Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
US History · Unit 1 · Paper 1

Period 1: 1491–1607 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 16 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Requerimiento

2

Bartolomé de Las Casas

3

Columbian Exchange

4

Casta system

5

Great Plains nomadic societies

6

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

7

Mission system

8

Pacific Northwest societies

9

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

10

Joint-stock company

11

Mercantilism

12

Pueblo peoples

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Maize cultivation

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Mestizo

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Encomienda system

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Iroquois Confederacy

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Evaluate the extent to which the American Revolution changed American society in the period from 1775 to 1800.