US History Chapter 1 Test

Question 1

The North

Answer 1

Inuit, Hunt, fished and gathered food

Question 2

The Northwest Coast

Answer 2

Waterways and the primary source of food for the Native Americans

Question 3

California

Answer 3

The Chumash, Yunok, Native American- gathered food from land

Question 4

The Plateau

Answer 4

Built villages on high riverbanks

Question 5

The Great Basin

Answer 5

People worked together in small groups to hunt and gather food including roots/ pine nuts/ rabbits/ and insects

Question 6

The Southwest

Answer 6

The Hopis and Zunis farmed this dry region

Question 7

The Plains

Answer 7

Mandans, Wichita, Pawnee, and other groups farmed corn, beans, squash and hunted buffalo

Question 8

The Northeast

Answer 8

Native Americans in this region fished,chanted, and farmed, Iroquis groups formed an alliance “The Iroquois League”

Question 9

What are the three shared customs and beliefs?

Answer 9

Social Structure
Religion
Preserving Culture

Question 10

What do Native Americans do with land?

Answer 10

Native Americans did not trade, buy, or sell land

Question 11

Migration

Answer 11

Movement of people for the purpose of settling in a new place

Question 12

Kinship

Answer 12

Determined the social structure

Question 13

Clan

Answer 13

Groups of families who are all descended from a common ancestor

Question 14

Oral history

Answer 14

Traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth

Question 15

Barter

Answer 15

Trade

Question 16

Middle Ages

Answer 16

Or the “Medevial period”

Question 17

Feudalism

Answer 17

Political and economic system, a powerful noble, or lord divided his large landholdings among lesser lords

Question 18

Crusades

Answer 18

Series of military campaigns by European Christians from 1096-1291 to win Jerusalem from the Turks

Question 19

Middle class

Answer 19

A social class between the wealthy and the poor, made up of merchants, traders, and artisans who made goods and sold the, to the manors

Question 20

Monarchs

Answer 20

Those who rule over a state or territory

Question 21

Manga Carta

Answer 21

“Great Charter”

Question 22

Renaissance

Answer 22

A French word meaning “rebirth”

Question 23

Reformation

Answer 23

Revolt against the Catholic Church that began in 1517

Question 24

Savanna

Answer 24

A major near the equator with tropical grasslands and scattered trees

Question 25

Lineage

Answer 25

Kinship groups that trace their origin to a common ancestor

Question 26

Scarce

Answer 26

In short supply

Question 27

Colombian Exchange

Answer 27

The transatlantic trade of crops technology and culture between culture between the Americas and Europe, Africa, Asia that began in 1492 with Columbus's first voyage to the Americas

Question 28

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 28

1494 treaty in which Portugal and Spain divided the non- Christian world

Question 29

Plantation

Answer 29

Large farm on which crops are raised mainly for sale

Question 30

Cash crops

Answer 30

Crops that are grown for sale

Question 31

The growth of cities (3 things)

Answer 31

``` It created a new Middle Class a social class between the rich and poor It revived a money economy It contributed to the eventual breakdown of the feudal system ```

Question 32

What is the purpose of the Magna Carta?

Answer 32

Was signed 1215 becoming the foundation for American ideals of liberty and justice, granting them various legal rights

Question 33

The Rise of Universites

Answer 33

Nobles and wealthy men began enrolling in the universities in the 1100's

Question 34

***BONUS Johann Gutenberg does what in 1455?

Answer 34

Prints the Bible text using moveable type

Question 35

What is Dante known for and as?

Answer 35

He is known as an Italian writer and the first writer in "common language"

Question 36

Prince Henry of Portugal

Answer 36

Known as a Prince Henry the navigator and established a Mariners' school in Portugal

Question 37

Vasco de Gama

Answer 37

Sailed from the first sea route from Europe to Asia

Question 38

Under feudalism who farmed the land?

Answer 38

Serfs

Question 39

The holy war to take Jerusalem from the Turks, which started in 1096 was known as what?

Answer 39

The Crusades

Question 40

The people of any new Christian lands would be ripe for conversation to what?

Answer 40

Catholicism

Question 41

Which types of groups wanted a direct trade route that by passed the easier route?

Answer 41

Wealthy merchants and royalty

Question 42

Columbus's journeys launched a new era called what?

Answer 42

Transatlantic trade

Question 43

Trade from Europe

Answer 43

``` Corn Potato Sweet potato Squash Peanuts Avocados Tomatoes ```

Question 44

Trade from Europe----->America

Answer 44

``` Disease Wheat Sugar Pig Goat Horses Rice Grapes Olives Cattle Sheep ```