SAQs for APUSH Period 1

Short answer questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to all-important topics appearing in the Course and Exam Description

Topic 1.2 — Native American Societies Before European Contact: Five short answer questions that relate to those who had migrated and settled across the vast expanse of North America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.

Topic 1.3 — European Exploration in the Americas: Ten short answer questions that relate to a period of time beginning with Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World.

Topic 1.4 — The Columbian Exchange: Five short answer questions that relate to the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, the Old World, and West Africa following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

Topic 1.5 — Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System: Four short answer questions that relate to Spanish treatment of and attitude toward those who lived in North America in the years after the arrival of Columbus but who were not born in Spain.

Topic 1.6 — Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans: Four short answer questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to the effect that Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans had on each other after the arrival of Columbus.

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Questions relating to the all-important topics appearing below have been worked into one or more of the posts appearing above:

• Topic 1.1 — Contextualizing
• Topic 1.7— Causation

All SAQs associated with this page have been produced by a team of APUSH teachers. They are not official CB-created exam questions. While CB/AP cannot endorse this work, it “appreciate(s) the enthusiasm and effort to create and share resources that students and teachers in the AP community may find helpful.”