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APUSH Finals Review Chapters 1-26 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Diseases - answer✔Many Indians died from this because they did not have an immune system
adapted to it. Examples are, smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
influenza, and typhus
Native American reaction - answer✔At first these people were hesitant, but became used to the
new people coming to America. Some were allies and some were enemies.
Although Native Americans benefitted from access to new technology and trade, the disease and
thirst for land which the early settlers also brought posed a serious challenge to the Indian's long-
established way of life.
Columbian Exchange - answer✔Enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, food, human
population, diseases and ideas; one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology,
agriculture and culture between America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Joint-stock company - answer✔Provided the money for people to go to the New World. Short-
term partnership between multiple investors to find a commercial enterprise-colonizing America.
Jamestown - answer✔This town was founded by the Virginia Company. The ship landed her on
May 24, 1607, with 100 men, after being attacked at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, they landed
on the bank of James River. Many men wasted their time looking for gold rather than food. John
Smith saved this town in 1608, by making the men work instead of look for gold.
Indentured servant - answer✔These people voluntarily became servants in America and worked
for usually 4-7 yrs then they would be free. These people were usually second born sons due to
primogeniture laws
Demographics of Virginia/MA - answer✔People here didn't see past 20 - very lucky to see 50s
(men) and 40s (women), Males to Females 6:1, Family fragile and few, most traveled as singles,
most women pregnant before marriage, women treated nicely (Maryland and Virginia)
Demographics of New England - answer✔People here added 10 years to life expectancy, they
migrated as families, women had many babies, young pregnancy, but no non-marital pregnancy,
property rights for widows, divorce wasn't allowed
Maryland - answer✔-Catholic Haven
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-founded by Lord Baltimore
-Southern colony
Puritans - answer✔This group wanted to purify the Anglican Church. This group believed they
had a conventant with God. This group thought that there were 'visible saints' who had signs
from God they were the chosen ones going to heaven, such as not getting a disease. This group
created the Congregational Church
Bacon's Rebellion - answer✔Nathan Bacon, and ex-indentured servant, stated this rebellion in
1671, because many frontiersmen(ex-indentured servants) were without land and they didn't
believe in Berkeley's friendly Indian Policy. Which didn't protect back country settlers from
Indian attacks. They torched the capitol of Jamestown. this grew into a broader conflict between
impoverished settlers and the planter elite. As a result of this, there is a shift to the use of slaves.
Southern colonies - answer✔Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, this regions main
thing is slavery. They have large plantations, cash crops and slaves
Southern colonies cash crop/plantation system - answer✔Southern colonies would focus on one
crop, usually tobacco and would make their money from that one crop
triangular trade - answer✔Exchange of rum, slaves, molasses between, North America, Africa,
and West Indies
middle passage - answer✔Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies.
20% died on the way
Mercantilism - answer✔system of trade for England and its colonies, primary goal was to benefit
mother country, England
Britain believed that wealth was power and that a country's wealth could be measured by the
amount of gold in its treasury. To do this, they needed to export more than they imported.
Enlightenment - answer✔Use of reason, logic, and scientific method to get knowledge. Jefferson,
Franklin, natural law.
First Great Awakening - answer✔religious revival that spread through the colonies. Participating
ministers, most notably Jonathon Edwards ("Sinners in the hands of an angry god") and George
Whitefield, placed an emphasis on direct emotive spirituality. Preachers heaped abuse on sinners
and shook audiences with emotional appeals
Great Awakening effects - answer✔increased number and competitiveness of American
churches, encouraged a fresh wave of missionary work among Indians and black slaves, led to
founding of new light centers of higher learning
French & Indian War/Seven Years' War - answer✔-fought over Ohio River Valley
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-British wanted to move west, French wanted to stop British expansion
-Battle of Quebec: British defeats French, turning point in war
-British won
-Proclamation of 1763: prohibited expansion passed the Appalachian mountains
Navigation Acts - answer✔reflected intense colonial rivalries of 17th century. Throttled
American trade with counties not under British control by making all ships go to England first
-execution of the theory of mercantilism
-aimed at rival Dutch shippers
-regulated colonial shipping
-said English ships would only be allowed to trade in England
-all goods heading to the colonies would have to pass through England first
Direct vs Indirect Taxes - answer✔-Sugar, Stamp were direct
-Townshend is indirect
-DIRECT: collected directly by the government from the people
-INDIRECT: tax collected from stores, businesses, etc
Sugar Act - answer✔First law passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for
the crown. Increased duty on foreign sugar imported from West Indies. (direct)
Stamp act - answer✔To raise revenues to support new military force. Stamps required on bills,
trade items, commercial and legal documents, playing cards, pamphlets, newspapers, diplomas,
bills of landing, marriage licenses.
-It was eventually repealed after a boycott
-direct tax
Townshend Acts - answer✔Light import duty on glass white lead, paper, paint, and tea, this paid
for the salaries of the royal governors
-The colonists boycotted, which repealed all of the acts except the tea act
Declaratory act - answer✔Passed alongside the repeal of the Stamp Act, reaffirmed Parliament's
unqualified sovereignty over the North American colonies.
Intolerable Acts - answer✔Laws closed Boston Harbor, imposed martial law, and singled out
only one colony, MA. In response to the Boston Tea Party, England, closed the Port of Boston,
