AP Review Questions for chapter 1 (U.S. History)

(A) More than 300 years ago

(B) About 400 years ago

(C) More than 500 years ago

(D) At least 600 years ago

(E) More than 600 years ago

(A) There are identical species of fish in freshwater lakes across the globe.

(B) There are similar types of mountain ranges around the world.

(C) All the areas that are now separate regions were similarly impacted by the glaciers 10 million years ago.

(D) Ethnic groups in one part of the world can trace their ancestry to people in completely different countries.

(E) There are similar forms of vegetation in many nations.

(A) Native peoples long existed here.

(B) They traveled in rafts and simple boats.

(C) They walked as far as they could, then sailed or swam the rest of the way.

(D) They walked across a land bridge from Eurasia to North America.

(E) The first North Americans were Vikings who stayed.

(A) The blessings of their many gods.

(B) Agriculture, particularly the cultivation of corn or maize.

(C) Early mathematics and mathematician

(D) Advanced early architecture

(E) Political systems based on nation-states

(A) Small women-run farms that were common in some Native American cultures

(B) An early farming cooperative in which three different tribal groups plane and harvested crops together

(C) An agricultural method in which corn, beans, and squash were grown together

(D) An effort originating in the southwest in 2000 c.e. to develop crops that would yield a more nutritious diet

(E) The Iroquois inheritance system in which property and possessions passed from one generation to the next through the matrilineal (Or mother's) line

(A) Feared changing it would impact their survival

(B) lacked the means to dramatically manipulate the land

(C) were spread in small groups across the continent

(D) revered nature and endowed it with spiritual properties

(E) had no desire to alter the landscape

(A) The desire to expand their empires and power

(B) The quest for a cheaper route to the East

(C) Spreading Christianity

(D) Finding an alternate trade source for spices, sugar. and other expensive Eastern goods

(E) Population surges and land shortages

(A) in the American southern colonies

(B) by Portuguese explorers in West Africa.

(C) By various tribal societies in America

(D) in the Chesapeake colonies

(E) by Native Americans

(A) increasingly successful long-distance voyages by explorers

(B) Spain's rising prominence, wealth, and power

(C) competition between European nations to colonize new land

(D) wars between rival European countries

(E) greater use of the compass

(A) Columbus agreement with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

(B) The diseases the Europeans brought to the Americas

(C) A trade network Columbus established with Native Americans

(D) The development of sugar plantations in the Caribbean for the European Market.

(E) The transfer of plants, animals, culture, and disease that occurred after Columbus's voyage

(A) declared all New World territories as its own

(B) banned conquered Muslims from returning to its territories

(C) divided up the so-called New World with Portugal

(D) agreed not to enter the slave trade

(E) granted to Portugal control of West African silver mines

(A) they decreased the cost of consumer goods dramatically

(B) they stimulated surplus money supplies

(C) they laid the foundation for the development of the banking system

(D) they stimulated the spread of commerce and manufacturing

(E) they financed much of the international trade with Asia

(A) Noble or royal titles

(B) God's favor

(C) Gold

(D) A fresh start

(E) The change to organize an army