Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
US History · Unit 1 · Paper 2

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 2” 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 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Requerimiento

2

Columbian Exchange

3

Encomienda system

4

Iroquois Confederacy

5

Bartolomé de Las Casas

6

Mission system

7

Pueblo peoples

8

Mercantilism

9

Great Plains nomadic societies

10

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

11

Maize cultivation

12

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Pacific Northwest societies

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Mestizo

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Joint-stock company

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Casta system

3 pts

Free response

3 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.

Historians have debated why colonial resistance to British authority escalated so quickly after 1763.

Briefly describe ONE specific historical development between 1763 and 1775 that increased colonial opposition to British policy.

Briefly explain ONE specific reason colonists believed those policies violated their rights as English subjects.

Briefly explain ONE specific way British officials justified the policies you identified.