APUSH Review (Periods 1-3)

Which of the following statements correctly describes the consequences of European colonization?

• The effects of colonization on both Europeans and Native Americans were temporary and very small

• The Europeans helped civilize the Native Americans and improved their quality of life by sharing technology with them.

• Both the Europeans and Native Americans became rich and powerful by sharing the profits from economic ventures.

• Colonization brought wealth to European imperial powers which resulted in political and economic innovations.

What enabled the Europeans to conquer the Native American peoples?

• There were no powerful Native American empires — only weak bands of nomads.

• The European invaders greatly outnumbered the Native Americans they encountered.

• The Europeans had advanced military technology and also brought with them diseases which ravaged native populations.

• The Native Americans were subdued because they were pagans and refused to accept Christianity.

Which of the following best describes the impact European colonization had on the Western Hemisphere's native population?

• The native population was highly respected in terms of territorial possessions and religious beliefs

• the Europeans for the most part did not interact with the native population

• Spain was the only European country to successfully create an alliance with the native population

• Native populations were often killed off or driven away by the Europeans

Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs?

• The Southwest

• The Northwest

• The Great Plains

• The Eastern Seaboard

Which of the following shows how Native Americans adapted to and transformed the environment in which they lived?

• The creation of large-scale irrigation works to promote the growing of maize

• the development of highly structured systems of social stratification

• the construction of monuments to nature-based deities

• the organization of self-governing confederacies among disparate tribes

Which of the following tribes was encountered by English settlers and best known for their highly evolved system of government?

• The Pueblo

• The Chinook

• The Sioux

• The Iroquois

One significant impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old World was

• the growth of the food supply and subsequent population increase

• the introduction of slavery as a significant source of labor for European landowners

• the widespread devastation of new diseases among the poor

• a draining of capital from the royal families and a shift of wealth to the hands of the merchant class

Which of the following explains the impact of the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?

• it offered eternal life to anyone who would convert the natives of North America

• it encouraged Spanish exploration of the New World

• it banned the Portuguese slave trade

• it condoned the use of the encomienda system

Which European nation was the first to lay claim to the New World?

• Portugal

• Spain

• France

• England

What aspect of Spanish colonization did missionary Bartolome de Las Casas famously protest?

• the refusal of explorers to tithe on the wealth they discovered

• the lack of missionary zeal among the conquistadors

• the treatment of Native Americans as subhuman and expendable

• the focus of the Spanish Crown on Latin America while neglecting the Reconquista at home