2025 APUSH Semester 1 Exam

What crop helped "support economic development" of the civilizations of ancient Mexico and the American Southwest? Examples of these civilizations were the Aztec, Pueblo, and Anasazi.

• corn/maize
• squash and pumpkins
• cotton
• tobacco

People groups of the American Southwest included the Hohokam, Anasazi, and Pueblo. What type of innovations were necessary for them to survive in their environment?

• mobile/nomadic lifestyles
• sedentary lifestyles, including sophisticated urbanization
• seafaring lifestyles
• development of irrigation and adobe/cave/cliff dwellings

People groups of the Great Basin and Great Plains included the Lakota Sioux. What type of lifestyle did they have to adapt in order to survive in their environment, especially considering that the buffalo were so vital to their existence?

• mobile/nomadic lifestyles
• sedentary lifestyles, including sophisticated urbanization
• seafaring lifestyles
• an over-reliance on irrigation

People groups of the Mississippi River Valley were are called collectively the Mississippian culture. These peoples lived in environments that varied between rolling prairies and forests and riverside dwellings. One unique aspect of this culture was that they built Cahokia near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. This was most like the Aztec's Tenochtitlan than any other North American culture produced. What was Cahokia? It is an example of how Mississippian culture favored THIS innovation in order to survive in their environments.

• modes of transportation for nomadic peoples
• sophisticated urban area/permanent urban settlements
• seafaring technology that rivaled that of the Chinese
• primitive hunting technology

People groups of the Pacific Northwest included peoples that carved totem poles. People groups like the Iroquois of modern-day New York created sophisticated government structures to rule their confederation of tribes. Tribes from both regions, despite living on opposite sides of the continent, developed a similar mode of surviving in their environments. How did these communal peoples adapt their housing in order to live in their environment and also maintain communal values?

• they created single-family cliff dwellings in order to escape the desert sun
• they lived in thatched longhouses
• they used gold in multiple ways in order to display their wealth
• they relied on human sacrifice to appease their sun god

Europeans competed over colonies in the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Which nation controlled most of eastern Canada in the 1600s?

• France
• Britain
• Portugal
• Spain

Europeans competed over colonies in the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Which nation controlled most of modern-day Latin America, with the exception of Brazil?

• France
• Britain
• Portugal
• Spain

Europeans competed over colonies in the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Which nation controlled began its plantation of colonies later in the imperialist game, after it defeated the Golden Armada in 1588?

• France
• Britain
• Portugal
• Spain

Europeans competed over colonies in the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Reformation added a spiritual aspect to this imperialist race. Which of the colonial powers attempted to spread Protestant religious values to the New World?

• France
• Britain
• Portugal
• Spain

Europeans competed over colonies in the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. This economic system encouraged competition, because its proponents believed that global wealth was finite, a zero-sum game, where one country gaining wealth must mean that another country was losing wealth...and European balance of power politics demanded that one's own country can NEVER lose wealth. What was this economic system?

• capitalism
• mercantilism
• socialism
• feudalism