APUSH Chapter 1 Quiz

Question 0

How long ago was the basic shape of NA sculpted

Answer 0

10 million

Question 1

How many years ago was the land on Earth just one land form? How did people prove this?

Answer 1

225 million years ago, Pangea, identical species of fish were discovered in land locked lakes and oceans alike

Question 2

Canadian Shield

Answer 2

A zone undergirded by ancient rock, probably the first part of what became Americas land mass

Question 3

What are the main mountain ranges of North America

Answer 3

Appalachians, Rockies, Cascades, Sierra Nevada, Costal Ranges

Question 4

When did the Ice Age occur and how is that related to the formation of America and the arrival of ancient people?

Answer 4

2 million years, ice carved out lakes, melted ice flowed through Mississippi River and St. Lawrence River, sea levels lowered when ice froze up. It revealed a land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska through which Native Americans crossed.

Question 5

What year did the Europeans arrive in the Americas, how many native were predicted to be there by that time

Answer 5

1492, 54 million with 2000 different tribes, languages, and beliefs

Question 6

Name the present day country these tribes were located:

1. Incans
2. Mayans
3. Aztecs

Answer 6

1. Peru
2. Central America
3. Mexico

Question 7

What was one of the most advanced developments that contributed to early life

Answer 7

The cultivation of maize/corn

Question 8

Even without livestock or simple invention like the wheel, what advancements did they make?

Answer 8

Trading systems, elaborate cities, mathematics, astronomical discoveries, and a set religion with human offerings to their gods

Question 9

What was the foundation of the great civilizations in Mexico? How did that transform those tribes?

Answer 9

Agriculture, more specifically corn, from simple nomadic hunter/gatherers to settled farmers in permanent homes

Question 10

How did the Pueblo people of Southwest America use the Rio Grande to their advantage

Answer 10

Building irrigation systems to water their corn crops

Question 11

Define Nation-states and give an example

Answer 11

Densely populated and complex societies in which political legitimacy and authority overlay a large degree of cultural commodity, Aztecs-definable hierarchy, culture and religion, complexity of state of living