Advanced Placement United States History Exam Review!
This test will determine whether you have learned the essential's of APUSH's chapters 3 through 4.
- 1.During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were
- A.
From the ranks of poor families
- B.
Property-owning women
- C.
From subsistence farming families
- D.
Women in their late teen years
- E.
Primarily un-Christian
- 2.In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted
- A.
In those areas controlled by Spain
- B.
On the frontier
- C.
In New England
- D.
In the middle colonies
- E.
In the South
- 3.The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was
- A.
Lumbering
- B.
Making clothes
- C.
Iron making
- D.
Rum distilling
- E.
Arms and munitions production
- 4.The "headright" system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of
- A.
Discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America
- B.
Giving father's wealth to the oldest son
- C.
Giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World
- D.
Using Indians as forced labor
- E.
Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
- 5.As a result of Bacon's Rebellion,
- A.
Planters began to look for less troublesome laborers
- B.
Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the Virginia militia
- C.
Governor Berkely was dismissed from office
- D.
Better relations developed with local Indians
- E.
African slavery was reduced
- 6.The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
- A.
It allowed the press to print irresponsible criticisms of powerful people
- B.
The ruling prohibited criticism of political officials
- C.
He was found guilty
- D.
It pointed the way to open public discussion
- E.
It supported English law
- 7.The Scots-Irish can best be described as
- A.
People who did not like to move
- B.
Strong supporters of the Catholic Church
- C.
Loyal to the British king
- D.
Builders of sturdy homes and well-kept farms
- E.
Fiercely independent
- 8.The slave culture that developed in America
- A.
Was uniquely New World creation
- B.
Was Muslim in its religious teachings
- C.
Contained many Western elements that remained thoroughly European
- D.
Was derived exclusively from African roots
- E.
Rejected Christianity
- 9.One political principle principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
- A.
The property qualification for voting
- B.
Restricting the right to vote to men only
- C.
The separation of powers
- D.
Self-taxation through representation
- E.
One man, one vote
- 10.By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
- A.
Appointed by the king
- B.
Appointed by the British Parliament
- C.
Elected by the vote of colonial legislatures
- D.
Elected by popular vote
- E.
Appointed by colonial proprietors
- 11.Which of the following was not considered to be a naval store?
- A.
Glass
- B.
Turpentine
- C.
Tar
- D.
Pitch
- E.
Rosin
- 12.Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by
- A.
Young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
- B.
People from Jamestown only
- C.
The local Indians
- D.
Those protesting the increased importation of African slaves
- E.
The planter class of Virginia
- 13.For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle passage" can best be described as
- A.
The trip from the interior of Africa to the coast
- B.
The gruesome ocean voyage to America
- C.
The journey from American parts to their new homes
- D.
The easiest part of their journey to America
- E.
None of the above
- 14.Compared with indentured servants, African American slaves were
- A.
A more manageable labor force
- B.
More likely to rebel
- C.
Less experience to buy but more expensive to keep
- D.
Cheaper to buy and own
- E.
Less reliable workers
- 15.While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,
- A.
It soon became clear by 1700 that profits were down
- B.
Profit soon played a very small role
- C.
Europe profited most from the institution
- D.
Racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system
- E.
Race was rarely an issue in relations between blacks and whites
- 16.The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
- A.
Helped to narrow the gap between rich and poor
- B.
Created a serious problem with inflation
- C.
Were not distributed evenly among whites
- D.
Enabled poor white to escape tenant farming
- E.
Were distributed evenly among whites
- 17.For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following except
- A.
At times a small parcel of land
- B.
A headright
- C.
Passage to America
- D.
A few barrels of corn
- E.
A suit of clothes
- 18.On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because
- A.
Some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers
- B.
Of the religious impact of the Puritans
- C.
Fewer yeoman farmers were arriving from Europe
- D.
Of the increase in the slave trade
- E.
Of peacetime economic developments
- 19.Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were
- A.
Native Americans
- B.
Landless farm laborers
- C.
Black slaves
- D.
Landowning small farmers
- E.
Large merchant planters
- 20.Transportation in colonial America was
- A.
Safter by road than by any other means
- B.
Fast only on the waterways
- C.
So poor that no mail service was established until the 1800s
- D.
Slow by any of the means available
- E.
Surprisingly fast for the time
- 21.When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to
- A.
Require Americans to sell their molasses to British merchants
- B.
Stimulate the colonies' "triangle trade" with Africa and the West Indies
- C.
Inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
- D.
Increase the colonists' standard of living and protect the livelihood of colonial merchants
- E.
Satisfy colonial demands for earning foreign exchange money
- 22.The Salem witchcraft trials were
- A.
Accusations made by the daughters of business owners
- B.
Caused by ergot in the Puritans' bread
- C.
Unique to the English colonies
- D.
A result of Roger Williams's activities
- E.
The result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts
- 23.The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its
- A.
Large percentage of middle aged men
- B.
Scarcity of women
- C.
Low death rate
- D.
Fast growth rate
- E.
Stable family life
- 24.By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
- A.
Stronger than at any previous time
- B.
Moving away from clerical intellectualism
- C.
Less fervid than when the colonies were established
- D.
Becoming less tolerant
- E.
Holding steadfastly to the belief that spiritual conversion was essential for church membership
- 25.The New England family can best be described as
- A.
Similar to the family in the Chesapeake colonies
- B.
Not very close-knit
- C.
Relatively small in size due to the frequency of deaths from childbirth
- D.
A limiting factor in the growth of the region's population
- E.
A very stable institution
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