WGU HISTORY FINAL TEST EXAM 2023/2024

Early Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER-Immersed in South and Central America and Mexico In Peru the Incas - CORRECT ANSWER-Created the largest empire in the Americas stretching almost 2000 miles long South America develop a complex administrative system pave roads Mesoamerican Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER--Mayans and Aztecs -Occupied Central America and much of Mexico -Developed a strong agricultural system and extensive trade networks, followed a solar calendar, and participated in highly ritualistic religious and political ceremonies. People north of Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed less elaborate but still substantial civilizations inhabitants of the northern regions of the content it subsided on combinations of hunting gathering and fishing Civilization of the north Eskimos or in the weight of the Arctic Circle - CORRECT ANSWER-Finished and hunted sales big game hunters in the northern forest lead nomadic lives based on the pursuit of moose and caribou tribes of the Pacific Northwest agricultural societies - CORRECT ANSWER-Civilizations of the north That build large irrigation systems constructed towns of stone and adobe Great Plains region most tryouts were engaged in farming corn and grains Cahokia - CORRECT ANSWER-Eastern third of what is now the United States Woodland Indians have the greatest food resources of any area many tribes of the region engage in farming hunting and gathering fishing population 40,000 Columbus, Christopher () - CORRECT ANSWER-Italian-born explorer who sailed on behalf of Spain. While not the first to reach the New World, his four voyages created the lasting connection between Europe and the Americas. Hernando Cortes () - CORRECT ANSWER-Spanish conquistador who initiated the conquest of the Aztec Empire on behalf of Charles V, king of Castile and Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century. Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER-1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness. Plymouth plantation - CORRECT ANSWER-Were pilgrims settled and chose their governor William Bradford Indian show them how to hunt the original Thanksgiving Massachusetts Bay experiment - CORRECT ANSWER-King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government. Obtain a grant of land in new England for most of the area John Winthrop - CORRECT ANSWER-As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop () was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world. New England expansion was carried out primarily by independent pioneers and land speculators who bought up large plots and then sold them to individual farmers. - CORRECT ANSWER-Selected governor was John Winthrop sailed with 17 ships and 1000 people the largest single migration of its kind in the 17th century to new England Connecticut - CORRECT ANSWER-Connecticut River Valley about 100 miles west of pasta began attracting Eng families as early as 1630s because of its fertile land and it's isolations from the bay New Haven - CORRECT ANSWER-founded in Connecticut by Puritans who contrived to set up an even closer church government alliance than in Massachusetts Roger Williams, Rhode Island - CORRECT ANSWER-Williams was a Puritan preacher who fled Massachusetts after his views on religious observance became too extreme for the colonists Williams bought land from the Native Americans and founded Providence in 1636; it was soon populated by his many followers Rhode Island formed as a combination of Providence, Portsmouth, and other settlements that had sprung up in the area Through Roger Williams, the colony granted complete religious toleration Tented to be populated by exiles and troublemakers and was sometimes called "Rogue's Island" Suffered constant political turmoil Ann Hutchinson - CORRECT ANSWER-A woman who believed that many of the clergy in the Puritan church were not of the elect (except John Cotton and her brother-in-law). Challenges church authority, and champions rights for women in religious affairs, prevents John Winthrop's re-election. . . . . . . . .