STUDY GUIDE FOR AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTERS 1-5 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

The first Americans arrived on the North American continent approximately_____________ - 12 and 20 thousand years ago The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans, also called the "Three Sisters,"include all of the following except - Corn, Beans and Squash What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent? - Matrilineal What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire? - Cahokia What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon? - Pueblo Most Native Americans understood property rights as primarily relating to which of the following concepts? - Active use Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early seapower. The invention of the ______________ aided Portuguese sea-faring. - Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of _______. - Spain What was the name of the first native group that Columbus encountered? - Arawaks Hernán Cortés relied on a native woman to conquer the Aztecs. What did he call her? - Dona Maria In the 130 years after contact, approximately ___% of Native Americans died. - 95 All of the following crops were first introduced to Europe through the Columbian Exchange except - tomatoes, potatoes, grapes, and cocoa What was the first permanent European settlement in the current American Southwest? - Santa Fe The writings of which Spanish missionary most directly led to the development of the Black Legend? - Bartolomé de las Casas The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ____________ - Asia The expansion of the Iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into the "middle ground," located in what region? - Great Lakes Which of the following European countries offered the most religious liberty? - Netherlands Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New Netherlands? - Trade with Indians The Dutch used what kind of labor to construct New Amsterdam? - Enslaved Africans England's so-called "Golden Age," that included the works of Shakespeare, occurred under the reign of which monarch? - Elizabeth I In the late sixteenth century, England went to war with which nation? - Spain Jamestown was established in a disastrous location. What proved to be the worst aspect of the location? - Brackish tidal water