Take this Quiz: APUSH Periods 1–3 — 1491 to 1800 | Zestly

Question 1

In the period before 1607, how did the environmental diversity of North America primarily influence the development of indigenous societies?

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Societies developed distinct social structures and economies adapted to their specific regional climates and resources.

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Indigenous groups across the continent adopted a uniform nomadic lifestyle to follow migratory herds.

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The abundance of natural resources led to the creation of a single, unified political empire covering the entire continent.

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Environmental factors forced all groups to abandon agriculture in favour of maritime trade.

Question 2

Which of the following best describes the primary argument made by Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the Spanish encomienda system in the sixteenth century?

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The brutal treatment of indigenous people under the system was morally indefensible and contrary to Christian teachings.

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The system was essential for the economic stability of the Spanish crown and should be expanded.

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Indigenous people were inherently incapable of labour and required the importation of enslaved Africans.

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The system was inefficient because it failed to provide enough land to Spanish settlers.

Question 3

Two colonists write home in the 1630s. Both letters below are invented, but each reflects what the records of its region routinely contain. From Massachusetts: 'We are come with our wives and our children, and have this month laid out the meeting-house and the common field.' From Virginia: 'I have thirty acres more under leaf this year and have taken four more servants off the ship; if the price holds I shall be a man of property by forty.' What difference between the two regions do these accounts point to?

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New England was settled largely by families building a permanent community, while the Chesapeake drew individual men pursuing profit from a single cash crop.

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New England was founded as a commercial venture, while the Chesapeake was founded for religious freedom.

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The Chesapeake had established town meetings, while New England was governed directly from London.

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New England depended on a plantation economy, while the Chesapeake built a manufacturing base.

Question 4

Which development most directly contributed to the shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the Chesapeake colonies by the late seventeenth century?

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The sudden abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by the British Parliament.

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A massive increase in the availability of land for former indentured servants, making labour unnecessary.

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The refusal of the British government to allow any further indentured servants to travel to the colonies.

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The decline in the supply of indentured servants and the social instability highlighted by events such as Bacon's Rebellion.

Question 5

In the context of colonial self-government, what was the primary significance of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

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It represented the first elected legislative assembly in the British colonies, establishing a precedent for representative government.

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It was a religious council that dictated the moral laws of the colony.

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It was a royal body appointed directly by the King to enforce British tax laws.

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It was an indigenous governing body that negotiated land treaties with the settlers.