APUSH: Unit 1 Review
For the test you will need the following: a blue or black pen, a pencil, and your brain (it’s the only thing you can use on the test).
How long should you study for this test? Assuming that you have been doing your reading and know the terms…
3-4 hours in 2-3 sessions. If you study with a friend, you should add 1 hour to this time. You should spend at least two hours
studying the day/evening before the test. Make sure you get a good nights sleep.
How should you organize your studying?
1. Start by reviewing your terms, chronology & lecture notes,
2. then prepare a study outline of the essay you have been assigned. Make sure to include specific facts.
3. Then tackle the Sample APUSH Questions.
4. Review your Brinkley notes on chapters 1-3.
5. On the night before the test, repeat the process, making sure that you memorize your essay outline.
What materials to study: (in order of importance)
 Terms, Lecture Notes, Essential Chronology (see below)
 Outline Study Prep for Essay Question
 Brinkley Notes Chapters 1-3
 Colonies Chart
Important Content To Know:
 Impact of Columbian Exchange.
 Very Basic Differences in British, French & Spanish Colonization Methods.
 Details on the Establishment/Settlement of Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia
 Problems of Settlement in Colonial Virginia
 Puritan & Quaker Influence on America
 Evolution of Slavery in the America’s, Use of Indentured Servitude, Labor Problems in Colonies
 Differences in Economy & Society between New England, Middle Atlantic, & Southern Colonies (including what colonies
form each region)
 Major Patterns of Population Growth & Ethnicity within the Colonies
 Growth of Democracy in Colonial America
 Mercantilism & Navigation Acts
 Essential Dates---See List Below
Essential Dates/Chronological Order for Colonial America:
(The actual date is less important than a sense of the order of events, *dates with asterisk should be accurate)
*1492 – Columbus Discovery of America’s
1565 - St. Augustine (1st Spanish Settlement)
*1607 - Jamestown (1st Successful English Settlement)
*1619 - Virginia House of Burgesses, first Africans brought to Jamestown
*1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
*1649 –Maryland Toleration Act
1664 - British took New York from Dutch
1680 – Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico
*1681 - Penn founded a colony for Quakers
1700 - Slavery Institutionalized throughout the South, Halfway Covenant
*1732 – Georgia Founded by Oglethorpe
*1730-60 Great Awakening
1749 – Quaker Abdication from Political Office
*1763 – Start of Rebellion in Colonies
1775 – End of Colonial Time Period, Start of Revolution
Essay Question for the test:
Analyze the differences between colonial society in New England and the Chesapeake in the 17th and early
18th century, and the extent to which each society was shaped by economics & religion.
Sample APUSH Questions: The following questions are practice questions, to give you a sense of the kind of question that will
be asked on the AP test in May. Half of them will also be on this Unit Test, but scrambled.
How do answer these:
 Read the stem twice.
 Eliminate the choices you know are wrong
 From the remaining select the best answer.
1.
During the 17th Century, French settlements in North America were primarily:
a.
permanent fishing villages shipping fish to the Catholic countries of Europe
b.
places of refuge for French Huguenots wanting to practice their religion
c.
shipbuilding centers located near the sources of naval stores
d.
commercial agricultural centers depending upon the exporting of wheat and corn
e.
forts and trading stations
2.
All of the following describe the Scotch-Irish immigrants to the English colonies in North America EXCEPT
a.
They felt little loyalty to either the English government or the Anglican church.
b.
They came in large numbers in the due to deteriorating conditions in the Irish woolens industry.
c.
They generally settled on the frontier where they demonstrated a remarkable degree of resourcefulness, rugged
individuality, and self-reliance.
d.
They were predominantly Roman Catholics.
e.
Their celtic culture would have a significant impact on American art, crafts, & music.
3.
Bacon’s Rebellion was an example of
a. the conflict between the settled east coast and the frontier.
b. the constant bickering between the British and the French.
c. the lack of religious freedom in Colonial America.
d. the unwillingness of the 13 colonies to work together.
e. the conflict between Puritans and Quakers.
4.
5.
6.
Which of the following is NOT true of English colonial families in mid-18th century America?
a. physical punishment was the normal method of enforcing unquestioned obedience from children
b. women lost virtually all of their legal rights as individuals once they married
c. a high infant and child mortality rate promoted the idea of a large family
d. women, while subservient to their husbands, set the moral standards by which children were raised and decided how
they would be educated and trained
e. less than 65% of families lived in rural areas at about this time
During the first two decades of the seventeenth century all of the following aided in the establishment and growth of the
colony at Jamestown, Virginia, EXCEPT:
a.
the establishment of the ownership of private property
b.
good relations with the local Indians
c.
the beginning of tobacco cultivation
d.
large influxes of supplies and colonists from England
e.
the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses
The enclosure movement which had been going on since the 16 th century in England helped prepare the way for English
colonization in North America by:
a. improving the standard of living of the English factory worker
b. displacing English farmers and creating a class of unemployed who could migrate to the colonies
c. increasing the demand for skilled farmers in England
d. forcing Queen Elizabeth to negotiate a treaty with Phillip II of Spain allowing English ships unhindered access to
North America
e. encouraging religious toleration between the Catholics and Protestants
7.
Which of the following statements about Anne Hutchinson is most correct?
a. Her denial of any authority in matters of spirit beyond the individual challenged the Puritan leadership.
b. Subscribed more to the ideas of Martin Luther than to those of John Calvin.
c. Her ideas would be in accord with traditional Anglicanism rather that Protestant orthodoxy.
d. Supported the views of a majority of the Puritans.
e. Believed in a covenant of works in order to achieve salvation
8.
The Great Awakening of the mid-eighteenth century refers to:
a.
a series of religious revivals that swept through the English colonies spreading evangelistic fervor and
challenging the control of traditional clerics over their congregations.
b.
the intellectual revolution which served as a precursor to the Enlightenment and challenged orthodox religion’s
claims to knowledge of humankind and the universe
c.
the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in England and its New World colonies
d.
the growing realization among English colonists that independence from England was only a matter of time and
was the key to their future success.
e.
the sudden awareness among North American Indians that their only chance for survival against the rapidly
growing number of European colonists was to fight them before the Europeans grew any stronger
9.
Roger Williams believed that
I. the state should not impose any authority in matters of faith
II. ministers should assume more authority in governmental matters
III. religious dissenters should be expelled from any colony
IV. colonists had no right to land until it was purchased from the Indians
a.
I and II only
d.
II and III only
b.
I and IV only
e.
I, II, III, IV
c.
I II, and III only
10. Colonies such as the Carolinas were known as ‘restoration colonies’ because
a. they were created as places to send criminals to restore them to civilized behavior and give them a chance to lead
decent, honest lives.
b. their creation was an attempt to restore the supremacy of the Anglican church in the colonies
c. their creation was mainly due to an effort by the English government to restore a balance of power in the New world
between the thriving English colonies in New England and the less successful English colonies in the South
d. their creation was mainly due to the restoration of the power of Parliament over the king
e. their creation occurred during the restoration of the Stuarts to the English throne
Terms from MC Questions:
"City on a Hill "
‘starving time’
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God”
Africans
Albany Congress
Anglican Church
Ann Hutchinson
Anne Bradstreet
Atlantic slave trade
Bacon’s Rebellion
banishment
Boston
British North America.
Caribbean
Catholicism
Charleston
Chesapeake
Christopher Columbus
climate
colonial assembly
Columbian Exchange
Connecticut
Conquistadors
death rate/mortality rate/life span
debtors
Delaware
disease
Dutch
east/west conflict
elect/non elect
enclosure movement
encomienda system
England
equality
ethnic diversity
France
freedom of speech
French Huguenots
Frontier
Fundamental Orders Connecticut
fur trading empire
George Whitefield
Georgia/Georgians
Glorious Revolution
Gold, glory, god
Great Awakening
growth of slavery
Halfway Covenant
Harvard
headright system
House of Burgesses
indentured servants.
Indigo
institutionalization of slavery
itinerant preacher
Jamestown
John Peter Zenger
John Rolfe
John Smith
John Winthrop
Jonathan Edwards
King Philip’s War
Leisler’s Rebellion
Libel
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mayflower Compact
Meeting House
mercantilism
Middle Atlantic Colonies
Middle Passage
mulberry trees
Native Americans
Navigation Acts
New England
New Netherlands
New York
North Carolina
Olaudah Equino
pacifism.
Paxton Boys Uprising
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pequot War
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Zenger
Philadelphia
Planter aristocracy
piedmont
Pilgrims
Plymouth
Pueblo Revolt
Puritans
Quaker Abdication
Quakers
Regulator War
religious persecution
revival meeting
Rhode Island
rice
Roanoke
Roger Williams
rural/urban
Salem
Sante Fe
Scots-Irish
Scottish Presbyterians
sedition
separation of church and state
Society of Friends
South Carolina
southern colonies
Spain
Spanish America
St. Augustine
staple/cash crops
Stono Rebellion
Subsistence farming
Sugar
tidewater
tobacco
Toleration Act
town meeting
Utopia
Virginia
Virginians
William Berkeley
William Bradstreet
William Penn
witchcraft hysteria