Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
US History · Unit 1 · Paper 3

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 3” 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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Joint-stock company

2

Mercantilism

3

Bartolomé de Las Casas

4

Columbian Exchange

5

Requerimiento

6

Mission system

7

Encomienda system

8

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

9

Great Plains nomadic societies

10

Iroquois Confederacy

11

Pacific Northwest societies

12

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Pueblo peoples

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Maize cultivation

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Mestizo

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.

Answer the questions about Reconstruction.

Briefly describe ONE specific goal of Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction.

Briefly explain ONE specific reason Reconstruction failed to secure lasting equality for freedpeople.

Briefly explain ONE specific lasting achievement of Reconstruction.