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APUSH Period 2
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Last updated: March 21, 2025
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1. The term "Columbian Exchange" describes:
The exporting of precious metals from the New World and the importing of African slaves to the New World.
The gifts Columbian brought to and received from Native Americans.
The trade in Native American furs for European horses and other goods.
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
2. European contact with Native Americans led to...
The Europeans' acceptance of the horse into their culture.
The deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases.
The introduction into the New World of such plants as potatoes, tomatoes, and beans.
An increase in the Native American population.
3. The adoption of horses by Native American tribes such as the Sioux, Apaches, and Blackfeet...
Enabled them to wage more successful wars against their enemies.
Allowed them to travel across the vast expanses of North America, from Atlantic to Pacific.
Transformed their cultures into wider-ranging, hunter-gather societies that roamed the Great Plains
Led them to shift from strictly agriculture to hunting based societies.
4. Which statement best describes the relationship between Native Americans and European settlers?
Native Americans unanimously welcomed the colonists because they understood the settlers were superior in many ways.
Native Americans and Europeans at times traded peacefully, but European colonists also frequently used force to resist encroachment on their territory, political sovereignty, and way of life.
Native Americans were skilled warriors who violently and continually resisted European settlement.
Europeans had very little contact with the Native Americans because they thought indigenous people were uncivilized.
5. Which of the following did the 17th century settlers in both Virginia and Plymouth have in common?
Both sought religious freedom.
Both developed self-governing practices early on in their settlement
Both were seeking economic wealth as their primary motivation.
Both utilized indentured servants as a major part of their economic model.
6. Compared to New England, the early settlement in the Chesapeake area was characterized by...
A larger population of indentured servants, and a greater gender imbalance.
Many immigrants from Spanish colonies, and a diversified economy.
Government organized at the village level, and an officially established church.
Great population of people, and rapid urbanization.
7. The Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it...
Showed how early colonial governments could fail.
Was abolished by King James I, starting a period of anger by colonists on mistreatment.
Was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America.
Forced King James I to revoke the colony's self-government and make it a royal charter.
8. The Pilgrims were also known as separatists because they?
Wanted to separate Plymouth from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Believed in the complete separation of church and state.
Broke all ties with the Church of England
Were the first to declare independence from Great Britain.
9. A man's right to vote for governor and members of the General Court in 17th century Massachusetts was based on?
Land ownership.
Length of residence.
Church membership.
Financial wealth.
10. The Salem Village witchcraft crisis occurred for which of the following reasons?
Experiencing feelings of powerlessness and insecurity, many Puritans found in witchcraft an explanation for the disorder and change around them.
As the poor felt more and more powerless, they tried to take their frustrations on the wealthy by charging them with practicing witchcraft.
Old-guard Puritans created the crisis to regain their power and restore morality to the community.
The crisis was primarily the result of a power struggle among leading Puritan families
11. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 provided for:
The tolerance of most Christian churches.
An end to tax support for any church.
A complete separation of church and state.
The extension of the vote to Jews and non-Christians
12. In founding the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn's primary purpose was to?
Provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers
Provide a refuge for persecuted Christians of all sects from all parts of Europe.
Demonstrate the possibility and practicality of establishing truly friendly relations with the Indians.
:provide a refuge for English debtors.
13. In the founding of Georgia, James Oglethrope's primary purpose was to...
Provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers
Gain a base for launching English expeditions against Spanish-held Florida.
Make a finanical profit.
Provide a refuge for English debtors.
14. What consequences did the policy of mercantilism have for British colonies in North America?
The British crown demanded large cash payments of silver and gold every year.
The British crown encouraged the colonies to trade with many other countries in order to obtain as much gold as possible.
The British crown paid very little attention to the balance of trade.
The colonies provided raw material to Europe, but manufactored very few goods.
15. What statement best describes the economic activity in the Atlantic world during the colonial period?
Very little trade occurred - mercantilism, prevented the British colonists from earning profits.
Some trade occurred but only between the British colonies and Canada
A lively trade emerged between the North American colonies, Britain, and Africa.
A lively trade emerged but only amongst the British colonies because mercantilism banned trans-Atlantic trade.
16. What statement best describes the British crown's attitude towards the colonies in North America prior to the mid-18th century?
Salutary neglect - the king simultaneously neglected the colonies and praised them.
Salutary neglect - the king and his cabinet rarely enforced the rules that governed the colonies which benefited as a result.
Negligent solitude - the king and his cabinet order the colonies to isolate themselves from each other.
Negligent solitude - the colonies stopped trading with Britain and suffered as a result.
17. How much religious diversity existed in Britain's North American colonies?
None - all the American colonists were all Puritans.
Very little - most of the colonists were Catholic.
High diversity - colonists followed different Christian religions within different colonies.
It is impossible to know because religion could not be discussed in public.
18. What role did the Native Americans play in the French and Indian War?
None - they stopped trading with both the French and British.
Indigenous peoples burned down Washington D.C. and the White House
Although unanimously allied with the British, indigenous people fought in few battles.
Many Indigenous people sided with the French and attacked the British colonial frontier.
19. What important consequences did the French and Indian War have in North America?
None - the conflict ended in a stalemate.
The French victory forced the British king to abidcate.
The British victory expelled France from North America.
The British victory resulted in Spain taking over Canada.
20. Which of the following most represents a difference between the process of identity formation among the laborers referenced in this image and among similar workers in the Chesapeake colonies?
Laws in the West Indies isolated enslaved workers and prevented the development of culture.
Chesapeake colonies had higher birthrates among existing enslaved populations.
A minority of African laborers in the West Indies were enslaved as opposed to a majority
Imported enslaved Africans tended to come from markedly different points of origins.
21. Historian Carl Degler described the American colonies as a "paradise for women." One reason for that designation was because American women...
Could vote for representatives in colonial assemblies.
Outnumbered men.
And men were completely equal in church affairs.
Particularly in New England, were more likely to be literate than European women.
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3 Comments
ac8nr
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Level 58
May 15, 2025
The witch trials answer is wrong
BenWeightman
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Level 51
Jun 27, 2025
What would you say the answer is then?
Bella203
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Level 38
Sep 14, 2025
Wasn't it more of a power struggle? After the Glorious Revolution, William gave the colonies their charters back but with the requirement that they had to have religious freedom so the religious government was trying to show that it still had power through the Salem Witch Trials.
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