AP US History
Study Guide – Unit 1
Chapter 1
What constituted the center of culture of the Cahokia people—or the Mound Builders—of the
Mississippi Valley?
What innovative approach did the Iroquois nations develop to sustain themselves in their encounters
with other tribes and the Europeans?
The following characterized Aztec society EXCEPT
What was distinctive about the Mayan culture in comparison with other early American cultures?
The following was true of the Inca Empire EXCEPT
What late 15th century development set the stage for Spain being newly able to launch expeditions of
discovery in the Atlantic?
Chapter 2
The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 resolved the completing claims in the Americas of the following two
European countries
Which conclusion did explorer Amerigo Vespucci reach after his three or four voyages across the Atlantic
following those of Columbus?
The following European states assumed major roles in the new Atlantic trade EXCEPT
The following was true of the Columbian Exchange EXCEPT
The creation of New Spain, Spain's first empire in the Americas, was made possible by Cortés's defeat of
the
The key purpose of the writings of the Spanish priest Bartolomé Las Casas was
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Jacques Cartier's travels to North America in 1534 and 1535-36 had the following consequences EXCEPT
How did the Puritans distinguish themselves from the Anglicans and Catholics in England?
What did the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English navy in July 1588 mean for England?
Chapter 3
What was the new way that English investors sought legal financial gain overseas beginning in the first
decade of the 1600s?
Whose leadership saved the Virginia colony of Jamestown from direct attack by the Powhatan
confederation and starvation of its residents from 1608-1610?
Which following development in the 1620s had fatally adverse, long-term implications for Indians in
Virginia?
Which of the following was a consequence of the new emphasis on a tobacco-based agriculture in
Virginia starting in the 1620s?
What as the name of the group of religious settlers who founded the second permanent English colony
in North America at Plymouth, Massachusetts?
Whose preaching and belief that he or she received direct revelations from God went beyond what the
Puritans would tolerate and resulted in banishment from the Massachusetts Bay colony?
The following was true about the Halfway Covenant in Massachusetts EXCEPT
The following made Maryland an especially inviting colony for certain English settlers EXCEPT
The following characterized William Penn and the colony of Pennsylvania EXCEPT
When in 1619, John Rolfe, a Jamestown tobacco farmer, made a purchase of 20 African slaves in
exchange for food supplies to the Dutch
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Which of the following was TRUE about indentured servitude and slavery?
Which of the following was TRUE about race and slavery during the early-mid 1600s?
The following were results of the Pequot War EXCEPT
The following accompanied the outcomes of King Philip's War EXCEPT
Which of the following contributed to the increasing tensions in the mid-late 1670s that led to Bacon's
Rebellion in 1676?
Why was Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 a major turning point in the history of slavery in Virginia?
The insatiable demand for beaver furs in Europe
Chapter 4
The following illustrated that freedom of speech and freedom of press were considered by British
colonists in North America to be basic to their rights as residents of British colonies EXCEPT
The English philosopher John Locke
All of the following were political, economic, and social developments in colonial life shortly after the
Glorious Revolution in 1689 EXCEPT
In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the institution of slavery became linked most closely to
How did the white political and social elite of Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas respond to the issue
of how to determine the status of mixed-race children?
The following developments fueled the Atlantic slave trade by 1750 EXCEPT
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What was the name of the horrifying voyage from Africa to the Americas endured by slaves taken from
West Africa?
The Stono Rebellion terrified slave masters throughout the British colonies for the following reasons
EXCEPT
The following local tensions surrounded the onset of the Salem witch trials in 1692 EXCEPT
Which of the following BEST describes the Salem witch trials of 1692?
What was the name of the economic system that dominated the economy of Britain's colonies, including
its American colonies, until the early 1700s?
Which of the following illustrated the determination of colonial merchants and traders to develop a
capitalist economic system in the American colonies in the early-mid 1700s?
Which of the following was generally TRUE about the mainland British colonies and British colonists
between 1707 and 1754?
By the 1720s, the development of a middling social class in the American colonies, reflected all of the
following developments EXCEPT
What development was accompanied by the growth of religious toleration in the British colonies during
the early 1700s?
The following were features of the First Great Awakening EXCEPT
Which Protestant group grew dramatically and remained mostly unified as a result of the religious
revivalism of the First Great Awakening?
The following represented ways that the First Great Awakening changed American society EXCEPT
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