APUSH Review Exam Questions and
Answers 2024/2025 100% Verified
Great Columbian / Biological Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER-Exchange of plants and
animals
... [Show More] between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in
1492.
Christopher Columbus - CORRECT ANSWER-Italian explorer, sailed from Spain in
1492 and reached Americas, greatly increased European awareness of the North
American Continent
Bartolomeo de las Casas - CORRECT ANSWER-16th Century Spanish Historian,
Dominican Friar, "Protector of the Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on
Indigenous people
Spanish empire - CORRECT ANSWER-Empire control in Mexico, South America, and
Florida, religious empire; Franciscans + mission system, defensive buffers vs. English,
French, and Russians. Economic empire.
French empire - CORRECT ANSWER-Empire control in Canada, Ohio, and Mississippi
River Valley with Louisiana. Religious: Jesuits. Positive indigenous relations. Fur trade.
Coureurs du bois.
English/British Empire - CORRECT ANSWER-Exhibited control in the form of
dominions, colonies, mandates, and territories. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent ruler
during the colonial period of this empire. French Rivalry + engaged in Columbian
Exchange.
Jamestown - CORRECT ANSWER-First permanent English settlement; located in
Virginia. Founded by London Company
Mayflower Compact - CORRECT ANSWER-Pilgrims/Separatists agreement: agreement
to obey laws created by the community and a profession of allegiance to the king
Chesapeake colonies - CORRECT ANSWER-Term for the colonies of Maryland and
Virginia
Virginia colony - CORRECT ANSWER-This colony was founded in 1607. First
settlement was Jamestown. Charter to stock company/royal. Tobacco was vital to its
survival.
1619 - CORRECT ANSWER-The year when the first U.S representative assembly was
established - House of Burgesses (Jamestown, Virginia)
Bacon's rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER-Colonial uprising that took place in 1676 in the
Virginia colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. Virginians resented William Berkeley's friendly
policy towards Native Americans. This was the first rebellion in American colonies in
which discontented frontiersmen took part.
Maryland colony - CORRECT ANSWER-Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, founded
to be a place for persecuted Catholics to find refuge, a safe haven, act of toleration
Toleration Act - CORRECT ANSWER-Guaranteed religious toleration to trinitarian
Christians, but decreed the death penalty to Jews and atheists and others who didn't
believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ,
New England colonies - CORRECT ANSWER-The term for the colonies of
Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
Massachusetts Bay Colony - CORRECT ANSWER-Colony founded in 1630 by John
Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic
republic. "City upon a hill"
John Winthrop - CORRECT ANSWER-Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Speaker of "City upon a hill"
"City upon a hill" - CORRECT ANSWER-Said by Winthrop; refers to the idea that
Puritan colonists emigrating to the New World were part of a special pact with God to
create a holy community: a model society to the world/moral commonwealth
Anne Hutchinson - CORRECT ANSWER-Woman who challenged Purtian religous
authorities in Massachusetts Bay. Puritan authorities banished her because she
challenged religious doctrine, gender roles. clerical authority, and claimed to have had
revelations from God
King Philip's war - CORRECT ANSWER-1675. longest and bloodiest conflict between
settlers and natives in 17th century, native Wampanoags under KIng Phillip ( Indian
Chieftain) resisted England encroachment on their land, they killed many settlers in
Mass, English joined with Mohawks to defeat them
Salem Witch Trials - CORRECT ANSWER-1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a
Massachussetts Bay puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and
stress. Spectral evidence was used frequently.
Rhode Island Colony - CORRECT ANSWER-Self-governing colony founded by Roger
Williams in 1636; granted freedom for all religions and non-believers; religious
toleration; disestablishment, universal suffrage for white males w/property qualifications;
most democratic
Disestablishment - CORRECT ANSWER-Separation of church and state; no religion i [Show Less]