APUSH Unit 1

16. Prior to European contact, American Indians in the Southwest had already developed which of the following?

A - A culture highly dependent on maize

2. Which of the following was an economic effect on American Indian peoples as a result of the Columbian exchange?

A - American indians were forced into a labor system that benefited the Europeans.

13. What motivations led the Spanish to the "greed" that Las Casas describes?

A - Massive resources of precious metals found in native lands

8. The passage best supports which of the following historical developments prior to 1492?

A - Prior to the arrival of Europeans American Indians had developed advanced agricultural techniques

5. This image portrays European perceptions of the New World in all of the following ways EXCEPT

B - American Indians were uncivilized compared to Europeans

12. Which of the following contributed most directly to the developments described by Las Casas?

B - European encroachment on American Indian's land

18. Which of the following is the best inference a historian could make from the passage?

B - The Aztecs believed that their economic success depending on the worship of their gods.

15. In which region of the map were American Indians the most mobile?

B - The Great Basin and western plains

17. Which option best characterizes a cause of Cortes's actions in the temple of Tenochitlan?

B - The Spanish considered conversion to Catholicism a prime motivation to their conquest of the Western Hemisphere.

10. Which of the following pieces of evidence could be used to support Zinn's depiction of American Indian cultures during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

B - Written evidence by American Indians of permanent indigenous villages in the American Northeast.

14. This map best supports which conclusion about American Indian economies before European contact?

C - American Indian economies were diverse and adapted to local resources.

7. The engraving was the most likely intended to

C - Stimulate European interest in the settlement and development of the New World

1. Which of the following was an economic effect on Europeans as a result of the Columbian exchange?

C - The columbian exchange introduced new consumable goods to Europe which stimulated new means to profit.

4. As the Spanish explored North America prior to 1600, they discovered

C - little of interest to keep them pushing north to Canada

11. The excerpt from Las Casas can be used most directly to prove which of the following developments in the period 1491 to 1607?

D - Europeans disagreed about how American Indians should be treated.

9. The passage would be most useful as a source of analysis about which of the following?

D - Exchanges of goods between Europe and the Americas that stimulated the growth of European capitalism.

3. Prior to European contact, North American Indians were

D - distinct societies with different economies and lifestyles

6. By 1588, Spanish development of the Americas flourished mostly because

D - the Spanish used American Indian labor to extract precious materials for export to Europe