APUSH ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Pueblo Indians
Answer: Lived in the Southwestern United States; built extensive
irrigation systems to water corn. Houses were multi-storied buildings
made of adobe.
●● Joint Stock Companies
Answer: Developed to gather savings from the middle class to finance
colonies; examples: London Company and Plymouth Company.
●● Renaissance
Answer: After the Middle Ages, a rebirth of culture in Europe where art
and science developed. America was discovered during this period.
●● Canadian Shield
Answer: Geological shape of North America; first part to rise above sea
level; held the northeast corner of North America.
●● Mound Builders
,Answer: Lived in the Ohio River Valley; incorporated corn planting;
Mississippian settlement at Cahokia was home to about 40,000 people
around AD 1100.
●● Spanish Armada
Answer: "Invincible" fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to
invade England; defeated by smaller English "seadogs," marking the
beginning of English naval dominance.
●● Black Legend
Answer: Idea that the Spanish utterly destroyed the Indians through
slavery and disease while the English did not; considered false.
●● Conquistadores
Answer: Spanish explorers in Central and South America during the
1500s; conquered the Incas, Aztecs, and other Native Americans; often
intermarried with natives.
●● Montezuma
Answer: Aztec chieftain; encountered Cortes and the Spanish; assumed
they were gods. Welcomed them, but they soon turned on the natives.
●● Christopher Columbus
, Answer: Italian navigator funded by the Spanish government; tried to
find a passage to the Far East; credited with discovering the "New
World"; first sighting of land was October 12, 1492; made four voyages.
●● Virginia Company
Answer: Joint-stock company based in Virginia in 1607; founded to find
gold and a waterway to the Indies; confirmed Englishmen would have
the same rights as in England; three ships transported the settlers who
founded Jamestown in 1607.
●● Iroquois Confederacy
Answer: Consisted of Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas, and Senecas;
founded in the late 1500s; leaders Degana Widah and Hiawatha; men
dominated, but a person's background was determined by the women's
family; allied with French or English depending on advantage.
●● Starving Time
Answer: Winter of 1609-1610 in Virginia; only sixty of four hundred
colonists survived due to lack of skills.
●● Act of Toleration
Answer: Allowed all Christian religions in Maryland; Protestants
invaded Catholics in 1649; Maryland became the #1 colony to shelter
Catholics.
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Pueblo Indians
Answer: Lived in the Southwestern United States; built extensive
irrigation systems to water corn. Houses were multi-storied buildings
made of adobe.
●● Joint Stock Companies
Answer: Developed to gather savings from the middle class to finance
colonies; examples: London Company and Plymouth Company.
●● Renaissance
Answer: After the Middle Ages, a rebirth of culture in Europe where art
and science developed. America was discovered during this period.
●● Canadian Shield
Answer: Geological shape of North America; first part to rise above sea
level; held the northeast corner of North America.
●● Mound Builders
,Answer: Lived in the Ohio River Valley; incorporated corn planting;
Mississippian settlement at Cahokia was home to about 40,000 people
around AD 1100.
●● Spanish Armada
Answer: "Invincible" fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to
invade England; defeated by smaller English "seadogs," marking the
beginning of English naval dominance.
●● Black Legend
Answer: Idea that the Spanish utterly destroyed the Indians through
slavery and disease while the English did not; considered false.
●● Conquistadores
Answer: Spanish explorers in Central and South America during the
1500s; conquered the Incas, Aztecs, and other Native Americans; often
intermarried with natives.
●● Montezuma
Answer: Aztec chieftain; encountered Cortes and the Spanish; assumed
they were gods. Welcomed them, but they soon turned on the natives.
●● Christopher Columbus
, Answer: Italian navigator funded by the Spanish government; tried to
find a passage to the Far East; credited with discovering the "New
World"; first sighting of land was October 12, 1492; made four voyages.
●● Virginia Company
Answer: Joint-stock company based in Virginia in 1607; founded to find
gold and a waterway to the Indies; confirmed Englishmen would have
the same rights as in England; three ships transported the settlers who
founded Jamestown in 1607.
●● Iroquois Confederacy
Answer: Consisted of Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas, and Senecas;
founded in the late 1500s; leaders Degana Widah and Hiawatha; men
dominated, but a person's background was determined by the women's
family; allied with French or English depending on advantage.
●● Starving Time
Answer: Winter of 1609-1610 in Virginia; only sixty of four hundred
colonists survived due to lack of skills.
●● Act of Toleration
Answer: Allowed all Christian religions in Maryland; Protestants
invaded Catholics in 1649; Maryland became the #1 colony to shelter
Catholics.
