AP US FINAL STUDY GUIDE

As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for

an electoral college

Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first peoples who colonized the Americas came from

asia

Which of the following aroused the greatest controversy in the United States at the end of the Spanish-American War?

Acquisition of the Philippine Islands

During the 1930s Black voters overwhelmingly switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party because

Black Americans benefited from some New Deal economic policies

The Sons of Liberty initiated the Boston Tea Party in direct response to

British efforts to protect the East India Company from bankruptcy

Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?

Changes to property ownership requirements

Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?

Chinese and Irish

In the decade following the publication of the image, which of the following groups expressed the most opposition to the exercise of power by the national government?

Democratic-Republics

The George W. Bush administration created which of the following executive agencies?

Department of Homeland Security

The establishment of a stronger economic regulatory system during the Great Depression most closely reflected a continuity with which of the following?

Efforts to restrict the excesses of corporations during the Progressive Era

Which of the following was most responsible for the change shown between 1938 and 1942 on the chart below?

Industrial mobilization related to the Second World War

Which of the following was the most direct effect of the changes shown in the graph?

European settlers were able to gain control over Native American lands.

Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?

French military and financial assistance

The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?

Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories

The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?

It disrupted American shipping.

Bacon's Rebellion occurred because of disagreements between frontier settlers and the Virginia governor over which of the following issues?

Relations with American Indians and restrictions on the fur trade

All of the following groups of non-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT

Russians

The encomienda and slavery systems both contributed to which of the following developments?

The Spanish developed a race-based caste system that defined the status of Europeans, Native Americans, Africans, and people of mixed race in their colonies.

The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?

The emergence of a larger middle class in the North

Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?

The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents

The illustration below was most likely meant to symbolize which of the following?

The principles of republican agrarianism

In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700's?

The southern colonies only

By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?

They were a majority in many church congregations.

Which of the following statements about the population of North America at the time of Christopher Columbus' voyages is supported by the map below?

Trade and settlement resulting from maize cultivation

Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 because she

challenged the religious beliefs of the colony's leaders

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

An important consequence of the "tariff of abominations" (1828) is that it led to the

enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to

expand their commercial and mercantile network

African American migration to the urban North during the First World War was due primarily to

expanded job opportunities in Northern factories

In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had

fewer European immigrants

A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the

increasing readership of newspapers

In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney's major contribution to American Technology was his

introduction of interchangeable parts

Colonial cities functioned primarily as

mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

The map below shows the United States immediately following the

passage of the Missouri Compromise

The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in

republican motherhood

After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to

require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire's administrative expenses

Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported

restrictions on Catholics' holding public office

The goal of the American Colonization society was to

return freed slaves to Africa

Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the

spread of corn cultivation

Which of the following was generally accepted by the majority of American colonists as a legitimate use of Parliament's authority?

stamp act

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from

the United States Supreme Court

Conscription policies in the First and Second World Wars differed significantly in that in the Second World War

the draft began before the United States entered the conflict

The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in

the draft riots in New York City

Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after

they were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added shortly after ratification

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to

vertical integration