AP Review 1607-1789

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AP Review 1607-1789

• Early settlement
• through
• The Constitution

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1607-1789

• The Navigation Act Acts were part of the British
  policy known as
• Isolationism
• Capitalism
• Mercantilism
• Monopolism
• Imperialism

C
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1607-1789

• The major purpose of Englands mercantilist
  policy was to
• Protect the infant industries of Englands young
  colonies
• Increase Englands prosperity
• Discourage other European powers from colonizing
  North America
• Reduce the need for an overseas empire
• Open the Atlantic to free trade

B
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1607-1789

• The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to
• Secure a refuge for the persecuted
• Check the growth of English colonies in North
  America
• Expand their commercial and mercantile network
• Gain colonies to produce agricultural surpluses
• Secure naval supplies

C
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1607-1789

• Which of the following statements about Africans
  brought as slaves to the British North American
  colonies is true?
• They were the primary labor source for
  plantations in the Chesapeake by 1630.
• They had a much lower life expectancy in the
  Chesapeake than in South Carolina or the West
  Indies.
• They greatly outnumbered Europeans in every
  colony south of the Mason-Dixon Line by 1776.
• They maintained cultural practices brought from
  Africa.
• They were the primary source of labor in
  Pennsylvania until 1720.

D
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1607-1789

• By the 1750s, the British colonies on the North
  American mainland were characterized by all of
  the following EXCEPT
• disdain for British constitutional monarchy
• many religious denominations
• a society without a hereditary aristocracy
• a growing number of non-English settlers
• acceptance of slavery as a labor system

A
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1607-1789

• The primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763
  was to
• Encourage westward colonial migration
• avoid conflict with the trans-Appalachian
  Indians
• gain much-needed revenue
• drive out French colonists
• provide a haven for Catholics

B
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1607-1789

• France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the
  new American nation in 1778 following
• the defeat of the British General Burgoyne at
  Saratoga
• American naval victories on the Great Lakes
• the dispatch of an American peace mission to
  Britain
• an ultimatum by American diplomats
• a personal plea by George Washington

A
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1607-1789

• A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation
  was that they
• created a too-powerful chief executive
• did not include a mechanism for their own
  amendment
• made it too difficult for the government to
  raise money through taxes and duties
• denied the federal government the power to
  mediate disputes between states
• required the ratification of only a simple
  majority of states

C
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1607-1789

• The Puritans believed that the freedom to
  practice religion should be extended to
• Puritans only
• all Protestants only
• all Christians only
• all Jews and Christians only
• all inhabitants of the New World, including
  Africans and Native Americans

A
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1607-1789

• The Sugar Act of 1764 represented a major shift
  in British policy toward the colonies in that,
  for the first time, the British
• Allowed all proceeds from a tax to stay in the
  colonial economy
• attempted to control colonial exports
• offered the colonists the opportunity to address
  Parliament with grievances
• required the colonies to import English goods
  exclusively
• levied taxes aimed at raising revenue rather
  than regulating trade

E
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1607-1789

• Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts
  Bay in 1636 for advocating
• the separation of church and state
• womens suffrage
• bigamy
• the export of tobacco
• independence from England

A
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1607-1789

• The First Great Awakening can be seen as
  response to which of the following?
• Puritanism
• the Enlightenment
• transcendentalism
• existentialism
• post-modernism

B
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1607-1789

• Which of the following states the principle of
  virtual representation?
• Paper money has value even though it is
  inherently worth very little
• Slave populations must be counted when figuring
  Congressional apportionment
• American property-holding colonists may, if they
  desire, join their state legislatures
• All English subjects, including those who are
  not allowed to vote, are represented in
  Parliament
• All English subjects are entitled to a trial
  before a jury of their peers

D
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1607-1789

• Which of the following most accurately describes
  the system of indentured service in the
  Chesapeake settlement during the 17th century?
• Indentured servants were slaves for life however
  their children were born free and could own
  property.
• Most indentured servants were lured by the
  promise of freedom and property upon completion
  of their service.
• Most indentured servants were convicted
  criminals sentenced to servitude in the New
  World.
• The vast majority of indentured servants died
  within two years of arriving in the New World.
• Indentured servants were not protected under
  colonial law.

B
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1607-1789

• The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a significant
  achievement because it
• laid claim to all of the North America east of
  the Mississippi River
• represented one of the rare successes of
  diplomacy between the U.S. government and
  American Indians
• defined the process by which the territories
  could become states
• opened all territories west of the states to
  slavery
• was the only piece of legislation to pass
  through Congress under the Articles of
  Confederation

C
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1607-1789
All of the following statements about indentured
servitude in colonial America are true EXCEPT

1. Indentured servants were primarily young men
2. indentured servants provided most of the labor
   in tobacco cultivation in the 17th century
3. Indentured servants could not be sold as property
4. Indentured servants came primarily from the
   unemployed and lower classes
5. Indentured servants were replaced by black slaves
   in the southern colonies by the early 18th century

C
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1607-1789
The Virginia Resolves

1. Declared Virginias secession from the Union
2. Created the House of Burgesses
3. Protested the Stamp Act of 1765
4. Put forward Virginias claim to western lands
5. Stated the Loyalist position during the American
   Revolution

C
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1607-1789
The first proprietary colony was

1. Jamestown
2. Carolina
3. Massachusetts Bay
4. New Amsterdam
5. Maryland

E
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1607-1789
Which of the following is a direct social change
brought about by the American Revolution?

1. The emancipation of slaves who fought against the
   British
2. The elimination of property qualifications for
   voting
3. An end to religious requirements for holding
   political office
4. Recognition of the right of women to inherit
   property
5. Complete separation of church and state

A
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1607-1789
The most important consequence of the Boston Tea
Party was the

1. Repeal of the tax on tea
2. Failure of other colonies to support Bostons
   action
3. Opening of negotiations between Britain and
   Massachusetts
4. Enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
5. Reopening of the Port of Boston to foreign trade

D
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1607-1789
Ratification of the Constitution

1. Required unanimous approval of the states
2. Was put to a nationwide referendum
3. Was agreed to by the delegates to the
   Constitutional Convention
4. Was determined by electors from each state
5. Needed the approval of nine states

E
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1607-1789

• The Molasses Act was intended to enforce
  Englands mercantilist policies by
• forcing the colonists to export solely to Great
  Britain
• forcing the colonists to buy sugar from other
  British colonies rather than from foreign
  producers
• forbidding the colonists to engage in
  manufacturing activity in competition with
  British industries
• providing a favorable market for the products of
  the British East India Company
• creating an economic situation in which gold
  tended to flow from the colonies to the mother
  country

B
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1607-1789

• The British government imposed the Townsend Acts
  on the American colonies in the belief that

1. the American position regarding British taxation
   had changed
2. it was necessary to provoke a military
   confrontation in order to teach the colonists a
   lesson
3. its provisions were designed solely to enforce
   mercantilism
4. it had been approved by the colonial
   legislatures
5. the Americans would accept it as external rather
   than internal taxation

E
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1607-1789

• The primary issue in dispute in Shays Rebellion
  was

1. the jailing of individuals or seizure of their
   property for failure to pay taxes during a time
   of economic hardship
2. the under representation of western Massachusetts
   in the state legislature leading to accusations
   of taxation without representation.
3. the failure of Massachusetts to pay a promised
   postwar bonus to soldiers who had served in its
   forces during the Revolution
4. the failure of Massachusetts authorities to take
   adequate steps to protect the western part of the
   state from the depredations of raiding Indians
5. economic oppression practiced by the banking
   interests of eastern Massachusetts

A
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1607-1789

• Congresss most successful and effective method
  of financing the War of Independence was

1. printing large amounts of paper money
2. obtaining grants and loans from France and the
   Netherlands
3. levying heavy direct taxes
4. issuing paper securities backed by the promise
   of western land grants
5. appealing to the states for voluntary
   contributions

B
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1607-1789

• In which of the following British North American
  colonies was slavery legally established by the
  early 1700s?

(A) The southern colonies only (B) The middle and
southern colonies only (C) The tobacco- and
rice-growing colonies only (D) All the colonies
except Pennsylvania and the New England
colonies (E) All the colonies
E
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1607-1789

• Which of the following was true of most Puritans
  who emigrated to seventeenth-century New England?

(A) They had renounced the Church of England (B)
They rejected the authority of the English
king (C) They considered themselves
non-Separatists (D) They approved of the Crowns
religious policy (E) They intended to return
eventually to England
C
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1607-1789

• The guarantee that English settlers in the New
  World would retain the rights of Englishmen
  proved to be

• an empty promise
• (B) unpopular among the settlers
• (C) the cause of revolution in Spain and France
• (D) the foundation of American liberties

D
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1607-1789

• By 1700, the most populous colony in English
  America was

• Massachusetts
• (B) Virginia
• (C) New York
• (D) Pennsylvania

B
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1607-1789

• Among the Puritans, it was understood that

• they would establish democratic government in
  America
• (B) clergymen would hold the most powerful
  political office
• (C) the purpose of government was to enforce
  Gods laws
• (D) all adult white male landowners could vote
  for political leaders

C