APUSH exam MCQ
"We have as yet no certaine proofe or experience concerning the vertues of... Corne,
although the... Indians...are constrained to make a virtue of necessitie, and think it a
good food: whereas we may easily judge that it nourisheth but little, and is of a hard...
digestion, a more convenient food for swine than for men."
John Gerard, English botanist, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597
The development that brought "corne" to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is
best known as the - ANS-columbian exchange
"We have as yet no certaine proofe or experience concerning the vertues of... Corne,
although the... Indians...are constrained to make a virtue of necessitie, and think it a
good food: whereas we may easily judge that it nourisheth but little, and is of a hard...
digestion, a more convenient food for swine than for men."
John Gerard, English botanist, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597
Gerard's description of "corne" in the excerpt best reflects which of the following? -
ANS-Assumptions about the superiority of European culture
"Various are the reports and conjectures of the causes of the present Indian war. Some
impute it to an imprudent zeal in the magistrates of Boston to christianize those heathen
before they were civilized and enjoining them the strict observation of their laws....
Some believe there have been vagrant and Jesuitical priests, who have made it their
business, for some years past, to go from Sachem to Sachem, to exasperate the
Indians against the English and to bring them into a confederacy, and that they were
promised supplies from France and other parts to extirpate [eradicate] the English
nation out of the continent of America."
Edward Randolph, report of King Philip's War (Metacom's War) in New England, 1676
The confederacy formed to "exasperate the Indians against the English" was motivated
primarily by which of the following? - ANS-Dispossession of Wampanoag land and
threats to their sovereignty
"Various are the reports and conjectures of the causes of the present Indian war. Some
impute it to an imprudent zeal in the magistrates of Boston to christianize those heathen
before they were civilized and enjoining them the strict observation of their laws....
Some believe there have been vagrant and Jesuitical priests, who have made it their
business, for some years past, to go from Sachem to Sachem, to exasperate the
Indians against the English and to bring them into a confederacy, and that they were
promised supplies from France and other parts to extirpate [eradicate] the English
nation out of the continent of America."
, Edward Randolph, report of King Philip's War (Metacom's War) in New England, 1676
Which of the following best characterizes relations between the English and American
Indians in New England following Metacom's War? - ANS-Dramatic decline and
dispersion of the American Indian population
"Various are the reports and conjectures of the causes of the present Indian war. Some
impute it to an imprudent zeal in the magistrates of Boston to christianize those heathen
before they were civilized and enjoining them the strict observation of their laws....
Some believe there have been vagrant and Jesuitical priests, who have made it their
business, for some years past, to go from Sachem to Sachem, to exasperate the
Indians against the English and to bring them into a confederacy, and that they were
promised supplies from France and other parts to extirpate [eradicate] the English
nation out of the continent of America."
Edward Randolph, report of King Philip's War (Metacom's War) in New England, 1676
Compared with French and Spanish interactions with American Indians, English
interaction with American Indians more often promoted - ANS-separation between the
groups
"That a British and American legislature, for regulating the administration of the general
affairs of America, be proposed and established in America, including all the said
colonies; within, and under which government, each colony shall retain its present
constitution, and powers of regulating and governing its own internal police, in all cases
whatsoever.
"That the said government be administered by a President General, to be appointed by
the King and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the
several colonies, in their respective assemblies, once in every three years."
Joseph Galloway, "A Plan of a Proposed Union Between Great Britain and the
Colonies," proposal debated by the First Continental Congress, 1774
The excerpt most strongly suggests that in 1774 which of the following was correct? -
ANS-Some members of the First Continental Congress sought a compromise between
submission to British authority and independence.
"That a British and American legislature, for regulating the administration of the general
affairs of America, be proposed and established in America, including all the said
colonies; within, and under which government, each colony shall retain its present
constitution, and powers of regulating and governing its own internal police, in all cases
whatsoever.
"That the said government be administered by a President General, to be appointed by
the King and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the
several colonies, in their respective assemblies, once in every three years."