APUSH All Test Combined Questions and Answers 2024/2025

Before the coming of Europeans, the peoples who lived in what is now the United States had not developed - CORRECT ANSWER-A common language The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was - CORRECT ANSWER-Portugal When Christopher Columbus made his famous voyages to the New World, he - CORRECT ANSWER-Believed that he had reached the Far East The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to - CORRECT ANSWER-The diseases the Spaniards had given the Indians Before the arrival of the Europeans, the political system of southern and western Africa was composed of - CORRECT ANSWER-A number of small- and medium-sized regional kingdoms According to the principles of mercantilism, - CORRECT ANSWER-A successful nation should export its own goods in exchange for gold and silver The religious dissatisfactions that ultimately propelled English "Separatists" into the New World can be traded to the 1517 protests of the German priest - CORRECT ANSWER-Martin Luther Henry VIII started the English Reformation because he - CORRECT ANSWERRequired a divorce in order to marry The majority of English Puritans were religious dissenters who - CORRECT ANSWERWished to purify Anglican forms of worship The most important single event influencing England's decision to begin New World colonization was the - CORRECT ANSWER-Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588