AP United States History (APUSH) (Period 3) Assignments

1. 

b. brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk.

2. England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada

d. helped ensure England’s naval dominance in the North Atlantic.

3. The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by

b. starvation, disease, and frequent Indian raids.

4. The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except

d. diversification of the colony’ economy.

5.  By 1760, all the southern plantation colonies

e. a and c only

6. By the mid-eighteenth century, the thirteen colonies were similar in that they all

a. were basically English in customs and law, despite religious and ethnic diversity.

7. During the early years of colonization, England

c. paid little attention to its colonies.

8. Among Puritans, it was understood that

c. the purpose of government was to enforce God’s laws.

9. As the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams

d. allowed religious freedom for all.

10. King James I opposed the Separatists from the Church of England because he

d. realized that if his subjects could defy him in spiritual matters, they could defy him as a political leader.

11. New York and Pennsylvania were similar English colonies in that they both

b. had ethnically diverse populations.

12. When the English took over New Netherland

b. they continued an autocratic form of government similar to that one already in place under the Dutch.

13. The New England Confederation

b. was designed to bolster colonial defense.

14. Unlike Separatists, Puritans

c. remained members of the Church of England.

15. English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called

b. indentured servants.

16. Colonists responded to plunges in the price of

tobacco by

d. growing even more tobacco.

17. Bacon’s rebellion was supported mainly by

a. young men frustrated with their inability to acquire land.

18. After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because

e. all of the above

19. Family life in the colonies was most stable in __________ and least stable in __________.

d. New England, the Chesapeake

20. Which phrase best explains the evolution toward lifelong black slavery in England's American colonies by the eighteenth century?

a. it began for primarily economic reasons, but continued in large part because of racism.

21. Though some historians disagree, the authors of your textbook maintain that the Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to

c. democracy in political government.

22. The New England economy was heavily dependent on

c. fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.

23. According to Bailey, compared to most seventeenth century Europeans, Americans lived in

c. “affluent abundance.”

24. In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England

a. had a more diversified economy.

25. The occupational group that led in the political agitation prior to the Revolution was

c. lawyers.

26. The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was

c. commerce.

27. The most honored profession in early colonial

society was

c. the ministry.

28. The “new light” preachers of the Great Awakening

e. none of the above.

29. One feature of the American economy that

strained the relationship between the colonies

and England was the

b. growing desire of Americans to trade with foreign nations.

30.  In regard to government, the Scotch-Irish

d. did not support the British government.

31. By 1775, the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America was

d. Africans.

32. Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of the governors to what they wanted because

c. colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors’

salaries.

33. The jury’s decision in the case of John Peter Zenger was significant because

d. it pointed the way toward freedom of expression.

34. By 1775, most governors of American colonies were

b. appointed by the king.

35. During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with

b. decades of salutary neglect.

36. A key reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

e. link it Canadian territories with those of the lower Mississippi Valley.

37. French motives in the New World included

a. competing with Spain for an empire in America.

38. In the colonial wars prior to 1754, Americans

d. demonstrated what the British considered an amazing lack of unity.

39. The purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

e. achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French.

40. In the peace arrangements that ended the French and Indian War,

a. France surrendered all of its territorial claims on North America.

41. Benjamin Franklin’s plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because

d. the colonies felt it did not give them enough individual independence.

42. For the American colonies, the French and Indian War

d. ended the myth of British invincibility.

43. During the French and Indian War,

c. British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials.

44. Unlike the first three Anglo-French wars, the French and Indian War

c. was fought almost entirely on the North American continent.

45.  The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the 17th century was notable for its

b. its scarcity of women.

46. One outstanding feature common to all of the English colonies in North America was their

c. rapidly growing populations.

47. The Proclamation of 1763

d. prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

48. The Proclamation of 1763

b. was resented by English colonists in North America.

49. By the end of the 17th century, indentured servants who gained their freedom

d. had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters.

50. Before the arrival of the Spanish, most native peoples in North America

c. lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements.