APUSH EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS
WITH FULL SOLUTION
●● North American societies before outside contact
Answer: small bands of people living in isolation
●● European societies before outside contact
Answer: acute population pressure, constant warfare, new ideas (aided
by the printing press), Protestant Reformation and large nation-states
were prevelant
●● African societies before outside contact
Answer: villages and big cities along trade routes along with herding
peoples in the Sahara
●● Treaty of Tordesillas
Answer: the treaty, brokered by the pope, confirmed Portugal's right to
control the route around Africa to India, and Spain's claim to most of the
newly discovered lands of America.
●● conquistadores
Answer: Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were
searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory.
, ●● ecomienda system
Answer: a kind of feudalism granting Spanish colonists control of
conquered lands and obliging the Indians to provide forced labor and a
fixed portion of their harvests
●● John Cabot
Answer: Italian explorer who led the English expedition (giving England
claim to the land) in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North
America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca.
1450-1498)
●● Giovanni de Verrazano
Answer: Italian explorer of the Atlantic coast of North America
●● Jacques Cartier
Answer: French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid
claim to the region for France (1491-1557)
●● John Calvin
Answer: French humanist whose theological writings profoundly
influenced religious thoughts of Europeans. Developed Calvinism at
Geneva
WITH FULL SOLUTION
●● North American societies before outside contact
Answer: small bands of people living in isolation
●● European societies before outside contact
Answer: acute population pressure, constant warfare, new ideas (aided
by the printing press), Protestant Reformation and large nation-states
were prevelant
●● African societies before outside contact
Answer: villages and big cities along trade routes along with herding
peoples in the Sahara
●● Treaty of Tordesillas
Answer: the treaty, brokered by the pope, confirmed Portugal's right to
control the route around Africa to India, and Spain's claim to most of the
newly discovered lands of America.
●● conquistadores
Answer: Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were
searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory.
, ●● ecomienda system
Answer: a kind of feudalism granting Spanish colonists control of
conquered lands and obliging the Indians to provide forced labor and a
fixed portion of their harvests
●● John Cabot
Answer: Italian explorer who led the English expedition (giving England
claim to the land) in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North
America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca.
1450-1498)
●● Giovanni de Verrazano
Answer: Italian explorer of the Atlantic coast of North America
●● Jacques Cartier
Answer: French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid
claim to the region for France (1491-1557)
●● John Calvin
Answer: French humanist whose theological writings profoundly
influenced religious thoughts of Europeans. Developed Calvinism at
Geneva
