apush chapter 1

Which of the following describes the first peoples who migrated to the Americas?

The group consisted of bands of hunter-gatherers.

Which of the following statements describes the Maya peoples?

They devised a calendar system that predicted solar and lunar eclipses accurately.

The Hohokams, Mogollon, and Anasazi peoples who lived in present-day Arizona and New Mexico around A.D. 1000

Employed irrigation to grow four or five crops a year.

Which of the following was characteristic of both the Mississippian and Puebla peoples?

Elaborate ceremonial and urban sites

Which of the Puebla peoples built hundreds of miles of straight roads across the desert in the American Southwest to facilitate trade?

Anasazis

Which of the following statements describes Native American peoples east of the Mississippi River?

They had no single style of political organization.

Which of the following features characterized most Native North Americans' spiritual views and practices?

Animism

The social order in Europe around 1450 can be described as

Hierarchical and Authoritarian

Which of the following characteristics did traditional European, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations of the fifteenth century hold in common?

Each was a hierarchy society in which authority came from above.

Typically, when an English woman of the fifteenth century married, she

Gave up ownership of her property to her husband.

In 1450, the majority of European men were which of the following?

Peasants

On the eve of European colonization of the Americans, most Western Europeans lived in

Small, relatively isolated rural communities.

Which of the following Renaissance-era ideologies celebrated public virtue and service to the state?

Civic Humanism

Which European nation was the first to involve itself in exploration of the Atlantic as a route to Asia and the African slave trade?

Portugal

The rise of commerce in most of Europe in the fifteenth century shifted the balance of power by favoring which of the following groups?

Monarchs

As it gained power in Europe, Roman and medieval Catholicism contended with pre-Christian festivals and the agriculutural cycle by

Integrating them into Christian holy days and biblical teachings.

Which of the following was a result of the Crusades, which took place between 1096 and 1291 A.D.?

Western European merchants gained awareness of Asian trade routes.

The first phase of the Reformation in the 1500s had its greatest success in which of the following countries?

Germany

Martin Luther advocated which of the following ideas?

The Catholic Church was corrupt and in need of reform.

John Calvin and Calvinist theologians of the 1500s stressed which of the following ideas?

The doctrine of predestination

Why was the fifteenthcentury marriage of queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain significant?

Together they completed Spain's long campaign to oust Muslims.

Why had Christopher Columbus faded from public new by the time he died in 1506?

He failed to find great treasures or kingdoms.

Why did the number of Indians living in Mesoamerica decline from about 30 million in the fifteenth century to approximately 3 million by 1650?

Disease carried by Europeans decimated most Indian tribes who came into contact with them.

Why were the modern-day countries of Mexico and Peru originally Spains most significant conquests?

The Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans had great wealth, particularly in gold.

Which of the following statements characterizes the legacy of the Spanish conquest in the New World in the sixteenth century?

The Spanish government and missionaries waged a campaign to suppress indigenous cultures.

By the mid-1500s, Spain's main goal in North America was to

Maintain its dominance and power in the region.

Which of the following statements describes the significance of the arrival of New World crops including maize and potatoes, in Europe and Asia after the 1500s?

American crops increased agricultural yield and population growth in the Old World.

What cause the Spanish Netherlands revolt against Spanish rule in 1566?

Dutch Protestants' desire to protect their faith.

King Henry VIII started the English Reformation by

Declaring himself supreme head of the new Church of England.

The main motive for King Philip II's attack on England in 1588 was to

Eradicate Protestantism in England and Holland.

What accounted for the uneasy relations that persisted between Powhatan's people and the Jamestown settlers for more than a decade after 1607?

Both groups' inability to reach an agreement about who would pay tribute to whom.

What effect did American tobacco have in England during the early colonial period?

The English developed a huge appetite for tobacco, which stimulated the English economy and bolstered England's treasury.

Which of the following was the outcome of the surprise Indian attack on the Virginia colony in 1622?

James I. Revoked the Virginia Company's charter and made it a royal colony.

Which of the following characteristics was a common feature of royal colonies throughout English America in the seventeenth century?

An elected assembly.

Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, stables he'd that colony as a haven for

Catholics.

Which of the following describes the colony of Maryland, founded in 1632?

Catholic priests and missionaries created its political and social systems.

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes life in the seventeenth-century North American plantation colonies?

Disease took such a toll that most children lost at least one parent before their thirteenth birthday.

In which of the following ways did the plantation colonies of Barbados differ from those in the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century?

The Chesapeake adopted slavery gradually and Barbados did so quickly.

How was colonization similar for the French and Spanish?

The French and Spanish aimed to Christianize the native peoples.

Which of the following describes the Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century?

The venture failed to attract many settlers.

Which of the following native groups capitalized on its geographic location in central New York and remained a significant political force in North America long after colonization?

Iroquois

Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many years?

The religious discipline of the Plymouth settlers encouraged their stronger work ethic.

When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans' first priority was to

Create a reformed society that would model true Christianity in America.

For which of the following reasons was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636?

He questioned the English seizure of native people's lands.

Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts bay for

Questioning the idea that good works led to salvation.

Which of the following New England colonies required church membership in order to be able to vote?

Massachusetts Bay

Why did the largest landholdings in seventeenth-century New England towns usually belong to wealthier families?

Men of higher social status tended to receive the largest land grants from their towns.

Which of the following was characteristic of both the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies?

Ordinary farmers had more political power than most Chesapeake men.

Which of the following statements is true of Metacom's War (King Philip's War), which took place in 1675-1676?

The war was a last-ditch attempt to save Indian lands and culture in New England.

Which of the following was a consequence of Bacon's Rebellion of the 1670s?

Slavery began to replace indentured servitude.