APUSH Finals

Provision of 40 acres to each freedman

All of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during Reconstruction EXCEPT

The prosperity of the early 1890s undermined popular support for Populist economic reforms.

All of the following were reasons for the failure of thePeople's (Populist) party EXCEPT

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

"... the descendants of Africans who were imported into this country and sold as slaves are not included and were not intended to be included under the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States." This passage is from which of the following?

Because of the relative ease with which slaves could gain their freedom by manumission or by purchase, the proportion of freedmen to slaves was almost equal in many areas of the South.

All of the following statements about pre-Civil War American slavery are true EXCEPT:

The flooding of American markets by foreign producers

By the end of the 19th century, jingoism in the United States was encouraged by all of the following EXCEPT

Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers

During Reconstruction, Southern Blacks typically did which of the following?

wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on American Indians

Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" was significant because it aroused public awareness of the

preserve the Union

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

He sought to retain the loyalty of border states

In part, President Lincoln refrained from taking action to emancipate slaves until the Civil War had been in progress for almost two years because

discriminatory freight rates

In the late nineteenth-century United States, farmers sought federal relief from distress caused by

1850

In which year would the population of an Atlantic seacoast city most likely have appeared as follows?

Newspaper publisher

Joseph Pulitzer achieved fame and wealth as a

Possible British recognition of the Confederacy

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was

The feeling that the railroads were exploiting the farmers.

Of the following, which was the most importance cause of agrarian discontent in the Unites States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

using the military to enforce federal policy toward American Indians

Prior to 1884, the United States government most typically responded to American Indian resistance by

Place limits on the socio-economic opportunities open to black peopl

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

greater agreement over war aims

The North's advantages over the South at the outbreak of the Civil War included all of the following except

Temporary Union military supervision of the ex-Confederacy

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for

The use of stockholding trusts to create business oligopolies

The anticombination laws passed by numerous states in the late 1880's were a response to which of the following organizational innovations?

Claims to land

The conflict between the Sioux nation and the United States was primarily driven by the different

the emergence of the trust as a form of business organization

The direct impact of the Civil War on the economy included all of the following EXCEPT

The natural population increase of American-born slaves

The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

the absorption of the populists by the AmericanFederation of labor

The farmers' protest movement lost momentum at the endof the 1890s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Most southern families held slaves

The graph above refutes which of the following statements

Economic competition

The horizontal integration of American industry (i.e. one firm acquiring control of other firms that produce the same product) that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century was primarily a response to

Irish and German Catholic immigrants

The hostility of the Know-Nothing party was directed primarily against

Philippines

The independent republic annexed by the US during the Spanish-American War, but not acquired as a result of the war

assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture

The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to:

restriction of the rights of immigrants

The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothings party was the

A concentrated effort on the part of the major Protestant denominations to convert the Sioux to Christianity

The second Sioux War (1875-1876), which saw the defeat of Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, was caused by all of the following EXCEPT

strengthen the moral cause of the Union

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

Restrictive congressional legislation

Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph below depicting immigration to the US from Asia, Africa, and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?

Midwestern steel, meatpacking, and other mass production industries offered many unskilled jobs

Which of the following best accounts for the fact that Slavic immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries settled principally in Midwestern cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago?

they saw advantages in a divided union, but pursued cautious policies toward both sides

Which of the following best characterizes the response of Great Britain and France to the American Civil War?

It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's

Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?

Invention of the cotton gin

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States in the first quarter of the nineteenth century?

President McKinley was too weak to withstand the multitude of pressures forcing him toward a decision for war.jo

Which of the following has NOT been offered by historians as an explanation for the United States entry into the war with Spain in 1898?

Rhetoric on "manifest destiny" in the American press

Which of the following most likely increased Mexican suspicion of United States territorial objectives in the 1830's and 1840's?

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's'?

It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States

Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable

Which of the following statements best describes the clothing industry in the late 19th century?

Southern and Eastern Europeans came in larger numbers than earlier in the century

Which of the following statements is true about immigration to the United States during the last two decades of the nineteenth century?

The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"

Ireland

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers

Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?

inadequate water and sewer systems

Which of the following was the most persistent problem facing municipalities in the United States throughout the last quarter of the 19th century?

they included large numbers of middle class educated women

Which of the following was true of the settlement-house workers of the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth century?

massive exodus of former slaves from the south

all of the following led congress to impose radical reconstruction measures EXCEPT the

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination.

in the antebellum period, free African Americans were...

accesbility to eastern urban markets provided to midwestern farmers

in the pre civil war era, the railroads most important impact on the economy was the

reformers who advocated for assimilation

which of the following groups would have been most likely to see the developments described in the report as desirable