed white and black heritage
Answer Mulatto
14.Revolt in 1680 by Pueblo Indian Pope, killed 100s of spanish
,Answer Pope/Pueblo Revolt
15.Wrote "Just Causes for War against the Indians" that justified
Spanish colonization
Answer Juan de Sepulveda
16.Wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" that talked
about the mistreatment of natives
Answer Bartolome de las Casas
17.Who were the first countries to use Native American and African
slave labor?
Answer Spanish and Portugal
18.Belief that colonies exist to enrich the Mother country
Answer Merchantilism
19.When did England defeat the Spanish Armada and started their coloniza-
tion of America?
Answer 1588
20.What was the religious affiliation of England?
Answer Protestant
21.Stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits
, or losses from the colony
Answer Joint Stock Company
22.land given by the king to an individual or group
Answer Proprietorship
23.What colony is referred to as the lost colony, where the colony is found
to be deserted when their governor returns?
Answer Roanoke
24.Where did the English first make their colonies, includes Virginia &
Mary- land?
Answer Chesapeake colonies
25.First permanent English colony in NA?
Answer Jamestown, Virginia
26.Who introduced the cultivation of tobacco to the english colonies?
Answer John Rolfe
27.What was the first cash crop of colonial virginia?
Answer Tobacco
28.Worked for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colony
Answer Inden- tured servants
Questions and Answers
1.Belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essence
Answer Animism (Native American belief)
2.What is true of Native American societies pre-European?
Answer Adapted to their diverse environments
3.Native American products pre-European?
Answer Maize, hunted buffalo
4.Which Native American group was a mix of agricultural and hunter-
gatherer societies?
Answer Iroquois
5.Why did Europe expand to the Americas?
Answer Gold
Wealth Glory
Power
God Converting others to Christianity
6.Trans-Atlantic exchange of people, diseases, food, animals
Answer Columbian Ex- change
,7.What animal dramatically changed Native life?
Answer Horses
8.Who were the first countries to explore the Americas?
Answer Portugal, Spain
9.First spanish settlement in NA?
Answer St. Augustine, 1565
10.Agreement between Spain & Portugal to divide up the Americas into
west and east
Answer Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
11.Spanish system that gave colonists land and right to native slave labor
Answer -
encomienda system
12.People of mixed Indian and European heritage
Answer Mestizo
13.People of mixed white and black heritage
Answer Mulatto
14.Revolt in 1680 by Pueblo Indian Pope, killed 100s of spanish
,Answer Pope/Pueblo Revolt
15.Wrote "Just Causes for War against the Indians" that justified
Spanish colonization
Answer Juan de Sepulveda
16.Wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" that talked
about the mistreatment of natives
Answer Bartolome de las Casas
17.Who were the first countries to use Native American and African
slave labor?
Answer Spanish and Portugal
18.Belief that colonies exist to enrich the Mother country
Answer Merchantilism
19.When did England defeat the Spanish Armada and started their coloniza-
tion of America?
Answer 1588
20.What was the religious affiliation of England?
Answer Protestant
21.Stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits
, or losses from the colony
Answer Joint Stock Company
22.land given by the king to an individual or group
Answer Proprietorship
23.What colony is referred to as the lost colony, where the colony is found
to be deserted when their governor returns?
Answer Roanoke
24.Where did the English first make their colonies, includes Virginia &
Mary- land?
Answer Chesapeake colonies
25.First permanent English colony in NA?
Answer Jamestown, Virginia
26.Who introduced the cultivation of tobacco to the english colonies?
Answer John Rolfe
27.What was the first cash crop of colonial virginia?
Answer Tobacco
28.Worked for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colony
Answer Inden- tured servants
