The most valuable products extracted from the Americas by the Spanish in the 1500s were

precious metals such as gold and silver

AP U.S. History Period 1: 1491–1607

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His book, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, chronicles atrocities to native people of the New World.
Hernán Cortés
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
Juan de Oñate
Bartolomé de las Casas
2
This is responsible for causing widespread disease and death.
Triangular Trade routes
Columbian Exchange
population growth
exploration
3
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Acoma Pueblo people of current-day New Mexico and provoked a revolt.
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
Juan de Oñate
Juan Ponce de León
4
The main cause of the massive die-off of American Indians in the 1600s was
war
disease
freezing temperatures
famine
5
This exploitative system was used by Spaniards in plantation agriculture and in the extraction of precious metals.
coercion
encomienda
caste system
sharecropping
6
These early Pueblos became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize.
Hopi
Zuni
Arapaho
Anasazi
7
This term describes Africans who escaped from slavery in the New World and established independent communities.
Maroons
Palmares
encomenderos
Arawak
8
This was an important cause of the weakening of the Pueblo people of the Four Corners region preceding European contact.
exposure to deadly diseases
climate crises and migration
a shift from hunting and gathering to a reliance on corn
the collapse of the fur trade
9
This term can be defined as "mixing of the races."
miscegenation
limpieza de sangre
integration
blending
10
The most valuable products extracted from the Americas by the Spanish in the 1500s were
grains such as wheat and corn
crops such as sugar and tobacco
precious metals such as gold and silver
raw materials used in the production of silk and rubber

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AP U.S. History Period 1: 1491–1607

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Questions 10

Answers

1
His book, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, chronicles atrocities to native people of the New World.
Hernán Cortés
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
Juan de Oñate
Bartolomé de las Casas
2
This is responsible for causing widespread disease and death.
Triangular Trade routes
Columbian Exchange
population growth
exploration
3
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Acoma Pueblo people of current-day New Mexico and provoked a revolt.
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
Juan de Oñate
Juan Ponce de León
4
The main cause of the massive die-off of American Indians in the 1600s was
war
disease
freezing temperatures
famine
5
This exploitative system was used by Spaniards in plantation agriculture and in the extraction of precious metals.
coercion
encomienda
caste system
sharecropping
6
These early Pueblos became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize.
Hopi
Zuni
Arapaho
Anasazi
7
This term describes Africans who escaped from slavery in the New World and established independent communities.
Maroons
Palmares
encomenderos
Arawak
8
This was an important cause of the weakening of the Pueblo people of the Four Corners region preceding European contact.
exposure to deadly diseases
climate crises and migration
a shift from hunting and gathering to a reliance on corn
the collapse of the fur trade
9
This term can be defined as "mixing of the races."
miscegenation
limpieza de sangre
integration
blending
10
The most valuable products extracted from the Americas by the Spanish in the 1500s were
grains such as wheat and corn
crops such as sugar and tobacco
precious metals such as gold and silver
raw materials used in the production of silk and rubber