AP US HISTORY. UNIT 2 PROGRESS CHECK MCQ ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
Question 1.
Which of the following was the most important reason that Native American relations with
English settlers differed from Native American relations with other groups of European
settlers in the 1600s?
Correct Answer: Larger numbers of English colonists settled on land taken from
Native Americans.
Question 2.
English colonists in North America in the 1600s and 1700s most typically sought which of
the following?
Correct Answer: Opportunities to improve their living conditions
Question 3.
The efforts of Spanish colonists to convert Native Americans to Christianity were most
directly influenced by which of the following simultaneous developments?
Correct Answer: The extraction of gold and other wealth from the land in the
Americas
Question 4.
"The New England settlers more closely resembled the non-migrating English population
than they did other English colonists in the New World. . . . While the composition of the
emigrant populations in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean hindered the successful
transfer of familiar patterns of social relationships, the character of the New England
colonial population ensured it. The prospect of colonizing distant lands stirred the
imaginations of young people all over England but most of these young adults made their
way to the tobacco and sugar plantations of the South. Nearly half of a sample of Virginia
residents in 1625 were between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine, and groups of
emigrants to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century consistently included a majority
of people in their twenties. In contrast, only a quarter of the New England settlers
belonged to this age group. "Similarly, the sex ratio of the New England emigrant group
resembled that of England's population. If women were . . . scarce in the Chesapeake . . .
they were comparatively abundant in the northern colonies. In the second decade of
Virginia's settlement, there were four or five men for each woman; by the end of the
century, there were still about three men for every two women. Among the emigrants [in
New England], however, nearly half were women and girls. Such a high proportion of
females in the population assured the young men of New England greater success than
their southern counterparts in finding spouses." Virginia DeJohn Anderson, historian,
"Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640,"
published in 1985 The first paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims?
Correct Answer: The settlers of New England varied in age more than emigrants
to the Chesapeake did.
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
Question 1.
Which of the following was the most important reason that Native American relations with
English settlers differed from Native American relations with other groups of European
settlers in the 1600s?
Correct Answer: Larger numbers of English colonists settled on land taken from
Native Americans.
Question 2.
English colonists in North America in the 1600s and 1700s most typically sought which of
the following?
Correct Answer: Opportunities to improve their living conditions
Question 3.
The efforts of Spanish colonists to convert Native Americans to Christianity were most
directly influenced by which of the following simultaneous developments?
Correct Answer: The extraction of gold and other wealth from the land in the
Americas
Question 4.
"The New England settlers more closely resembled the non-migrating English population
than they did other English colonists in the New World. . . . While the composition of the
emigrant populations in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean hindered the successful
transfer of familiar patterns of social relationships, the character of the New England
colonial population ensured it. The prospect of colonizing distant lands stirred the
imaginations of young people all over England but most of these young adults made their
way to the tobacco and sugar plantations of the South. Nearly half of a sample of Virginia
residents in 1625 were between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine, and groups of
emigrants to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century consistently included a majority
of people in their twenties. In contrast, only a quarter of the New England settlers
belonged to this age group. "Similarly, the sex ratio of the New England emigrant group
resembled that of England's population. If women were . . . scarce in the Chesapeake . . .
they were comparatively abundant in the northern colonies. In the second decade of
Virginia's settlement, there were four or five men for each woman; by the end of the
century, there were still about three men for every two women. Among the emigrants [in
New England], however, nearly half were women and girls. Such a high proportion of
females in the population assured the young men of New England greater success than
their southern counterparts in finding spouses." Virginia DeJohn Anderson, historian,
"Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640,"
published in 1985 The first paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims?
Correct Answer: The settlers of New England varied in age more than emigrants
to the Chesapeake did.
