APUSH History
Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to share cropping and the crop lien system in the late 19th century South?
A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700s?
All the colonies
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy
The Compromise of 1850 did what?
Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law
Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?
Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia
In 1787-1789, which of the following groups was most likely to oppose ratification of the Constitution?
Farmers in isolated areas
Which of the following statements about AA soldiers during the Civil War is correct?
For most of the war, they were paid less than white soldiers of equal rank
President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 was issued in response to
French diplomatic overtures to invoke the Franco-American Alliance
Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?
French military and financial assistance
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Fredrick Douglass in the excerpt?
Northern abolitionists
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
Preserve the Union
The Stono Rebellion and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741 revealed which of the following?
Resistance to slavery
Which of the following best explains why Massachusetts Bay officials banished Anne Hutchinson?
She challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy
Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election
The Halfway Covenant provided for which of the following?
The baptism of children of baptized but unconverted Puritans
Which of the following contributed most directly to the change in the number of Africans transported to the New World after 1800?
The outlawing of the international slave trade by Great Britain and the United States
The map above shows the U.S. immediately following ...
The passage of the Missouri Compromise
Which of the following was true of most Puritans who emigrated to seventeenth-century New England?
They considered themselves non-Separatists
Which of the following statements is true about Africans brought as slaves to the British North American colonies is true?
They maintained cultural practices brought from Africa
By the end of the 17th century, which of the following was true of women in New England?
They were a majority in many church congregations.
In the first half of the Nineteenth century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from
U.S. Supreme Court
In the antebellum period, free African Americans were
able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for
an electoral college
By the 1750's, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
disdain for British constitutional monarchy
Alexander Hamilton's financial program was most favorable to
eastern merchants
An important consequence of the "tariff of abominations" (1828) is that it led to the
enunciation of the doctrine of nullification
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
To make the new government viable, the first Congress of the United States did all of the following EXCEPT
grant subsidies to encourage industrial development
The drawing above has been cited as evidence of the nineteenth century middle-class view of the
home as a refuge from the world rather than as a productive unit
The Constitutional Convention designed the electoral college to
insulate the presidency from the popular will
In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney's major contribution to American technology was his
introduction of interchangeable parts
The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?
it disrupted American shipping
The financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT
nullification of all private debts to the states
By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in
people
The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to
place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people
Under Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court decisions tended to
promote business enterprise
In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with
protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves
Henry Clay's "American System" called for all of the following EXCEPT
sale of federal lands to finance higher education
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to
the natural population increase of American-born slaves
Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT
the right of nullification
The American Colonization Society was established in the early 19th century with the goal of
transporting African Americans to Africa
In the eighteenth century, colonial Virginia and colonial Massachusetts were most alike in that both
were royal colonies
In the early 1830s, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were
young unmarried women from rural New England