FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP US

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP US

HISTORY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Middle Passage

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Part of the Transatlantic Trade where 10-15 percent of slaves died on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

Question 2: Francisco Pizzaro

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Conquered the Incas in Peru.

Question 3: Horses

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Brought from the Columbian Exchange. Not until the 17th century the American Indians acquired these animals from the Spanish.

Question 4: Aztecs

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Starting about 1300 this civilization flourished in central Mexico. The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, had a population of about 200,000.

Question 5: Asiento

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The tax to the King of Spain for the imported slaves that they brought from West Africa.

Question 6: Algonquian

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The American Indians had 20 language families and 400 distinct languages. This tribe in the Northeast was one of the largest.

Question 7: Sailing Compass

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One aspect of the Renaissance was a gradual increase in scientific knowledge and technological change; Europeans made improvements in the inventions of others (Chinese and Arab merchants).

Question 8: Land Bridge

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a piece of land that once connected Siberia and Alaska (land now submerged under the Bering Sea).

Question 9: Diseases

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When Europeans came to America they brought smallpox and measles to which the natives had no resistance. 90% of the natives died.

Question 10: Corn (Maize)

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a staple crop that provided a stable food supply. This was an important cultivated crop of the Mayas and the Incas.

Question 11: Hernan Cortes

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Conquered the Aztecs in Mexico.

Question 12: Slave Trade

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Part of the Transatlantic slave trade that sent between 10 -15 million enslaved people from Africa.

Question 13: Valladolid Debate

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In 1550-1551 in Valladolid, Spain a formal debate concerning the American Indians.

Question 14: Nation-States

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A country in which the majority of people share both a common culture and common political loyalties toward a central government.

Question 15: Iroquois Confederation

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Several tribes living near the Great Lakes and in New York - the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and later the Tuscaroras - formed this powerful political union.

Question 16: Conquistadors

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These Spanish explorers and conquerors of the Americas sent ships loaded with gold and silver back to Spain making it the richest and most powerful nation in Europe.

Question 17: Christopher Columbus

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He spent 8 years seeking financial support for his plan to sail west from Europe to the "Indies". His success in discovering lands on the other side of the ocean brought him a burst of glory in Spain.

Question 18: New Laws of 1542

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Bartolome de Las Casas convinced the King of Spain to institute these laws, which ended American Indian slavery, ended forced Indian labor, began the process of ending the encomienda systems.

Question 19: Gunpowder

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Europeans began to use gunpowder (invented by the Chinese).

Question 20: Smallpox, Measles

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These diseases were brought by Europeans that the Native Americans had no immunity to.

Question 21: Printing Press

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This invention in the 1450s spread knowledge across Europe.

Question 22: Capitalism

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An economic system in which control of capital (money and machinery) became more important than control of land.

Question 23: Joint Stock Company

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A new type of enterprise to help finance trade voyages more safely where a business owned a large number of investors. If a voyage failed, investors lost only what they invested.

Question 24: Roanoke Island

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In 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a settlement here, but it failed

Question 25: Treaty of Tordesillas

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Moved the line papal line a few degrees to the west; signed by Spain and Portugal

Question 26: Woodland Mound Builders

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American Indian tribe east of the Mississippi.

Question 27: Hohokam, Anasazi, and Pueblos

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Native American groups that lived in the dry region of New Mexico and Arizona and created multifaceted societies. Many people lived in caves, under cliffs, and multistoried buildings.