APUSH Fall Final Test Review
Jacob Coxey's 1894 march on Washington, D.C., called for...
An increase in the supply of paper money
Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?
Articles of Confederation, Shays' Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, Whiskey Rebellion.
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy.
The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to...
Assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture
Hamilton proposed a tariff soon after launching of the United States government in order to...
Help develop manufacturing in the United States
Which of the following was justified on the basis of a loose construction of the constitution? I. Bank of the United States II. Louisiana Purchase III. Establishment of the postal service IV. Creation of the federal court system
I and II only
Which of the following were associated with the Federalist Party in the 1790's? I. They sympathized with Great Britain rather than France in European disputes II. They favored strict interpretation of the Constitution III. They disapproved of the Alien and Sedition Acts IV. Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were two of their party leaders
I and IV only
Which of the following best describes the position of William Lloyd Garrison?
Immediate abolition of slavery without compensation to slave owners
All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures EXCEPT the...
Massive exodus of former slaves from the south.
The outcome of the disputed election of 1876 was significant because it...
Meant the end of Reconstruction
The British response to the American claim of "no taxation without representation" was that...
Members of Parliament represented the interests of all the people in the British Empire
Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and non-conformity?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which of the planks from the 1892 Populist party platform showed a concern with issues raised by organized labor?
Restrictions on immigration
Hinton R. Helper's book The Impending Crisis of the South was intended as...
An argument against slavery as an economic institution
The Chautauqua movement was...
An early form of adult education
Which of the following colonies was founded as a haven fir Catholics?
Maryland
As a consequence of the French and Indian War,
American colonists began to distrust the actions of the British government
As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for...
An Electoral College
Which of the following best describes the message of this cartoon?
An appeal to the colonies to unify against the threat from France
One of the consequences of the Great Awakening was...
A challenge to traditional beliefs
The Greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of confederation was its establishment of...
A system for orderly settlement of the west
In the Antebellum period, free African Americans were...
Able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
The most important aspect of Jacksonian democracy was...
Abolition of the property qualification
Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to...
Acquire a port to provide an outlet for western troops.
Which the following beliefs was central to eighteenth-century Deism?
All humans beings are born in sin.
Which of the following was not associated with our foreign relations with France in the 1790's?
Barbary Pirates
To Andrew Jackson, the spoils system...
Benefited the political process.
The individual who best represented the Enlightened in colonial America was...
Benjamin Franklin
All of the following were advantages the North had over the South at the start of the Civil War EXCEPT...
Better Military Leaders
The historian investigating the origins of slavery in the colonial period encounters little documentary evidence to establish the date when the two essentials of slavery-lifetime service and inherited status- first appeared. Even less information provides clues to why black slavery was established. Which of the following has NOT been advanced as an explanation for the development of slavery in colonial America?
Black slavery in Britain as an example
Thomas Payne's Common Sense
Blamed George III for the colonies' problems and urged Americans to declare their independence
In the post-Civil WR period, the idea that the African-Americans should concentrate on economic betterment rather than political or social equality was advanced by...
Booker T. Washington
Which of the following was the principle target of Thomas Nast's political cartoons
Boss Tweed
The south hoped to gain diplomatic recognition and active support from Great Britain because...
British Factories need Southern cotton
The Pilgrims were also known as Separatists because they...
Broke all ties with the Church of England
Which of these strategic objectives did the North accomplish last during the Civil War
Capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond
Which is the following historians is most closely associated with the idea that economic factors have shaped American history?
Charles Beard
The Great Awakening was a reaction to...
Churches' earlier failure to take account of people's emotional needs
Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the nineteenth century?
Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.
Which of the following is a direct social change brought about by the American Revolution?
Complete separation of Church and State.
The Compromise of 1850 provided a concession to the South by...
Creating a new Fugitive Slave Law
Which of the following is NOT correctly paired?
Cyrus McCormick - Commonwealth vs Hunt case
In Marbury vs. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall argued successfully that the Supreme Court could...
Declare federal laws unconstitutional.
D.W. Griffith's epic film, The Birth of a Nation (1915)n, became controversial because of its...
Depiction of Ku Klux Klan activities as heroic and commendable
The survival of the Jamestown colony can most directly attributed to the...
Development of tobacco
All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants...
Dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering.
Shays' Rebellion suggests that the most important problem facing ing United States after the Revolution was...
Economic problems caused by debt and high taxes
The most important consequence of the Boston Tea Party was the...
Enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
For the period from the end of Reconstruction to 1900, the position of the Supreme Court toward civil right is best characterized as...
Establishing the constitutionality of segregation
The first federal law to restrict immigration, passed in 1882, was aimed at...
Excluding Chinese immigrants
The high wages enjoyed by colonial workers were caused primarily by...
Existence of so much land.
The trend taken by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall was to...
Expand the federal government's powers
The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT...
Federal Financing of Secondary Education
The Battle of Saratoga resulted in...
France entering the war on the side of the colonies.
Which of the following contributed most to the American victory in the Revolution?
French Military and financial assistance.
President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 was issued in response to...
French diplomatic overtures to invoke the Franco-American alliances.
Enlightenment philosophers believed in all of the following ideas EXCEPT...
God is the primary authority for government.
Which of the following colonial powers exercised the least amount of control over the commercial and political practices in their colonies?
Great Britain
Which of the following was an attempt by the Puritans to enlarge church membership in order to include those faithful members who had not become one of the visible saints or "elect"?
Half-Way Covenant, 1662
All of the following statements about indentured servitudes in colonial America are true EXCEPT...
Indentured Servants could not be sold as property.
The first federal agency established to regulate business was the...
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.
Which of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation is NOT accurate?
It immediately freed all slaves in the United States.
Which of the following statements about the "American System" is correct?
It was designed to meet the nation's need for. economic progress and self-sufficiency.
The theory of Nullification, according to which a state a can reject a federal law, is associated with...
John C. Calhoun
The ideas of an Englishman and a Frenchman strongly influenced the Founding Fathers when they wrote the Constitution. They were...
John Locke and Montesquieu
Which of the following was the most broadly based on labor organization in the late nineteenth century?
Knights of Labor
Andrew Jackson's view of the presidency emphasized...
Leadership by the executive branch in the interests of the people
"Under our system of railroad ownership, an excessive competition exists for the business of all competing points, while the local business of the various competing lines is an absolute monopoly. This has naturally resulted in compelling the corporations to do through business at rates often ruinously unremunerative, which again has compelled those companies to recoup themselves for their losses and secure their profits by excessive charges on the local traffic." This passage explains which problem that farmers faced in the late nineteenth century?
Long vs Short Hauls
The acts of trade and navigation had all of the following consequences in the colonies EXCEPT...
Low prices were charged for English imports
Henry David Thoreau's essay on "Civil Disobedience" profoundly influenced which set of leaders?
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
A proprietary colony was...
Maryland
The graph above refutes which of the following statements? (There was no graph on the review... Sorry)
Most Southern families held slaves.
The term "scalawag" was used to describe...
Native White Southerners who cooperated with the Republicans.
Ratification of the Constitution...
Needed approval of nine states
The Hartford Convention was a manifestation of...
New England Federalist opposition to the War of 1812
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was...
Not immediately successful in limiting business concentration
In the Treaty of Ghent, which which ended the War of 1812,
Nothing was settled beyond a restoration of the prewar status quo
The financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT...
Nullification of all private debts to the states
The Boston Tea Party had which of the following causes?
Parliament's efforts to improve the profits the British East India Company
When Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe he reportedly said, "So you're the little lady who started the war." Actually am earlier female could also lay claim to that honor. She precipitated a crisis in Jackson's cabinet that forced Vice-President Calhoun out of office, and cemented him more deeply into a position as spokesman for the slave south. Who was the earlier women who also "started the war"?
Peggy Eaton
During the American Revolution, the state that benefited the most from a demand for foodstuffs was...
Pennsylvania
The doctrine of popular sovereignty called for the question of permitting slaves in a new territory to be decided by the...
People living in the territory
The principle of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was set down in...
Plessy vs Ferguson
The election if 1844,
Polk narrowly won on a platform of expansion, a lower tariff, and the Independent Treasury system.
In 1861, the north went to war with the south primarily to...
Preserve the Union.
Which of the following sources would NOT be useful up in understanding the military campaigns of the Civil War?
Presidential Speeches
The injunction as a court order was often used in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century to...
Prevent labor unions from striking
Dorothea Dix is most closely associated with which area of social reform in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Prisons and Asylums
Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to...
Profit economically
The principle motivation for drafting the bill of rights was the desire to...
Protect rights not specified in the Constitution.
In addition to the EmbargoAct of 1807, a significant factor in the development of American Industry in the period 1800-1828 was...
Protective Tariffs
The Virginia Resolutions
Protested against the Stamp Act of 1765
Designed as an attempt to secure the loyalty of the French to their new rulers, this act broke new ground in toleration and statesmanship. Unfortunately for the British, the Americans saw only their sinister designs. The act was the...
Quebec Act
The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to...
Raise revenues to support British troops stationed in America.
Four of the following were Native American (Indian) Leaders who led their people in war against white settlers. Which does NOT belong as a famous Native American (Indian) chief?
Sacajawea
Senator Stephen A. Douglas managed to engineer the Compromise of 1850 by...
Securing passage of the different parts of the Compromise as separate laws
The Proclamation of 1763 did which of following?
Set a boundary along from the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the England colonies were forbidden to settle.
In the seventeenth century, the Great Migration refers to the...
Settlement of the Puritan in Massachusetts Bay.
If populists had been transported by magic back into an earlier period of American history, they would have most likely joined...
Shays' Rebellion
Which of the following was true of married women in the colonial era?
She generally lost control of her property when she's married.
Which of the following states seceded from the Union first?
South Carloina
Which of the following was the main issue in Munn vs. Illinois?
State regulation of grain elevator operators and railroad rates
He is best remembered for his writings about war, slums, and prostitution. A realist, his writings suggest that man is swept along by his environment, unable to control the forces around him. The author is...
Stephen Crane
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to...
Strengthen the moral cause of the Union
Cotton production was made profitable by the...
Success and simplicity of the cotton gin
During the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, the issue that triggered the debate over states' rights was
Tariff Policy
The early nineteenth century Native American leader who urged the Indian tribes in the Old Northwest Territory to unify to protect their lands was...
Tecumseh
Which of the following labor organizations endorsed the philosophy of "bread and butter" unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions?
The American Federation of Labor
According to Jay's Treaty...
The British agreed finally to evacuate the Northwest posts
The Annapolis Convention was called because...
The Confederation Congress had proved incapable of dealing with commercial issues
The railroad route linking New Orleans and Los Angeles shown on the map was made possible by...
The Gadsden Purchase
The outcome of the election of 1824 between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson was decided by...
The House of Representatives.
By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in...
The People
Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT...
The Right of Nullification
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that the right to determine the constitutionality of a law passed by congress rested in...
The States
The Monroe Doctrine stated all of the following policies EXCEPT...
The United States would intervene in the problems South American countries had with other nations.
The Farmers' protest movement lost momentum at the end of the 1890's for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...
The absorption of the populists by the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
The Pendleton Act was enacted in response to...
The assassination of President James Garfield.
At the End of the War of 1812, Daniel Webster opposed the protective tariff. Fifteen years later he had switched his position to favoring protective tariffs. Why?
The base of the New England economy changed from shipping and commerce to industrial production.
Which of the following statements about colonial politics in the eighteenth century is true?
The colonial assemblies controlled taxes and expenditures.
By the end of his presidency, Ulysses S. Grant's popularity had declined substantially because of...
The corruption evident in his administration
The disappearance of slavery in the North resulted from...
The economic unprofitability of slavery in a region of small farms
The decisive factor in bringing about the resolution of the dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory in 1846 was...
The heavy influx of American settlers after 1818
Andrew Jackson opposed the second Bank of the U.S. for many reasons. Which of the following is not a reason why Jackson opposed the Bank of U.S.?
The inability of the Bank to provide a sound currency
In the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of slavery in British North America?
The number of slaves increased rapidly in the last quarter of the century.
Which of the following statements about women's suffrage is true?
The only states with complete women's suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi.
When Thomas Jefferson said in 1801, "We are all Republicans - We were all Federalists," he meant that...
The principles of American government were above party politics.
"forty acres and a mule" refers to...
The proposal to make freed slaves small-scale farmers
The " Trail of Tears" refers to...
The removal of the Cherokees and other Native American tribes to Oklahoma.
Which of the following event occurred LAST?
The secession of Virginia
Which of the following statements best describes the clothing industry in the late nineteenth century?
The sewing machiene made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable.
All of the following statements about slavery and the constitution are true EXCEPT...
The slave trade was immediately abolished
Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?
The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
"If the gold delegates dare to defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uppermost." Bryan's famous "cross of gold" speech called for...
The unlimited coinage of silver
Which of the following was true of the Northeast American Indian tribes at the time Europeans first began colonization?
Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Coercive Acts?
They were directed against all of the colonies.
Which is NOT true concerning the Alien and Sedition Acts?
They were used by the President to silence his political opponents, the federalist newspaper editors.
The vision of American as a country of yeoman farmers is most often associated with...
Thomas Jefferson
The political cartoonist who ended Boss Tweed's career is credited with popularizing the the donkey and the elephant as symbols for Democratic and Republican parties. He was...
Thomas Nast
Born in England of Quaker parents, he participated in both the American and the French Revolutions through his inflammatory writings. Who is described?
Thomas Paine
The majority of people came to America in the colonial period for which of the following reasons?
To economic gain
Which if the following is properly considered the main purpose of the Navigation Acts?
To guarantee that England alone would profit from trade with the colonies.
On the above map (no map sorry), the routes moving north from south Texas represent...
Trails used for the "long drive" during the cattle kingdom
The principle of freedom of the press in colonial America was established by...
Trial of Peter Zenger
After the Civil War, the practice of Sharecropping
Turned African-Americans into a labor force with housing and supplies provided by white planters
The "Critical Period" in American History refers to the
United States under the Articles of Confederation
The official reason for. The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was his...
Violation of the Tenure of Office Act
Gabriel's rebellion, a Virginia slave revolt in 1800,
Was planned but never took place
The Dred Scott decision held that a slave...
Was private property even in a free territory.
It began as a debate over federal land policy and ended as a debate over states' rights and the nature of the federal union. What is described?
Webster-Haynes Debate
After 1815, such factors as time, cost, and distance in moving people and goods...
Were significantly reduced by the transportation revolution
According to this cartoon (sorry there isn't a cartoon on the sheet), the trusts
Were too powerful and contributed to the impoverishment of the country
In 1840, the American Antislavery Society split into factions because...
William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members.
The Seneca Falls' "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" dealt with...
Women's Rights
In the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Paris and formally ended the Revolution, the Americans...
Won many concessions through separate bargaining with the British
The North American colonies took advantage of of Great Britain's policy of salutary neglect to...
Work out trade arrangements to acquire needed products from other countries.
Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" was significant because it aroused public awareness of the..
Wrongs that the Federal Government had inflicted on American Indians
The first employees in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills were...
Young girls from New England Farms
In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were...
Young, unmarried women from rural New England
