APUSH BUNDLED ACTUAL PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 1512 - Encomienda system created. Answer: Native labor granted
in exchange for promise to Christianize
Similar to slavery → unfair treatment of natives
Worked on large haciendas of Spanish landowners
◉ 1520 - Smallpox begins to decimate native population. Answer:
Close to 90% of population killed
Natives were not effective laborers as they were dying due to lack of
immunity → beginning of slave trade
Europeans had immunity due to transcontinental exchanges ("guns,
germs & steel" theory
◉ 1552 - Bartolome De las Casas popularizes the idea of the "Black
Legend". Answer: Showed cruelty of the Spanish system
Depicted the natives as gentle lambs & Spaniards as wolves
He was a member of the church (a friar)
Led to end of encomienda system
◉ 1607 - Jamestown est. (include John Smith & John Rolfe). Answer:
Joint stock company intended to turn a profit for investors
,Most settlers wanted to look for gold instead of farm → "starving
time"many did not survive the winter
John Rolfe introduces tobacco; married Pocahontas
John Smith says "those who do not work do not eat;" advertised and
promoted Jamestown
◉ 1609 - 1613 - Anglo-Powhatan War. Answer: Conflict between de
la Warr & Powhatan Confederacy
Virginia Colony
Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas ended the first war
Series of 3 wars → 30 years of peace
◉ 1618 - Headright system created. Answer: To get more indentured
servants, 50 acres was given to anyone who sponsored the voyage of
an indentured servant
Indentured servants usually poor white males → would be free after
their term of indenture
Primary source of labor before Bacon's Rebellion switched to slavery
◉ 1619 - Virginia House of Burgesses created. Answer: First
representative assembly in the colonies
All planters' interests were represented
,◉ 1620 - Plymouth Est. (include Mayflower Compact). Answer:
Seperatist Pilgrims set out to establish a "city upon a hill" - Winthrop
Opposed the Anglican church & did not want toleration for non-
Puritans
Mayflower compact agreed to follow laws and create a godly
community
Families settled in New England unlike mostly single men in
Chesapeake
◉ 1632 - colony of Maryland est.. Answer: Lord Baltimore
Haven for Catholics → offered religious toleration
◉ 1635 - Roger Williams exiled. Answer: Shows intolerance of the
Puritans in New England
Spoke out for separation of church and state & for fair treatment of
native americans → banished from Massachusetts
Formed Rhode Island
◉ 1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished. Answer: Called a heretic &
considered inappropriate for a woman to preach & hold meetings in
her home
Claimed God spoke to her
Was killed by Native Americans
, ◉ 1639 - Fundamental Orders created. Answer: Connecticut
Constitution = first written constitution in America
Set up the structure and powers of government with the goal of
protecting trade
◉ 1643 - New England Federation est.. Answer: Established for
collective security of New Englanders
First step toward (limited) colonial unity
Protection from Native Americans
◉ 1651 - Navigation Laws/Mercantilism. Answer: Mercantilism -
goal was to enrich the mother country, create a favorable balance of
trade, increase bullion in treasury & extract resources from colonies
Navigation Laws limited the trading partners of the colonies but
were loosely enforced
◉ 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion. Answer: Freed indentured servants
rebelled against Virginia governor Berkeley
Wanted to be able to expand west and attack native americans
Saw Eastern elites as unconcerned with those on the frontier
Rebellion put down & slavery becomes preferred form of labor as
they'd never be free unlike indentured servants
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 1512 - Encomienda system created. Answer: Native labor granted
in exchange for promise to Christianize
Similar to slavery → unfair treatment of natives
Worked on large haciendas of Spanish landowners
◉ 1520 - Smallpox begins to decimate native population. Answer:
Close to 90% of population killed
Natives were not effective laborers as they were dying due to lack of
immunity → beginning of slave trade
Europeans had immunity due to transcontinental exchanges ("guns,
germs & steel" theory
◉ 1552 - Bartolome De las Casas popularizes the idea of the "Black
Legend". Answer: Showed cruelty of the Spanish system
Depicted the natives as gentle lambs & Spaniards as wolves
He was a member of the church (a friar)
Led to end of encomienda system
◉ 1607 - Jamestown est. (include John Smith & John Rolfe). Answer:
Joint stock company intended to turn a profit for investors
,Most settlers wanted to look for gold instead of farm → "starving
time"many did not survive the winter
John Rolfe introduces tobacco; married Pocahontas
John Smith says "those who do not work do not eat;" advertised and
promoted Jamestown
◉ 1609 - 1613 - Anglo-Powhatan War. Answer: Conflict between de
la Warr & Powhatan Confederacy
Virginia Colony
Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas ended the first war
Series of 3 wars → 30 years of peace
◉ 1618 - Headright system created. Answer: To get more indentured
servants, 50 acres was given to anyone who sponsored the voyage of
an indentured servant
Indentured servants usually poor white males → would be free after
their term of indenture
Primary source of labor before Bacon's Rebellion switched to slavery
◉ 1619 - Virginia House of Burgesses created. Answer: First
representative assembly in the colonies
All planters' interests were represented
,◉ 1620 - Plymouth Est. (include Mayflower Compact). Answer:
Seperatist Pilgrims set out to establish a "city upon a hill" - Winthrop
Opposed the Anglican church & did not want toleration for non-
Puritans
Mayflower compact agreed to follow laws and create a godly
community
Families settled in New England unlike mostly single men in
Chesapeake
◉ 1632 - colony of Maryland est.. Answer: Lord Baltimore
Haven for Catholics → offered religious toleration
◉ 1635 - Roger Williams exiled. Answer: Shows intolerance of the
Puritans in New England
Spoke out for separation of church and state & for fair treatment of
native americans → banished from Massachusetts
Formed Rhode Island
◉ 1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished. Answer: Called a heretic &
considered inappropriate for a woman to preach & hold meetings in
her home
Claimed God spoke to her
Was killed by Native Americans
, ◉ 1639 - Fundamental Orders created. Answer: Connecticut
Constitution = first written constitution in America
Set up the structure and powers of government with the goal of
protecting trade
◉ 1643 - New England Federation est.. Answer: Established for
collective security of New Englanders
First step toward (limited) colonial unity
Protection from Native Americans
◉ 1651 - Navigation Laws/Mercantilism. Answer: Mercantilism -
goal was to enrich the mother country, create a favorable balance of
trade, increase bullion in treasury & extract resources from colonies
Navigation Laws limited the trading partners of the colonies but
were loosely enforced
◉ 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion. Answer: Freed indentured servants
rebelled against Virginia governor Berkeley
Wanted to be able to expand west and attack native americans
Saw Eastern elites as unconcerned with those on the frontier
Rebellion put down & slavery becomes preferred form of labor as
they'd never be free unlike indentured servants
