APUSH Review #1

The Native American Mississippian Valley culture differed from other Native American groups in that it

• illustrated a higher level of hierarchical political organization

• existed in mainly seminomadic populations with limited agriculture

• had a developed network of trade with other regional tribes

• based its social structure on maternal lineage

• closely tied its religion to the natural world

In agricultural terms, how did Native Americans differ from their European counterparts?

• Europeans had a greater diversity in the types of staple crops they used for subsistence

• Unlike Europeans, Native Americans lacked any efficient means to clear the vast forests to open land for intensive agriculture

• Europeans achieved greater technologies to alter the landscape in a more aggressive manner

• Unlike the sedentary European communities, the nomadic lifestyle of the Native Americans limited their ability to develop high-yield strains of vegetation

• The Native Americans had less agricultural diversity than European farmers

In Native North American culture along the Eastern Seaboard, the Three Sisters would most accurately refer to

• the sustainable agricultural technique of growing maize, beans, and squash

• the matrilineal lines upon which most clans were based in this region

• the trade and cultural network established between Native Americans living in North America with these in Central and South America

• the spiritual belief in three major forces that defined the natural world

• a creationist myth common among eastern tribes

Which of the following Native American groups would not be associated with the "Five Nations"?

• Mowhawk

• Oneida

• Cayuga

• Seneca

• Powhatan

The 1215 signing of the Magna Carta directly affected the future American government by

• allowing for the emergence of joint stock companies and other entrepreneurial commerce

• guaranteeing basic liberties to all citizens regardless of social class

• providing a clear system of checks and balances withing the national government

• legitimizing citizen revolts against aristocratic or authoritarian rule

• providing for a defined separation between the church and state

The Columbian Exchange would best be described as

• the trade network established between Europe and the Americas

• the new agricultural goods brought to Europe from the Americas

• the exchange of biological, ecological, and other commodities between Europe and the Americas

• the introduction of European diseases that decimated indigenous populations in the Americas

• the arrival of European agricultural goods and livestock in the Americas

What role did the Catholic Church play in Spain's rule of its colonial possessions in North America?

• the pope indirectly rules the colonies through the spanish monarchy, requiring papal approval for all policies in the colonies

• Responsibilities to the Catholic Church dominated expansion policies into the northern territories

• the papacy provided the majority of funding for Spanish exploration

• The Spanish monarchy ordered priests to convert the indigenous population to Catholicism

• The spanish missions reported to the pope rather than the spanish monarchy

Which of the following statements best describes the reason the Dutch settlers in North America practiced religious tolerance?

• They were following the policy of tolerance practiced by the French and British in their New World Possessions

• Religious tolerance was a method to entice more settlers to their North American colonies

• The Dutch believed religious tolerance would maintain order within their New World possessions

• Religious tolerance allowed for investment in colonization from joint stock companies

• the major religion of the Dutch called for religious tolerance

In the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, the Line of Demarcation was established granting

• all of the land north of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish

• all of the land east of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish

• Portugal the right to establish a colonial empire in South America

• all of the land west of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish

• a partition among Spanish, Portuguese, and French lands in the Americas

The Spanish system of forced labor of the Native Americans most accurately had its origins in which European event?

• the Hundred Years' War

• the Anglo-Spanish War

• the Reconquista

• the War of the Spanish Succession

• the Battle of Otumba