WGU Academy US History 1 Quiz 1
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1. The land bridge between Alaska and Siberia that Beringia
Northeast Asians crossed over between 15,000 and
20,000 years ago.
2. The Native American crops of maize (corn), beans, and Three Sisters
squash that grew effectively together.
3. A major city on the Mississippi (near present-day St. Cahokia
Louis) that was a major political, economic, and re-
ligious center. It held a population of about 40,000
people in 1200 A.D.
4. Aztec capital city holding more than 100,000 people. Tenochtitlán
5. Tenochtitlán had a population of over _________ people 100,000
around the time of Columbus's discovery.
6. The English were late at colonization because they False
were lazy.
7. Some of the problems that the English faced at home True
were inflation, population explosion, and religious
strife.
8. The English monarchy created joint stock companies. False
9. Puritans wanted to explore the New World for strictly False
commercial purposes.
10. There were earlier botched attempts at colonization, True
but Jamestown would be the first permanent English
settlement in the New World.
11. Conquistadors
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, WGU Academy US History 1 Quiz 1
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Spanish conquerors, usually soldiers, who invaded and
colonized Spanish America.
12. American plantations where Indians were forcibly em-
ployed; the plantations were given as gifts to favored
nobles
13. The exchange of people, food, plants, weeds, bacteria, Columbian Exchange
diseases, trade goods, and other elements between
Native Americans and Europeans after Christopher
Columbus's discovery.
14. A massive epidemic, such as smallpox, that devastates Virgin Soils Epidemics
civilizations that previously had no immunity to it.
15. Famous Spanish conquistador who conquered the Hernan Cortes
Aztec Empire around 1520.
16. A type of corporation that consists of individual in- Joint stock companies
vestors who pool their money to reduce the risk.
17. A mysterious colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke
and briefly commanded by John White, which mysteri-
ously disappeared in the 1580s.
18. The pilgrims were which type of Puritans? Separatists
19. John Winthrop compared the Massachusetts Bay A city upon a hill
Colony to what?
20. What happened to Anne Hutchinson after her trial? She was banished
21. Which colony was founded mainly upon the premise of Rhode Island
religious toleration?
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_hm8cf7
1. The land bridge between Alaska and Siberia that Beringia
Northeast Asians crossed over between 15,000 and
20,000 years ago.
2. The Native American crops of maize (corn), beans, and Three Sisters
squash that grew effectively together.
3. A major city on the Mississippi (near present-day St. Cahokia
Louis) that was a major political, economic, and re-
ligious center. It held a population of about 40,000
people in 1200 A.D.
4. Aztec capital city holding more than 100,000 people. Tenochtitlán
5. Tenochtitlán had a population of over _________ people 100,000
around the time of Columbus's discovery.
6. The English were late at colonization because they False
were lazy.
7. Some of the problems that the English faced at home True
were inflation, population explosion, and religious
strife.
8. The English monarchy created joint stock companies. False
9. Puritans wanted to explore the New World for strictly False
commercial purposes.
10. There were earlier botched attempts at colonization, True
but Jamestown would be the first permanent English
settlement in the New World.
11. Conquistadors
1/9
, WGU Academy US History 1 Quiz 1
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_hm8cf7
Spanish conquerors, usually soldiers, who invaded and
colonized Spanish America.
12. American plantations where Indians were forcibly em-
ployed; the plantations were given as gifts to favored
nobles
13. The exchange of people, food, plants, weeds, bacteria, Columbian Exchange
diseases, trade goods, and other elements between
Native Americans and Europeans after Christopher
Columbus's discovery.
14. A massive epidemic, such as smallpox, that devastates Virgin Soils Epidemics
civilizations that previously had no immunity to it.
15. Famous Spanish conquistador who conquered the Hernan Cortes
Aztec Empire around 1520.
16. A type of corporation that consists of individual in- Joint stock companies
vestors who pool their money to reduce the risk.
17. A mysterious colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke
and briefly commanded by John White, which mysteri-
ously disappeared in the 1580s.
18. The pilgrims were which type of Puritans? Separatists
19. John Winthrop compared the Massachusetts Bay A city upon a hill
Colony to what?
20. What happened to Anne Hutchinson after her trial? She was banished
21. Which colony was founded mainly upon the premise of Rhode Island
religious toleration?
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