APUSH test answers
11) Winthrop's goal to build a "government [that was]both civil and ecclesiastical" resulted in ___.
A system of strict religious laws
10) Winthrop's sermon Has been influential in fostering the idea of______.
American exceptionalism
4) The settlement described in the excerpt above was significant because it was the first _____.
Attempt at an English colony in the New World
9) The excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that_____.
British colonists were critical of societal and political practices in Europe
17) The interaction between Cortes and Montezuma most strongly demonstrate Cortes'____.
Desire for increased power and status
1) An implication of Las Casas' argument is that a major cause of the client of the native population in the Americas after 1492 was_________.
Epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans
5) The excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that _____.
Europeans were poorly prepared to deal with the realities of constructing settlements in the Americas
23) which geographic feature most influenced the development of large plantations in the southeastern region of the United States?
Fertile lowlands
14) The goal of the Virginia company when originally settling Jamestown was to____.
Find riches and quickly returned to England
24) when Lord Baltimore found in Maryland he intended to____.
Governor from a far and a feudal relationship with his tenant farmers
25) which of the following statements about indentured servitude is true?
Indentured servitude was a system that exchanged voyage to the New World for a fixed number of years of service to a master or owner
7) The image shown above provide evidence for the argument that_______.
The arrival of Europeans in the western hemisphere in the 15th and 16th centuries triggered extensive demographic changes on both sides of the Atlantic
12) which of the following is guaranteed by the terms of the Virginia charter above?
The colonists Would have the full rights of English citizens
16) given the fact it has been estimated that there were fewer than 1000 African-American slaves in all of the north American colonies in 1660, it seems clear that the Virginia statute of 1662____.
Was passed in reaction to the rapid growth of the slave population in the early 1660s
20) The Mayflower compact is important to the concept of a democratic society because it represents
A clear step toward self government
19) in the Colonial era, The creation of the Virginia House of burgesses and Massachusetts Bay general court represented_____.
A step in the growth of Representative democracy
22) Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, supported the idea that___.
Civil authority should be separated from church authority
3) In their colonization of the Americas, the Spanish use the encomienda system to________.
Organize and regulate need of American labor
13) in exchange for this agreement with the Virginia company kings James the first demand ____.
That 1/5 of all the economic activity of the colony be given to him
6) The image above shows the direct effects of____.
The Colombian Exchange
Bonus) all the following are reasons for the birth and growth of the British Empire in the 17th century EXCEPT____.
The English civil war
8) The image was most likely produce in the context______.
The European conquest of the Americas
18) Montezuma's statement that the Mexica "were not the aborigines of the country" most likely refers to which of the following developments?
The presence of different and complex societies before European contact
21) farming was difficult in the new England colonies because of___.
The rocky soil created during glaciation
15) The provisions of the quoted statute, approved in 1662, indicated that by that time slavery in Virginia___.
Was legal and at least some of its defining features had been written into law
2) Which of the following most directly resulted from the change in the Native American population described by Las Casas?
the Spanish imported Africans as a new source of labor
