Unit 1 Test
AP U.S History
2024/2025
Unit 1 Test AP U.S History Unit 1 Test AP U.S History Unit 1 Test AP U.S History.pdf
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Unit I Test
AP U.S History
Part 1: Multiple Choice: Choose the statement that best answers the question. Write the letter of
the answer using a CAPITAL letter next to the question number
1. Which of the following best describes the way 3. In which of the following ways did the Spanish
Europeans treated Native Americans in the impose racial hierarchies in the regions of the
1500s and 1600s? Americas that they controlled during the 1500s and
1600s?
(A) Native Americans were regarded as inferior
people subject to Christian domination. (A) The Spanish promoted the status of Native
(B) Native American ways of life were respected. American peoples who supported them to a
(C) Since nothing of value could be learned or level in the hierarchy equivalent to the Spanish
obtained from the Native Americans, colonizers
Europeans thought it was permissible to (B) The Spanish created a caste system that
exterminate them. incorporated people of European, Native
(D) Europeans cultivated good relations with Native American, and African descent
Americans and sought to make them economic (C) The Spanish avoided using enslaved African
partners. laborers and tried to bar them from Spanish
(E) Only the English believed that Native Americans colonies
should be treated fairly. (D) The Spanish banned interracial marriages and
sought to maintain a racially distinct Spanish
population as a colonial elite
2. How were European economic systems in the
American colonies in the 1500s and 1600s different
from existing economic systems in Europe? 4. Which of the following was true of the Northeast
American Indian tribes at the time Europeans first
(A) Most European colonies were based on began colonization?
agriculture
(B) French colonists engaged in commercial (A) Their economies depended entirely on hunting
activities such as the fur trade and gathering.
(C) Spanish colonists used enslaved Africans to work (B) Their political and linguistic differences hindered
on plantations their united opposition to the Europeans.
(D) Most colonial economies were tightly regulated (C) Their populations were immune to European
by the imperial and colonial governments diseases.
(D) Their warriors rarely engaged in intertribal
warfare.
(E) Their cultures made no distinction between men's
work and women's work.
Unit 1 Test AP U.S History Unit 1 Test AP U.S History Unit 1 Test AP U.S History.pdf