APUSH Mid-Term

Movements similar to that depicted in the George Whitefield Preaching image most directly contributed to which of the following seventeenth-century historical developments in the British North American colonies?

A greater degree of religious independence

The arguments in Mercy Otis Warren's Observations on the New Constitution most clearly warn against the perceived dangers of...

A strong central government

The O'Sullivan and Sumner excerpts are best understood in the context of...

Advocates of expansion believing the US was compelled to expand its borders

Prior to European contact, which of the following developments best reflects the ideas expressed by Gary B. Nash in the excerpt?

American Indians in the Southwest developing complex irrigation systems

During the antebellum era, which of the following groups shared the most similar experiences to that described in the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?

American Indians on the frontier

4.35 Which of the following changes resulted from the Market Revolution in the period 1800 to 1848?

An emphasis on domestic ideals for women

Spanish colonization led to which of the following changes in the agricultural system?

An enslaved American Indian labor force

5.25 Which of the following twentieth-century ideas or developments were most similar to those described in the Thomas Hart Benton speech?

Arguments that Americans were destined to expand their culture and norms to nonwhite nations prior to WW1

The sentiments expressed by Dorothea Dix in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the following?

Attempts by individuals and voluntary organizations to improve society

Which of the following best represents the reaction of American colonists to the Stamp Act?

Boycotts intended to secure their rights as Englishmen

Paul Revere's image of the Boston Massacre was created most directly in response to...

British efforts to assert imperial authority in the colonies

The John Dickinson Letter from a Farmer was most likely written in response to...

British efforts to tax the colonies

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to agree with the Sedition Act?

British military officers stationed in the thirteen colonies

Which of the the following was a significant result of the cultural interactions that occurred as a result of the Columbian Exchange?

Change in American Indian gender roles

The patterns depicted on the North Atlantic Trade map most directly contributed to which of the following?

Colonial dissatisfaction over trade

The sentiments expressed in John Dickinson's Letter from a Farmer most directly contributed to his how the following developments?

Colonial resistance to the end of salutary neglect

By the mid-eighteenth century, the activities depicted in the George Whitefield Preaching image above...

Contributed to Resistance toward imperial control

The concerns expressed by Jefferson in the letter are best understood as a response to...

Debates over the extension of slavery into the western territories

Washington clearly provides evidence for which of the following continuities in U.S. history?

Debates over the proper role of political parties

Mercy Otis Warren's Observations on the New Constitution was most clearly written in response to...

Debates over the ratification of the U.S. Constitution

Which of the following groups most strongly opposed the idease expressed by Washington?

Democratic-Republicans

Washington's ideas were most directly a reaction to which of the following historical developments?

Disagreements over the French Revolution and foreign policy

During the period 1585-1607, the ideas expressed in the Hakluyt passage above most directly led to which of the following settlement patterns?

English settlements along the Atlantic seaboard of North America

Which of the following most directly influenced colonial reaction to the ideas in the Stamp Act?

Enlightenment thinking

The North American colonial settlements such as the one Winthrop lived in tended to...

Establish like-minded, close-knit, homogeneous communities

Which of the following factors represented Britain's greatest challenge in controlling the North American Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries?

External competition

Mercy Otis Warren's Observations on the New Constitution is best understood in the context of the...

Fears many people had of centralized federal power

In the years between 1820 and 1840, Southern states such as South Carolina, as evidenced in the excerpt, grew increasingly frustrated over which of the following?

Federal policies potentially favoring different regions

The Letter from Richard Frethrone to his parents in England would be most useful to historians analyzing the...

Focus in colonies on gaining new sources of labor

The ideas expressed in the Maryland Act Concerning Religion most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

Greater religious independence in the colonies

The ideas about government expressed in Mercy Otis Warren's Observations on the New Constitution are consistent with all of the following principles EXCEPT

Hereditary privilege

The Sedition Act most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?

Highly partisan political debates of the 1790s

5.26 The Thomas Hart Benton speech is best understood in the context of the...

Idea of Manifest Destiny

Which of the following developments most directly contributed to passage of the Stamp Act?

Imperial struggles of the mid-eighteenth century

Which of the following changes to the British colonies during the eighteenth century most directly contributed to the developments depicted in Paul Revere's Boston Massacre image?

Increase political activism by laborers, artisans, and women

The Richard Hakluyt "A Discourse Concerning Western Planting" argument above was most likely written in response to...

Increased competition in Europe to develop colonies in North America

4.34 The changes described in the Bonds of Womanhood excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following?

Increasing numbers of American men and women working in factories

Which of the following most directly resulted from the sentiments expressed in the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?

Increasingly bitter national debates over the institution of slavery

Which group would have most opposed the sentiments expressed in John Dickinson's Letter from a Farmer?

Loyalists

The establishment of the Navigation Act of 1660 most directly reflects the influence of which of the following ideas?

Mercantilism

Which of the following are best supported by the claims in Las Casas' passage?

Mutual misunderstandings between Europeans and Native Americans

The ideas expressed in Paul Revere's Boston Massacre image reveal that in 1770, which of the following was most true of the New England colonies?

New forms of national culture developed alongside continued regional variations

4.33 Which of the following most directly made possible the changes described in the Bonds of Womanhood excerpt?

New transportation systems and technologies

The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification was most clearly created as a response to national debates over which of the following?

Passage of new tariff legislation

Jefferson's letter was most likely written in response to...

Passage of the Missouri Compromise

Which of the following had the most impact in shaping colonial resistance to the Navigation Act of 1660?

Political thought shaped by the European intellectual exchange

Which of the following historical developments of the seventeenth century is most directly reflected in the George Whitefield Preaching image?

Protestant evangelism

The Impending Crisis of the South was most likely a reaction to which of the following historical trends?

Regional economic and demographic changes between the North and South

The South Carolina senator speech was most likely written as a result of...

Regional identity asserted through the Southern belief in the superiority of Southern institutions

A long-term reaction to the Columbian Exchange by American Indians in the period 1491-1607 was the ...

Resistance to European encroachments

Which of the following European approaches to colonization is most directly reflected in the John Winthrop excerpt?

Sending men and women to acquire land and populate settlements, while having relatively hostile relationships with the American Indian inhabitants

Which of the following best illustrates a consequence of the historical patterns described in the Nash excerpt?

Social systems within American Indian tribes were often a result of environmental factors

Which of the following was a major consequence of the ideas expressed in the Susan B Anthony speech?

Some women's equality activists abandoned the movement to grant and protect African American rights

The Black Code is most directly a result of...

Southern resistance to Radical Republicans' efforts to change Southern attitudes

The proposals by Secretary of War Henry Knox are most similar to the prior approach toward American Indians by which European country in the 1600s and 1700s?

Spain

The Albany Plan of Union is best understood in the context of the...

Spread of European conflicts to North America

The long-term effects of the "miraculous plague" described in the excerpt most directly...

Stimulated cultural and demographic change

The authors of the Albany Plan of Union were most likely motivated by...

The British government's relative indifference to colonial governance

Which of the following best exemplified the Jeffersonian embrace of the ideals described in the excerpt?

The Louisiana Purchase

Which of the following antebellum era historical developments most directly contributed to efforts such as those described in the Dorothea Dix excerpt?

The Second Great Awakening

Which of the following events or processes in the 1840s and 1850s best represents an example of a "new irritation" that Jefferson warned about in the letter?

The acquisition of territory in the West through the U.S.-Mexico War

The ideas expressed in the South Carolina Secession excerpt most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

The belief that slavery was protected by the Constitution

Which of the following evidence could be used to support Taviani's argument?

The change to capitalism in Europe

The Albany Plan of Union is indicative of which of the following?

The colonists having grown accustomed to a large measure of autonomy

Which of the following movements would best support the argument that Taviani makes?

The continued improvement in maritime technology

The sentiments expressed in the letter from Richard Frethorne to his parents in England most directly reflect which of the following continuities in U.S. history?

The economic and class tensions resulting after migration to the Western Hemisphere

The ideas expressed in the Hakluyt passage most directly relate to which of the following continuities about European colonization?

The effort to convert American Indian populations to European religions

The sentiments expressed in the South Carolina Secession excerpt were most directly a result of which of the following?

The election of Lincoln in 1860

The arguments expressed by Walker in Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World best serve as evidence of which of the following?

The emergence of African American abolitionist movements

Which of the following was most likely the intended audience of the Impending Crisis of the South?

The emerging middle and working classes

The Maryland Act Concerning Religion was most likely written in response to...

The ethnic and religious diversity of the Middle colonies

Secretary of War Henry Knox's arguments are best understood in the context of...

The failure of the Constitution to define the relationship between American Indian tribes and the federal government

Which of the following antebellum era historical developments most directly contradicted the Jeffersonian goals expressed in the excerpt?

The growth of Northern manufacturing

The Drunkards Progress best serves as evidence of which of the following developments in the antebellum era?

The growth of moral and social reform movements

Which of the following historical developments most accounts for the fact that the law in the Navigation Act of 1660 excerpt had scant success in modifying English colonial behavior in North America?

The initial lax attention paid to the colonies by Britain

The letter from Richard Frethorne to his parents in England is best understood in the context of which of the following?

The labor market of the Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century

Which of the following historical developments most directly caused the conditions Dickinson addressed in the excerpt?

The large British debt incurred from the Seven Years' War

What historical evidence could be used to support Nash's argument in the excerpt above?

The multitribal groups of the Algonquian people

Winthrop was most likely motivated to write the excerpt as a result of...

The need to justify the takeover of American Indian lands

The activities described by Mary Abell most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

The passage of legislation promoting national economic development

The ideas expressed by Chief Justice John Marshall in the McCullough v. Maryland most clearly reflect debates over which of the following?

The relationship between the federal government and state governments

The de Las Casas passage above best serves as evidence of which of the following?

The search for new sources of wealth

5.33 Which of the following most directly resulted in the conditions asserted in the Impending Crisis of the South?

The slow population growth of the South

The Bartolome de Las Casas passage above most supports the development of which of the following?

The spread of Christianity

The ideas expressed in the Maryland Act Concerning Religion most directly led to political controversies over...

The spread of European Enlightenment ideas

Which nineteenth-century group would most likely oppose the regulations in the Black Codes?

The women's rights movement

The North Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century map most strongly supports which of the following arguments about the role of Britain's more northern colonies in global trade in the middle of the eighteenth century?

They had an export economy based on food products and raw materials

The Sedition Act was passed in response to which of the following challenges?

Threats posed by foreign alliances and entanglements

Which of the following was the most difficult challenge facing American Indians in the late 1700s?

Treaty disputes and the seizure of American Indian tribal lands

Which of the following would most likely have supported the perspective of the Drunkards Progress?

Urban entrepreneurs

The Susan B. Anthony speech is best understood in the context of...

the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments