WGU HISTORY FINAL TEST EXAM 2023/2024
Early Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER-Immersed in South and Central America and
Mexico
In Peru the Incas - CORRECT
... [Show More] ANSWER-Created the largest empire in the Americas
stretching almost 2000 miles long South America develop a complex administrative
system pave roads
Mesoamerican Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER--Mayans and Aztecs
-Occupied Central America and much of Mexico
-Developed a strong agricultural system and extensive trade networks, followed a solar
calendar, and participated in highly ritualistic religious and political ceremonies.
People north of Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed less elaborate but still
substantial civilizations inhabitants of the northern regions of the content it subsided on
combinations of hunting gathering and fishing
Civilization of the north Eskimos or in the weight of the Arctic Circle - CORRECT
ANSWER-Finished and hunted sales big game hunters in the northern forest lead
nomadic lives based on the pursuit of moose and caribou tribes of the Pacific Northwest
agricultural societies - CORRECT ANSWER-Civilizations of the north That build large
irrigation systems constructed towns of stone and adobe Great Plains region most
tryouts were engaged in farming corn and grains
Cahokia - CORRECT ANSWER-Eastern third of what is now the United States
Woodland Indians have the greatest food resources of any area many tribes of the
region engage in farming hunting and gathering fishing population 40,000
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) - CORRECT ANSWER-Italian-born explorer who
sailed on behalf of Spain. While not the first to reach the New World, his four voyages
created the lasting connection between Europe and the Americas.
Hernando Cortes (1485-1547) - CORRECT ANSWER-Spanish conquistador who
initiated the conquest of the Aztec Empire on behalf of Charles V, king of Castile and
Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century.
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER-1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western
Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg
Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an
army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on
Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an
illness.
Plymouth plantation - CORRECT ANSWER-Were pilgrims settled and chose their
governor William Bradford Indian show them how to hunt the original Thanksgiving
Massachusetts Bay experiment - CORRECT ANSWER-King Charles gave the Puritans
a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony
established political freedom and a representative government. Obtain a grant of land in
new England for most of the area
John Winthrop - CORRECT ANSWER-As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Winthrop (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping
its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a
"city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout
the world.
New England expansion was carried out primarily by independent pioneers and land
speculators who bought up large plots and then sold them to individual farmers. -
CORRECT ANSWER-Selected governor was John Winthrop sailed with 17 ships and
1000 people the largest single migration of its kind in the 17th century to new England
Connecticut - CORRECT ANSWER-Connecticut River Valley about 100 miles west of
pasta began attracting Eng families as early as 1630s because of its fertile land and it's
isolations from the bay
New Haven - CORRECT ANSWER-founded in Connecticut by Puritans who contrived
to set up an even closer church government alliance than in Massachusetts
Roger Williams, Rhode Island - CORRECT ANSWER-Williams was a Puritan preacher
who fled Massachusetts after his views on religious observance became too extreme for
the colonists
Williams bought land from the Native Americans and founded Providence in 1636; it
was soon populated by his many followers
Rhode Island formed as a combination of Providence, Portsmouth, and other
settlements that had sprung up in the area
Through Roger Williams, the colony granted complete religious toleration
Tented to be populated by exiles and troublemakers and was sometimes called
"Rogue's Island"
Suffered constant political turmoil
Ann Hutchinson - CORRECT ANSWER-A woman who believed that many of the clergy
in the Puritan church were not of the elect (except John Cotton and her brother-in-law).
Challenges church authority, and champions rights for women in religious affairs,
prevents John Winthrop's re-election.
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