APUSH Unit 1 – Flashcards

The potential for conflict between Europeans and the indigenous people in North America stemmed in npart from different values concerning the:

As a result of the development of agriculture in the Americas, the members of native tribes:

In contrast to the Europeans, most natives of North America believed that land serves as the basis for:

The Pueblo people of the American Southwest, encountered by the Spanish in the 1540s:

In Cahokia, the center of a vast Mississippi culture reaching its peak around1200 C.E., Native Americans

Which of the following characteristics of a matrilineal society is NOT accurate: A) divorce as the woman's prerogative B) sharing of powers in the tribal economy C) political deliberation and decision-making by females D) senior women designating the men who would deliberate and make decisions E) family membership determined through the female line

Population growth and cultural development in west Africa:

West Africans shared religious beliefs that rejected: A) spirit possession B) the role of ancestors as mediators to the spiritual world C) the existence of spirits in nature D) the concept of a supreme creator E) none of the above

All of the following factors contributed to the rise of modern Europe EXCEPT: A) devastation of the population by the Black Death B) rediscovery of ancient knowledge C) rise of kings who reasserted their political authority and united their realms D) emergence of powerful feudal lords E) revival of long-distance trade

According to the Magna Carta presented by members of the English aristocracy to their king in 1215, the:

Rather than personal wealth, natives of communal American societies valued:

In contrast to the fate of Africans enslaved in the Americas, the slaves in west African societies:

Arab merchants who lived in Ghana:

At the time of early contact with Europeans, Africa was a continent marked by:

Archaeological studies of the Mound Builders suggest that Native America:

The movement toward more intensive and profitable agriculture in the sixteenth century:

The expansionist impulse of European monarchs in the latter fifteenth century was:

"European colonizers in North America also found disturbing the matrilineal organization of many tribal societies." Matrilineal organization occurs when:

"By the time the Spanish arrived in the 1540s, the indigenous Pueblo people were using irrigation canals." Indigenous people refers to those who:

"Ushering in a new, more secular age, the Renaissance . . . encouraged freedom of thought. . . ." A secular age is one that is:

While Spain began to exert its power on the other side of the Atlantic, the Portuguese:

Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries:

Protestantism did not gain an early foothold in the Americas because

What factor(s) did NOT contribute to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires: A) alliance with dissident natives B) use of horses C) smallpox epidemic D) superior numbers and commitment E) superior technology

The population of the Americas dramatically declined following the arrival of Europeans primarily cause of the:

American exploration changed European diets by introducing Europeans to:

The consequences of sugar production in the New World included: A) stimulating the transport of millions of African slaves B) revolutionizing European tastes C) colonizing Brazil D) the production of nearly 6 million pounds annually by 1570 E) all of the above

The defeat of the Spanish Armada by England in 1588: A) solidified Protestantism in England B) brought a temporary stalemate in European religious wars C) increased English interest in overseas exploration and colonization D) fanned a nationalistic spirit in England E) all of the above

England initially became interested in the western Atlantic for:

English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from previous Spanish and Portuguese efforts in that Enghish attempts were

A negative image of Native Americans among English settlers:

The least likely destination of European slave traders in the seventeenth century would have been

The most important factors for increasing the American slave trade was a(n):

"The countries most affected by the Reformation..." The Reformation was a(n):

The organizers of the Jamestown colony were motivated primarily by a desire to:

The Virginia Company attracted new settlers to its colony after 1609 by:

The economic salvation for the virginia colony proved to be the:

The primary cause for continuing conflicts between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia was the:

Chesapeake colonists of the seventeenth century:

In response to Bacon's Rebellion, Governor Berkeley of Virginia:

Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to the outbreak of Bacon's Rebellion? A) land hunger B) declining tobacco prices C) colonial mistreatment of the Indians D) an unresponsive government E) lack of opportunity

Life in the southern colonies remained volatile in the late seventeenth century mainly because of a lack of:

The southern transition to black slave labor in the last quarter of the seventeenth century might be explained by the

The Puritans of England:

Puritans decided to emigrate from England during the 1630s because of:

Unlike the Puritans, the Pilgrims:

In contrast to Virginia, the colony of Massachusetts Bay thrived almost from the beginning because the early Puritan settlers:

By the early seventeenth century, the French:

The Dutch colony of New Netherland:

In his colony, William Penn intended to:

Slavery never became the foundation of the northern colonial work force because:

The architacts of the Carolina colony:

New Englanders built more private and comfortable houses at an earlier stage than colonists in the Chesapeake because of

Which of the following factors was most instrumental in securing victory for the New England colonists in King Philip's War?

The root cause of King Philip's War in New England stemmed from the anger of oung Wampanoags at the colonists':

Which of the following elements contributed tothe cohesion of Puritan village life in New England:

Puritan minister Roger Williams supported:

William Penn believed that the Indians should be:

The Pueblo were pushed to the point of revolt when the Spanisards began to:

According to the theory of mercantilism, colonies existed primarily to:

The Navigation Act of 1660:

After 1675, England enacted stricter imperial controls because (of):

Governor Edmund Andros of the Dominion of New England antagonized colonists by:

Leisler's Rebellion in New York City reflected the:

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 resulted in:

The colonial elite tried to foster social and economic stability by the:

"The Puritans set about building their utopia. . . ." A utopia is a(n):

New Englanders opted for more of a mixed economy than settlers in the middle or southern colonies because in New England

Colonial America in the first half of the eighteenth century experienced:

Compared to ther English counterpart, the eighteenth-century norther colonial woman

The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed:

By the 1740s, the vast majority of inhabitants along the coast of South Carolina consisted of:

The adoption of slave codes in the English colonies:

Which of the following factors helped temper rebellion and offer comfort to colonial slaves:

The typeical master in colonial America wished to convert the slave into a(n):

France's interior empire in North America

As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth century, Native American tribes of the interior

The advent of "modern" life occurred first in the seaboard centers of colonial America, including the transition from a:

Colonial merchants of the early eighteenth century:

For urban artisans in colonial America:

In contrast to conditions in the English colonies, life in New Spain was characterized by greater:

The social structure of American colonial cities from 1690 to 1770 was influenced by

According to the entrepreneurial ethos, government would provide for the general welfare by:

All of the following represent theories of Enlightenment thinkers EXCEPT the notion that A) systematic investigation would unlock the secrets of the physical universe B) "natural laws" and "natural" human rights should provide the foundation for human relationships C) man could use his reason and thus acquire knowledge D) scientific laws might be applied to human institutions in order to imporve society E) God predetermined the contents of the human mind

Perhaps the most pressing problem facing clergymen in the early eighteenth century and a cause for the Great Awakening was the:

Which of the following might NOT be considered a legacy of the Great Awakening A) legitimization of dissent B) separation of church and state C) religious homogeneity D) a basis for Protestants to live together in relative harmony E) enhanced feelings of individual self-worth

Thereligous revival known as the Great Awakening:

Royal checks on colonial lawmaking operated imperfectly in the eighteenth century primarily because of the:

The most important government for colonial New Englanders was the:

According jto the Whig ideology, the best defense against corruption and tyranny rested in the:

During the early eighteenth century, colonial assemblies:

Boston's impressment riot of 1747 illustrated the:

Unlike members of the English House of Commons, colonial representatives

Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England:

As a result of the Molasses Act of 1733

The underlying cause of the Seven Years' War in Amerca was (the):

The British Proclamation of 1763

Which of the following provisions was NOT a part of George Grenville's program to raise colonial revenue?

Colonists protested the Stamp Act in all of the following ways EXCEPT: A) boycott of British goods by American merchants B) passage of formal resolutions by the Virginia House of Burgesses C) burning of stamp distrubutors in effigy D) a Declaration of Independence E) formation of an intercolonial Stamp Act Congress

The Boston Massacre, in which five townspeople were killed by British redcoats:

Americans objected to the Tea Act of 1773 because it would:

Even before the Second Continental Congress assembled in May 1775, most colonies had created extralegal, revolutionary governments which:

The ideology of revolutionary republicanism:

Many Americans viewed English policies after 1763 as:

Much of the colonial clergy:

Discussions at the First Continental Congress were LEAST concerned with:

During the 1760s and 1770s, urban artisans in America:

The most important revolutionary role for colonial women was:

Most colonial farmers of the 1750s and 1760s:

Some revolutionary ideas were expressed in the form of broadsides. A broadside is a:

The Intolerable Acts provided for all of the following EXCEPT the:

As a result of the Townshend duties of 1767, Parliament:

Passage of the Declaratory Act by Parliament:

The turning point of the Seven Years' War in America occurred when: