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Long multiple choice quiz on APUSH, Chapters 1-21 (W.W. Norton 9th Edition)

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APUSH Midterm Practice Exam

Question 1 of 15

1

Which is true of English society by the early 1600s? (Ch. 2)

Select one of the following:

  • The right to trial by jury had yet to be established

  • There was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds

  • There were no limits in the power of the monarch

  • Titled nobles dominated the House of Commons

  • There was no significant class distinctions

Explanation

Question 2 of 15

1

The Glorious Revolution of 1688:

Select one of the following:

  • Increased the power of parliament

  • resulted in the execution of Charles 1

  • ended with the death of Oliver Cromwell

  • temporarily abolished the monarchy

  • delayed the American Revolution

Explanation

Question 3 of 15

1

the stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were mainly motivated by:

Select one of the following:

  • reiligon

  • a spirit of adventure

  • curiosity of the new world

  • personality loyalty to James I

  • financial profit

Explanation

Question 4 of 15

1

one outstanding characteristics of Jamestown in its initial years was:

Select one of the following:

  • high % of slaves in the population

  • complete freedom of religion

  • the influence of women in its government

  • the absence of effective leaders

  • high mortality rate among the settlers

Explanation

Question 5 of 15

1

as Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith:

Select one of the following:

  • made the colony a democracy

  • tried to wipe out Powhatan's Confederacy

  • made the colonists work in order to eat

  • argued that the colony should be abandoned

  • discovered deposits of gold and silver

Explanation

Question 6 of 15

1

the Jamestown colony finally attained a measure of prosperity from:

Select one of the following:

  • land sales

  • trade with indians

  • gold discoveries

  • tobacco

  • trade with Spanish Florida

Explanation

Question 7 of 15

1

the headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of:

Select one of the following:

  • giving 50 acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and 50 more for any servants he might bring

  • selling wives to single men

  • auctioning slaves

  • giving free land to all servants

  • giving free land in return for 5 years of military service

Explanation

Question 8 of 15

1

in 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia company and Virginia:

Select one of the following:

  • was merged with New England

  • no longer existed

  • became a royal colony

  • lost all its funding

  • was given to the kings brother, Duke of York

Explanation

Question 9 of 15

1

Bacon's Rebellion:

Select one of the following:

  • brought indentured servants and small farmers against the colony's rich planters and politicians

  • had the support of indians

  • resulted from changes in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina that discriminated against Puritans

  • forced Governor Berkeley to abandon the colony and return to England

  • sought to make Virginia independent of England

Explanation

Question 10 of 15

1

Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for:

Select one of the following:

  • debtors

  • Puritans

  • ex-convicts

  • Anglicans

  • English Catholics

Explanation

Question 11 of 15

1

the early settlers of New England differed from those of the Chesapeake by being primarily:

Select one of the following:

  • English

  • Protestant

  • white

  • middle class

  • male

Explanation

Question 12 of 15

1

all of the following are true about Pilgrims EXCEPT that they:

Select one of the following:

  • established the Plymouth colony

  • based their initial colonial government on the Mayflower Compact

  • were Separatists who had abandoned the Church of England

  • originally fled to Holland

  • were a sect of radical Catholics

Explanation

Question 13 of 15

1

New England's Congregationalist churches were:

Select one of the following:

  • open the everyone

  • self governing

  • tolerant of other religions

  • morally opposed to slavery

  • financially supported by the king

Explanation

Question 14 of 15

1

when John Winthrop spoke of "a city upon a hill" he was referring to the colony's desire to:

Select one of the following:

  • be financially successful

  • become independent of England

  • serve as a model Christian community

  • establish an ideal government

  • convert the indians to Christianity

Explanation

Question 15 of 15

1

Roger Williams believed:

Select one of the following:

  • Puritanism was the only suitable religion for MA

  • in the propriety of linking church and state

  • Indians should be forcibly Christianized

  • that compulsory church attendance was an important tenet of the Christian faith

  • it was wrong to confiscate Indian lands

Explanation

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