APUSH Study Guide: Unit 1 Exam

Multiple Choice: You will answer 25 multiple choice questions over all content we have
covered so far. It is your responsibility to adequately prepare for the questions. For several
of the questions you will be given outside materials (documents/pictures) pertaining to
content and answer the question based on both your knowledge and the documents. The
multiple choice question will come from the following topics:
-Early Exploration
-Southern Colonies (politics, culture, & economics)
-Middle Colonies (politics, culture, & economics)
-Northern Colonies (politics, culture, & economics)
-Trade & Culture in the Americas
-The Great Awakening
Identifications: You will be given 6 identifications from the topics listed above. For each
one you will write 3-4 sentences describing the ID and providing an explanation of its
significance. The identifications will range from people, events, concepts, etc.
Long Answers: For the long answer portion of the exam you will be given different essay
prompts and required to pick one of them to answer. This answer should contain an
opinion backed with supporting detail. Below is a list of six essay prompts. Out of these six
choices I will pick two that will go on your exam, and you will choose one from the two. To
prepare for the exam, I suggest that you make an outline, and be able to answer all of them.
Essay Prompts:
1. *Although many Northerners and Southerners came later to think of themselves as
having separate civilizations, the Northern and Southern colonies in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries were in fact more similar than different. Assess the validity
of this statement.

2. In the seventeenth century New England Puritans aspired to create a model society.
Evaluate the extent to which those aspirations were fulfilled during the seventeenth
century.


3. "Geography was the primary factor in shaping the development of the British
colonies in North America." Assess the validity of this statement for the 1600s.
4. *Throughout the colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the
settling of British North America than did religious concerns. Assess the validity of
this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns. (1990).

5. How did economic, geographic, and social factors encourage the growth of slavery
as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and
1775?

6. Compare the ways in which the following reflected tensions in colonial society.
a. Bacons' Rebellion (1676)
b. Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)


Terms to Know
Christopher Columbus
Colonization
Mercantilism
Columbian Exchange
Quebec
Virginia Company
Jamestown
Powhatan
John Smith
John Rolfe
House of Burgesses
Bacons Rebellion
Indentured Servant
Headright System
William Penn
Quakers
New Amsterdam/Dutch colonization
Mayflower Compact
Puritans
Halfway Covenant
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Salem Witch Trials
King Phillips War
Trans-Atlantic Trade
Middle Passage
Benjamin Franklin
Social Mobility
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield