APUSH Unit 1 Exam

The passage supports which of the following historical trends?

The Spanish were forced by the Pueblo Revolt to accommodate some aspects of native culture.

An agreement between the people and their leaders in which the people agree to give up some liberties so that other liberties are protected is called

a social contract

The French colonizers believed that

by assimilating with Native cultures, they could eventually convert them to Christianity.

Which aspect of the "Chesapeake economy" is shown in this drawing/woodcut?

a labor-intensive product that is cultivated by slave labor

The author of the excerpt above was most interested in

justifying the takeover of American Indian lands

How did disease impact the American Indian population after contact with Europeans?

American Indian populations experienced a catastrophic decline due to the introduction of European disease.

How did the rise of the triangle trade system impact the economic development in the colonies?

American port cities grew in size and complexity

Which of the following resulted from the differing worldviews of American Indians and Europeans as illustrated in the excerpt above?

Debates over how American Indians should be treated and "civilized"

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, what impact did infectious disease have on the native population?

Disease did not have a major impact on American Indians

What facts in the article support the argument that the Pilgrims were democratic?

It allowed for a civil union between people

How would the system shown in the image above encourage the break from England in the late 1700s?

It encouraged the gradual shift from dependence on the mother country to capitalism

What was the impact of the "miraculous plague" mentioned in the excerpt above?

It stimulated cultural and demographic change

Which of the following most supported the development of the commerce described in the third paragraph?

Maize cultivation spread northward from Mexico.

Which economic system was responsible for the creation of the situation on the map?

Mercantilism

The passage by Countryman challenges which of the following ideas?

Native Americans passively accepted conquest of Europeans during the colonial period.

The Mayflower Compact suggests that religious culture among British North American colonists was influenced by:

Self-government

Which European approach to colonization is most consistent with the arguments in the excerpt above?

Sending men and women to acquire land and populate settlements while having relatively hostile relationships with the native inhabitants

Which of the following best describes the economic system that supported the Native American villages discussed in the second paragraph of the excerpt?

Settled subsistence farming

As seen in the passage, which of the following was a similarity between Spanish and British colonizers?

Spain and Britain often resorted to violence to control native populations.

Which of the following statements characterizes the British relationship with Native Americans?

The British viewed Native American culture as a threat to colonization

Based on the passages above, which of the following statements is most accurate?

The French did not view Native American culture as a threat to colonization.

The excerpt from William Herbert is most clearly exemplified by which of the following actions?

The Pequot War between the Pequot tribe and the settlers of Massachusetts bay Colony

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was a reaction to which of the following?

The introduction of the encomienda and repartimiento systems

How did the introduction of infectious disease into North America impact African populations?

The need for laborers led to the development of slavery as a labor system in the New World

The trends described by Taylor most directly illustrate which of the following major historical developments in the Atlantic world?

The phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange

The patterns described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following developments?

The population decline in Native American societies

The trends described by Ryken most directly illustrate which of the following major historical developments in the colonies

Their sense of priority of a God-centered life would establish a close knit homogeneous society

Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of seventeenth-century Puritans toward religious liberty?

They tolerated no one whose expressed religious views varied from their own views.

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, which aspect of American Indian and European cultures was most similar?

Trade and commerce

The Mayflower Compact is important to the concept of a democratic society because it represents

a clear step toward self-government

The Puritans who settled New England hoped to:

create a model religious society based on biblical principles

The North American colonial settlements referenced in the passage above tended to

establish like-minded, close-knit, homogeneous communities

The export of New World crops to the Old World transformed European society mostly by

improving diets and thereby stimulating population growth

Indians found that British settlers, especially those in the southern colonies, eagerly purchased or captured Indians to use as forced labor in cultivating tobacco, rice, and indigo. Consequently,

more and more, Indians began selling war captives to whites rather than integrating them into their own societies.

How did the activities shown in the woodcut lead to increased tensions between the Chesapeake colonists and the native peoples?

the colonists expanded their land-holdings in order to plant more tobacco