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AP US History Exam Questions andAnswers (Latest Update 2024)
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - Correct Answer ✅An agreement between
Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of
an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly
discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
St. Augustine (1565) - Correct Answer ✅The oldest continually inhabited
European settlement in United States territory.
Mercantilism - Correct Answer ✅European government policies of the
16th-18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country
& its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade
only with their motherland country.
New Amsterdam - Correct Answer ✅A settlement established by the Dutch
near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island.
Annexed by the English in 1664.
New France (1608) - Correct Answer ✅A French colony in North America.
Fell to the British in 1763.
Treaty of Utrecht (1713) - Correct Answer ✅Ended the War of Spanish
Succession & recognized France's Philip V as Kind of Spain, but prohibited the
unification of the French and Spanish monarchies; gave England profitable
lands in North America from France.
Jamestown (1607) - Correct Answer ✅First permanent English settlement
in the New World located in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay/James River;
settled by the Virginia Company of London.
*History:*
Original settlers suffered from disease (especially malaria), internal strife, &
starvation.
*Leaders:*
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*John Smith* - Demanded that "He who does not work, will not eat."
*John Rolfe* - Introduced tobacco to the colony.
Bacon's Rebellion (1676) - Correct Answer ✅Rebellion of discontent former
landless servants led by Nathaniel Bacon.
*Historical Significance:*
Led to a move from indentured servants to African slaves for labor purposes.
Plymouth (1620) - Correct Answer ✅The first permanent English
settlement in New England; established by religious separatists seeking
autonomy from the church of England.
Pilgrims - Correct Answer ✅Group of Puritan separatists who established
Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts to seek religious freedom after having
lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) - Correct Answer ✅Home to many
Puritans who left England because of the persecution they faced from the
Anglican Church.
*History:*
Developed into a theocracy in which the church was central to all decisions;
became the first English colony to establish the basis for a representative
government.
*Leaders:*
*John Winthrop* - Envisioned the colony as a "City upon a Hill."
Puritans - Correct Answer ✅English religious sect who hoped to "purify"
the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice & organization.
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John Winthrop - Correct Answer ✅Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
who was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its
legislative policy; envisioned the colony as a "city upon a hill" from which
Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.
Roger Williams - Correct Answer ✅Puritan dissenter who advocated of
religious freedom, the separation of church & state, & fair dealings with
Native Americans; convicted of sedition & heresy & banished from the
colony; founded Providence Plantation (RI) in 1636.
Anne Hutchinson - Correct Answer ✅Puritan dissenter who challenged the
authority of the ministers, exposing the subordination of women in the
culture of colonial Massachusetts; tried, convicted, & banished from the
colony in 1637.
William Penn - Correct Answer ✅An English Quaker who founded
Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance.
Maryland Toleration Act (1649) - Correct Answer ✅The first law on religious
tolerance in the British North America; allowed freedom of worship for all
Christians - including Catholics - in Maryland, but sentenced to death anyone
who denied the divinity of Jesus.
First Great Awakening - Correct Answer ✅Religious revival movement
during the 1730s and 1740s; stressed the need for individuals to repent and
urged a personal understanding of truth.
*Leaders:*
*George Whitefield*
*Jonathan Edwards* - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
*Historical Significance:*
Reduced the number of church leaders and led to a schism within the
Protestant Church.
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Stono Rebellion (1739) - Correct Answer ✅The most serious slave rebellion
in the the colonial period; inspired in part by Spanish officials' promise of
freedom for American slaves who escaped to Florida.
*Historical Significance:*
Led to the Negro Act of 1740 prohibiting slaves from growing their own food,
assembling in groups, earning money, or learning to read and making it more
difficult to free slaves.
French & Indian War (1754-1763) - Correct Answer ✅The name for the
North American theater of the Seven Years War & was a successful attempt
to move the French out of the Ohio Valley & to stop Indian raids on frontier
settlements.
*Historical Significance:*
Colonists gained pride in their own military strength, felt more disconnected
from Britain, & were left without fear of French a invasion.
Albany Plan of Union (1754) - Correct Answer ✅Plan proposed by Benjamin
Franklin that sought to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other
purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies & the Crown.
William Pitt - Correct Answer ✅Statesman who led Britain during the
French & Indian War; his decision to pour the full resources of the British
Treasury onto the contest & dramatically increase the number of British
forces fighting in North America was largely responsible for Britain's victory.
Fort Duquesne - Correct Answer ✅French fort that was site of first major
battle of French & Indian War; General Washington led unsuccessful attack
on French troops & was then defeated at Fort Necessity, marking beginning
of conflict.
Peace of Paris (1763) - Correct Answer ✅Ended French and Indian War
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