APUSH Review #1

"In the 1500s, Native Americans possessed a wide range of complex cultures." Each of the following gives evidence to support this statement EXCEPT

• the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan
• the organization of Inca society
• Native Americas' susceptibility to European diseases
• the Mayas' agricultural system

The delay in founding English settlements in the Americas was the result of 

• The lack of English territorial claims in the Americas
• failure to develop trade with other nations
• fear of Spain
• religious upheavals in England

Which of the following sources would be most useful in studying the development of democratic institutions in the early colonial period?

• the first chapter of the Virginia Company
• Columbus' journals
• the Treaty of Tordesillas
• the Mayflower Compact

The Great Awakening was a reaction to

• the flood of immigrants
• churches' early failure to take account of people's emotional needs
• the overly strict teachings of the Church of England
• guilt over the evils of slavery

At his trial, John Peter Zenger won acquittal on the grounds that 

• the king had less authority in the colonies than in England
• English law permitted the press almost total freedom
• truth could not be libel
• New York's governor deserved to be criticized

As a result of the French and Indian War,

• relations between the French and American colonists improved dramatically.

• France was able to hold on to Canada but lost the rest of its North American empire.

• the Americans and British developed a mutual respect for each other's military abilities

• Britain felt it necessary to abandon the practice of salutary neglect

The Navigation Laws passed by England in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on England's American colonies in that they

• led to considerable prosperity for colonial merchants and shippers

• were a major cause of the French and Indian War

• inhibited American trade with countries that were not under English rule

• were welcomed by most American colonies as an opportunity to increase trade with nations other than England

Britain attempted to pay for the debt resulting from the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) by

• charging immigrants a fee to relocate to North America

• selling ships from its navy to colonial merchants

• increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies

• sponsoring expeditions to locate valuable resources

By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in

• factions

• state governments

• a centralized government

• the people

Although the Supreme Court was the weakest of the three branches of government in the early days of the new republic, John Marshall strengthened the Court by

• establishing the principle of federalism, giving federal courts the power to declare laws unconstitutional
• declaring the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which asserted the right of states to nullify federal laws, unconstitutional
• establishing the principle of judicial review in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland
• establishing the principle of judicial review in the case of Marbury v. Madison