Early U.S. History Exam Study Guide
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
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Conquistadors - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Soanish explorers in the new world
motivated by God, Gold, and Glory.
Indentured Servants - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People who leased themselves as
labor for four to seven years in exchange for passage to North America,
food, and shelter.
proprieter - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The owner of a colony.
Quakers - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A religious group that held radical views for the
1600's that included embracing pacifism.
, King Philip's War - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1675 war between New England
colonists and the Wampanoag that resulted in the defeat of the
Wompanoag.
Puritans - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Members of the Church of England who wanted it
to be reformed.
Encomienda - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Spanish colonial labor system that required
natives to work for their Spanish landlords.
Royal Colony - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Colony under direct control of the king.
Powhatan - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Native American tribe encountered by the
English at Jamestown.
Joint stock company - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Organizations created by people that
would pool their resources the pursue economic benefit.
Mestizo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People of Spanish and Native American mixed
race ancestry.
Pequot War - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A 1637 war in Connecticut where colonists
and their Narragansett allies nearly destroyed another native tribe.
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
Conquistadors - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Soanish explorers in the new world
motivated by God, Gold, and Glory.
Indentured Servants - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People who leased themselves as
labor for four to seven years in exchange for passage to North America,
food, and shelter.
proprieter - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The owner of a colony.
Quakers - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A religious group that held radical views for the
1600's that included embracing pacifism.
, King Philip's War - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1675 war between New England
colonists and the Wampanoag that resulted in the defeat of the
Wompanoag.
Puritans - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Members of the Church of England who wanted it
to be reformed.
Encomienda - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Spanish colonial labor system that required
natives to work for their Spanish landlords.
Royal Colony - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Colony under direct control of the king.
Powhatan - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Native American tribe encountered by the
English at Jamestown.
Joint stock company - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Organizations created by people that
would pool their resources the pursue economic benefit.
Mestizo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People of Spanish and Native American mixed
race ancestry.
Pequot War - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A 1637 war in Connecticut where colonists
and their Narragansett allies nearly destroyed another native tribe.
