APUSH Previous Quiz Questions

What did the Britons share?

ALL OF THE ABOVE common language, common law, common enemy of France, common devotion to Protestantism

Did Rhode Island have an established church?

No

What is false about the African slave trade?

Only men were taken for the slave trade

It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia became inevitable when:

Opechancanough led an attack against the Virginia settlers

What is true about Spanish America?

Over time, it evolved into a hybrid culture

The Levellers & Diggers were:

Political groups

What was the headright system?

Provided land to settlers who paid their own passage

What idea did the Magna Carta not embody?

Religious freedom

A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was:

an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty

What is false about the Natives in North America?

They lacked genuine religion

What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to Asia

To eliminate the Italian and Muslim middle men in the spice trade

What was Virginia's "gold" that ensured its survival and prosperity?

Tobacco

New England's economy was based on?

Trade

Spain justified her claim to land in the New World through what?

Violence, a missionary zeal, a decree from the pope, and believing their culture was superior to Natives

Indian population in North America declined due to:

War, disease, and enslavement

What is false about the women in the early Virginia colony?

Women consisted of about half the white population

Was life in New England family oriented?

Yes

Both Bacon's men and the Native Americans were concerned with:

authoritarian policies of the government in Jamestown

New France was characterized by:

enduring alliances with the Indians

According to Bacon, who was the most to blame for the unrest?

the governor, for disregarding the economic and security concerns of the settlers

Why was slavery less prevalent in the northern colonies?

the small farms of the northern colonies did not necessitate the need for slaves

Why was the survival of Jamestown initially questionable?

High death rate, leadership changed repeatedly, settlers only wanted quick profits, supplies from England were inadequate.

Out of the 6,000 persons sent to VA via the Virginia Company, what was the population of the settlement in 1624 when it surrendered to the English Crown?

1,000

Between 1492 and 1820, how many African slaves came from the Old World to the New World.

7.7 million

The trans-Atlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugar cane is called:

Columbian Exchange

Indentured Servants:

Could be bought and sold

The English were chiefly Interested in:

Displacing natives from their land

Despite the dangers, many English were drawn to North America because

Economic conditions in england were bad, constant demand for cheap labor in North America, land was plentiful in North America, and it was a natural extension of the migration at home of an increasingly mobile English population. ALL OF THE ABOVE

In 1542 Spain promulgated the New Laws which:

Forbade Indian slavery

The most famous Great Awakening revivalist minister was

George Whitefield

After Bacon's Rebellion, how did colonial leaders respond to Bacon's demands?

Increasingly, African slaves, rather than indentured servants, were used for labor

England's methods to subdue who in the sixteenth century established patterns that would be repeated in North America?

Irish

What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

Land

Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

Maryland

What motivated the English crown to colonize America?

National glory, strike a blow against Spain, and to establish a trading empire

Which European country came to North America for trade and prided itself on its devotion to liberty?

Netherlands

Of mainland colonists, which group was the wealthiest?

South Carolina plantation owners

The black legend described:

Spain as a uniquely brutal colonizer

What did the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas do?

Symbolized Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success

English puritans believed:

The Church of England still closely resembled the Catholic Church in its rituals

The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from?

The Moors

The Mayflower Compact established:

a civil government for the Plymouth colony

The Dominion of New England was

a new unit of colonial administration created by King James II in order to centralize colonial goverance

Compared to the other colonies, New York grew relatively slow because of:

a strong Iroquois control of interior lands and the continued existence of huge landed estates in the Hudson Valley

Which was not a feature of mercantilism?

a system of laissez-faire (opposite of mercantilism)

Republicanism

celebrated active participation in public life by a virtuous elite

All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies except

cheap and safe trans-Atlantic transportation

Revivalist preachers frequently

criticized commercial society

In this passage, Nathaniel Bacon is seeking:

greater protection from the Indians

Alarmed by the destructiveness of the conquistadores, the Spanish crown replaced them with a more stable system of government headed by:

lawyers and bureaucrats

Although suffrage requirements varied from colony to colony, the linchpin of voting laws was

property qualification

What was William Penn's most fundamental principle?

religious freedom

Carolina grew slowly until

rice as a stable crop was discovered to be extremely profitable

Bacon's Rebellion was a response to what

worsening economic conditions in Virginia