APUSH Practice Exam 2006

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

An important result of the 1936 presidential campaign was the

shift of African American voters from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party

Which of the following was NOT a figure of the Harlem Rennisance

A. Phillip Randolph

The Monroe Doctorine maintained that

European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas

Which of the following statements about George Wallace's third party presidential campaign in 1968 is correct

He appealed to many middle-class voters upset by the civil disobedience associated with the civil rights and antiwar demonstrations

In the late nineteenth and early twentith century which of the following was the principle public opponent of lynching in the SOuth

Ida B. Wells

The Taft-Harley Act did which of the following

Limited power of labor unions

Settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century were most likely to be engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

Organizing women workers into labor unions

Which of the following was an acheivement of the JFK administration?

Passage of the Alliance ofr Progress to provide economic aid for Latin AMerica

WHich of the following led to a campaign to block the Equal RIghts Ammendment?

Phyllis Schafly

Platform First.-That the union of the labor... Resolved,...secret ballot system. The excerpts above appeared in the platform of which of the following political parties

Populist Party

THe government of the Articles of COnfederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to

Provide statehood for Western territories

Which of the following occured during Radical Reconstruction?

THe formation of the Ku Klux Klan

Which of the following did the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam have in common in the late 1960's?

THey emphasized developing a greater sense of Black nationalism and solidarity

Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases?

THey weakened the protection given to African AMericans under the fourteenth ammendment

All of the following were crises during Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency EXCEPT

The Soviet blockcading river, road, and rail traffic into West Berlin

WHich of the following resulted from the Cuban missile crisis

The Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States not to attack Fidel Castro

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century did which of the following?

They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New SOuth advocates supported

expansion of Southern industry

Thomas Jefferson believed all of the following EXCEPT

a strong national army is essential to keep order in the United States

A key diplomatic acheievement of Richard M. Nixon's presidency was

a visit to China in February 1972

A major consequence of the 1973 YOm KIppur War in the Middle East was that it lead immediately to

an energy crisis sparked by OPEC's embargo of oil to the Western World

WHich of the following describes deism

belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature

THe slaves who participated i nthw Stono rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 hoped to

flee to FL where the Spanish offered freedom

The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it

closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery

During the Civil War, the Republican PArty passed legislation promoting economic developemnt concerning all of the following EXCEPT the

granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods

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

increasing readership of newspapers

A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay area were

indentured servanta

THeodore Roosevelt addressed all of the following issues during his presidency except

insider trading on the stock market

SUpport for slavery in the SOuthern States was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT

most white families owned slaves

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of NY were known as the "Burned-over" district because

of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening

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

passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

THe Republican party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery

slavery could remain where it existed but should not expand into territories or new states

During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the SOuth was the

spread of sharecropping

During 1968 the deep divisions within the American public were demonstrated by all of the following EXCEPT

the refusal of most Republicans to support Richard Nixon as their presidential candidate

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

urban areas of the North