Question 1

Which of these best explains the sometimes violent competition for resources between Mississippian settlements?

Accepted Answer

A)  religious conflicts 
B)  political instability 
C)  population growth 
D)  ethnic divisions 
A)  religious conflicts 
B)  political instability 
C)  population growth 
D)  ethnic divisions C

Question 2

Staple crop farming __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  developed in China and spread to the rest of the world 
B)  developed independently in several areas of the world 
C)  had little impact on social life 
D)  remained isolated at its point of origin 
A)  developed in China and spread to the rest of the world 
B)  developed independently in several areas of the world 
C)  had little impact on social life 
D)  remained isolated at its point of origin B

Question 3

Who first referred to Native Americans as "Indios"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Christopher Columbus 
B)  Joseph de Acosta 
C)  Jacques LeMoyne 
D)  John White 
A)  Christopher Columbus 
B)  Joseph de Acosta 
C)  Jacques LeMoyne 
D)  John White A

Question 4

What is forest efficiency and how did it affect community populations?

Accepted Answer

The ideal answer should include:
@#LAT-DLM&Definit

Question 5

The Clovis culture gets its name from what discovery near Clovis, New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

A)  distinctive stone blades and lance points 
B)  the skeleton of Kennewick Man 
C)  huge burial mounds 
D)  copper imported from the Great Lakes 
A)  distinctive stone blades and lance points 
B)  the skeleton of Kennewick Man 
C)  huge burial mounds 
D)  copper imported from the Great Lakes

Question 6

Beringia refers to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the land bridge between Asia and North America 
B)  glaciers along the Alaskan coast 
C)  the Russian portion of the Bering Strait 
D)  the combined landmass of Asia and North America 
A)  the land bridge between Asia and North America 
B)  glaciers along the Alaskan coast 
C)  the Russian portion of the Bering Strait 
D)  the combined landmass of Asia and North America

Question 7

How did agriculture in Mexico differ from that in regions where hunting remained an important activity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Both men and women worked fields in Mexico. 
B)  Mexican farmers did not grow as many crops as did the agriculturalists who lived in regions where hunting was important. 
C)  Mexican peoples adopted metal tools to work the fields. 
D)  Farmers in Mexico used animals to help plow fields. 
A)  Both men and women worked fields in Mexico. 
B)  Mexican farmers did not grow as many crops as did the agriculturalists who lived in regions where hunting was important. 
C)  Mexican peoples adopted metal tools to work the fields. 
D)  Farmers in Mexico used animals to help plow fields.

Question 8

Which of these best describes the Mogollon culture?

Accepted Answer

A)  the first farming culture of the Southwest 
B)  a culture derived from the Inca 
C)  a society centered on the construction of massive earth mounds 
D)  a nomadic lifestyle based on the movement of animal herds 
A)  the first farming culture of the Southwest 
B)  a culture derived from the Inca 
C)  a society centered on the construction of massive earth mounds 
D)  a nomadic lifestyle based on the movement of animal herds

Question 9

The bow and arrow was first developed __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  in Mexico 
B)  on the Great Plains 
C)  in the Northeast 
D)  in the desert basins of the Southwest 
A)  in Mexico 
B)  on the Great Plains 
C)  in the Northeast 
D)  in the desert basins of the Southwest

Question 10

When the Anasazi shifted from pit-house villages to multistoried apartment complexes, the shift was likely __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  a response to population pressure and an increasingly dry climate 
B)  a defensive response to increased raiding by Athapascans 
C)  a way to make more land available for agricultural purposes 
D)  an indication that the Anasazi were trading for the goods they required for subsistence 
A)  a response to population pressure and an increasingly dry climate 
B)  a defensive response to increased raiding by Athapascans 
C)  a way to make more land available for agricultural purposes 
D)  an indication that the Anasazi were trading for the goods they required for subsistence

Question 11

What was the major reason settled farming communities developed centralized leadership?

Accepted Answer

A)  to manage the storage and distribution of food 
B)  to determine which specific crops would be planted by each gender 
C)  to construct massive temples and pyramids to worship religious deities associated with the harvesting of crops 
D)  to manage issues of marriage and divorce within each settled community 
A)  to manage the storage and distribution of food 
B)  to determine which specific crops would be planted by each gender 
C)  to construct massive temples and pyramids to worship religious deities associated with the harvesting of crops 
D)  to manage issues of marriage and divorce within each settled community

Question 12

Desert farmers such as the Pima and Yuma __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  exported high-quality flint hoes 
B)  were highly communal apartment dwellers 
C)  were the first to plow using animals 
D)  lived in dispersed settlements called rancherias 
A)  exported high-quality flint hoes 
B)  were highly communal apartment dwellers 
C)  were the first to plow using animals 
D)  lived in dispersed settlements called rancherias

Question 13

Which of these is true of the inhabitants of the Americas prior to colonization?

Accepted Answer

A)  The inhabitants of the Americas all produced similar cultures. 
B)  No single physical type characterized all the peoples of the Americas. 
C)  The inhabitants of the Americas failed to develop farming. 
D)  All Native Americans belonged to a single race. 
A)  The inhabitants of the Americas all produced similar cultures. 
B)  No single physical type characterized all the peoples of the Americas. 
C)  The inhabitants of the Americas failed to develop farming. 
D)  All Native Americans belonged to a single race.

Question 14

What do the monumental earthworks and other archeological evidence uncovered at Cahokia and other Mississippian sites suggest about the rise and fall of that society?

Accepted Answer

The ideal answer should include:
@#LAT-DLM&Rise of

Question 15

Farming first developed in what part of North America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mexico 
B)  Great Plains 
C)  Great Basin 
D)  Pacific Northwest 
A)  Mexico 
B)  Great Plains 
C)  Great Basin 
D)  Pacific Northwest

Question 16

How did the people of the South adapt to the fall of the Mississippian chiefdoms?

Accepted Answer

A)  They adopted a hunting and foraging way of life. 
B)  They continued to live in communities with at least 20,000 people supported by maize agriculture. 
C)  Fishing supplanted maize agriculture as a major economic activity. 
D)  They blamed the decline of the chiefdoms on changes in gender roles and responded by excluding women from leadership roles. 
A)  They adopted a hunting and foraging way of life. 
B)  They continued to live in communities with at least 20,000 people supported by maize agriculture. 
C)  Fishing supplanted maize agriculture as a major economic activity. 
D)  They blamed the decline of the chiefdoms on changes in gender roles and responded by excluding women from leadership roles.

Question 17

Which statement was true of most North American Indian farming communities?

Accepted Answer

A)  There was little division of labor based on gender. 
B)  Women and men belonged to separate social groupings. 
C)  Women participated in both hunting and farming. 
D)  Men took sole responsibility for farming. 
A)  There was little division of labor based on gender. 
B)  Women and men belonged to separate social groupings. 
C)  Women participated in both hunting and farming. 
D)  Men took sole responsibility for farming.

Question 18

What do the complex earthworks developed by the Woodland people signify?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were a warlike society that practiced human sacrifice. 
B)  They had adopted a settled existence and more complex social organization. 
C)  They had learned this practice from the first Europeans who arrived in eastern North America. 
D)  They depended on extensive trade networks to obtain the materials necessary for mound building. 
A)  They were a warlike society that practiced human sacrifice. 
B)  They had adopted a settled existence and more complex social organization. 
C)  They had learned this practice from the first Europeans who arrived in eastern North America. 
D)  They depended on extensive trade networks to obtain the materials necessary for mound building.

Question 19

The population of the precolonial Americas __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  is impossible to estimate with any confidence 
B)  varied greatly by region 
C)  was uniformly distributed across the continents 
D)  was greatest in the Arctic and Great Basin 
A)  is impossible to estimate with any confidence 
B)  varied greatly by region 
C)  was uniformly distributed across the continents 
D)  was greatest in the Arctic and Great Basin

Question 20

Which statement describes the type of violence that was common to the Athapascans?

Accepted Answer

A)  They carried out systematic raids of settled farming communities. 
B)  The chiefdoms competed against one another for additional lands to cultivate. 
C)  They used ritual sacrifice of humans to appease the gods. 
D)  Acts of violence were often at the family and clan level, as they were often acts of revenge. 
A)  They carried out systematic raids of settled farming communities. 
B)  The chiefdoms competed against one another for additional lands to cultivate. 
C)  They used ritual sacrifice of humans to appease the gods. 
D)  Acts of violence were often at the family and clan level, as they were often acts of revenge.

Exam 1: A Continent of Villages

Which of these best explains the sometimes violent competition for resources between Mississippian settlements?

Staple crop farming __________.

Who first referred to Native Americans as "Indios"?

What is forest efficiency and how did it affect community populations?

The Clovis culture gets its name from what discovery near Clovis, New Mexico?

Beringia refers to __________.

How did agriculture in Mexico differ from that in regions where hunting remained an important activity?

Which of these best describes the Mogollon culture?

The bow and arrow was first developed __________.

When the Anasazi shifted from pit-house villages to multistoried apartment complexes, the shift was likely __________.

What was the major reason settled farming communities developed centralized leadership?

Desert farmers such as the Pima and Yuma __________.

Which of these is true of the inhabitants of the Americas prior to colonization?

What do the monumental earthworks and other archeological evidence uncovered at Cahokia and other Mississippian sites suggest about the rise and fall of that society?

Farming first developed in what part of North America?

How did the people of the South adapt to the fall of the Mississippian chiefdoms?

Which statement was true of most North American Indian farming communities?

What do the complex earthworks developed by the Woodland people signify?

The population of the precolonial Americas __________.

Which statement describes the type of violence that was common to the Athapascans?

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Planting Colonies in North America

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The Cultures of Colonial North America

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The American Revolution

The New Nation

An Empire for Liberty

The South and Slavery

The Growth of Democracy

Industry and the North

Immigration

The Territorial Expansion of the United States

The Coming Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction

The Trans-Mississippi West

Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age

Democracy and Empire

Urban America and the Progressive Era

The United States in the Era of the Great War

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The Great Depression and the New Deal

World War Ii

The Cold War Begins

America at Mid-Century

The Civil Rights Movement

War Abroad

The Conservative Ascendancy

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