Drill 12 · Multiple Choice · Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
AP World History Unit 4 Drill 12 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on resistance to state power in the period c. 1450 to c. 1750, with attention to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the broader pattern of indigenous and enslaved resistance to colonial authority. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from a report by a Spanish colonial administrator investigating the causes of the Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico, c. 1681 CE.
"The revolt of the Pueblo Indians in August of last year was not a sudden act of barbarism but the culmination of long-accumulated grievances. The missionaries had forbidden the traditional dances, ceremonies, and healing practices of the Pueblo people, threatening punishment for any who observed the old customs. The encomenderos demanded labor and tribute beyond what the Indians could sustain, particularly during the years of drought when even their own harvests failed. Captured leaders told us that the war captain Popé had traveled among the villages promising that if they expelled the Spanish and returned to their traditional ways, the rains would come and their lands would flourish again. The unity among so many villages — who in ordinary times competed with one another — speaks to the depth of the injury done to them."