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AP U.S. History — Period 2 (1607–1754) — Drill 2

Drill 2 · Multiple Choice · Period 2: 1607–1754

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AP U.S. History — Period 2 (1607–1754) — Drill 2 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 2: 1607–1754. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Period 2 drill uses a modern historian's analysis of the diversity of British colonial societies from 1607 to 1750. Questions ask about the historian's central argument, the transition from indentured servitude to enslaved labor, and broader developments in colonial America.

Passage

The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay on the diversity of British colonial societies, 1607–1750. The British colonies that emerged along the Atlantic seaboard between 1607 and 1750 were not a single coherent society but a patchwork of distinct regional worlds shaped by the accidents of founding, the demands of local environments, and the character of immigrant populations. New England towns clustered around Congregationalist churches and practiced a mixed economy of farming and trade. The Chesapeake region developed a plantation economy dependent first on white indentured servants and later, increasingly, on enslaved Africans. The middle colonies — Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware — attracted the broadest range of European migrants and tolerated a degree of religious diversity unusual for the era. These differences were not merely cultural; they produced genuinely different political cultures, labor systems, and attitudes toward both royal authority and the rights of ordinary settlers. In New England, traditions of local self-government developed through participatory town meetings, while in the Chesapeake political power remained concentrated among wealthy planters who dominated colonial assemblies.

Questions in This Drill

  1. The historian's characterization of the British colonies as 'a patchwork of distinct regional worlds' most directly challenges which of the following assumptions?
  2. Which of the following developments do historians most commonly cite to explain the transition from indentured servitude to enslaved African labor in the Chesapeake region described by the historian?
  3. The religious diversity the historian describes in the middle colonies was most directly a result of
  4. The historian's argument that regional differences 'produced genuinely different political cultures' is best supported by which of the following historical developments?
  5. Which of the following developments in the 1760s most directly revealed the regional differences in political culture that the historian describes?