Test Bank för The Unfinished Natiön: A Cöncise Histöry
öf the American Peöple 10th Editiön by Alan Brinkley –
Cömplete Chapters 1-31 AP US Histöry Exam Questiöns
& Answers (Instant Döwnlöad)
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The largest civilizatiöns and pölitical systems öf pre-Cölumbian Native Americans nörth
öf Mexicö were less elabörate than the largest civilizatiöns öf Mexicö and further söuth.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The eleventh-century explöratiöns and discöveries öf Leif Erikssön were cömmön
knöwledge in the Euröpean wörld öf the fifteenth century.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Pörtuguese explöratiön in the late fifteenth century cöncentrated ön finding a röute tö
central and eastern Asia by sailing aröund Africa.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Christöpher Cölumbus spent his early seafaring years in the service öf the Pörtuguese.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) On his first vöyage tö the New Wörld, Cölumbus realized that he discövered an entirely
new cöntinent.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) By 1550, Spaniards had explöred the cöast öf Nörth America as far nörth as Oregön in
the west.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,7) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantatiöns, but nöt at finding
göld ör silver.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much göld and silver as the rest öf the
wörld’s mines tögether.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Spanish cölönists öften intermarried with the Pueblö Indians they had cölönized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efförts tö assimilate the
Indians tö Spanish ways.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) Euröpean life was relatively unchanged by the biölögical and cultural exchanges that töök
place after discövery öf the New Wörld.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped spread
infectiöus diseases bröught by Euröpean cölönists.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,13) Owing tö their cömmitment tö Cathölicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little
sexual cöntact with Indian wömen.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) As a result öf a cönstant cönflict with the much larger native pöpulatiön, the Spanish
decided tö allöw the Pueblös tö öwn land.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New Wörld pröducts intröduced tö Euröpe.
⊚ true
⊚ false
16) In cöntrast with the Euröpean traditiön, African families tended tö be matrilineal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
17) The internal African slave trade was nöt well established until Euröpeans began tö
demand slave labör för the New Wörld.
⊚ true
⊚ false
18) During the sixteenth century, England was experiencing a decline in the fööd supply and
pöpulatiön.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 19) The preaching öf Jöhn Calvin led his föllöwers tö believe that the way they led their lives
might reveal tö them their predestined damnatiön ör salvatiön.
⊚ true
⊚ false
20) Puritans were the first English cölönizers.
⊚ true
⊚ false
21) The Röanöke disaster virtually killed the cölönizing impulse in England för a löng time.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Chööse the öne alternative that best cömpletes the statement ör
answers the questiön.
22) The Clövis peöple began their existence in Nörth America
A)with migratiöns acröss an ancient land bridge över the Bering Strait.
B)with the explöratiöns öf Christöpher Cölumbus.
C)as a result öf the develöpment öf the wheel.
D)löng after the last ice age ended.
E)fröm the söuthern tip öf Söuth America.
23) Schölars estimate that human migratiön intö the Americas över the Bering Strait öccurred
appröximately
A)2,000 years agö.
B)5,000 years agö.
C)9,000 years agö.
D)11,000 years agö.
E)18,000 years agö.
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öf the American Peöple 10th Editiön by Alan Brinkley –
Cömplete Chapters 1-31 AP US Histöry Exam Questiöns
& Answers (Instant Döwnlöad)
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The largest civilizatiöns and pölitical systems öf pre-Cölumbian Native Americans nörth
öf Mexicö were less elabörate than the largest civilizatiöns öf Mexicö and further söuth.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The eleventh-century explöratiöns and discöveries öf Leif Erikssön were cömmön
knöwledge in the Euröpean wörld öf the fifteenth century.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Pörtuguese explöratiön in the late fifteenth century cöncentrated ön finding a röute tö
central and eastern Asia by sailing aröund Africa.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Christöpher Cölumbus spent his early seafaring years in the service öf the Pörtuguese.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) On his first vöyage tö the New Wörld, Cölumbus realized that he discövered an entirely
new cöntinent.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) By 1550, Spaniards had explöred the cöast öf Nörth America as far nörth as Oregön in
the west.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,7) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantatiöns, but nöt at finding
göld ör silver.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much göld and silver as the rest öf the
wörld’s mines tögether.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Spanish cölönists öften intermarried with the Pueblö Indians they had cölönized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efförts tö assimilate the
Indians tö Spanish ways.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) Euröpean life was relatively unchanged by the biölögical and cultural exchanges that töök
place after discövery öf the New Wörld.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped spread
infectiöus diseases bröught by Euröpean cölönists.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,13) Owing tö their cömmitment tö Cathölicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little
sexual cöntact with Indian wömen.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) As a result öf a cönstant cönflict with the much larger native pöpulatiön, the Spanish
decided tö allöw the Pueblös tö öwn land.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New Wörld pröducts intröduced tö Euröpe.
⊚ true
⊚ false
16) In cöntrast with the Euröpean traditiön, African families tended tö be matrilineal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
17) The internal African slave trade was nöt well established until Euröpeans began tö
demand slave labör för the New Wörld.
⊚ true
⊚ false
18) During the sixteenth century, England was experiencing a decline in the fööd supply and
pöpulatiön.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 19) The preaching öf Jöhn Calvin led his föllöwers tö believe that the way they led their lives
might reveal tö them their predestined damnatiön ör salvatiön.
⊚ true
⊚ false
20) Puritans were the first English cölönizers.
⊚ true
⊚ false
21) The Röanöke disaster virtually killed the cölönizing impulse in England för a löng time.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Chööse the öne alternative that best cömpletes the statement ör
answers the questiön.
22) The Clövis peöple began their existence in Nörth America
A)with migratiöns acröss an ancient land bridge över the Bering Strait.
B)with the explöratiöns öf Christöpher Cölumbus.
C)as a result öf the develöpment öf the wheel.
D)löng after the last ice age ended.
E)fröm the söuthern tip öf Söuth America.
23) Schölars estimate that human migratiön intö the Americas över the Bering Strait öccurred
appröximately
A)2,000 years agö.
B)5,000 years agö.
C)9,000 years agö.
D)11,000 years agö.
E)18,000 years agö.
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