APUSH AMSCO Unit 1 (Chapters 1-4) Exam Questions
and Answers
Language - ANSWER -1. American Indian languages constituted more than 20
language families.
2. Among the largest of these were Algonquian in the Northeast, Siouan on the
Great Plains, and Athabaskan in the Southwest. Together, these 20 families
included more than 400 distinct languages.
Southwest Settlements - ANSWER -1. Pueblos evolved multifaceted societies
supported by farming with irrigation systems. they lived in caves, under cliffs, and
in multistoried buildings. By the time Europeans arrived, extreme drought and
other hostile natives had taken their toll on these groups.
2. Their life was preserved in the arid land and their stone and masonry dwellings.
Northwest Settlements - ANSWER -1. people lived in permanent longhouses or
plank houses.
2. They had a rich diet based on hunting, fishing, and gathering nuts, berries, and
roots.
3. To save stories, legends, and myths, they carved large totem poles. The high
mountain ranges in this region isolated tribes from one another, creating barriers to
development.
Great Plains - ANSWER -1. either nomadic hunters or sedentary people who
farmed and traded.
2. The nomadic tribes survived on hunting, principally the buffalo, which supplied
their food as well as decorations, crafting tools, knives, and clothing.
3. They lived in tepees, frames of poles covered in animal skins, which were easily
disassembled and transported. While the farming tribes also hunted buffalo, they
lived permanently in earthen lodges often along rivers.
4. Not until the 17th century did American Indians acquire horses by trading or
stealing them from Spanish settlers.
,5. The plains tribes would at times merge or split apart as conditions changed.
Migration also was common. For example, the Apaches gradually migrated
southward from Canada to Texas.
Midwest Settlements - ANSWER -1. prospered with a rich food supply.
Supported by hunting, fishing, and agriculture, many permanent settlements
developed in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys and elsewhere.
2. famous for the large earthen mounds it created, some as large as 300 feet long.
Northeast Settlements - ANSWER -1. Their culture combined hunting and
farming. However, their farming techniques exhausted the soil quickly, so people
had to move to fresh land frequently.
2. the Iroquois were a powerful force, battling rival American Indians as well as
Europeans.
Iroquois Confederation - ANSWER -a political union of five independent tribes
who lived in the Mohawk Valley of New York. The five tribes were the Seneca,
Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.
Europe Moves Toward Exploration - ANSWER -Until the late 1400s, Americans
and the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia had no knowledge of the people on the
other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Improvements in Technology - ANSWER -1. In Europe, a rebirth of classical
learning prompted an outburst of artistic and scientific activity in the 15th and 16th
centuries known as the Renaissance.
2.they began to use gunpowder (invented by the Chinese) and the sailing compass
(adopted from Arab merchants who learned about it from the Chinese).
3.Europeans also made major improvements in shipbuilding and mapmaking. In
addition, the invention of the printing press in the 1450s aided the spread of
knowledge across Europe.
Protestant Revolt in Northern Europe - ANSWER -1. Conflict between Catholics
and Protestants led to a series of religious wars. The conflict also caused the
Catholics of Spain and Portugal and the Protestants of England and Holland to
, want to spread their own versions of Christianity to people in Africa, Asia, and the
Americas. Thus, a religious motive for exploration and colonization was added to
political and economic motives.
Expanding Trade - ANSWER -Economic motives for exploration grew out of a
fierce competition among European kingdoms for increased trade with Africa,
India, and China.
New Routes - ANSWER -1. Voyages of exploration sponsored by Portugal's
Prince Henry the Navigator eventually succeeded in opening up a long sea route
around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
2. In 1498, the Portuguese sea captain Vasco da Gama was the first European to
reach India via this route. By this time, Columbus had attempted what he
mistakenly believed would be a shorter route to Asia.
Slave Trading - ANSWER -1. They used the slaves to work newly established
sugar plantations on the Madeira and Azores islands off the African coast.
2. Producing sugar with slave labor was so profitable that when Europeans later
established colonies in the Americas, they used the slave system there.
African Resistance - ANSWER -1. Enslaved Africans resisted slavery in whatever
ways they could.
2. they often ran away, sabotaged work, or revolted. And for generations they
maintained aspects of their African culture, particularly in music, religion, and
folkways.
Nation-states - ANSWER -countries in which the majority of people shared both a
common culture and common loyalty toward a central government.
Christopher Columbus - ANSWER -But three subsequent voyages across the
Atlantic were disappointing-he found little gold, few spices, and no simple path to
China and India.
and Answers
Language - ANSWER -1. American Indian languages constituted more than 20
language families.
2. Among the largest of these were Algonquian in the Northeast, Siouan on the
Great Plains, and Athabaskan in the Southwest. Together, these 20 families
included more than 400 distinct languages.
Southwest Settlements - ANSWER -1. Pueblos evolved multifaceted societies
supported by farming with irrigation systems. they lived in caves, under cliffs, and
in multistoried buildings. By the time Europeans arrived, extreme drought and
other hostile natives had taken their toll on these groups.
2. Their life was preserved in the arid land and their stone and masonry dwellings.
Northwest Settlements - ANSWER -1. people lived in permanent longhouses or
plank houses.
2. They had a rich diet based on hunting, fishing, and gathering nuts, berries, and
roots.
3. To save stories, legends, and myths, they carved large totem poles. The high
mountain ranges in this region isolated tribes from one another, creating barriers to
development.
Great Plains - ANSWER -1. either nomadic hunters or sedentary people who
farmed and traded.
2. The nomadic tribes survived on hunting, principally the buffalo, which supplied
their food as well as decorations, crafting tools, knives, and clothing.
3. They lived in tepees, frames of poles covered in animal skins, which were easily
disassembled and transported. While the farming tribes also hunted buffalo, they
lived permanently in earthen lodges often along rivers.
4. Not until the 17th century did American Indians acquire horses by trading or
stealing them from Spanish settlers.
,5. The plains tribes would at times merge or split apart as conditions changed.
Migration also was common. For example, the Apaches gradually migrated
southward from Canada to Texas.
Midwest Settlements - ANSWER -1. prospered with a rich food supply.
Supported by hunting, fishing, and agriculture, many permanent settlements
developed in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys and elsewhere.
2. famous for the large earthen mounds it created, some as large as 300 feet long.
Northeast Settlements - ANSWER -1. Their culture combined hunting and
farming. However, their farming techniques exhausted the soil quickly, so people
had to move to fresh land frequently.
2. the Iroquois were a powerful force, battling rival American Indians as well as
Europeans.
Iroquois Confederation - ANSWER -a political union of five independent tribes
who lived in the Mohawk Valley of New York. The five tribes were the Seneca,
Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.
Europe Moves Toward Exploration - ANSWER -Until the late 1400s, Americans
and the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia had no knowledge of the people on the
other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Improvements in Technology - ANSWER -1. In Europe, a rebirth of classical
learning prompted an outburst of artistic and scientific activity in the 15th and 16th
centuries known as the Renaissance.
2.they began to use gunpowder (invented by the Chinese) and the sailing compass
(adopted from Arab merchants who learned about it from the Chinese).
3.Europeans also made major improvements in shipbuilding and mapmaking. In
addition, the invention of the printing press in the 1450s aided the spread of
knowledge across Europe.
Protestant Revolt in Northern Europe - ANSWER -1. Conflict between Catholics
and Protestants led to a series of religious wars. The conflict also caused the
Catholics of Spain and Portugal and the Protestants of England and Holland to
, want to spread their own versions of Christianity to people in Africa, Asia, and the
Americas. Thus, a religious motive for exploration and colonization was added to
political and economic motives.
Expanding Trade - ANSWER -Economic motives for exploration grew out of a
fierce competition among European kingdoms for increased trade with Africa,
India, and China.
New Routes - ANSWER -1. Voyages of exploration sponsored by Portugal's
Prince Henry the Navigator eventually succeeded in opening up a long sea route
around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
2. In 1498, the Portuguese sea captain Vasco da Gama was the first European to
reach India via this route. By this time, Columbus had attempted what he
mistakenly believed would be a shorter route to Asia.
Slave Trading - ANSWER -1. They used the slaves to work newly established
sugar plantations on the Madeira and Azores islands off the African coast.
2. Producing sugar with slave labor was so profitable that when Europeans later
established colonies in the Americas, they used the slave system there.
African Resistance - ANSWER -1. Enslaved Africans resisted slavery in whatever
ways they could.
2. they often ran away, sabotaged work, or revolted. And for generations they
maintained aspects of their African culture, particularly in music, religion, and
folkways.
Nation-states - ANSWER -countries in which the majority of people shared both a
common culture and common loyalty toward a central government.
Christopher Columbus - ANSWER -But three subsequent voyages across the
Atlantic were disappointing-he found little gold, few spices, and no simple path to
China and India.
