APUSH Review Questions and Answers with complete solution

APUSH Review Questions and Answers with complete solution Which of the following statements about indentured servitude is true? (A) Indentured servitude was the means by which most Africans came to the New World (B) Indentured servitude never attracted many people because its terms were too harsh (C) Approximately half of all indentured servants died before earning their freedom (D) Indenture was one of several systems used to distinguish house enslaved people from field enslaved people - CORRECT ANSWERS C The Mayflower Compact foreshadows the U.S. Constitution in which of the following ways? (A) It posits the source of government power in the people rather than in God (B) It ensures both the right to free speech and the separation of church and state (C) It limits the term of office for all government officials (D) It establishes three branches of government in order to create a system of checks and balances - CORRECT ANSWERS A The first important cash crop in the American colonies was (A) cotton (B) corn (C) tea (D) tobacco - CORRECT ANSWERS D The philosophy of mercantilism holds that economic power resides primarily in (A) surplus manpower and control over raw materials (B) control of hard currency and a positive trade balance (C) the ability to extend and receive credit at favorable interest rates (D) domination of the slave trade and control of the shipping lanes - CORRECT ANSWERS B Colonial vice-admiralty courts were created to enforce (A) Puritan religious edicts (B) prohibitions on antimonarchist speech (C) import and export restrictions (D) travel bans imposed on Native Americans - CORRECT ANSWERS C All of the following are examples of conflicts between colonists and Native American tribes EXCEPT (A) Bacon's Rebellion (B) The Pequot War (C) The Stono Uprising (D) King Philip's War - CORRECT ANSWERS C Which of the following statements about cities during the Colonial Era is NOT true? (A) Poor sanitation left colonial cities vulnerable to epidemics (B) Religious and ethnic diversity was greater in colonial cities than in the colonial countryside (C) Most large colonial cities grew around a port (D) The majority of colonists lived in urban areas - CORRECT ANSWERS