APUSH KEY A
W.E.B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed
A) African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality (Du Bois advocated political action + civil rights while Washington urged Black people to accept discrimination for the time being + concentrate on elevating themselves through education and hard work)
Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?
A) Chinese and Irish
"If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." - William Jennings Bryan, 1896 Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the quote above?
A) Farmers (the "free silver" debate pitted the pro-gold financial establishment of the NE, which included factories + business men, who were creditors benefitting from deflation + repayment of loans with gold AGAINST farmers who would benefit from higher prices for their crops + easing of credit burdens)
The sentiments expressed in the cartoon above most directly contributed to which of the following?
A) The passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments (14th: defines all people born in the United States as citizens, equal protection; 15th: prevents the denial of a citizen's vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude)
The cartoon above is intended to express
A) a critique of Reconstruction
The controversy highlighted in the cartoon above most directly led to the
A) emergence of more vigorous Southern resistance to African American rights
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
A) expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
The purpose of the Committee on Public Information, headed by George Creel, was to
A) mobilize popular support for the First World War
A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was
B) Jane Addams
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of the cartoon?
B) Radical Republicans
Which of the following is a correct statement about women in United States society in the years 1790-1810?
B) They were considered critical to educating good republican citizens
"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit." The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?
B) Transcendentalism
Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth?
B) Wealthy individuals should use their wealth for social betterment
"One by one the southern states have legally disfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every southern state has passed separate [railroad] car laws with a penalty against their infringement. The race, regardless of advancement, is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars." The author of the statement above was
B) an African American journalist in the 1890s
Although Progressive Era reformers held different opinions about many issues of the day, they shared a belief in
B) the capacity of trained professionals to find rational, scientific solutions to society's problems
"The Department of Justice will pursue the attack of these 'Reds' upon the Government of the United States with vigilance, and no alien, advocating the overthrow of existing law and order in this country, shall escape arrest and prompt deportation." The declaration above was made by
C) A. Mitchell Palmer (attorney general after WWI that directed the "Palmer Raids", which attempted to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists)
The chart above supports which of the following conditions regarding economic conditions in the United States during the last third of the 19th century? (graph overall going down)
C) Many American farmers struggled financially
Someone who favored George Washington's approach to foreign policy would be most likely to object to which of the following United States policies?
C) Membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The poster above advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?
C) Portray the strikers as the heroic champions of workers and ordinary people
The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848? (this treaty ended the Mexican-American War)
C) Possession of California and most of the Southwest
Which of the following 20th century issues most closely parallels the controversy depicted in the cartoon above?
C) The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s
New England Puritans sought primarily to create which of the following in Massachusetts?
C) a model community promoting government by strict religious principles
"To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other power vested by this Constitution." Alexander Hamilton used the clause above to
C) convince the federal government to create the First Bank of the United States
Frederick Jackson Turner's theory emphasized the significance of the frontier for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
D) The western frontier had land that could be distributed to former slaves
After the Civil War, some businesspeople and newspaper editors -- such as the Atlanta Constitution's Henry Grady -- promoted the idea of a New South. Which of the following best describes their vision for the southern states?
D) a mixed economy no longer primarily dependent on cash crops (Grady urged the South to abandon its agrarian economy for a modern one grounded in industrial development)
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for
D) increased rights for women
Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of business monopolies, courts initially used its provisions successfully against
D) labor unions (Clayton Antitrust Act improved upon Sherman, defining certain business practices as illegal since they led to monopolies + making labor unions legal)
One stated objective of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after the First World War was to
D) promote the right of national self-determination
The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in
D) republican motherhood
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because
D) there were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions
The American colonists' slogan "No taxation without representation" was a rejection of
D) virtual representation
The ideas expressed in the cartoon above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in United States history?
Debates about access to voting rights
"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." The statement above expressed the ideas of
E) Booker T. Washington (In his speech, he opposed unions and foreign immigration. He argued that these were not in the interests of African Americans.)
Late-nineteenth century federal policies were detrimental to unskilled workers in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
E) The federal income tax took a considerable portion of workers' income
"Dollar diplomacy" refers to
E) a pre-First World War practice of coupling foreign policy with the interests of United States corporations
The Federalist papers were written in order to
E) attain ratification of the Constitution
The United States home front during the First World War was marked by an increase in all of the following EXCEPT
E) support of individual liberties by the Supreme Court
Many anti-imperialists opposed the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 because they believed that
E) the United States would be drawn into a war with Japan over Pacific territories
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
E) the abolition of slavery throughout the United States
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported (the aim of the Know-Nothing movement was to combat foreign influences and to uphold + promote traditional American ways)
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office (Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church)
