This is summative assessement of Unit 1 material for the AP US History
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Question 1
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Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the:
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Question 2
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Which answer below best describes how Joint Stock Companies profited from the colonization of the Americas?
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Question 3
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In the 1600s, the earliest British colonies in Virginia were saved from economic ruin by:
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Question 4
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“The Americas were discovered in 1492, and the first Christian settlements established by the Spanish the following year.... [I]t would seem... that the Almighty selected this part of the world as home to the greater part of the human race.... [T]heir delicate constitutions make them unable to withstand hard work or suffering and render them liable to succumb to almost any illness, no matter how mild. . . . It was upon these gentle lambs... that, from the very first day they clapped eyes on them, the Spanish fell like ravening wolves upon the fold, or like tigers and savage lions who have not eaten meat for days. . . . The native population, which once numbered some five hundred thousand, was wiped out by forcible expatriation to the island of Hispaniola.”
Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1552
An implication of Las Casas’ argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the:
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Question 5
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Which answer below best summarizes British attempts to build sustainable long distance colonies in the Americas during the 1600s?
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Question 6
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Which of the following was a major difference between the encomienda system and slave labor in the Spanish colonies?
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Question 7
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1. Spread of Spanish influence
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Engraving of sugar production on a plantation in the Spanish Caribbean, 1595, Theodor de Bry
Historical developments such as that depicted in the image helped advance which of the following?
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Question 8
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This tribe of Native Americans where first encoutered by Hernando Cortez in 1519, they were defined by the Spanish brutal people, who sacrificed human captives, but were able to build large sophisticated cities with irrigation and roads.
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Question 9
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“[Before European contact] Cahokia [in present-day Missouri] and such other major centers as those now known as Coosa and Etowah in Georgia, Moundville in Alabama, and Natchez in Mississippi were home to highly stratified societies, organized as chiefdoms and characterized by a sharp divide between elites and commoners. . . . Surrounding networks of agricultural hamlets provided food to support the urban centers. . . .
“From the Ohio River through most of present-day Canada and down the coast to the Chesapeake were speakers of Algonquian languages. . . . Nearly everywhere [here], villages composed of 500 to 2,000 people were the norm. . . .
“[This] Indian country was decentralized and diverse, but not disconnected. . . . Routes of trade and communication, most of them millennia old and following the great river systems, crisscrossed the continent. The goods that moved along them were, for the most part, few and rare. . . . Some closely neighboring people might exchange crucial resources—corn, for instances, for meat or fish.”
Daniel K. Richter, historian, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, 2001
Which of the following best describes the economic system that supported the Native American villages discussed in the second paragraph of the excerpt?
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Question 10
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Which of the following was the most important reason that Native American relations with English settlers differed from Native American relations with other groups of European settlers in the 1600s?
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Question 11
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Which answer below best outlines the effects of the Treaty of Tordisallas on Native Americans living in Mexico?
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Question 12
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Explain the main history, of the Iroquis. Do not forget to to explain how there society was organzied, what part of the world they were located in, and decribe their economic system. Your response must be at least five sentences long to get full credit.
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Question 13
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Explain the main history, of the Aztec. Do not forget to to explain how there society was organzied, what part of the world they were located in, and decribe their economic system. Your response must be at least five sentences long to get full credit.
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Question 14
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Explain the main history, of the Navajo people. Do not forget to to explain how there society was organzied, what part of the world they were located in, and decribe their economic system. Your response must be at least five sentences long to get full credit.
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Question 15
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Explain how the Colombian Exchange affected both European and Native American societies. Your answer must have specific examples to support your claims. Your answer must be at at least sentences long.
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Question 16
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Compare and contrast the national motivations that the Spanish Empire and England had for colonizing the Americas, and compare and constrast both empires economic policies toward Native Amerian societies.
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Question 17
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“The development of a plantation economy, beginning in the sixteenth century, transformed Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, too. It displaced the old silk trade and shifted the increasingly dynamic center of the world economy westward to the Atlantic. . . .
“The Atlantic economy supplied eager European consumers with mildly addictive . . . crops like tobacco and coffee, along with sugar. . . . The Atlantic plantation system transformed these three [products] into items of general consumption. . . . Investors prospered, and capital for further economic development accumulated in the [home country]. The governments found funding and motive to develop sea power. The Americas had lucrative export crops and developed a society based on a system of labor exploitation of Africans, and Africa suffered the transport of eleven million of its people to the New World.”
Thomas Bender, historian, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, 2006
Which of the following claims does the excerpt make about changes that occurred as a result of new interactions in the Atlantic region?
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Question 18
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“The development of a plantation economy, beginning in the sixteenth century, transformed Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, too. It displaced the old silk trade and shifted the increasingly dynamic center of the world economy westward to the Atlantic. . . .
“The Atlantic economy supplied eager European consumers with mildly addictive . . . crops like tobacco and coffee, along with sugar. . . . The Atlantic plantation system transformed these three [products] into items of general consumption. . . . Investors prospered, and capital for further economic development accumulated in the [home country]. The governments found funding and motive to develop sea power. The Americas had lucrative export crops and developed a society based on a system of labor exploitation of Africans, and Africa suffered the transport of eleven million of its people to the New World.”
Thomas Bender, historian, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, 2006
The second paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims about the introduction to Europe of new crops from the Americas?
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Question 19
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“The development of a plantation economy, beginning in the sixteenth century, transformed Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, too. It displaced the old silk trade and shifted the increasingly dynamic center of the world economy westward to the Atlantic. . . .
“The Atlantic economy supplied eager European consumers with mildly addictive . . . crops like tobacco and coffee, along with sugar. . . . The Atlantic plantation system transformed these three [products] into items of general consumption. . . . Investors prospered, and capital for further economic development accumulated in the [home country]. The governments found funding and motive to develop sea power. The Americas had lucrative export crops and developed a society based on a system of labor exploitation of Africans, and Africa suffered the transport of eleven million of its people to the New World.”
Thomas Bender, historian, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, 2006
The excerpt makes the overall argument that the Atlantic economy
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Question 20
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The expansion of European settlement in the Americas most directly led to which of the following developments?
