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Quiz by Amy Kelly

High School - U.S. History
Social Studies
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1
    How early Americans reached North and South America
    Bering Strait land bridge
    30s
  • Q2
    The lifestyle that encouraged Indians to cross the land bridge
    Nomadic; following food and herds
    30s
  • Q3
    This crop transformed nomadic hunter-gatherer societies into settled farm communities
    Maize
    30s
  • Q4
    3 motives for Spanish Exploration
    God, Gold & Glory
    30s
  • Q5
    Most people in the Americas lived in this type of settlement by the time of Christopher Columbus.
    Semi-permanent settlements
    30s
  • Q6
    Tribes that settled in the Southwest; had culture based on farming & irrigation systems with permanent buildings
    Anasazi; Pueblo
    30s
  • Q7
    Lived in permanent longhouses that had a rich diet based on hunting & fishing
    Northwest Indians
    30s
  • Q8
    Tribe that was nomadic OR farmers/traders; hunted buffalo, raised maize, beans & squash
    Great Plains Indians
    30s
  • Q9
    Man who stood up for the rights on the natives.
    Bartolome de las Casas
    30s
  • Q10
    Explorer who won the backing of Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Spain to sail west from Europe to the "Indies."
    Christopher Columbus
    30s
  • Q11
    Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases (beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes & tobacco) between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus.
    Columbian Exchange
    30s
  • Q12
    3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe?
    Corn, beans, squash (3 sister farming)
    30s
  • Q13
    Animal introduced by the Spanish that changed the lifestyle of the Native American
    Horses
    30s
  • Q14
    Diseases from the Old World and went to the New World; up to 90% of Native Americans died as a result
    Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza
    30s
  • Q15
    A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it; essentially set up slavery for Native Americans
    Encomienda
    30s

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