Multiple Choice Questions - AP US History Readings



Multiple Choice Questions

1. The major purpose of England’s mercantilist policy was to

A) discourage other European powers from colonizing North America.

B) protect the infant industries of England’s young colonies.

C) reduce the need for an overseas empire.

D) open the Atlantic to free trade.

E) increase England’s prosperity.

2. Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era?

A) She could vote as her husband’s proxy in elections.

B) She generally lost control of her property when she married.

C) She was the prime beneficiary by law of her husband’s estate.

D) Her legal rights over her children were the same as those of her husband.

E) She would be sentenced to debtors’ prison for debts incurred by her husband.

3. Which of the following best explains why Massachusetts Bay officials banished Anne Hutchinson?

A) She challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy.

B) She was found guilty of practicing witchcraft.

C) She preached the doctrine of predestination.

D) She gave birth to a child out of wedlock.

E) She opened an unlicensed tavern.

4. Which of the following was true of the Northeast American Indian tribes at the time Europeans first began colonization?

A) Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to Europeans.

B) Their cultures made no distinction between men’s work and women’s work.

C) Their economies depended entirely on hunting and gathering.

D) Their populations were immune to European diseases.

E) Their warriors rarely engaged in intertribal warfare.

5. The English and Spanish colonial systems differed in that

A) the English efforts were often privately funded, while the Spanish colonies were supported by the crown.

B) religion played a central role in all the English colonies, but had little or no impact in New Spain.

C) the English crown totally funded the colonies, whereas the Spanish Crown offered little aid.

D) the English settled the interior lands, but the Spanish settled primarily the coastal regions.

E) the English advocated mercantilism, whereas the Spanish did not.

6. In the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of slavery in British North America?

A) It was opposed by the Anglican church.

B) It was prohibited only in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

C) Slaves officially accounted for more than thirty percent of the colonial population.

D) The number of slaves increased rapidly in the last quarter of the century.

E) Most slaves lived on plantations with fifty or more slaves.

7. Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the 17th century were primarily seeking to

A) create a perfect religious commonwealth as an example to the rest of the world.

B) recreate an Old World feudalistic society in the New World.

C) create a refuge for political dissidents.

D) increase the glory of Britain.

E) profit economically.

8. The Stono Rebellion and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741 revealed which of the following?

A) Increasing resistance to taxation.

B) The inability of newcomers to acquire fertile farmland.

C) Overpopulation in urban areas.

D) Sectional divisions between northern and southern colonies.

E) Resistance to slavery.

9. The North American colonies took advantage of Great Britain’s policy of salutary neglect to

A) establish a standing army.

B) establish religious freedom as a fundamental right.

C) introduce the practice of slavery into the New World.

D) make favorable territorial settlements with the French.

E) work out trade arrangements for needed products from other countries.

10. Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, was founded by

A) John Smith, seeking to spread Christianity.

B) three aristocratic proprietors seeking private gain.

C) Sir Walter Raleigh, wishing to gain favor with Elizabeth I.

D) a joint stock company anxious to return a profit to its investors.

E) King James I, eager to gain a base for expeditions against Spanish shipping.

11. Which of the following was a characteristic of colonial Pennsylvania?

A) All white males could vote.

B) There was no established church.

C) The office of governor was an elective post.

D) Poor farmland in the backcountry aggravated the colony’s economic woes.

E) Founder William Penn endorsed a policy of removing American Indians to the western region of the colony.

12. Harvard College and Yale College were established primarily to

A) train lawyers and doctors.

B) encourage scientific advances.

C) ensure an adequate supply of ministers.

D) prepare young men for political leadership.

E) preserve the traditions of classical scholarship.

13. The 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger

A) was a victory for the colonial argument against the British use of writs of assistance for search warrants.

B) established the clear definition of treason that was later incorporated into the Constitution.

C) helped establish freedom of religion, as guaranteed in the 1649 Act of Toleration.

D) was a milestone in the development of freedom of the press.

E) established the principle of judicial review.

14. Colonial cities functioned primarily as

A) mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods.

B) places where most poor immigrants settled and worked as independent artisans.

C) centers where large scale financial and banking operations were conducted.

D) places to which wage earners commuted from numerous surrounding communities.

E) centers of light manufacturing.

15. In the eighteenth century, colonial Virginia and colonial Massachusetts were most alike in that both

A) administered local government through justices of the peace.

B) relied on the marketing of a single crop.

C) were heavily dependent on slave labor.

D) had an established Anglican church.

E) were royal colonies.

16. Which of the following conditions in England motivated Puritans to migrate to New England in the 1630s?

I. Political repression of dissident Protestants.

II. An economic recession.

III. Restrictions of Puritan religious practices.

A) I only.

B) II only.

C) III only.

D) I and II only.

E) I, II, and III.

17. The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to

A) secure a refuge for the persecuted.

B) check the growth of English colonies in North America.

C) expand their commercial and mercantile network.

D) gain colonies to produce agricultural surpluses.

E) secure naval supplies.

18. In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700’s?

A) The southern colonies only.

B) The middle and southern colonies only.

C) The tobacco- and rice-growing colonies only.

D) All the colonies except Pennsylvania and the New England colonies.

E) All the colonies.

19. Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?

A) Presbyterians in the southern colonies.

B) Landless sons in New England communities.

C) Backwoods farmers isolated on the colonial frontier.

D) Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia.

E) Itinerant preachers unable to find permanent parishes for themselves.

20. Which of the following was true of most Puritans who emigrated to seventeenth-century New England?

A) They had renounced the Church of England.

B) They rejected the authority of the English king.

C) They considered themselves non-Separatists.

D) They approved of the Crown’s religious policy.

E) They intended to return eventually to England.

21. Which of the following statements about Africans brought as slaves to the British North American colonies is true?

A) They maintained some cultural practices brought from Africa.

B) They were the primary labor force in Pennsylvania until 1720.

C) They were the primary labor source for the plantations in the Chesapeake by 1630.

D) They greatly outnumbered Europeans in every colony south of the Mason-Dixon Line by 1776.

E) They had a much lower life expectancy in the Chesapeake than in South Carolina or the West Indies.

22. Franciscan friars who staffed Spanish missions in the regions that are now part of the United States were committed to all the following EXCEPT

A) protecting the lives of individual Indians.

B) preserving the Indians' traditional way of life.

C) teaching the Indian’s European agricultural methods.

D) instructing Indians in the rudiments of the Catholic faith.

E) using Indian labor to serve the needs of the friars and other Spanish colonists.

23. Which of the following moved in greatest numbers into Appalachia as the American Indians of the region were defeated?

A) Immigrants from Sweden.

B) Puritans from New England.

C) Slaveholders, indentured servants, and slaves from coastal plantations.

D) Scotch-Irish, German, and English immigrants.

E) White immigrants from the West Indies.

24. According to the Navigation Acts,

A) goods did not have to be shipped through England so long as customs duties were paid.

B) colonial hatmakers could sell their beaver hats to England or to the colonies.

C) enumerated goods could be sold only to England.

D) smugglers would be tried in admiralty courts.

E) colonists could export raw wool, yarn, or wool cloth to countries other than England if customs duties were paid.

25. The Halfway Covenant provided for which of the following?

A) The posting of banns by engaged couples.

B) The granting of suffrage to non church members.

C) The expansion of women’s power within the church.

D) The baptism of children of baptized but unconverted Protestants.

E) The granting of full membership in the Congregational church to all New Englanders.

26. Which of the following is true of the slave system in eighteenth-century British North Amercia?

A) The slave system was legal only in the southern colonies.

B) Indentured servants increasingly replaced slaves in the southern colonies.

C) Slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves.

D) Most slaves worked on cotton plantations.

E) All southern colonies passed laws against freeing slaves.

27. Liberty of conscience was defended by Roger Williams on the grounds that

A) all religions were equal in the eyes of God.

B) the signers of the Mayflower Compact had guaranteed it.

C) Puritan ideas about sin and salvation were outmoded.

D) theological truths would emerge from the clash of ideas.

E) the state was an improper and ineffectual agent in matters of the spirit.

28. By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?

A) They had begun to challenge their subordinate role in society.

B) They were a majority in many church congregations.

C) They frequently divorced their husbands.

D) They could lead town meetings.

E) They voted in local elections.

29. The First Great Awakening led to all of the following EXCEPT

A) the renewed persecution of witches.

B) a flourishing of the missionary spirit.

C) the growth of institutions of higher learning.

D) separatism and succession from established churches.

E) a greater appreciation for the emotional experiences of faith.

30. Which of the following colonies required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher of reading and writing?

A) Pennsylvania.

B) Massachusetts.

C) Virginia.

D) Maryland.

E) Rhode Island.

31. The issue that started Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was the

A) decision of Parliament to appoint the governor rather than allow popular elections.

B) inability of the governor to control the Indians on the frontier effectively.

C) unfair trials of colonial smugglers in British admiralty courts.

D) attempt to move the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg.

E) lack of acceptance towards religious radicals.

32. The primary local governing institution of the New England colonies was the

A) governor's council.

B) town meeting.

C) county court.

D) Congregational church.

E) Anglican church.

33. Slavery in England's North American colonies was first used on a large scale

A) in 1619 when the first blacks arrived.

B) in the Middle and New England colonies.

C) during the establishment and construction of Jamestown.

D) late in the seventeenth century when the demand for labor increased.

E) in the mid-eighteenth century when England began losing control over the colonies.

34. “Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the multitalented colonial American.”

Each of the following could be used to support this statement EXCEPT

A) his experiments with electricity.

B) his military leadership.

C) his founding of a non-sectarian college.

D) Poor Richard’s Almanack.

E) his invention of bifocal lenses.

35. Mercantilists claimed that colonies were valuable as all the following EXCEPT

A) sources of raw materials.

B) markets for English goods.

C) manufacturers of finished goods.

D) sources of tax income for the crown.

E) possessions used in competition with rival nations.

36. To more closely govern the northern colonies, James II created

A) Congregational churches.

B) the town-meeting system.

C) the Dominion of New England.

D) the New England Confederation.

E) representative assemblies in each colony.

37. The original response of most New Englanders toward the restrictions under the Navigation Acts was to

A) obey them completely.

B) protest vigorously against them.

C) ignore them as much as possible.

D) initiate a rebellion against the Crown.

E) refuse to trade any further with Britain.

38. By the 1750’s, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

A) many religious denominations.

B) acceptance of slavery as a labor system.

C) a growing number of non-English settlers.

D) a society without a hereditary aristocracy.

E) disdain for British constitutional monarchy.

39. In the colonial period, Quakers were known for all of the following EXCEPT their

A) acceptance of a greater role for women in public worship.

B) opposition to the institution of slavery.

C) advocacy of freedom of worship.

D) refusal to bear arms.

E) refusal to pay taxes.

40. In general Puritans were all of the following EXCEPT

A) religious dissenters who wanted to reform both the Church of England and English society.

B) pious believers who sought to cleanse religious practices of outside influence.

C) poor people who advocated a more democratic and egalitarian society.

D) social conservatives who feared the loss of a sense of community.

E) landed gentry who wanted more economic opportunities.

1. E 11. B 21. A 31. B

2. B 12. C 22. B 32. B

3. A 13. D 23. D 33. D

4. A 14. A 24. C 34. B

5. A 15. E 25. D 35. C

6. D 16. E 26. B 36. C

7. E 17. C 27. E 37. C

8. E 18. E 28. B 38. E

9. E 19. D 29. A 39. E

10. D 20. C 30. B 40. C

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