APUSH FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Massachusetts Bay Colony - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established in 1629 by the Puritans. Governor John
Winthrop called it a "city upon a hill." Established for religious purposes.
Puritans - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Religious dissidents who traveled to the New World to develop a purer
church than the Church of England.
Indentured Servents - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Exchanged work for passage to the New World.
London Company - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Permitted by King James I to establish Jamestown for
economic reasons.
Powhatan Confederacy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Native American alliance who had early conflict with
the Jamestown settlers. Eventually, they developed a trade alliance and provided the colonists with
corn. Pocahontas married John Rolfe to ensure future peace.
House of Burgesses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Created in 1619 by the Virginia colony. First representative
government in any British colony.
William Bradford - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Leader of the Seperatist pilgrims who landed on Plymouth
Rock.
Mayflower Compact - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1620. Provided the pilgrims with a representative
government once they reached land.
Roger Williams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preached separation of church and state, and argued that Mass.
Bay Colony was too similar to the Church of England. He was exiled for spreading dissent and went to
Rhode Island.
Thomas Hooker/John Davenport - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded the colony of Connecticut. Hooker
had been forced out of Mass. Bay Colony.
,Anne Hutchinson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Exiled from Mass. Bay Colony for claiming personal
revelations with God. Established Portsmouth.
George Calvert - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Settled Maryland in 1632 as a refuge for English Catholics.
Mercantilism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Economic theory: state must be as self-sufficient as possible,
export more than input, government regulation of commerce, colonies, tariffs, monopolies.
Navigation Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Passed in 1660. Forced colonies to trade solely with Great
Britain, increased tensions.
Triangular Trade Route - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Slaves taken from Africa and brought to the colonies,
raw materials from colonies went to Britain, finished products sold back to the colonies.
Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅African slave route in which many died from horrible
conditions.
Salem Witch Trials - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hysteria in Salem, Mass. over alleged witches. Many
executed on false claims.
Salutary Neglect - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British policy of relaxing enforcement of trade regulations in
the colonies.
Dominion of New England - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Revoked the charters of many colonies and placed
control under Edmund Andros, the governor.
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landowners opposed Sir
Berkeley's authority and burned Jamestown to the ground. Failed, but limited royal governor's power
and increased the slave trade.
Stono Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Occurred in Charleston, South Carolina. Slaves took up arms
and killed plantation owners, but were quickly subdued. Results: slaves treated even more harshly.
,Colonial Assemblies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rose in the early 1700s. Increased colonial independence,
scaring the British.
Molasses Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Increased British control on colonial goods.
First Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Religious revival in the colonies in 1720-1740. Ministers
preached horrible images of sinners burning in hell and gained popularity off of fear. Famous among
them were Jonathon Edwards and George Whitefield.
French and Indian War - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Conflict between French with Indian allies and the
British with colonial support. Decreased French influence in colonies.
Stamp Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enacted a tax on all paper products exported from the colonies.
Created strong tension and was repealed.
Townshend Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British act forced colonies to pay taxes on most goods from
England. Fiercely resisted and repealed in 1770.
Boston Massacre - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British soldiers fought into an agitated colonial crowd, killing
five people. Incited enormous tensions.
Sons of Liberty - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Radical group that resisted British policy in Boston in 1760-
1770. Organized the Boston Tea Party.
Committees of Correspondence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Started in Mass. and spread. Circulated
grievances against the British and united the colonies.
First Continental Congress - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Met in Philadelphia in 1774. Colonists vowed to
resist British efforts to tax them further without proper representation.
, Albany Congress - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Met in 1754 to coordinate policies concerning future western
expansion and dealings with Native Americans.
Edward Braddock - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British general sent to defeat the French at Fort Duquesne.
He was defeated and killed, which then signaled the start of the French and Indian War.
William Pitt - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British general put in charge of the war. He promised
reimbursement for colonial support.
George Grenville - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British prime minister who taxed the colonies to relieve
massive British debt.
Currency Act of 1764 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Made it illegal to print paper money in the colonies.
Sugar Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Increased penalty for smuggling goods and put a tax on all molasses
brought into the colonies.
Quartering Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Forced colonists to provide housing and food to British troops
stationed in the colonies.
Samuel Adams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Led the Sons of Liberty. Proclaimed taxation without
representation was tyranny.
Declaratory Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gave Parliament the unquestionable right to tax and pass
legislation in the colonies.
John Dickinson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Wrote "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania." Parliament had
the right to regulate colonial trade, but could not use that power to raise revenue.
Lord North - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prime minister who came to power in 1770, repealed all
Townshend Acts except the tax on tea to keep the colonists under British control.
Massachusetts Bay Colony - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established in 1629 by the Puritans. Governor John
Winthrop called it a "city upon a hill." Established for religious purposes.
Puritans - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Religious dissidents who traveled to the New World to develop a purer
church than the Church of England.
Indentured Servents - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Exchanged work for passage to the New World.
London Company - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Permitted by King James I to establish Jamestown for
economic reasons.
Powhatan Confederacy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Native American alliance who had early conflict with
the Jamestown settlers. Eventually, they developed a trade alliance and provided the colonists with
corn. Pocahontas married John Rolfe to ensure future peace.
House of Burgesses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Created in 1619 by the Virginia colony. First representative
government in any British colony.
William Bradford - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Leader of the Seperatist pilgrims who landed on Plymouth
Rock.
Mayflower Compact - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1620. Provided the pilgrims with a representative
government once they reached land.
Roger Williams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preached separation of church and state, and argued that Mass.
Bay Colony was too similar to the Church of England. He was exiled for spreading dissent and went to
Rhode Island.
Thomas Hooker/John Davenport - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded the colony of Connecticut. Hooker
had been forced out of Mass. Bay Colony.
,Anne Hutchinson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Exiled from Mass. Bay Colony for claiming personal
revelations with God. Established Portsmouth.
George Calvert - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Settled Maryland in 1632 as a refuge for English Catholics.
Mercantilism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Economic theory: state must be as self-sufficient as possible,
export more than input, government regulation of commerce, colonies, tariffs, monopolies.
Navigation Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Passed in 1660. Forced colonies to trade solely with Great
Britain, increased tensions.
Triangular Trade Route - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Slaves taken from Africa and brought to the colonies,
raw materials from colonies went to Britain, finished products sold back to the colonies.
Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅African slave route in which many died from horrible
conditions.
Salem Witch Trials - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hysteria in Salem, Mass. over alleged witches. Many
executed on false claims.
Salutary Neglect - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British policy of relaxing enforcement of trade regulations in
the colonies.
Dominion of New England - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Revoked the charters of many colonies and placed
control under Edmund Andros, the governor.
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landowners opposed Sir
Berkeley's authority and burned Jamestown to the ground. Failed, but limited royal governor's power
and increased the slave trade.
Stono Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Occurred in Charleston, South Carolina. Slaves took up arms
and killed plantation owners, but were quickly subdued. Results: slaves treated even more harshly.
,Colonial Assemblies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rose in the early 1700s. Increased colonial independence,
scaring the British.
Molasses Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Increased British control on colonial goods.
First Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Religious revival in the colonies in 1720-1740. Ministers
preached horrible images of sinners burning in hell and gained popularity off of fear. Famous among
them were Jonathon Edwards and George Whitefield.
French and Indian War - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Conflict between French with Indian allies and the
British with colonial support. Decreased French influence in colonies.
Stamp Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enacted a tax on all paper products exported from the colonies.
Created strong tension and was repealed.
Townshend Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British act forced colonies to pay taxes on most goods from
England. Fiercely resisted and repealed in 1770.
Boston Massacre - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British soldiers fought into an agitated colonial crowd, killing
five people. Incited enormous tensions.
Sons of Liberty - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Radical group that resisted British policy in Boston in 1760-
1770. Organized the Boston Tea Party.
Committees of Correspondence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Started in Mass. and spread. Circulated
grievances against the British and united the colonies.
First Continental Congress - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Met in Philadelphia in 1774. Colonists vowed to
resist British efforts to tax them further without proper representation.
, Albany Congress - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Met in 1754 to coordinate policies concerning future western
expansion and dealings with Native Americans.
Edward Braddock - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British general sent to defeat the French at Fort Duquesne.
He was defeated and killed, which then signaled the start of the French and Indian War.
William Pitt - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British general put in charge of the war. He promised
reimbursement for colonial support.
George Grenville - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅British prime minister who taxed the colonies to relieve
massive British debt.
Currency Act of 1764 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Made it illegal to print paper money in the colonies.
Sugar Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Increased penalty for smuggling goods and put a tax on all molasses
brought into the colonies.
Quartering Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Forced colonists to provide housing and food to British troops
stationed in the colonies.
Samuel Adams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Led the Sons of Liberty. Proclaimed taxation without
representation was tyranny.
Declaratory Act - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gave Parliament the unquestionable right to tax and pass
legislation in the colonies.
John Dickinson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Wrote "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania." Parliament had
the right to regulate colonial trade, but could not use that power to raise revenue.
Lord North - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prime minister who came to power in 1770, repealed all
Townshend Acts except the tax on tea to keep the colonists under British control.
