Ap Us History Chapter 1 Answers

Chapter 1 Part 1:
1. The Five Nations of the Iroquois were the native people located in the eastern woodlands of North America which had a matrilineal civilization based on horticulture, which was mainly the women’s’ job, and hunting, which was a job for men.
2. The Renaissance brought new merchants from around the world to Europe, who along with goods brought new ideas about republics which could replace monarchies and the idea of civic humanism, the idea that everyone has rights.
3. The European international trade was a trade system based on the triangular trade system of the Columbian exchange, which brought about the colonization and the first trade routes to the Americas, such as Portugal exchanging with Brazil, who gave the Portuguese corn and potatoes, and in return were given new diseases such as smallpox.
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Jamestown brought along the promise of economic fortune with it and drew many settlers there in order to grown cash crops such as tobacco and cotton, which cause for those settlers to become part of joint stock companies such as the Virginia Company.
2. In the royal colony of Virginia, early government was established and maintained by a head right system for land distribution to settlers and a representative group that related back to England called the House of Burgesses, while the other neighboring colonies faced threats such as King Opechancanough’s army of Native Americans.
3. Nathaniel Bacon lead a failed rebellion to take the not only more Indian land for farming, but also the colonies due to rising anger amidst yeomen farmers due to rising prices on tobacco, Indian raids, and political reforms brought upon by Governor William Berkley.
4. The Puritan Exodus was when the Pilgrims, who were in fact Puritan Separatists, sailed to the New World for religious freedom, where they landed in Massachusetts Bay, which was governed by the Mayflower Compact and founded by John Winthrop, a Pilgrim who envisioned a perfect city on a