AP US HISTORY TEST CHAPTERS 1-6

Which of the following s not a feature created in North America ten thousand years ago when the glaciers retreated

The Grand Canyon

The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because

It exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America

In 1492, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the total of the two continents' populations was perhaps

54 million

The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America

Continued to view themselves as Europeans

The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included reverence for all of the following except

Opposition to slavery

The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of

The discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long separated freshwater lakes of various continents

Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation approximately 350 million years ago

The Appalachians

The size and sophistication of north American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to

The development of agriculture

Native American(Indian) civilization was least highly developed in

North America

t the time of the european colonization of north america the number of indian tribes was estimated a at approximately

200

The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast atlantic seaboard

Produced a rich diet that led to high population densities

All of the following were original territories of North American Indian populations within the current borders of the united states except

Mesoamerica

Men in the more settled agricultural groups in north America performed all of the following tasks except

Tending crops

Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to europeans because

Sea travel down the african coast had been virtually impossible

Which group was responsible for slave trading in Africa long before the europeans had arrived

The Arabs and Africans

The origins of the modern plantation system can be found in the

Portuguese slave trade

In an effort to reach the Indies, Spain looked westward because

Portugal controlled the African coast

Columbus called the native people in the new world Indians because

He believed that he had skirted the rim of the Indies

Which of the following new world plants revolutionized the international economy

Maize, potatoes, beans, tomatoes

The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in

Rapid population growth in Europe

Within a century after columbus' landfall in the new world, the native american population was reduced by nearly

90 percent

The flood of precious metal from the new world to Europe resulted in

The growth of capitalism

Men became conquistadors because they wanted to

Gain God's favor by spreading Christianity, escape dubious pasts, seek adventure as heroes of classical antiquity had done, satisfy their hunger for gold

In which of the following is the explorer mismatched with the area he explored

Ponce de Leon- Mississippi River Valley

As a result of the Pope's Rebellion in 1680

The Pueblo indians destroyed every catholic church in the province of new Mexico

The first successful English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in

Roanoke Island

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Reformation, (B) founding of Jamestown colony, (C) Restoration, (D) defeat of the Spanish Armada, (E) Colony of Georgia founded

A,D,B,C,E

The spirit of the English on the eve of colonization included all of the following except

limited patroiotism

The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by

a join-stock company

Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because

They were accustomed to fend for themselves and wasted time looking for gold

Captain Jon Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as

saving the colony from collapse

When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 1610, he

imposed a harsh military regime on the colony

The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as

ending any chance of assimilating the native peoples into Virginia society

The introduction of horses brought about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas, from this they

became nomadic hunters

The Indians that had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the European incursion were

inland tribes such as the Algonquians

After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional purchases of Africans were few because

they were too costly

At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he

hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics

Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were

denied the most fundamental rights

the statues governing slavery in the North aMERICAN COLONIES ORIGINATED IN

Barbados

One of the earliest and most important exports from the Carolinas was

Indian slaves

Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas ebcause they

were experienced in rice cultivation

North Carolina and Rhode Island ere similar in that they

were the two most democratic colonies

The inhabitants of North Carolina were regarded by their neighbors as

outcasts and irreligious

Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virgina, (D) Maryland

C,D,B,A

All of the following European imports threatened the Iroquois' existence except

religion

The purpose of the periodic "mourning wars" was

the large-scale adoption of captives and refugees

The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was

Handsome Lake

Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all

economically dependent on the export of a staple crop

Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the following areas except

allegiance to England

In Calvinist thought the "conversion" was

an intense, personal experience when God revealed an individual's heavenly destiny

The Separatists migrated from Holland to the New World in order to

avoid the Dutchification of their children

The mayflower Compact can be best described as

a promising step towards genuine self-goverment

Initially, The Massachusetts Bay Colony enjoyed all of the following advantages except that of

receiving a majority of the Puritans coming to the New World

Puritan doctrine included acceptance of

the idea of a covenant with God

In the Massachusetts "Bible Commonwealth," clergyman

were barred from holding formal political office

People who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy in Massachusetts Bay were subject to which of the following punishments

fines, floggings, banishment, death

Roger Williams' beliefs included all of the following except

demanding oaths regarding religious beliefs

Settlers of the Connectuct River colony developed a document known as the Fundamental Orders, which

Established a regime democratically controlled by "substantial" citizens

The city of New Haven was settled by

Puritans

Unlike other english voyagers to the new world, the puritans

Transplanted entire communities

After the Pequot war, puritan efforts to convert indians to Christianity can best be described as

Feeble, not equaling that of the Spanish or the French

As the head of dominion of new England, sir Edmund Andros was all of the following except

Puritan

As a result of england's glorious revolution

The dominion of the new world collapsed

As a result of sir edmund andros' world

The power of town meetings was curbed, officials tried to enforce the navigation laws, taxes were levied without the consent if elected representatives, smuggling was supprssed

New York and Pennslvania were similar in that they both

had ethnically mixed populations

New england confederation regarded dutch New Netherland as

an enemy to be wiped out

The physical growth of english new york was slowed because

of the monopolistic land policies of the aristocrats

Pennyslvania was

the best advertised

Economically, the colony of pennsylvania

became profitable very quicky

All the middle colonies were

notable for their fertile soil

The section of the American colonies where there was the greatest conflict was

the middle colonies

the picture of colonial America that is emerging from new scholarship is a society formed by

encounters with native people, European heritage, many intertwining roots, American heritage

Arrange the following events in chronological order (A) restoration of Charles II to the English throne, (B) English Civil War, (C) Glorious revolution, (D) Protestant Reformation

D,B,A,C

The population of the chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its

scarcity of women

In the seventeenth century, due to a high death rate families were both few and fragile in

the chesapeake colonies

During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many english colonies for all of the following reasons except that

Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies

________ reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the "headright" system

Merchant planters

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Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from

white servants

Most immigrants to the chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century came as

indentured servants

Over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants

faced increasingly harsh circumstances

By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom

had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters

The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was

Indian attacks on frontier settlements

The majority of African slaves coming to the New World

were delivered to South America and the West Indies

Many of the slaves who reached North America

were originally captured by African coastal tribes

The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in

South Carolina

while slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons

racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system

The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave societies in history to

perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction

Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith except

the concepts of humility and obedience

Compared with indentured servants, African American slaves weree

a more manageable labor force

It was typical of colonial New England adults to

marry early and have several children

The New England family can best be described as

a very stable institution

You stealing a quizlet from me you horrible person

why would you steal my hard work

The special characteristics of New England's population led to the observation that these colonists "invented"

grandparents

Puritans refused to recognize a woman's separate property rights because

they worried that such rights would undercut the unity of married persons

The expansion of New England society

proceeded in an orderly fashion

The Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to

democracy in political government

All of the following were consequences of the Half-Way Covenant except

it maintained the original agreement of the covenant

As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New England except that

reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity

The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants of the grounds that the Indians

wasted the earth