AP US History Possible MC Semester 1 Final

Which of the following best explains the impact of the system depicted here on African Americans?

African Americans continued to experience social and economic exploitation

Which groups most strongly opposed Washington's point of view?

Democratic-Republicans

Which of the following factors affected Native Americans is directly implied but not stated in this excerpt?

European diseases were killing millions of Native Americans

What was the major impact of the introduction of sugar in the New world?

It led to the development of race based-labor system

Based on the excerpt, what US president would Thoreau have opposed politically?

James Polk

Which is or are most similar to the statement in the excerpt?

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Which US Supreme Court ruling, though not yet handed down, would most constitutionalize black's second-class status?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Winthrop suggests that Polk's slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight was based mainly on which of the following attitudes?

Polk hoped to get political benefit

To which politicians is Clay directing the last line of the excerpt?

Southerns who were threatening to secede

Which one of the following best explains why the colonists created this document in 1765?

The British made renewed efforts to consolidate their rule of the colonies and reap the economic benefits of imperial control

Ultimately Henry Clay's omnibus version failed to pass thru congress. Why?

a majority of senators and representatives could find at least some things they opposed in the bill, so they voted against it entirely

The passage above most directly reveals the impact of colonial thinking of ideas based on

a republican form of government as celebrated by enlightenment philosophers

Which part of the compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the North?

admitting California as a free state

Horses, which came to the New World in the Columbian Exchange,

allowed Spanish conquerors to easily prevail over the Native Americans they encountered

What was the immediate cause of the publication of the statement in his excerpt?

an increase in the tariff passed by congress

Which of the following developed during Reconstruction to provide direct support and support self-determination for those freed from slavery?

black churches

Which of the following would in part cause douglass' view that for African- Americans citizenship os but a sham"?

black codes

the passage above reveals that

colonial merchants and officials resisted royal barriers of free trade

the passage above most directly reflects which attempted by England toward colonies?

controlling and regulating trade thru mercantilist laws

The concerns expressed by Washington were a response to the

controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France

Which of the following best explains the underlying cause of the Spanish actions described by Las Casas?

desire for wealth

What was the primary impact of the decision delivered by Justice Bradley included above?

efforts to promote social equality stalled for nearly a century

TO what amendment does Justice Bradley refer in this passage?

fourteenth amendment

Thoreau believed that just man should be prepared to do which of the following

go to jail for his beliefs

Which of the following most strongly contributed to the problems that led to actions described in this passage?

government support for transportation monopolies

the seventeenth-century trade regulations referenced in the passage above were passed as a result of which of the following

growing competition from European colonial powers

Which of the following documents encouraged church membership in the Massachusetts Bay colony?

halfway covenant

How did President Jackson react to South Carolina's motion

he supported the passage of the Force Bill

In harmony with sentiments expressed in the excerpt above which of the following does NOT represent the view of Prime Minister Grenville after the French and Indian War?

he wanted to reward the colonies through his extension of "salutary neglect"

The sugar act of 1764 represented a major shift in British policy toward the colonies that,

levied taxes aimed at raising revenue rather than regulating trade

the passage above reveals that, by 1765 most colonists

maintained allegiance to the British crown

Which of the following conflicts of the 1840s is most directly revealed by the cartoon above?

nativists sought to limit the political power of immigrants, whom they saw as a debasing influence on society

which of the following strategies would prove to be the most effective for the group described in the passage?

organized political parties

Henry Clay believed

passage of the compromise would protect people's rights and make the union stronger

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the South?

passing a new fugitive slave Law

The puritans believed that freedom to practice religion should be extended to

puritans only

Which of the following groups would disagree most with Justice Bradley's opinion?

radical republicans

Which best describes an example of how the "constitution and its righteous laws." according to Douglass, provide hope for the "colored people of this country"?

reconstruction act of 1867

As described, what makes the final decision on whether a law is valid in a state ?

states

This scene was caused most directly by

the North's lack of resolve to protect social and economic rights for Africa Americans

What was the major environmental effect of the transfer of livestock, such as pigs

the animals sparked deadly epidemics because of the diseases they carried

Which of the following was the most dramatic demographic effect of the Columbian Exchange on the New World?

the destruction of 90% of the Natives because of disease

strong support in the South for the arguments made by Pinkey in this passage would most immediately lead to

the growth of a distinctive, regional identity based partly on ideas about slavery

The primary audience that Las Casas hoped to influence by his writing was

the monarch of spain

Based on the context of his remarks, Col. Mason would most likely receive support for his position on this issue in

the north

Puritan emigration from England came to near halt between the years 1649 and 1660 because, during that period

the puritans controlled the English government

consistent with the excerpt above, Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636 for advocating

the separation of church and state

The persistence of the economic system depicted here can be explained by

the social condition of the south

Which of the following best explains like the one revealed by the cartoonist's perspective were more common in the nineteenth century?

the surge in international migrants and their settlement in major cities increased the hostility of nativists.

Which of the following details would most greatly have magnified the sentiments depicted in the cartoon?

the tendency among immigrants to live in concentrated ethnic communities

Which of the following did Winthrop offer as a final way to settle the Oregon question?

the two countries should submit their claims to arbitration

President Polk accepted compromise with Britain on the Oregon dispute because

the united states was facing problems with Mexico

which group held views most similar to the ideas expressed by thoreau

transcendentalists