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Multiple Choice Questions. Tips for APUSH Questions. Step 1. Read the Stem What are the key terms or phrases? Underline them What is the stem asking? Skip long stems or quotes or pictures/graphs Focus on Quick and Easy on first round Decide whether you can answer or not
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Multiple Choice Questions Tips for APUSH Questions
Step 1 • Read the Stem • What are the key terms or phrases? Underline them • What is the stem asking? • Skip long stems or quotes or pictures/graphs • Focus on Quick and Easy on first round • Decide whether you can answer or not • Yes—go on to step 2 • No—skip the question and go on • Score is now based on only the number of questions you get right
Step 2: • Read the Distracters and Key • Read each distracter/key • Be physical—cross it out • Underline Key terms • If you can narrow to 2 or 3—answer it and go on to step 3 • If you can’t—skip the question and go on
Step 3 • After you have completed all of the questions, repeat steps 1 and 2 for all skipped questions • Do not reread any questions you have answered.
Practice: • Spain wanted to establish missions to • A. convert the Native Americans to Spanish Religion and customs • B. reduce the Spanish population • C. provide work for hidalgos • D. help Spanish settlers to adapt to Native American culture
The Virginia colony survived largely because the English colonists • A. were well cared for by the Virginia Company • B. Developed lasting friendships with native Americans • C. worked cooperatively for the good of the colony • D. began to grow tobacco for sale
Which of the following is true of the Columbus legend? • A. He was the only voyager of his time to believe the earth was round • B. He was the first person to ever reach the Americas • C. He was the first European to set foot on American soil • D. He developed a genius for navigation
The Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 settled • A. Columbus’s dispute over the governorship of Hispaniola • B. A dispute over using African slaves • C. The dispute between Spain and Portugal over claims to new lands • D. A dispute over Europeans’ capturing Native Americans as slaves
Both Pennsylvania and Maryland were established to • A. offer a haven for certain religious groups • B. provide freedom for enslaved Africans • C. train Native Americans in the colonists’ ways • D. provide new homes for the New York Dutch