WGU Academy US HIST 101 Final Exam

Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by - Answer- common Linguistic roots. The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began - Answer- With migrations across an ancient land bridge over the bearing strait Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately - Answer- 11,000 Years ago Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city? - Answer- St. Louis The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest - Answer- Fished salmon as their principal occupation. Native American religions were closely linked to - Answer- the natural world The colony of Virginia was named in honor of - Answer- Queen Elizabeth From their colonial experiences in Ireland, the English concluded that - Answer- English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population The glorious Revolution of - Answer- Saw an English king, James II, flee to the European continent. in King Philip's War, Indians made effective use of a relatively new weapon, the - Answer- flintlock rifle. The Virginia Company - Answer- had its charter revoked by James 1. Which of the following does NOT describe the site chosen for the Jamestown settlement - Answer- It was inaccessible by ship. By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because - Answer- of a declining birthrate in England. The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on - Answer- the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids. Seventeenth-century southern plantations - Answer- tended to be rough and relatively small