APUSH Chapter 1 Exam Test Guide
APUSH Chapter 1 Exam Test Guide
The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America
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The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had in common
what characteristics?
1. The desire to create an agricultural society.
2. Learning to live lives unfettered by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion and social
hierarchies.
The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included:
Individual liberty, self-government, religious tolerance, and economic opportunity.
By the 1770's _____helped bring about a crisis of _____.
trade restrictions, imperial authority.
The existence of a single original continent has been proved by:
the presence of the discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long separated freshwater lakes of
various continents.
The Appalachian mounain range was probably created when?
before the continental separation approximately 350 million years ago.
True or False: Was the Grand Canyon created when the glaciers retreated?
False: The Grand Canyon was not a feature created in North America ten thousand years ago when the
glaciers retreated.
The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because:
it exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America.
Most likely the first Americans were:
people who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to North America.
In 1492, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the total of the two continents' populations was:
Approximately 54 million
Some of the more advanced Native American cultures:
established large, bustling cities; made strikingly accurate astronomical observations; study mathematics;
carry on commerce.
The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be
attributed to:the development of agriculture.
The Incan, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations:
had advanced agricultural practices based primarily on the cultivation of maize; lacked the technology of
the wheel; built elaborate cities and carried on far-flung commerce; had talented mathematicians which
allowed them to make accurate astronomical observations.
What crop became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was
corn.
Native American civilization was least highly developed in
North America.
One of the main factors that enabled Europeans to conquer native North AMericans with relative ease
was:
the absence of dense concentrations of population or complex nationstates in North America.
At the time of the European colonization of North America, what was the approximate number of Indian
tribes?
200
The development of _______ on the southeast Atlantic seaboard produced a rich diet that led to______.
"three sister" farming; high population densities.
Before the arrival of Columbus, most native peoples in North America lived in:
small, scattered, and impermanent settlements.
The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of
its:
military alliance, sustained by political and organizational skills.
What were four original territories of North American Indian populations within the current borders of the
United States?
Northeast, Southeast, Great Plains, Great Basin.
Men in the more settled agricultural groups in North America performed what tasks?
Hunting, gathering fuel, clearing fields for planting, fishing.
The early voyages of the Scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in North America
because:
no nation-state yearning to expand supported these ventures.
The Christian crusaders were indirectly reponsible for the discovery of America because:
they brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk.Eauropeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to:
Break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia; reduce the price of goods from Asia; gain
more profits for themselves; reduce the time it took to transport goods.
Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to
Europeans because:
sea travel down the African coast had been virtually impossible.
Who was first responsible for slave trading in Africa?
The Arabs and Africans were responsible for slave trading long before the Europeans arrived.
In the last half of the fifteenth century some forty thousand _____ were forced into slavery by _____ and
_____ to work on plantations in the _____.
Africans; Portugal; Spain; Atlantic sugar islands.
The origins of the modern plantation system can be found:
in the Portugese slave trade.
Spain was united into a single nation-state when:
the African Moors were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.
The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when:
europeans clamored for more and cheaper products from Asia; africa was established as a source of slave
labor; the portuguese demonstrated the feasability of long range ocean navigation; the renaissance
nurtured a spirit of optimism and adventure.
In an effort to reach the Indies, Spain looked westward because:
Portugal controlled the African coast.
AFter his first voyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had:
sailed to the outskirts of the East Indies.
Columbus called the native people in the New World Indians because:
he believed that he had skirted the rim of the Indies.
What factors contributed to the emergence of a new interdependent global economic system:
europe providing the market and capital; africa providing the labor; New World providing its raw
materials; the advance ment and improvement of technology.
Which New World plants revolutionized the international economy:
maizie; potatoes; beans; tomatoes.
The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in:
rapid population growth in Europe.European contact with Native Americans led to____? Why?
the deaths of millions of Native Americans; they had little resistance to European diseases.
Within a century after Columbus's landfall in the New World, the Native American population was
reduced by:
nearly 90 percent.
European explorers introduced ___ into the New World.
smallpox
The flood of precious metal from the New World to Europe resulted in:
the growth of capitalism.
The institution of encomienda allowed the European governments to:
give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
Men became conquistadores because they wanted to:
Gain God's favor by spreading Christianity; Excape dubious pasts; seek adventure, as the heroes of
classical antiquity had done; satisfy their desire for gold.
The Aztec chief Moctezuma allowed Cortes to enter the capital of Tenochtitlan because:
Montezuma believed that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl.
Coronado explored:
New Mexico and Arizona.
Cortes explored:
Mexico.
Pizarro explored:
Peru.
Columbus explored:
Caribbean islands.
Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to:
protect its Central and South American domains from encroachments by England and France.
As a result of Pope's Rebellion in 1680:
the Pueblo Indians destroyed every Catholic Church in the province of New Mexico.
The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as:
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