AP US HISTORY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
PREP QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED STUDY RESOURCE
●● maize cultivation
Answer: The spread of ____________ from present-day Mexico
northward into the American Southwest and beyond supported economic
development and social diversification among societies in these areas.
EX: Anasazi, Pueblo
●● Pre-Columbian economy in Northwest and areas of California
Answer: a mix of foraging and hunting. EX: Chinook of Pacific
Northwest
●● Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains
Answer: Societies responded to the lack of natural resources in the
_____ and ________ by developing largely mobile lifestyles.
●● Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic
Seaboard
Answer: a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored
the development of permanent villages. EX: Iroquois & Algonquian
,●● Columbian Exchange
Answer: a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across
the Atlantic, including plants, animals, disease, people, etc.
●● Colombian Exchange, from Americas to "Old World"
Answer: potatoes, corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, chocolate, syphilis, etc
●● Columbian Exchange, from "Old World" to Americas
Answer: smallpox, livestock (pigs, cows, sheep), bees, bananas, coffee,
sugar
●● Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest of the Americas
led to...
Answer: widespread deadly epidemics, the emergence of racially mixed
populations, and a caste system defined by an intermixture among
Spanish settlers, Africans, and Native Americans
●● caste system
Answer: a system of segregation of people who are born into a caste and
stay for life regardless of ability
●● mestizo
,Answer: is a term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish-speaking
America to mean a person of combined European and Native American
descent
●● encomienda system
Answer: In the economies of the Spanish colonies, Indian labor, used in
the _______________ to support plantation-based agriculture and
extract precious metals and other resources. EX: sugar, silver
●● Role of the Spanish and Portuguese traders
Answer: Settled heavily in South America, reached West Africa and
contributed to the development of the African Slave Trade.
●● European goods that transformed Native life (Name three)
Answer: Horses - improved hunting and warfare for Natives (especially
in the Great Plains and Basin), weapons and alcohol helped increase the
destructiveness of warfare
●● American goods that transformed European life (Two or more)
Answer: Maize, potatoes, and other crops - helped increase European
population and the shift from feudalism to capitalism
●● Technologies that allowed for increased trade and contact
, Answer: Sextant - helped determine longitude and latitude, Caravel -
more maneuverable sailing ship, Joint-Stock companies - finance
exploration with reduced risk
●● How did Europeans justify the subjugation of Africans and Natives?
Answer: White racial superiority, Bible, view of groups as "savages"
●● Examples of Africans seeking to preserve autonomy
Answer: Africans ran away and formed maroon communities, and
combined elements of Christianity and African religions
●● European exploration and conquest were fueled by...(Three G's
Answer: a desire for new sources of wealth, increased power and status,
and converts to Christianity. (god, glory, gold)
●● New crops from the Americas stimulated...
Answer: European population growth (particularly from corn and
potatoes)
●● New sources of mineral wealth from the Americas facilitated the
European shift from...
Answer: feudalism to capitalism.
●● Christopher Columbus
PREP QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED STUDY RESOURCE
●● maize cultivation
Answer: The spread of ____________ from present-day Mexico
northward into the American Southwest and beyond supported economic
development and social diversification among societies in these areas.
EX: Anasazi, Pueblo
●● Pre-Columbian economy in Northwest and areas of California
Answer: a mix of foraging and hunting. EX: Chinook of Pacific
Northwest
●● Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains
Answer: Societies responded to the lack of natural resources in the
_____ and ________ by developing largely mobile lifestyles.
●● Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic
Seaboard
Answer: a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored
the development of permanent villages. EX: Iroquois & Algonquian
,●● Columbian Exchange
Answer: a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across
the Atlantic, including plants, animals, disease, people, etc.
●● Colombian Exchange, from Americas to "Old World"
Answer: potatoes, corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, chocolate, syphilis, etc
●● Columbian Exchange, from "Old World" to Americas
Answer: smallpox, livestock (pigs, cows, sheep), bees, bananas, coffee,
sugar
●● Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest of the Americas
led to...
Answer: widespread deadly epidemics, the emergence of racially mixed
populations, and a caste system defined by an intermixture among
Spanish settlers, Africans, and Native Americans
●● caste system
Answer: a system of segregation of people who are born into a caste and
stay for life regardless of ability
●● mestizo
,Answer: is a term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish-speaking
America to mean a person of combined European and Native American
descent
●● encomienda system
Answer: In the economies of the Spanish colonies, Indian labor, used in
the _______________ to support plantation-based agriculture and
extract precious metals and other resources. EX: sugar, silver
●● Role of the Spanish and Portuguese traders
Answer: Settled heavily in South America, reached West Africa and
contributed to the development of the African Slave Trade.
●● European goods that transformed Native life (Name three)
Answer: Horses - improved hunting and warfare for Natives (especially
in the Great Plains and Basin), weapons and alcohol helped increase the
destructiveness of warfare
●● American goods that transformed European life (Two or more)
Answer: Maize, potatoes, and other crops - helped increase European
population and the shift from feudalism to capitalism
●● Technologies that allowed for increased trade and contact
, Answer: Sextant - helped determine longitude and latitude, Caravel -
more maneuverable sailing ship, Joint-Stock companies - finance
exploration with reduced risk
●● How did Europeans justify the subjugation of Africans and Natives?
Answer: White racial superiority, Bible, view of groups as "savages"
●● Examples of Africans seeking to preserve autonomy
Answer: Africans ran away and formed maroon communities, and
combined elements of Christianity and African religions
●● European exploration and conquest were fueled by...(Three G's
Answer: a desire for new sources of wealth, increased power and status,
and converts to Christianity. (god, glory, gold)
●● New crops from the Americas stimulated...
Answer: European population growth (particularly from corn and
potatoes)
●● New sources of mineral wealth from the Americas facilitated the
European shift from...
Answer: feudalism to capitalism.
●● Christopher Columbus
