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AP US History Treasure Hunt Questions for Colonization

 

Use the questions to guide your study for Chapter tests of the AP exam.  Questions are taken from information in the American Pageant.

 

Factual Questions

 

What motivated most of the European explores to discover new land?

How did stockholders of joint stock companies feel about a faster route to the Indies?

Without the tobacco industry would Virginia’s economy have recovered so quickly?

How were indentured servants saving slaves from Africa?

How did the lowest class, and poorest people have a large effect on America?

Did the larger families help the New England colonies develop faster?

What was the point of the Mayflower Compact?

How would you describe the “Protestant Ethic?”

What was the general reason why New Netherlands became a colony?

How do you describe life for the slaves in the Deep South?

How was education in the eyes of New England?

What was the sudden reason for the end of witchcraft persecution?

What characteristics made Boston’s church and state further separated compared to England?

How did the Native born African American influence the slave culture in the Americas?

How was the aristocracy of the old south similar and dissimilar to that of England’s?

In what way did early New England family values set the standard for families today?

How did the West Indies become and remain a predominantly black population?

What was Spain’s downfall colonizing North America?

What things set the stage for England to begin colonizing North America?

In what ways is Maryland similar to Virginia?

Why was Georgia needed as a buffer zone?

How did the middle colonies differ from the other ones?

What caused the Puritan “Great Migration” to New England?

Why do you think that the civilization in Central America became more advanced than those in North and South America?

 

Thought Questions

How did the success of the new colonies further break their ties with England?

Would the northern colonies have been developed as fast without religious persecution?

Why did the New England colonies in particular, do so much better then that of the Chesapeake?

Explain the significance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in accordance to the other New England colonies?

Although highly immoral, how did slavery contribute to success of the country?

How is the stage being set during this time for the American Revolution?

Why did religion play such a big role in America?

Which New World colony of the 1600s best describes the United States to today?  Why?