APUSH FINAL EXAM

Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to challenge the assertion in the excerpt that British attacks on the colonists had been "unprovoked"?

A series of popular boycotts, mob protests, and violence against royal officials

Which of the following aspects of life in the United States in the early nineteenth century most likely influenced Adams' recollection of Revolutionary events?

The development of a national culture and national identity

Which of the following statements would an abolitionist claim supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The immorality of slavery had a widespread corrupting effect on Southern culture.

By the early 1600s, which of the following had most changed the circumstances of villages such as Secotan in eastern North America?

The impact of epidemic diseases introduced by Europeans

Developments such as that depicted in the image most directly led to which of the following?

The importation of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean

French exploration of North America, as reflected in the excerpt, most directly contributed to which of the following?

The ongoing shift from feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe

Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?

The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents

The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?

The political debates over economic development

Which of the following best explains why some European colonists intermarried with Native Americans?

To create economic and diplomatic relationships between Europeans and Native Americans

Which of the following best describes a major purpose of the proposed amendment?

To give Congress additional constitutional powers

Which of the following was a main purpose of Ateawanto in his speech?

To protect his people's land from English colonizers

Which of the following is a difference between White's and Hahn's claims in the excerpts about how American Indian societies changed in the late 1800s?

White claims that reservations reduced American Indian autonomy from the United States, while Hahn claims reservations could be used to resist federal encroachment.

Which of the following groups would have most likely supported the agreements made in the excerpt?

White farmers in Kentucky

The settlement pattern described in the excerpt was most similar to earlier settlement patterns in that it was

accompanied by conflict with American Indians over landownership

In the decades following the Civil War, the woman's rights movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on

achieving the right to vote

The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about

allowing slavery in the new territories

The British Crown's response to actions like those in the excerpt was to

declare the American colonies to be in open rebellion

The excerpt makes the overall argument that the Atlantic economy

drove long-lasting economic shifts across Europe, Africa, and the Americas

The issuing of the declaration in the excerpt best serves as evidence of the

efforts of colonists to protect their rights as English subjects

Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to

gain continued support for the war effort

One piece of evidence Las Casas used to support his claim about Native American societies in the third paragraph is that they

had developed large urban areas

The image best serves as evidence that many Native American groups had developed farming techniques that

supported permanent villages

The author claims in the excerpt that antislavery rhetoric in the late eighteenth century was based on

the belief that emancipated people would not be a presence in society

Based on the excerpt, the most likely purpose of Dickinson's letters was to

use Enlightenment rhetoric to encourage American autonomy

The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

westward expansion

Which of the following contributed most to the process described in the excerpt?

Legislation that facilitated the distribution of western land

Which of the following most supported the development of the commerce described in the third paragraph?

Maize cultivation spread northward from Mexico.

Participation in the "civil body politic" referenced in the excerpt would have been most available to which of the following?

Male church members

Which of the following ideas contributed most directly to the territorial changes shown in the map?

Manifest Destiny

Which of the following would have been most likely to agree with the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?

Merchants in New England

The territorial changes shown in the southwestern region of the map most directly resulted from

Mexican-American War

The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?

Missouri Compromise

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Which of the following best characterizes the process described in the first paragraph of the excerpt?

Native American agriculture encouraged the growth of socially diversified urban areas.

Which of the following claims in the first and second paragraph of the excerpt did Las Casas use to support his overall argument about the capabilities of Native Americans?

Native American societies did not meet the definition of "barbarian."

Which of the following best explains Douglass' point of view in the excerpt?

Northern politicians overwhelmingly favored enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army.

Which of the following most likely supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

Southern Democrats

Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following broader historical contexts?

Southern states sought more proslavery seats in the United States Congress.

Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?

Support grew for the Republican Party.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the spread of settlement depicted on the map?

Sustained population growth after the American Revolution

The table most directly suggests which of the following developments by 1749 ?

The British established increasingly extensive trade networks to provide goods to its colonies.

The encomienda and slavery systems both contributed to which of the following developments?

The Spanish developed a race-based caste system that defined the status of Europeans, Native Americans, Africans, and people of mixed race in their colonies.

Which of the following was a major difference between the Spanish colonies in the Americas in the 1500s and the English colonies in the Americas in the early 1600s?

The Spanish more actively sought to convert American Indians to Christianity than did the English.

Which of the following was a similarity between the encomienda system and slavery in the Spanish colonies?

The Spanish used both labor systems for plantation agriculture as well as for mining in their American colonies.

Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed by Senator Calhoun in the speech?

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Which of the following describes an interpretation of Clay's economic principles at the time as expressed in the excerpt?

The United States should increase domestic manufacturing to promote prosperity.

The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following?

The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery.

Which of the following describes a piece of evidence for Las Casas' claim in the fourth paragraph about the similarity between ancient Spanish people and Native Americans?

The ancient Spanish had a right to their own freedom.

Addams' ideas expressed in the excerpt have most in common with which of the following historical views about women?

The belief of some mid-nineteenth-century reformers that women could act as the moral voice in society

Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?

Abolitionism

Which of the following most likely accounts for the limits of United States settlement in portions of North Carolina and Georgia depicted on the map?

American Indians maintained sovereign control over those regions.

Gerard's description of "corne" in the excerpt best reflects which of the following?

Assumptions about the superiority of European culture

Which of the following groups would have most opposed the goals of the speech?

British settlers

Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?

Changes to property ownership requirements

Which of the following was an interpretation of the speech by opponents of the goals Clay expressed in the excerpt?

Clay's manufacturing plan would benefit one section of the country more than others.

The development that brought "corne" to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is best known as the

Columbian Exchange

The speech in the excerpt was delivered in which of the following historical situations during the mid-1700s?

Competition between European empires for Native American allies

The data in the tables indicate which of the following?

Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union.

The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations?

Congressional leaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the North and the South.

The language and themes of the excerpt were most directly inspired by the

Declaration of Independence

Which of the following most directly contributed to the major pattern depicted on the map?

Demand for crops produced in the Americas

The trend depicted in the table most directly contributed to which of the following developments in British North America?

Disagreement over the enforcement of mercantilist restrictions

Which of the following most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?

Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories

The national identity described in the excerpt most strongly reflects the influence of which of the following?

European precedents along with an American national culture

Which of the following claims does the excerpt make about changes that occurred as a result of new interactions in the Atlantic region?

Europeans developed new methods of conducting trade and making profits.

Which of the following invalidated the decision in the excerpt?

Fourteenth Amendment

Douglass' rhetoric in the excerpt was most likely interpreted as promoting which of the following?

His advocacy for African American equal rights

To which of the following was Dickinson responding in his letters?

Increased taxation and imperial oversight following the Seven Years' War

Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) in North America?

Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies

Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of the document from which the excerpt was taken?

Organizing a system of rules and order in the colony

Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the following?

Proslavery arguments

The events described in the excerpt resulted in which of the following developments in the British North American colonies?

Protestant evangelicalism furthered the Anglicization of the colonies.

Which of the following is the most likely reason why Adams dates the beginning of the American Revolution to the 1760s?

Renewed efforts by Great Britain to consolidate imperial control over the colonies

Which of the following best describes the economic system that supported the Native American villages discussed in the second paragraph of the excerpt?

Settled subsistence farming

Which of the following resulted from arguments made by Southern politicians, such as the one in the excerpt, in the years prior to the Civil War?

Slaveholders became more insistent that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.

The excerpt most strongly suggests that in 1774 which of the following was correct?

Some members of the First Continental Congress sought a compromise between submission to British authority and independence.

The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?

The emergence of a larger middle class in the North

Which of the following best explains the presence of the Spanish in the areas depicted on the map?

The emergence of competition between European powers in the Americas

The patterns of settlement shown in the map culminated in which of the following national crises by 1820 ?

The emergence of sectional tensions over the admission of the state of Missouri

Which of the following was a major difference between the encomienda system and slave labor in the Spanish colonies?

The encomienda system exploited the labor of Native Americans, whereas slavery more typically extracted labor from enslaved Africans.

The ideas introduced in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following patterns among the British North American colonies?

The establishment of local representative assemblies

Which of the following factors most directly contradicted Adams' theory about the Revolution?

The existence of considerable Loyalist opposition to the Patriot cause

Which of the following best explains the depiction of George Washington in the third verse of the song?

The popular image in national culture of Washington as a virtuous leader

Which of the following most immediately built on the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The publication of the pamphlet Common Sense

Which of the following most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

The search for new sources of wealth in the Caribbean

Historical developments such as that depicted in the image helped advance which of the following?

The spread of Spanish influence in the Western Hemisphere

Ideas expressed by Douglass in the excerpt were most likely interpreted as supporting which of the following arguments?

The war was no longer just about preserving the union of the states.

The second paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims about the introduction to Europe of new crops from the Americas?

They stimulated economies across Europe.

The historical concept of the American identity, as characterized in the excerpt, was most clearly distinguished from the identities of other nations by the

importance of liberal ideas about natural rights and liberties

Arguments for creating a stronger federal government arose primarily as the result of long-term concerns about the

inability of the national government to maintain order under the Articles

Britain attempted to pay for the debt resulting from the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) by

increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies

Paine's rhetoric in the excerpt would have most likely been interpreted at the time as promoting the

independence of the American colonies

The key concern that Galloway's plan was designed to address was the

lack of American representation in the British Parliament

The language in the excerpt was most likely interpreted as promoting which of the following?

nativist sentiment

One piece of evidence Bouton uses to support his argument about why some United States political leaders sought to replace the Articles of Confederation in 1787 was that they

opposed the economic policies that some state legislatures pursued