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WorksheetsAPUSH Unit 1
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 29mins
Which of the following was not a technological advancement during the Renaissance that made European expansion possible?
Accurate navigation technology (compass, etc.)
Gunpowder
Improved shipbuilding
Improved mapmaking
Increased knowledge of native cultures
Columbian exchange refers to the spread of people, food, ideas, and culture between:
The Americas, Asia, and Europe
The Caribbean, Europe, and Asia
North America, Africa, and Europe
South America, Europe, and Africa
North America, South America, and Europe
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico was:
Samuel Champlain
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Francisco Pizzaro
Hernan Cortes
The process in which the Spanish conquered native empires in the Americas and land and native labor was granted to individual Spaniards by the king was known as:
Asiento System
Mercantilism
Columbian Exchange
Demarcation
Encomienda System
Which of the following motives for exploration does de las Casas seem to be criticizing most directly?
Converting the natives to Christianity
National glory
Intellectual curiosity
Personal financial gain
Which of the following was the most dramatic effect of the Columbian exchange on the New World?
A dramatic increase in European populations due to improved diets from the introduction of corn.
A decline in population and livelihood for Native Americans, brought on by the introduction of slave labor.
Longer life expectancy for Native Americans due to the introduction of the horse as an improved mode of transportation.
The destruction of up to 90 percent of the Native American population from diseases like smallpox.
The institution known as encomienda allowed the
native people to enslave members of other tribes.
Europeans to marry Native Americans.
governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.
European governments to grant Indians’ labor to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
Which of the following motives for exploration is de las Casas most likely to think is the most justified?
Financial gain
National glory
Intellectual curiosity
Converting the natives to Christianity
The development that brought “corne” to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is best known as the
Encomienda System
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Enlightenment
Columbian Exchange
Gerard’s description of “corne” in the excerpt best reflects which of the following?
Curiosity about American Indian ways of life
Inability to find uses for North American crops
Concerns about economic threats posed by North American imports
Assumptions about the superiority of European culture
The excerpt above is from the
Fundamental Orders
Charter of the colony of Jamestown
New England Confederation
Mayflower Compact
In response to the Anglicanism that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries, some Puritans like the Pilgrims
advocated strict separation of church and state.
practiced violent resistance to religious oppression by Anglican authorities.
wanted a return to traditional Catholicism.
believed the Anglican church could not be reformed and must be abandoned.
The policies stated in the above law can best be seen as an example of
communism
capitalism
Enlightenment thinking
mercantilism
What accounts most for the scant success of the above law in modifying English colonial trading behavior?
Weak economic growth and the lack of external competition
The presence of slavery and growing colonial wars
The rejection of Anglicanism in the colonies
Decades of the British government’s relative indifference to colonial governance
Which of the following had the most impact in shaping colonial resistance to the above law?
Conflicts with American Indian groups
The growth of the African slave trade
Colonial dedication to mercantilist policies
Political thought shaped by the Enlightenment
The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
the degradation of the soil.
a great demand for controlled labor.
soaring prosperity in the colony.
diversification of the colony's economy.
Virginia and the Carolinas were similar in that they were both
proprietary colonies.
founded as refuges for persecuted religious sects in England.
able to live in peace with the Native Americans.
economically dependent on the export of a staple crop.
Settlers of the Connecticut River colony developed a document known as the Fundamental Orders, which
marked the beginning of the colony of New Amsterdam.
set up a military alliance in New England.
supported a government controlled by all people.
was considered the first Constitution written in British North America.
What best describes the British policy of “salutary neglect?
it led the American colonies to seek independence from England.
it led to much discontent in the colonies which wanted closer ties to England.
it allowed colonies to elect representatives to send to Parliament
it allowed the colonies to develop their own political institutions and trade relationships.
All the following are true of the purpose of the Dominion of New England EXCEPT:
to strengthen colonial defense from Native American attacks
to collect taxes more efficiently by enforcing the Navigation Acts
to establish more direct control over the New England colonies
to end the religious pluralism that was developing in the region
What was the major effect of the introduction of sugar to the New World?
It led to the integration of Native American economies into the global system
It made Europeans turn away from the use of sugar.
It made Europeans turn away from trade with Africa.
It led to the forced migration of millions of Africans and the development of a race based labor system.
The “headright” system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of
using Indians as forced labor.
giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World.
discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America.
giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was
the wealthy planter class losing control of the colony.
a shortage of indentured servants resulting in overworking existing indentured servants.
to desire to halt the importation of African slaves
Indian attacks on frontier settlements and the desire for more land.
After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because
higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants.
the British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America.
Americans rushed to cash in on slave trade.
planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.
Which European approach to colonization is most consistent with the arguments in the excerpt above?
Using trade alliances and intermarriage with American Indians to acquire products for export to Europe
Establishing tight control over the colonization process to convert and/or exploit the native populations
Integrating a coherent hierarchal imperial structure and pursing economic goals
Sending men and women to acquire land and populate settlements resulting in relatively hostile relationships with the native inhabitants
The most direct goal of author in writing the excerpt above was
participating in the fur trade with the native communities
generating great wealth for the king in England.
converting American Indians to Christianity.
justifying the takeover of American Indian land
The North American colonial settlements referenced in the passage above tended to
be economically, religiously, and ethnically diverse.
be dedicated to converting American Indians to Christianity.
develop staple crop economies based on slave labor.
establish like-minded, close-knit, homogeneous communities.
Whitefield’s impact suggests that religious culture among British North American colonists in the 1700s was most directly shaped by
Roman Catholic influences.
disinterest in commerce and business.
reliance on agriculture.
trans-Atlantic exchanges.
Whitefield’s open-air preaching contributed most directly to which of the following trends?
the growth of the ideology of republican motherhood.
movement of settlers to the backcountry
the pursuit of social reform
greater independence and diversity of thought
The preaching described in the excerpt is an example of which of the following developments in the 1700s?
the creation of the idea of republican self-government
the emergence of calls for the abolition of slavery
the decrease in the influence of religion.
an emphasis on emotion over reason.
Which colonial region was most characterized by religious homogeneity and the migration of family units?
Southern Colonies
The Chesapeake
The Middle Colonies
New England
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
he was found guilty and sentenced to death in the first public execution in the colonies.
the ruling prohibited criticism of political officials.
it allowed the press to print irresponsible criticisms of powerful people.
it protected freedom of the press.
The Salem witchcraft trials were
a result of Roger Williams' activities.
caused by the unorthodox ideas of Anne Hutchinson.
unique to the English colonies.
the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in Massachusetts
Virginia House of Burgesses is significant as it
was the first government to implement policies of religious toleration
was dominated by Quakers who advocated for positive relationships with Native Americans
was controlled directly by the British crown
was the first democratically elected legislative body in British North America
The first permanent English settlement in North America was
Roanoke
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
Rhode Island
Jamestown
Colonies in which stockholders invest in a company and share the potential profits and losses from the colony are known as
Company Colonies
Royal Colonies
Proprietary Colonies
Joint Venture Colonies
Corporate Colonies
Which of the following is an accurate statement of the House of Burgesses?
I. It was a representative assembly in Virginia.
II. It set an example for representative democracy for the future.
III. It made laws and levied taxes.
IV. It called for the separation of church and state.
I & II only
I & III only
II & III only
I, II, & III only
I, II, & IV only
The southern colony that was established to help clear English jails of debtors and as a buffer from the Spanish was
South Carolina
Florida
Virginia
Maryland
Georgia
The Navigation Acts passed between 1650 and 1673
Created English monopolies, limited manufacturing, and created higher prices
Stated trade between England & the colonies could only be carried by English vessels.
Stated that goods going to the colonies had to pass through English ports.
All choices are correct
