CLEP US History 1 Questions with Correct Answers 2023/2024

Belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essense - Answer-Animism (Native American belief) What is true of Native American societies pre-European? - Answer-Adapted to their diverse environments Native American products pre-European? - Answer-Maize, hunted buffalo Which Native American group was a mix of agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies? - Answer-Iroquois Why did Europe expand to the Americas? - Answer-Gold: Wealth Glory: Power God: Converting others to Christianity Trans-Atlantic exchange of people, diseases, food, animals - Answer-Columbian Exchange What animal dramatically changed Native life? - Answer-Horses Who were the first countries to explore the Americas? - Answer-Portugal, Spain First spanish settlement in NA? - Answer-St. Augustine, 1565 Agreement between Spain & Portugal to divide up the Americas into west and east - Answer-Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Spanish system that gave colonists land and right to native slave labor - Answer- encomienda system People of mixed Indian and European heritage - Answer-Mestizo People of mixed white and black heritage - Answer-Mulatto Revolt in 1680 by Pueblo Indian Pope, killed 100s of spanish - Answer-Pope/Pueblo Revolt Wrote "Just Causes for War against the Indians" that justified Spanish colonization - Answer-Juan de Sepulveda Wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" that talked about the mistreatment of natives - Answer-Bartolome de las Casas Who were the first countries to use Native American and African slave labor? - Answer-Spanish and Portugal Belief that colonies exist to enrich the Mother country - Answer-Merchantilism When did England defeat the Spanish Armada and started their colonization of America? - Answer-1588 What was the religious affiliation of England? - Answer-Protestant Stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits or losses from the colony - Answer-Joint Stock Company land given by the king to an individual or group - Answer-Proprietorship What colony is referred to as the lost colony, where the colony is found to be deserted when their governor returns? - Answer-Roanoke Where did the English first make their colonies, includes Virginia & Maryland? - Answer-Chesapeake colonies First permanent English colony in NA? - Answer-Jamestown, Virginia Who introduced the cultivation of tobacco to the english colonies? - Answer-John Rolfe What was the first cash crop of colonial virginia? - Answer-Tobacco Worked for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colony - AnswerIndentured servants The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land - Answer-Headright System What was the first form of representative governments in the early english colonies? - Answer-House of Burgesses Series of wars between the English and Powhatan tribe. Powhatan largely defeated due to disease - Answer-Anglo-Powhatan Wars Ended the first Anglo-Powhatan war by marrying english settler John Rolfe - Answer- Pocahontas Rebellion in 1676 due to frustration with lack of land (settlers couldn't move west due to natives), lack of political power, and native american attacks. Nathaniel Bacon led rebels, killing indians and burned down Jamestown - Answer-Bacon's Rebellion