US History Chapter 1 and 2 Quiz

A key feature in Cahokia

Monk’s Mound

Spanish estates that used forced Indian labor

Encomiendas

Tracing one’s family line through the female side

Matrilineal

The spectacular Aztec city

Tenochtitlan

The first Europeans to reach North America

Vikings/Norseman

\#1 killer of Native Americans in age of exploration

Disease

The removal of all Moors and Jews from Spain

Reconquista

Conquered the Incas

Franciso Pizarro

Term for racial hierarchy being based on “blood purity”

Sistema de Castas

First European nation to use African slaves for labor

Portugal

This brought wealth, power, and knowledge to Europe

Crusades

Despised native translator who helped Hernan Cortez gather military intelligence on the Aztecs

La Malinche

Planting corn, beans, and squash together

Three sisters

Poor Indian visited by the Virgin Mary

Juan Diego

Term for Iberian born Spaniards

Peninsulares

New World’s first major European plantation crop

Sugar

Helped produce the caravel for open ocean exploration

Prince Henry

“miracle” New World plant that impacted Europe (Columbian Exchange)

The potato

a factor in determining slave status among Natives

Kinship Network

Communicating using string knots

Khipu/quipu

The primary Dutch colony in North America

Joint-stock company

Term for the offspring of French and Indian couples

Metis

The first English settlers in New England

Pilgrims

Urged the English to colonize the New World

Richard Hakluyt

First permanent North American English settlement

James Town

Native Americans initially allied with the Dutch

Iroquois

Associated with the Great Migration

Puritans

Split New World between Spain and Portugal

Tordesillas

The founder of New France

Samuel de Champlain

The crop that helped “save” Jamestown

Tobacco

A financial innovation to fund English exploration

Joint-stock company

Used by the French to exchange with beaver pelts

Wampum

The first permanent European settlement in the SW

Santa Fe

Fabled waterway Asia through North America

Northwest passage

Native Americans who interacted with Jamestown

Powhatan

Defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588

Elizabeth 1

the location with the largest slave population

New Amsterdam

English pirates that raided Spanish ships in the 1500’s

Sea Dogs

cross-cultural interactions and negotiations space

Middle Ground

The nation tagged with the “Black Legend” label

Spain