APUSH Exam Study Guide (Test)

The excerpt was written in response to the

A) British government's attempt to assert greater control over the North American colonies

Which of the following men is associated with the above quotation?

A) David Wilmot

Which of the following groups most strongly opposed Washington's point of view in the address?

A) Democratic-Republicans

This quote best represents the views of which Congregational minister?

A) Jonathan Edwards

The first direct tax on colonists passed by Parliament to produce revenue was the

A) Stamp Act

All of the following were advantages enjoyed by the North during the early years of the civil war EXCEPT:

A) Strong military leaders

The concept that states had the right to "null and void any laws they considered unconstitutional" was part of which of the following?

A) The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Which of the following was a major contrast between the New England colonies and the colonies of France?

A) The New England colonies were based on more diverse agriculture and commerce.

Which of the following developments in the second half of the nineteenth century best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?

A) The formation of voluntary organizations and reform efforts

The conditions shown in the image depict which of the following trends in the late nineteenth century?

A) The growing gap between wealthy people and people living in poverty

The developments described in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the following changes in the first half of the 1800s?

A) The sharp increase in the number of workers making goods for distant markets

The export of New World crops to the Old World transformed European society mostly by

A) improving diets and thereby stimulating population growth

The map most directly depicts the

A) inland expansion of the colonial population

The excerpt suggests that promoters such as Smith most typically presented migration as a means for

A) workers to achieve social mobility and economic opportunity

The attitudes of White Southerners described by Schurz contributed to which of the following developments in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

B) The establishment of sharecropping throughout the South

The patterns described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following developments?

B) The population decline in Native American societies

Women enjoyed increased rights and opportunities in all of the following areas during the Civil War EXCEPT

B) Voting rights

In the 1840s and 1850s, the views expressed by Calhoun most directly contributed to

B) increased sectional divisions between the North and the South

The ideas expressed in Washington's address most strongly influenced which United States foreign policy decision in the twentieth century?

C) The refusal to join the League of Nations in 1919

The excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?

C) The role that appeals and advertising played in encouraging men and women to participate in colonization efforts

The above passage best expresses the ideas of

C) Thomas Paine

Whitefield's impact suggests that religious culture among British North american colonists in the 1700s was most directly shaped by...

C) Transatlantic exchange

The concerns expressed by Washington were a response to the

C) controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France

Which was the most dominant economic occupation in colonial America?

D) Agriculture

The above was said by whom following the Election of 1824?

D) Andrew Jackson

Which is the best description of the political development of colonial America in the mid-eighteenth century?

D) Colonial democracy was limited but still more democratic than most systems in Europe

The delegates who attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774

D) Declared that Parliament had no authority over internal colonial affairs but could regulate commerce

Advocates for individuals such as those shown in the image would have most likely agreed with which of the following perspectives?

D) Government should act to eliminate the worst abuses of industrial society.

The policy of mercantilism adopted by Great Britain in retaliation to the thirteen colonies was designed to

D) Improve and strengthen the economy of the mother country

The Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it

D) Opened up a continuous route between the eastern seaboard and the Great Lakes

The main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 was to

D) Prevent further British colonization of territories in the western hemisphere

A major effect of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 on the North and South was

D) Southerners were convinced that the north supported brown's raid and that the republicans had financed the raid

An "act to define and declare the rights of persons lately known as Slaves, and Free Persons of Color" refers to which law or laws passed after the Civil War?

D) The Black Codes

The preaching described in the excerpt is an example of which of the following...

D) The expansion of Protestant evangelism

The idea that the United States was "too weak" to be involved in wars on the European front was behind which of the following?

D) The proclamation of neutrality

The change in settlement patterns from 1700 to 1775 best explains the

D) growth of social tensions between

Most historians would argue that the recommendations of Washington's address ceased to have a significant influence on United States foreign policy as a result of

D) involvement in the Second World War

Conditions like those shown in the image contributed most directly to which of the following?

B) An increase in Progressive reform activity

The change in settlement patterns from 1700 to 1775 had which of the following effects?

B) An increase in conflicts between British settlers and American Indians

Which of the following men in given credit for initially expressing the ideas contained in the above cartoon?

B) Benjamin Franklin

Which was NOT a main provision of Henry Clay's American System?

B) Disassembling the national bank

The political leader in 1763 who insisted that colonists be put under stricter control and pay more taxes to administer the empire was

B) George Grenville

Whitefields open-air preaching contributed most directly to which of the following trends?

B) Greater influence and diversity of thought

Which of the following reformers and movements of the Jacksonian era are correctly paired?

B) Lucretia Mott: Women's rights

Which of the following most directly undermines Calhoun's assertions?

B) Many slaves engaged in forms of resistance to slavery.

"Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute" is most closely associated with

B) The XYZ Affair

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about the Hartford Convention of 1814?

B) The delegates supported an amendment calling for secession from the Union

The main trend shown in the graph was most directly associated with which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time?

B) The emergence of an industrialized economy

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that

B) women should focus on the home and the domestic sphere

Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in immigration after 1845 shown on the graph?

C) An upsurge in nativist sentiment

This poster was distributed in Boston after the passage of the

C) Compromise of 1850

Which of the thirteen colonies was NOT established for religious or economic reasons?

C) Georgia

Which of the following pairs of men would be considered War Hawks?

C) Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

Which of the following was a significant cause of the trend from 1843 to 1854 shown in the graph?

C) Incentives offered by United States companies looking to hire skilled

Pinckney's treaty of 1795 was popular in the united states because

C) It granted the united states the right of deposit or access to the port of new orleans to the american farmers

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall issued a series of decisions during his term that reflected his federalist beliefs. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) was an example of this because it

C) Reinforced the power of the central government over state governments

Efforts by Republicans such as Schurz to establish a base for their party in the South after the Civil War ultimately failed because

C) Republicans grew weary of pressing their Reconstruction agenda in a hostile environment

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support Calhoun's views expressed in the excerpt?

C) Southern landowners

Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by the 1870s?

C) Supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment

The above map shows the United States after which of the following?

C) The Compromise of 1850

Which political party of the mid 1800s would be most characterized as wanting to curtail the immigration and naturalization of Europeans?

C) The Know-Nothing party

Which of the following most directly contributed to the developments described in the excerpt?

C) The expansion and increased organization of industrial production

All of the following are Federalists concepts EXCEPT:

C) The importance of free trade

The pattern of colonial settlement up to 1700 resulted most directly from which of the following factors?

C) The orientation of the British colonies toward producing commodities for export to Europe

The trends described by Taylor most directly illustrate which of the following major historical developments in the Atlantic world?

C) The phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange

The ideas about government expressed in the excerpt are most consistent with which of the following?

C) The principle of religious freedom

Schurz's analysis most directly illustrated the debates about which of the following issues in the South?

C) The process of readmitting Confederate states

Which of the following statements would be the LEAST accurate about eighteenth-century colonial society?

E) A hereditary aristocracy provided leadership for colonial government and the American Revolution

The purpose of the freedmen's bureau was to

E) Assist former slaves in getting employment, education, food, and clothing

Shay's Rebellion

E) Convinced some American political leaders of the need for a stronger national or central government to maintain law and order

The Second Great Awakening increased support for all of the following causes except

E) The creation of a theocratic state