AP US History Periods 1 - 5 Practice
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Columbian Exchange -Answer--"Triangle Trade: Widespread transfer of animals,
plants, culture, human populations, technology and ideas between the American and
Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in 15th-16th centuries, related to European colonization
and trade after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.
Capitalism -Answer--An economic and political system in which a country's trade and
industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Joint-Stock Companies -Answer--A business entity where different stocks can be
bought and owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in
proportion, evidenced by his or her shares (certificates of ownership).[1]This allows
for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a bigger
proportion of a company than others do.
Encomienda System -Answer--A system in which the Spanish crown granted a
person a specified number of natives of a specific community, with the indigenous
leaders in charge of mobilizing the assessed tribute and labor. In turn,
encomenderos were to take responsibility for instruction in the Christian faith,
protection from warring tribes and pirates, instruction in the Spanish language and
development and maintenance of infrastructure.
subjugate -Answer--to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master,
enslave.
Iroquois -Answer--The name not of a tribe but of a confederacy of six separate tribes
centered in what would become New York. Coposed of the Mohawk, Seneca,
Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Tuscarora Tribes united in a military alliance
against the Huron tribe located in the Great Lakes Region.
Pope's Rebellion -Answer--An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people
against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,
present day New Mexico. Killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers
out of the province
,Bartolome de las Casas -Answer--Dominican friar, priest and scholar that worked
tirelessly throughout the sixteenth century, decrying the plight of the American
Indians.
John Calvin -Answer--Frenchman that began as a priest but joined the Protestant
cause as a legal scholar and minister in Geneva, Switzerland. Wrote the Institutes of
Christian Religion, emphasizing the sovereignty of God in salvation. His student,
John Knox, formed the Scottish Presbyterian Church brought to the shores of
America by Scots-Irish immigrants. The Puritans were also Calvinist in doctrine and
were the founders of Congregational Churches in New England.
New Amsterdam -Answer--Dutch Colony in North America that began when Peter
Minuit purchased the best harbor on the Atlantic Seaboard from local Indians with a
few trading goods. Established the Dutch as competent fur traders, excellent
merchants, responsible for founding the most ethnically diverse colony that fittingly,
became the site of the trade and culture capital of the world, New York City.
confederacy -Answer--An alliance or league of nations or peoples looser than a
federation.
caravel -Answer--A small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails.
plantation -Answer--A large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crop
and usually employing coerced or slave labor.
conquistador -Answer--A Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas.
capitalism -Answer--An economic system characterized by private property ,
generally free trade, and open and accessible markets.
mestizo -Answer--A person of mixed Native American and European ancestry.
charter -Answer--A legal document granted by a government to some group or
agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and
obligations.
indentured servant -Answer--A poor person obligated to a fixed term of labor.
seditious -Answer--Concerning resistance to or rebellion against the government.
proprietary -Answer--Concerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to
individuals by the monarch.
, headright -Answer--The right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the
person who finances the passage of a laborer.
disenfranchise -Answer--To take away the right to vote.
middle passage -Answer--That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were
carried from Africa to the Americas.
indentured servants -Answer--A person under contract to work for another person for
a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a
new country. During the seventeenth century most of the white laborers in Maryland
and Virginia came from England as indentured servants.
Puritan -Answer--A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and
17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under
Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Participatory Town Meetings -Answer--Originated in New England - town meetings at
which normal citizens can participate in making decisions related to politics,
government, current events, etc. Noted as one of the first instances of democracy in
America.
Metacomet's War (King Phillip's War) -Answer--An armed conflict between Native
American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their
Native American allies in 1675-78. King Phillip (Metacomet) reacted against
European encroachment onto the Wampanoag territory, was defeated and
humiliated by colonists, forced him to sign a new peace agreement that included the
surrender of Indian guns.
Pueblo Revolt -Answer--1680 - An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people
against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,
present day New Mexico. The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spanish and drove the
remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province.
Great Awakening -Answer--An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept
Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the
1730s and 1740s
Anglicization -Answer--The act of making something English in either form or
character.
Mercantilism -Answer--An enconomic theory that promoted governmental regulation
of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of
rival national powers. (Think: the economic counterpart of political absolutism)
Exam | Questions and Answers | A+
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Columbian Exchange -Answer--"Triangle Trade: Widespread transfer of animals,
plants, culture, human populations, technology and ideas between the American and
Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in 15th-16th centuries, related to European colonization
and trade after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.
Capitalism -Answer--An economic and political system in which a country's trade and
industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Joint-Stock Companies -Answer--A business entity where different stocks can be
bought and owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in
proportion, evidenced by his or her shares (certificates of ownership).[1]This allows
for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a bigger
proportion of a company than others do.
Encomienda System -Answer--A system in which the Spanish crown granted a
person a specified number of natives of a specific community, with the indigenous
leaders in charge of mobilizing the assessed tribute and labor. In turn,
encomenderos were to take responsibility for instruction in the Christian faith,
protection from warring tribes and pirates, instruction in the Spanish language and
development and maintenance of infrastructure.
subjugate -Answer--to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master,
enslave.
Iroquois -Answer--The name not of a tribe but of a confederacy of six separate tribes
centered in what would become New York. Coposed of the Mohawk, Seneca,
Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Tuscarora Tribes united in a military alliance
against the Huron tribe located in the Great Lakes Region.
Pope's Rebellion -Answer--An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people
against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,
present day New Mexico. Killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers
out of the province
,Bartolome de las Casas -Answer--Dominican friar, priest and scholar that worked
tirelessly throughout the sixteenth century, decrying the plight of the American
Indians.
John Calvin -Answer--Frenchman that began as a priest but joined the Protestant
cause as a legal scholar and minister in Geneva, Switzerland. Wrote the Institutes of
Christian Religion, emphasizing the sovereignty of God in salvation. His student,
John Knox, formed the Scottish Presbyterian Church brought to the shores of
America by Scots-Irish immigrants. The Puritans were also Calvinist in doctrine and
were the founders of Congregational Churches in New England.
New Amsterdam -Answer--Dutch Colony in North America that began when Peter
Minuit purchased the best harbor on the Atlantic Seaboard from local Indians with a
few trading goods. Established the Dutch as competent fur traders, excellent
merchants, responsible for founding the most ethnically diverse colony that fittingly,
became the site of the trade and culture capital of the world, New York City.
confederacy -Answer--An alliance or league of nations or peoples looser than a
federation.
caravel -Answer--A small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails.
plantation -Answer--A large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crop
and usually employing coerced or slave labor.
conquistador -Answer--A Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas.
capitalism -Answer--An economic system characterized by private property ,
generally free trade, and open and accessible markets.
mestizo -Answer--A person of mixed Native American and European ancestry.
charter -Answer--A legal document granted by a government to some group or
agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and
obligations.
indentured servant -Answer--A poor person obligated to a fixed term of labor.
seditious -Answer--Concerning resistance to or rebellion against the government.
proprietary -Answer--Concerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to
individuals by the monarch.
, headright -Answer--The right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the
person who finances the passage of a laborer.
disenfranchise -Answer--To take away the right to vote.
middle passage -Answer--That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were
carried from Africa to the Americas.
indentured servants -Answer--A person under contract to work for another person for
a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a
new country. During the seventeenth century most of the white laborers in Maryland
and Virginia came from England as indentured servants.
Puritan -Answer--A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and
17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under
Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Participatory Town Meetings -Answer--Originated in New England - town meetings at
which normal citizens can participate in making decisions related to politics,
government, current events, etc. Noted as one of the first instances of democracy in
America.
Metacomet's War (King Phillip's War) -Answer--An armed conflict between Native
American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their
Native American allies in 1675-78. King Phillip (Metacomet) reacted against
European encroachment onto the Wampanoag territory, was defeated and
humiliated by colonists, forced him to sign a new peace agreement that included the
surrender of Indian guns.
Pueblo Revolt -Answer--1680 - An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people
against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,
present day New Mexico. The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spanish and drove the
remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province.
Great Awakening -Answer--An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept
Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the
1730s and 1740s
Anglicization -Answer--The act of making something English in either form or
character.
Mercantilism -Answer--An enconomic theory that promoted governmental regulation
of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of
rival national powers. (Think: the economic counterpart of political absolutism)
