AP US History Test Review Unit 1: 1491-1754

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How did the rise of the triangle trade system impact the economic development in the colonies?

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American port cities grew in size and complexity

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Which of the following best describes the role of Britain’s more northern colonies in the global trade as illustrated in the map above?
Options:
They took advantage of long growing seasons by using slave labor to grow staple crops,
They relied solely on the cultivation of tobacco,
They had an export economy based on food products and raw materials.,
They primarily exported furs and manufactured goods

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They had an export economy based on food products and raw materials.

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In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Britain’s greatest challenge in controlling the North American Atlantic trade illustrated above was: the growth of regional distinctiveness, external competition, repeated colonial wars, widespread corruption in the imperial system.

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external competition

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Which aspect of the “Chesapeake economy” is shown in the drawing/woodcut depicting black children working on a tobacco plantation in Virginia?

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a labor-intensive product that is cultivated by slave labor

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Indians found that British settlers, especially those in the southern colonies, eagerly purchased or captured Indians to use as forced labor in cultivating tobacco, rice, and indigo. Consequently,

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more and more, Indians began selling war captives to whites rather than integrating them into their own societies.

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The map above indicates the encomienda system was least developed in which of the following areas? California, Mexico, The Caribbean, The Southwest

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The Caribbean

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The most devastating impact of the Spanish conquest and exploration was

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the forced conversion of natives to Christianity.

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This drawing was most likely intended to

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gain sympathy for the American Indians being slaughtered by the Spanish explorers

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Europeans helped increase the intensity and destructiveness of American Indian warfare through

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supplying American Indian allies with deadlier weapons and alcohol and by rewarding Indian military actions.

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John Collet, George Whitefield Preaching¸18th Century
Which colonial trend from the 17th and 18th centuries is best illustrated by the image above?

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Protestant evangelism