AP®︎ US History: Topic 2.4 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 2.4 of AP US History – Transatlantic Trade.
Questions List
Topic 2.4
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-2.1.III.A
Which ocean served as a highway for transatlantic trade?
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Topic 2.4: Transatlantic Trade
Thematic Focus: Work, Exchange, and TechnologyWXT
The interplay between markets, private enterprise, labor, technology, and government policy shape the American economy. In turn, economic activity shapes society and government policy and drives technological innovation.
Learning Objective: Unit 2: Learning Objective D
Explain causes and effects of transatlantic trade over time.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.III.A
An Atlantic economy developed in which goods, as well as enslaved Africans and American Indians, were exchanged between Europe, Africa, and the Americas through extensive trade networks. European colonial economies focused on acquiring, producing, and exporting commodities that were valued in Europe and gaining new sources of labor.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.III.B
Continuing trade with Europeans increased the flow of goods in and out of American Indian communities, stimulating cultural and economic changes and spreading epidemic diseases that caused radical demographic shifts.
Historical Developments: KC-2.2.I.C
The British government increasingly attempted to incorporate its North American colonies into a coherent, hierarchical, and imperial structure in order to pursue mercantilist economic aims, but conflicts with colonists and American Indians led to erratic enforcement of imperial policies.
