AP®︎ US History: Topic 1.2 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 1.2 of AP US History – Native American Societies Before European Contact.
Questions List
Topic 1.2
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-1.1.I.A
What crop was especially important in supporting the economic development of indigenous societies in the American Southwest?
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Topic 1.2: Native American Societies Before European Contact
Thematic Focus: Geography and the EnvironmentGEO
Geographic and environmental factors, including competition over and debates about natural resources, shape the development of America and foster regional diversity. The development of America impacts the environment and reshapes geography, which leads to debates about environmental and geographic issues.
Learning Objective: Unit 1: Learning Objective B
Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.I.A
The spread of maize cultivation from present-day Mexico northward into the present-day American Southwest and beyond supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among societies.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.I.B
Societies responded to the aridity of the Great Basin and the grasslands of the western Great Plains by developing largely mobile lifestyles.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.I.C
In the Northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard, some societies developed mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies that favored the development of permanent villages.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.I.D
Societies in the Northwest and present-day California supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and in some areas developed settled communities supported by the vast resources of the ocean.
