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AmHist:Sem1Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the land bridge between Asia and Alaska form? | Ice Age glaciers froze a large amount of water, lowering the sea levels enough to expose the land bridge. |
| Empire builders that created a glittering empire that stretched nearly 2500 miles along the mountainous western coast of South America | Inca |
| Ancient hunters trekked across the land bridge, called __________, into North America | Beringia |
| Why did Native American societies not wish to buy and sell land> | They regarded the land as the source of life, not as a commodity to be sold |
| Who were the two great rulers of the Songhai? | Askia Huhammad and Sunni Ali |
| European communities were based on _________, meaning they were organized according to rank. | Social Hierarchy |
| Where did Columbus think he was when they found land he called San Salvador? | The Indies |
| Why was Timbuktu such and important city? | It was the hub of an important trading network |
| Why did the SPanish begin importing enslaved Africans? | There was a labor shortage in the America's |
| Native Americans regarded the ______ as a source of life. | land |
| This means strong ties among family memebers | kinship |
| _______ were desert farmers | Anasazi |
| ________ were mound builders | Hopewell |
| A word meaning "the line of common descent" | lineage |
| A region of dry grassland is also called | savanna |
| The kingdom that dominated the rain forest in West Central Africa was | the Kongo |
| The first empire in the Americas belonged to the | Olmec |
| A period when Europeans began investigation all aspects of the physical world was called the | Renaissance |
| A series of military expeditions to the middle east in the name of Christianity was called the | Crusades |
| The establishment of distant settlements controlled by the parent country is called | colonization |
| Name 3 climate zones of West Africa | Savanna, rainforest, desert |
| Chrisropher Columbus's 3 ships: | Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria |
| By controlling the trans-Sahara trade, what empire was able to gain enough power and wealth to become the largest West African empire in history? | Songhai |
| What were Columbus' four main reasons to embark on his journey | to find gold, spread religion, claim land, and find an all-water route to asia |
| What movement led to the division of Christianity into Catholicism and Protestantism | Reformation |
| Who helped plan a capital for his colony he called Philadelphia? | William Penn |
| Who was given a charter for a colony he called Maryland? | Lord Baltimore |
| Who led the first Spanish expedition into what is now AZ, NM, TX, OK, and KS | Coronada |
| Who renamed the New Netherlands Colony New York? | The Duke of York |
| Who named the territory Virginia after Elizabeth I | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Who named his colony Georga | James Ogelthorpe |
| Who established an outpost he called St. Augustine? | Aviles |
| Who discovered and named La Florida | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| A mixed Spanish and Native American population is called | Mestizo |
| Spanish settlers in the Americas were called | peninsulares |
| Who led the army that conquered the Aztec? | Hernando Cortes |
| Penn's plan for government called for... | representative assembly and freedom of religion |
| What were English colonies originally funded and maintained by? | Joint-stock companies |
| Who led a well-organized Pueblo uprising against the Spanish that drove the Spaniards back into New Spain | Pope |
| Who did the English call King Phillip? | Metacom |
| With a Charter from King James I the Virginia Company's ships reached a small peninsula, claimed the land, and named the settlement... | Jamestown |
| Who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony? | John Winthrop |
| Who set up a new colony he called Providence, Later the capital of Rhode Island? | Roger Williams |
| ________ named his father's colony Maryland, after Queen Henrietta Maria. | Cecil |
| List 3 things to describe the Quakers | Dressed plainly, were ridiculed by the Puritan church, church services are led by members of the congregation. |
| The Virginia Company's 3 ships that were sent to start a colony is 1607 | Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godsspeed |
| The transfer of the British monarchy from James II to William and MAry in 1688-189 was known as... | Glorious Revolution |
| In 1651, Parliament passed a series of laws restricting colonial trade known as the.... | Navigation Acts |
| England relaxed its enforcement of most regulations in return for the continued economic loyalty of the colonies, this policy became known as..... | Salutary Neglect |
| George Grenville prompted Parliament to enact the _____________ that halved the duty on molasses, placed duties on certain imports, and allowed prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice-admiralty court | Sugar Act |
| _________ helped create a diverse population in both the Northern and Southern colonies | European immigrants |
| Benjamin Franklin was an important figure |
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