APUSH ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◍ maize cultivation.
Answer: The growing of Indian corn, a staple of many Indians diets, leading
many nomadic tribes to settle and develop great civilizations such as the
Aztecs incas and Mayans.
◍ Great Columbian / Biological Exchange.
Answer: Exchange of plants and animals between the New World and
Europe following the discovery of America in 1492.
◍ hunter-gatherer economy.
Answer: A nomadic way of life with no agriculture focused on following
food sources including animals and wild plants
◍ Christopher Columbus.
Answer: Italian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas,
greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent
◍ western hemisphere.
Answer: The Americas
◍ west africa.
Answer: A area of Africa that was previously unreachable until the
invention of the caravel by the Portuguese, leading to exploitation of the
region for its gold and slaves
◍ plantation-based agriculture.
Answer: Large scale agriculture worked by slaves
◍ capitalism.
, Answer: Economic system based on private investment and possessions
◍ Cultural autonomy.
Answer: Freedom of a group to express ones own culture without outside
control i.g. The Christianization of the natives took away there Cultural
autonomy
◍ Bartolomeo de las Casas.
Answer: 16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the
Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people
◍ great basin.
Answer: Desert area with no drainage to the ocean
◍ agricultural economy.
Answer: economy based on the production of crops
◍ Spanish empire.
Answer: Empire control in Mexico, South America, and Florida, religious
empire; Franciscans + mission system, defensive buffers vs. English,
French, and Russians. Economic empire.
◍ French empire.
Answer: Empire control in Canada, Ohio, and Mississippi River Valley with
Louisiana. Religious: Jesuits. Positive indigenous relations. Fur trade.
Coureurs du bois.
◍ English/British Empire.
Answer: Exhibited control in the form of dominions, colonies, mandates,
and territories. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent ruler during the colonial
period of this empire. French Rivalry + engaged in Columbian Exchange.
◍ spanish exploration.
Answer: Colonization of the Americas by the conquistadors in search for
gold, glory and god
◍ Jamestown.
Answer: First permanent English settlement; located in Virginia. Founded
, by London Company
◍ Mayflower Compact.
Answer: Pilgrims/Separatists agreement: agreement to obey laws created by
the community and a profession of allegiance to the king
◍ encomienda system.
Answer: A government system where natives were given to colonists to
work in return for converting them to Christianity.
◍ Chesapeake colonies.
Answer: Term for the colonies of Maryland and Virginia
◍ empire building.
Answer: The Spanish increasing their empire through grafting their culture
onto the natives and taking over the land
◍ white superiority.
Answer: The European idea they were superior to other cultures/ races and
needed to enforce European culture/religion on them
◍ great plains.
Answer: The open plains of the Midwest where the natives adapted to
roming the prairies on horseback
◍ Virginia colony.
Answer: This colony was founded in 1607. First settlement was Jamestown.
Charter to stock company/royal. Tobacco was vital to its survival.
◍ 1619.
Answer: The year when the first U.S representative assembly was
established - House of Burgesses (Jamestown, Virginia)
◍ Bacon's rebellion.
Answer: Colonial uprising that took place in 1676 in the Virginia colony, led
by Nathaniel Bacon. Virginians resented William Berkeley's friendly policy
towards Native Americans. This was the first rebellion in American colonies
in which discontented frontiersmen took part.
, ◍ Maryland colony.
Answer: Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, founded to be a place for
persecuted Catholics to find refuge, a safe haven, act of toleration
◍ Toleration Act.
Answer: Guaranteed religious toleration to trinitarian Christians, but decreed
the death penalty to Jews and atheists and others who didn't believe in the
divinity of Jesus Christ,
◍ permanent villages.
Answer: The settlements of Indians tribes based on the spread of agriculture
◍ Portuguese exploration.
Answer: Due to advancements in sailing technology the Portuguese were
able to sail down the coast of Africa and open trade of gold and slaves, settle
and make plantations and eventually find the way around Africa to the
indies
◍ slave labor.
Answer: Forced labor of people considered property by the people in charge
◍ feudalism.
Answer: A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship
between lord and vassal in order to provide protection
◍ political autonomy.
Answer: the ability of a state to govern themselves without outside control
◍ Colombian exchange.
Answer: the exchange between the new world and the old world consisting
of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice,
coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold,
silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills
◍ What happened as settlers migrated and settled across the vast expanse of
North America overtime?.
Answer: Result? (pp. 1-35) - Native populations often resisted the European
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◍ maize cultivation.
Answer: The growing of Indian corn, a staple of many Indians diets, leading
many nomadic tribes to settle and develop great civilizations such as the
Aztecs incas and Mayans.
◍ Great Columbian / Biological Exchange.
Answer: Exchange of plants and animals between the New World and
Europe following the discovery of America in 1492.
◍ hunter-gatherer economy.
Answer: A nomadic way of life with no agriculture focused on following
food sources including animals and wild plants
◍ Christopher Columbus.
Answer: Italian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas,
greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent
◍ western hemisphere.
Answer: The Americas
◍ west africa.
Answer: A area of Africa that was previously unreachable until the
invention of the caravel by the Portuguese, leading to exploitation of the
region for its gold and slaves
◍ plantation-based agriculture.
Answer: Large scale agriculture worked by slaves
◍ capitalism.
, Answer: Economic system based on private investment and possessions
◍ Cultural autonomy.
Answer: Freedom of a group to express ones own culture without outside
control i.g. The Christianization of the natives took away there Cultural
autonomy
◍ Bartolomeo de las Casas.
Answer: 16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the
Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people
◍ great basin.
Answer: Desert area with no drainage to the ocean
◍ agricultural economy.
Answer: economy based on the production of crops
◍ Spanish empire.
Answer: Empire control in Mexico, South America, and Florida, religious
empire; Franciscans + mission system, defensive buffers vs. English,
French, and Russians. Economic empire.
◍ French empire.
Answer: Empire control in Canada, Ohio, and Mississippi River Valley with
Louisiana. Religious: Jesuits. Positive indigenous relations. Fur trade.
Coureurs du bois.
◍ English/British Empire.
Answer: Exhibited control in the form of dominions, colonies, mandates,
and territories. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent ruler during the colonial
period of this empire. French Rivalry + engaged in Columbian Exchange.
◍ spanish exploration.
Answer: Colonization of the Americas by the conquistadors in search for
gold, glory and god
◍ Jamestown.
Answer: First permanent English settlement; located in Virginia. Founded
, by London Company
◍ Mayflower Compact.
Answer: Pilgrims/Separatists agreement: agreement to obey laws created by
the community and a profession of allegiance to the king
◍ encomienda system.
Answer: A government system where natives were given to colonists to
work in return for converting them to Christianity.
◍ Chesapeake colonies.
Answer: Term for the colonies of Maryland and Virginia
◍ empire building.
Answer: The Spanish increasing their empire through grafting their culture
onto the natives and taking over the land
◍ white superiority.
Answer: The European idea they were superior to other cultures/ races and
needed to enforce European culture/religion on them
◍ great plains.
Answer: The open plains of the Midwest where the natives adapted to
roming the prairies on horseback
◍ Virginia colony.
Answer: This colony was founded in 1607. First settlement was Jamestown.
Charter to stock company/royal. Tobacco was vital to its survival.
◍ 1619.
Answer: The year when the first U.S representative assembly was
established - House of Burgesses (Jamestown, Virginia)
◍ Bacon's rebellion.
Answer: Colonial uprising that took place in 1676 in the Virginia colony, led
by Nathaniel Bacon. Virginians resented William Berkeley's friendly policy
towards Native Americans. This was the first rebellion in American colonies
in which discontented frontiersmen took part.
, ◍ Maryland colony.
Answer: Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, founded to be a place for
persecuted Catholics to find refuge, a safe haven, act of toleration
◍ Toleration Act.
Answer: Guaranteed religious toleration to trinitarian Christians, but decreed
the death penalty to Jews and atheists and others who didn't believe in the
divinity of Jesus Christ,
◍ permanent villages.
Answer: The settlements of Indians tribes based on the spread of agriculture
◍ Portuguese exploration.
Answer: Due to advancements in sailing technology the Portuguese were
able to sail down the coast of Africa and open trade of gold and slaves, settle
and make plantations and eventually find the way around Africa to the
indies
◍ slave labor.
Answer: Forced labor of people considered property by the people in charge
◍ feudalism.
Answer: A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship
between lord and vassal in order to provide protection
◍ political autonomy.
Answer: the ability of a state to govern themselves without outside control
◍ Colombian exchange.
Answer: the exchange between the new world and the old world consisting
of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice,
coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold,
silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills
◍ What happened as settlers migrated and settled across the vast expanse of
North America overtime?.
Answer: Result? (pp. 1-35) - Native populations often resisted the European
