AP us history REAL EXAM 2025
GRADED A LATEST VERSION 250
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
Headright System - CORRECT ANSWER A British policy that granted 50
acres to each Virginian colonist, plus 50 for each servant they brought.
Indentured Servitude - CORRECT ANSWER The process of people
repaying debt through working for an employer for irregularly large
amounts of time.
Joint Stock Companies - CORRECT ANSWER A structure for dividing the
potential earnings and loss of business ventures among investors.
Mercantilism - CORRECT ANSWER The economic ideology that the
wealth of a nation is equal to its exports minus its imports.
Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER A voyage that brought enslaved
Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
praying towns - CORRECT ANSWER Towns built by Puritans in order to
convert native Americans to Christianity.
Proprietary Colony - CORRECT ANSWER A colony granted to a single
person by the government.
revivalism - CORRECT ANSWER A push to revive and/or reform
religious practices.
,Royal Colony - CORRECT ANSWER Any colony ruled directly by the
British monarch.
Salutary Neglect - CORRECT ANSWER The lack of regulation by Britain
on America caused by the physical separation between America and
Britain.
Spanish Mission System - CORRECT ANSWER The system where the
Spanish set up missionaries all over their colonies and a large part of
southern america.
tariffs - CORRECT ANSWER Taxes imposed on the sale of foreign goods.
Often used to make an economy more self reliant for better or worse.
Was used by Britain to make Americans more Reliant on Britain
specifically rather than Europe in general
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER Rebellion led by Nathaniel
Bacon against Governor William Berkeley over his refusal to take more
Native land for White settlement, shift from indentured servitude
Columbian Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER The (rather ironic) title of
the system of Columbus' early colonizers spreading disease among the
native people and taking resources through trade and theft.
First Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER a period of religious revival
that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and
1770s, characterized by increased religious fervor and a renewed
emphasis on personal conversion
Huron Confederacy - CORRECT ANSWER 5 native american nations
that joined together to defend against the 5 nations of the iroquois
confederacy, called selves wendat but French called them Huron.
,King Philip's War - CORRECT ANSWER A war fought by King Philip/
Metacom with early American colonists. Several native tribes had been
united, however they lost.
Pequot War - CORRECT ANSWER 1637 The Bay colonists wanted to
claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The
colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed.
Pueblo Revolt - CORRECT ANSWER A rebellion of the Pueblo people in
1680 which drove the Spanish out of New Mexico temporarily
Spanish Armada defeated - CORRECT ANSWER Defeat of the Spanish
Armada in 1588. weakened spain's power in Europe and showed
England as a naval power
Starving Time - CORRECT ANSWER In Jamestown, 1610, a long winter
reduced the settler population from 400 to 65. probable cannibalism
Stono Uprising - CORRECT ANSWER Important slave uprising in South
Carolina, many slaves were killed but some escaped to Florida and were
armed by the Spanish
Bering Strait - CORRECT ANSWER The body of water between alaska
and siberia, during the ice age it froze, allowing people to cross over and
be the ancestors for many native americans
Chesapeake - CORRECT ANSWER A bay, the chesapeake area
surrounded it, including virginia, a hotspot for early english settlement,
the cheasapeake area could be described as the area between the
middle colonies and the south.
, Jamestown - CORRECT ANSWER The first English colony. It was
originally failing since the colonists were upper class nobility who
refused to work. However after several deaths they found tobacco
reinvigorating the idea of english colonization. Jamestown however was
found empty as all the colonists had died, possibly resorting to
cannibalism by the end.
Massachusets Bay Colony - CORRECT ANSWER Founded by the
company of the same name which was founded by puritan london
merchants who wanted to trade with natives, colony had a charter from
the king
Lower South (Deep South) - CORRECT ANSWER The lower south was a
region well suited to plantation farming in the south of what would
become the US, ended up full of slave labor
Middle Colonies - CORRECT ANSWER A region between New england
and the chesapeake area, that included New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvannia
New England - CORRECT ANSWER Group of states settled by English
pilgrims, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Act of Toleration - CORRECT ANSWER A 1689 act of parliament after
the glorious revolution (an england thing not super-relevant) that
allowed more sects of christianity than before
Dominion of New England - CORRECT ANSWER Shortly before his
death, James II from 1686-1689 merged Connecticut, Plymouth,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, and East and
West Jersey one super-colony, the Dominion of New England. The
GRADED A LATEST VERSION 250
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
Headright System - CORRECT ANSWER A British policy that granted 50
acres to each Virginian colonist, plus 50 for each servant they brought.
Indentured Servitude - CORRECT ANSWER The process of people
repaying debt through working for an employer for irregularly large
amounts of time.
Joint Stock Companies - CORRECT ANSWER A structure for dividing the
potential earnings and loss of business ventures among investors.
Mercantilism - CORRECT ANSWER The economic ideology that the
wealth of a nation is equal to its exports minus its imports.
Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER A voyage that brought enslaved
Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
praying towns - CORRECT ANSWER Towns built by Puritans in order to
convert native Americans to Christianity.
Proprietary Colony - CORRECT ANSWER A colony granted to a single
person by the government.
revivalism - CORRECT ANSWER A push to revive and/or reform
religious practices.
,Royal Colony - CORRECT ANSWER Any colony ruled directly by the
British monarch.
Salutary Neglect - CORRECT ANSWER The lack of regulation by Britain
on America caused by the physical separation between America and
Britain.
Spanish Mission System - CORRECT ANSWER The system where the
Spanish set up missionaries all over their colonies and a large part of
southern america.
tariffs - CORRECT ANSWER Taxes imposed on the sale of foreign goods.
Often used to make an economy more self reliant for better or worse.
Was used by Britain to make Americans more Reliant on Britain
specifically rather than Europe in general
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER Rebellion led by Nathaniel
Bacon against Governor William Berkeley over his refusal to take more
Native land for White settlement, shift from indentured servitude
Columbian Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER The (rather ironic) title of
the system of Columbus' early colonizers spreading disease among the
native people and taking resources through trade and theft.
First Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER a period of religious revival
that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and
1770s, characterized by increased religious fervor and a renewed
emphasis on personal conversion
Huron Confederacy - CORRECT ANSWER 5 native american nations
that joined together to defend against the 5 nations of the iroquois
confederacy, called selves wendat but French called them Huron.
,King Philip's War - CORRECT ANSWER A war fought by King Philip/
Metacom with early American colonists. Several native tribes had been
united, however they lost.
Pequot War - CORRECT ANSWER 1637 The Bay colonists wanted to
claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The
colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed.
Pueblo Revolt - CORRECT ANSWER A rebellion of the Pueblo people in
1680 which drove the Spanish out of New Mexico temporarily
Spanish Armada defeated - CORRECT ANSWER Defeat of the Spanish
Armada in 1588. weakened spain's power in Europe and showed
England as a naval power
Starving Time - CORRECT ANSWER In Jamestown, 1610, a long winter
reduced the settler population from 400 to 65. probable cannibalism
Stono Uprising - CORRECT ANSWER Important slave uprising in South
Carolina, many slaves were killed but some escaped to Florida and were
armed by the Spanish
Bering Strait - CORRECT ANSWER The body of water between alaska
and siberia, during the ice age it froze, allowing people to cross over and
be the ancestors for many native americans
Chesapeake - CORRECT ANSWER A bay, the chesapeake area
surrounded it, including virginia, a hotspot for early english settlement,
the cheasapeake area could be described as the area between the
middle colonies and the south.
, Jamestown - CORRECT ANSWER The first English colony. It was
originally failing since the colonists were upper class nobility who
refused to work. However after several deaths they found tobacco
reinvigorating the idea of english colonization. Jamestown however was
found empty as all the colonists had died, possibly resorting to
cannibalism by the end.
Massachusets Bay Colony - CORRECT ANSWER Founded by the
company of the same name which was founded by puritan london
merchants who wanted to trade with natives, colony had a charter from
the king
Lower South (Deep South) - CORRECT ANSWER The lower south was a
region well suited to plantation farming in the south of what would
become the US, ended up full of slave labor
Middle Colonies - CORRECT ANSWER A region between New england
and the chesapeake area, that included New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvannia
New England - CORRECT ANSWER Group of states settled by English
pilgrims, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Act of Toleration - CORRECT ANSWER A 1689 act of parliament after
the glorious revolution (an england thing not super-relevant) that
allowed more sects of christianity than before
Dominion of New England - CORRECT ANSWER Shortly before his
death, James II from 1686-1689 merged Connecticut, Plymouth,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, and East and
West Jersey one super-colony, the Dominion of New England. The
