APUSH Periods: 1, 2, 3 MCQ

The reaction to the situation represented a continuity with what earlier colonial development?

A strict racial system was established that separated enslaved people from European colonists.

What most directly contributed to the advanced development of both pre-Columbian American societies?

Adaptation to use of the natural environment for their own benefit.

What best explains why Washington warned against foreign alliances?

Britain and France were at war with each other, and both threatened United States interests.

What best explains a result of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

Great Britain gained a claim to land extending to the Mississippi.

What was a piece of evidence Hamilton used to support his argument in The Federalist paper number 15?

Earlier attempts to form associations of states in Europe had failed.

The percentages of White and African American populations in South Carolina shown in the table most strongly suggest the..?

Expansion of land for settlement in the Deep South.

What does the Gordon S. Wood use to support his argument in The Creation of the American Republic about the power of the states under the confederation?

Foundational political documents written during the American Revolution

What was the most important reason that Native American relations with English settlers differed from Native American relations with other groups of European settlers in the 1600s?

Larger numbers of English colonists settled on land taken from Native Americans.

By the 1770s, what group would Otis' argument that the colonies "must obey" Parliament most appeal?

Loyalists in NY.

Supporters of Washington's comments would most likely have agreed with which of the following foreign policies?

Maintaining economic relationships.

What group would most likely oppose the ideas expressed in the Virginia's Governor address?

Members of allied American Indian groups.

The conclusion of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) had what effect on the Native American Societies?

Native Americans allied with Great Britain gained the right to become British citizens, angering the colonists.

Richard Hakluyt's call for the English to learn about Native American "language, manners, and customs" best represents which of the following developments in the 1500s?

Native Americans and Europeans partnered for trade.

What was Crosby's overall argument about the reason for change in Native American populations after 1492?

Native Americans had no immunity to new diseases introduced by Europeans.

What best describes evidence used by Crosby to support his argument about the change in Native American populations after 1492?

Native Americans who were taken to Europe as slaves experienced high mortality rates.

The share of White and African American populations in the various states shown in the table most strongly suggests what?

Newly settled state such as KY and TN relied less on slave labor than did regions elsewhere in the South.

English colonists in North America in the 1600s and 1700s most typically sought which of the following?

Opportunities to improve their living conditions.

What development most directly contributed to the events described in Benjamin Franklin's autobiography in describing events in 1739?

Protestant evangelism came to the colonies from Great Britain and Europe.

What represented a change in the labor force of the southern British colonies by the 1700s?

Slavery became more widespread than indentured servitude.

What describes an overall argument in the Petition to the Massachusetts state legislature?

Slavery is contrary to the ideals of the American Revolution.

What best describes an argument made by de Gante in his letter to Emperor Charles V?

The Spanish should require less tribute after conquest to avoid Native American depopulation.

How were European economic systems in the American colonies in the 1500s and 1600s different from existing systems in Europe?

Spanish colonists used enslaved Africans to work on plantations.

Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War had what economic consequences for its American colonies?

The British government increased taxation of colonial goods to help pay off the debt created by the war.

In James Otis's pamphlet, he was responding to what development?

The British government's attempts to pay for the costs of the Seven Years's War.

In what ways did the Spanish impose racial hierarchies in the regions of the Americas that they controlled during the 1500s and 1600s?

The Spanish created a caste system that incorporated people of European, Native American, and African descent.

What overall arguments did Hamilton make about the Articles of Confederation?

The U.S. should abandon the Articles to form a stronger central government.

What claim Hamilton make in The Federalist paper number 15 about the powers of the United States under the Articles of Confederation?

The United States was not empowered to raise sufficient money for the government.

What best describes a purpose of Virginia Governor's Alexander Spotswood's addressing the members of the House of Burgesses?

The Virginia governor is seeking support from the colonial legislature for his plan to address conflict between settlers and American Indians in frontier areas.

The ideas in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government were most likely interpreted by American colonists in the 1770s as a call to reject what?

The acceptance of the divine right of kings.

The principle of federalism embodied in the U.S. Constitution had most in common with what earlier aspects of British colonial government?

The autonomy of colonial legislatures from Great Britain.

Washington's suggestions about United States foreign relations reflect what situations?

The continued European colonial presence along United States borders.

The change in White and Black populations in the various regions shown in the table most strongly suggests the influence of what?

The demand in Europe for commodities such as tobacco and sugar.

What best explains the spread of images of George Washington in the United States after the American Revolution?

The desire of Americans to develop a new national culture.

What best explains the depiction of George Washington in the painting?

The development of a sense of American identity among Patriots.

What pieces of evidence does de Gante use to support his argument about the emperor of Spain's obligations to Native Americans?

The emperor has benefited from the riches acquired in the Americas.

What was a major difference between the Spanish encomienda system and the Spanish caste system in the Americas?

The encomienda system was based on using Native Americans for forced labor, while the caste system was based on a diverse and racially mixed population.

The efforts of Spanish colonists to convert Native Americans to Christianity were most directly influenced by which of the following simultaneous developments?

The extraction of gold and other wealth from the land in the Americas.

Locke's Two Treatises of Government could best be used as evidence by historians studying what topic?

The impact of the Enlightenment on Revolutionary political thought.

What evidence is used by Wood to support his argument in The Creation of the American Republic about state independence?

The inability of the central government to carry out many laws.

What best describes an overall argument of Virginia Anderson's excerpt?

The makeup of emigrant populations led to greater reconstruction of English family life in New England than it did in the Chesapeake.

Interpretations of Locke's assertions regarding a "state of freedom" and a "state also of equality" most directly influenced what?

The political rhetoric of Patriots during the American Revolution.

What claims about the populations of men and women in the colonies did Virginia Anderson make?

The populations of men and women in New England were roughly equal from the time of its founding.

The trend in the population increase from 1790 to 1800 most likely indicates what?

The rapid movement of migrants settled states such as Kentucky and Tennessee.

The failure of the Articles of Confederation resulted in what changes in the government of the United States?

The ratification of a constitution that established a stronger central government.

Dickinson's desire to preserve "a certain degree of agency" for states is best explained by what developments in the early United States?

The retention of regional cultural identity in conjunction with national unity.

The trend from 1660 to 1710 depicted in the table most strongly indicates what?

The rise of the trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved Africans.

"Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640" By Virginia DeJohn Anderson's first excerpt makes what claim?

The settlers of New England varied in age more than emigrants to the Chesapeake did.

John Dickinson's concern for the "mischiefs" in the states is best understood in the context of what?

The threat to state governments from popular uprisings.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution initially responded to abuses of executive authority by the British monarch in what way?

They established the separation of powers between the president and Congress.

What best characterizes the Mississippian societies in Kupperman's excerpt (2012)?

They had mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies that favored the development of permanent villages.

What was a major purpose of Otis's pamphlet?

To encourage opposition to Parliament's regulation of colonial commerce.

Washington most likely wrote about political parties for which of the following purposes?

To warn the public that political parties result in national divisions.

Which of the following contributed most significantly to the population trend in pre-Columbian Mexico?

Trade and settlement resulting from maize cultivation

The second paragraph of Petition to the Massachusetts state legislature proposes that they Mass. legislature should..?

abolish slavery and release enslaved African Americans upon adulthood.

Europeans in the late 1400s and early 1500s undertook voyages where..for what?

across the Atlantic to the Americas in search of new sources of wealth.

The first paragraph in Petition to the Massachusetts state legislature makes the claim that..?

all people should have the same inherent liberties

Hamilton claimed in The Federalist paper number 15 that state sovereignty...?

allowed states to ignore the requests of the central government.

One piece of evidence that de Gante used to support his overall argument about the treatment of the people of Mexico is that Native Americans...

did not have enough supplies to support their families.

The point of view expressed by the Virginia governor in the excerpt is that he..

feels a responsibility to protect White frontier settlers from violent encounters with American Indians.

Crosby makes what following claims about the transmission of Old World diseases to the Americas?

it was an unintended consequence of contact between the New World and the Old World.

The experience of enslaved people in the southern British colonies was similar to the experience of enslaved people in the northern British colonies because...

many enslaved people in both regions developed strategies to resist slavery.

The White and Black populations in New England shown in the table most directly suggest the..

minimal use of enslaved labor in New England compared to other regions.

During the American Revolution, Locke's POV in Two Treatises of Government would most likely have been interpreted as promoting a form of government based on what?

natural rights

The events of the First Great Awakening led to..

new denominations attracting followers who were drawn to the dynamic sermons of new preachers

Europeans sought what in the 1500s?

new sources of wealth in the Americas.

What most directly contributed to the decision in Philadelphia to build a specific meeting house for the new preachers?

religious pluralism was more accepted in the middle colonies and particularly in the colony of Pennsylvania than elsewhere.