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test prep: multiple choice questions
the apush multiple - choice questions will not test your recall or basic knowledge or definitions, dates, etc. it will test your historical thinking skills to be applied to your understanding of the content. they are based on astimulus (text, graph, map, image) and followed by 3 - 4 questions. there are tips below to help you with mcq but the number one thing is to just know the content! you got to study and develop those skills! lucky, this workbook helps with that!
questions 1 & 2 refer to the source below
\colon columbus and his crew did not voyage alone. they were accompanied by a menagerie of insects, mammals, and microorganisms... european expeditions brought cattle, sheep, and horses, along with crops like sugarcane (originally from new guinea), wheat (from the middle east), bananas (from africa), and coffee (also from africa)…\
source: charles c. mann, historian, 1493: uncovering the new world columbus created, 2011.

1. the most direct result of the process described in the excerpt on native american populations was which of the following?

a. a rapid increase in population numbers due to improved food goods
b. a migration towards coastal regions where plantations developed
c. a rapid decrease in population numbers due to disease
d. a natural decrease in the birth rate as literacy improved for women.

1. this document could best be understood in the context of?

a. increasing trade between native american tribes
b. large naval wars between the old world and the new world powers
c. competition between european powers in exploration and conquest
d. native american tribes resisting european goods and technologies.
questions 3 & 4 refer to the chart below
it is public opinion and knowledge that no end of deception is practiced and a thousand acts of robbery and violence are committed in the course of bartering and carrying off negroes from their country and bringing them to the indies and to spain.... and no one is horrified that these people are ill - treating and selling one another, because they are considered uncivilized and savage. the wretched children are taken to the market place for sale, and as the traffic in negroes is so great, there are portuguese, or even negroes themselves, ready everywhere to buy them. they put them aboard the ships under false pretenses, hoist anchor, set sail, and make off towards the high seas with their booty.... they embark four and five hundred of them in a boat which, sometimes, is not a cargo boat. the very stench is enough to kill most of them, and, indeed, very many die.
source: fray tomas de mercado...1587

1. which of the following would most directly have caused the process described above?

a. increasing competition between european powers for trade with the east
b. the growth of sugar plantations in the new world
c. increased missionary efforts to christianize africa and the americas
d. the growing importance of manufactured goods in the atlantic economy

1. this document could best serve as an example of which of the following developments?

a. a growing middle class in the colonial american empires
b. slave rebellions on plantations and mutinies aboard ships
c. internal critiques of european practices and treatment of various groups
d. the adoption of enlightenment principles throughout the old and new worlds

Explanation:

1. When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they brought diseases to which Native Americans had no immunity, leading to a rapid decrease in their population. This is the most direct result among the options.
2. The document about Columbus' voyages and the exchange of species is best understood in the context of European powers competing in exploration and conquest.
3. The growth of sugar - plantations in the New World created a high demand for labor, which directly led to the African slave - trade described in the text.
4. The text by Fray Tomas de Mercado is a critique from within European society about the ill - treatment of Africans, serving as an example of internal critiques of European practices.

Answer:

1. d. a natural decrease in the birth rate as literacy improved for women.
2. c. competition between European powers in exploration and conquest
3. b. The growth of sugar plantations in the New World
4. c. internal critiques of European practices and treatment of various groups