APUSH Semester 2 Final
(Excerpt from Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911) Which of the following groups of people would have been mos likely to oppose Taylor's management ideas?
Factory workers
(Excerpt from Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911) Which of the following groups of people would have been most likely to oppose Taylor's management ideas?
Factory workers
(Excerpt from Mary Elizabeth Lease's speech to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1890) In the speech, Lease was reacting primarily to the problems faced by which of the following groups?
Farmers
(Schenk v. United States Supreme Court decision, 1919) The Schenck case emerged most directly from the context of which of the following?
Critiques by radicals of United States foreign policy
Why did Congerssional Reconstruction end in 1877?
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election
(1908 photograph of young girl in a cotton mill) The conditions shown in the photograph emerged most directly as a result of which of the following?
The preference of factory owners for a cheap labor force
(Picture of two women constructing a plane fuselage, 1940) Production activities like those depicted in the image most directly contributed to
critical wartime provisioning for the Allies that led to victory
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
(Excerpt from the Republican Party platform, 1860) The ideas expressed in the excerpt were most directly influenced by the
free-soil movement
(Quote by Marcus Garvey from the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World 1920) Which of the following most plausibly influenced Garvey's argument in the excerpt?
The concept of self-determination debated at the Treaty of Versailles peace talks
(African American Migration from the South graph, 1900-1979) Which of the following was the most direct effect of the African American migration shown on the graph between 1900 and 1929?
The cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance
(Second Treaty of Fort Laramie between US and Sioux Nation, 1868) Which of the following contributed to reducing the conflict that article 11 and similar provision of other treaties were designed to address?
The destruction of nearly the entire population of buffalo
(Excerpt from Robyn Muncy's "Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935) Which of the following was the most direct effect of the trend described in the excerpt?
The development of the Progressive movement to address social problems associated with industrial society
(Excerpt from Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities, 1904) The excerpt best reflects the development of which of the following?
The emergence of muckrakers who called for political change
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
the draft riots in New York City
(Graph of immigration to The United States, 1821-1910) The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted in
the formation of a political party that promoted nativism
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth endorsed which of the followiing views?
Wealthy individuals have a duty to return their fortunes to society
(Quote from Marion Crocker of the General Federation of Women's Clubs 1912) Based on the excerpt, Marion Crocker was most likely
a Progressive Era reformer
(Excerpt from Horace Greeley's letter to R. L. Sanderson, 1871, that repeats the phrase "GoWest!") The fulfillment of advice such as that in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following in the late ninteenth century?
Competition for resources among White settlers and merican Indians
(Speech by Mary Elizabeth Lease at the Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1890) The economy descried in the speech is most similar to the economy in which of the following decades?
1930s
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W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed
African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality
(Painting titled "The Freedman's Bureau," 1868) During Reconstruction, which of the following was a change that took place in the South?
African Americans were able to exercise political rights.
In the late ninteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting
African Americans' voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment
(Excerpt from Elliott West's The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado) The developments described in the excerpt were most directly a response to which of the following?
American Indian competition for land with miners, farmers, and settlers
(African American Migration from the South graph, 1900-1979) Which of the following most diretly contributed to the trend in African American migration shown on the graph between 1900 and 1929?
An effort to escape violence and limited opportunity in the South
(Excerpt from Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities, 1904) Which of the following best reflects a continuity with the sentiments described in the excerpt?
Demands for increased government accountability during the New Deal
(Excerpt from Elliot West's The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado) The developments described in the excerpt most directly led to which of the following?
Episodes of violent conflict between the United States Army and American Indians
(Poster of a black man and white man working together titled United We Win) Which of the following messages did the United States government most likely intend to impart in the Second World War poster pictured above?
Encouragement of greater acceptance of African American workers in wartime industrial jobs
(Statement from the People's (Populist) Party platform, 1892) The ideas of the Populist Party, as expressed in the excerpt, had the most in common with the ides of the
Federalists in the 1790s
In the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries, which of the following was the principal public oppenent of lynching in the South?
Ida B. Wells
(Immigration to the United States by Decade graph, 1821-1910) The trend depicted in the graph most directly contributed to which of the following developments after 1920?
Restrictions on immigration from eastern and southern Europe
In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored
northern industrial interests
(Map of land extensions to the US) The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?
Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new terrirories
(Proclamation addressed "To the Yeomanry of New England," Boston, 1854) The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?
Increasing the visibility of organized opposition of slavery
(Unemployment numbers vs. time graph) Which of the following was most responsible for the change shown between 1938 and 1942 on the chart above?
Industrial mobilization related to the Second World War
(Excerpt from Grapes of Wrath) Which of the following was the most direct effect of conditions such as those described in the excerpt?
Internal migration in search of better economic opportunities
(Map of land extensions to the US) The ideology that supported the trend depicted in the map is most similar to the ideology that supported which of the following?
Involvement in the Spanish-American War
Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.
(Excerpt from Carnegie's "Wealth," 1889) Which of the following policies would Carnegie most likely ave supported?
Laissez-faire economics
(Poster for the International Longshoremen's Association) The union membership card pictured above is designed to accomplish which of the following?
Link union membership with patriotic and religious images
(Poster of a union member shaking hands with a Nazi officer) Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support the ideas expressed in the image?
Managers and owners of business enterprises
(Excerpt from Horace Greeley's letter to R. L. Sanderson, 1871. The phrase GoWest is repeated twice) The advice in the excerpt most directly reflects the influence of which of the following prevailing American ideas?
Manifest Destiny
(Excerpt from Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley's Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts, 1914) The ideas expressed in the excerpt were most likely aimed at which of the following groups?
Middle-class families
(Quote about the gold standard by William Jennings Bryan, 1896) Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the quote above?
Midwestern farmers
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
(Excerpt from Grapes of Wrath) Situations such as those described in the excerpt were most directly addressed by
New Deal government programs
(Excerpt from Horace Greeley's letter to R. L. Sanderson, 1871, that repeats the phrase "GoWest!") Which of the following most acurately describes a group who acted on ideas such as those in the excerpt?
Northern European immigrants pursuing mining, farming, and ranching
(Graph of immigration to the United States, 1870-1900) Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa, and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?
Restrictive congressional legislation
(Quote by Marcus Garvey from the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World 1920) The ideas expressed in Garvey's declaration drew the most significant support from which of the following?
Participants in the Great Migration
(Cartoon titled "The Grange Awakening the Sleepers," 1873) The ideas expressed in the image contributed most directly to which of the following later political movements?
Populism
(Excerpt from Grapes of Wrath) Which of the following movements expressed ideas most similar to the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
Populism in the 1890s and early 1900s
(Poster promoting The Pageant of the Paterson Strike) The poster above advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?
Portray the strikers as the heroic champions of workers and ordinary people
(1908 photograph of young girl in a factory) Conditions such as those shown in the photograph contributed most directly to which of the following?
Pressure from progressive activists to reform business practices
(Poster of a union member shaking hands with a Nazi officer) After the war, propaganda such as that employed by the image was used to help justify which of the following policies
Red Scare prosecutions
("Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise ... in restraint of trade ... is hereby declared illegal") The passage above was most effectively used for which purpose in the late ninteenth century?
Restricting the power of monopolies and trusts
(Excerpt from Lincoln Steffen's The Shame of the Cities, 1904) Which of the following groups would most likely have agreed with the argument presented in the exerpt?
Settlement house workers
(Excerpt from T. J. Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt) Which of the following ideas was most often used to justify the success and wealth of those like Vanderbilt?
Social Darwinism
(Quote that begins with "Competition is a law of nature") The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?
Social Darwinism
(Excerpt from Richard H. Pratt's The Advantages of Mingling Indians with Whites," 1892) Pratt's arguments in the excerpt in suppot of his school for American Indians had most in common with the arguments of which of the following groups?
Some social reformers in the later 1800s who founded settlement houses for newly arrived immigrants
(Map of US color coded based on which president each state voted for, 1948) Based on the map above, which of the followin is the most acurate statement about the 1948 presidential election?
The New Deal coalition that had elected Frankin D. Roosevelt four times had begun to weaken by 1948
(The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution) The provision above overtuned the
Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Standford
(1908 photograph of young girl in a factory) Advocates for individuals such as those shown in the photograph most likely would have agreed with which of the followin perspectives?
That the government had an obligation to establish workplace safety standards
(Excerpt from James T. Patterson's Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974) The increased cuture of consumerism during the 1950s was most similar to developments in which of the following earier periods?
The 1920s
(Excerpt of a rioter complaining about a 300 dollar law) The statement above refers to constription during which conflict?
The Civil War
(Excerpt from Robyn Muncy's Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935) Settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods?
The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s
(Excerpt from David W. Blight's Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory) Which of the following most directly supports Blight's argument in the excerpt?
The Supreme Court Decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
(Cartoon titled "A Party of Patches") The People's (Populist) Party emerged most directly in response to which of the following late-nineteenth-century trends?
The growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy
(Excerpt from W. E. B. De Bois' "The Talented Tenth," 1903) Which of the following best describes the relationship of ideas such as those in the excerpt to the broader Progressive reform movement of the era?
The ideas in the excerpt challenged the racial stereotypes held by many White Progressive reformers.
(Picture of two women constructing a plane fuselage, 1940) The image was most likely intended to promote
The movement of women into jobs traditionally held by men
(Excerpt from Richard H. Pratt's "The Advantages of Mingling Indians and Whites," 1892) Which of the following developments would the author have been most likely to use to support his assertion that African Americans had joined the United States "national family"?
The ratification of constitutional amendments during Reconstruction
(Excerpt from Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852) In the 1850s ideas such as those expressed in the excerpt most directly contributed to
controversies over the expansion of slavery to new territories
(1908 photograph of young girl in a factory) The use of images in the late 1800s and early 1900s such as the one shown had most in common with which of the following?
The reporting of journalists that raised public awareness of social injustices in United States cities
Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"
The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.
Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s?
The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
(Picture of two women constructing a plane fuselage, 1940) The image most directly reflects which of the following development during the early 1940s
The wartime mobilization of United States society
(Excerpt from Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852) Which of the following was a key purpose of the excerpt
To condemn the conflict between American ideals and practices
(Cartoon entitled "The 'strong' government," 1869-1877) The cartoon above is intended to express
a critique of Reconstruction
(Excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Talented Tenth," 1903) The perspective expressed in the excerpt most directyl supported the national expansion of
access to higher education
(Excerpt from FDR's State of the Union address, 1941) Roosevelt's speech was most likely intended to increase public support for
aiding the Allies in Europe during the Second World War
(Map of US territorial claims as of 1849The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about
allowing slavery in the new territories
(Quote beginning with "One by one the southern states have legally disfranchised the Afro-American") The author of the statement above was
an African American journalist in the 1890s
(Cartoon titled "Going to Talk to the Boss") The cartoon above portrays President Wilson trying to
arouse public support for the Treaty of Versailles
(Excerpt from Carnegie's "Wealth," 1889) The "temporary unequal distribution of wealth" that Carnegie refers to in the excerpt resulted most directly from the
consolidation of corporation into trusts and holding companies
(Excerpt from Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley's Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts, 1914) The system of labor that is the focus of the excerpt would eventually change most dramatically as a result of the
demands of industrial production during the Second World War
(Excerpt from W. E. B. De Bois' "The Talented Tenth," 1903) The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly contributed to the
emergence of organization pursuing equality for African Americans
(Excerpt from David W. Blight's Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory) One key change immediately following the Civil War aimed at achieving the "racial justice" that Blight describes was the
establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights
African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as
exodusters
(Painting titled "The Freedman's Bureau," 1868) The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the
expansion of federal power
In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported
expansion of southern industry
In the 1850s, the South differed from the North in that the South had
fewer European immigrants
(Poster promoting the purchasing of USA war bonds) The purpose of the Liberty Loan Campaign illustrated in the drawing above was to
finance American involvement in the First World War
(Excerpt from the Republican Party platform, 1860) Republicans asserted that political leaders could not "give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States" in order to express opposition against the
idea of popular soverignty exemplified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
(Excerpt from Robyn Muncy's Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935) Women working in settlement houses such as Hull House initially sought to help
immigrants adapt to American customs and language
(Map of western railways, 1883) The developments depicted on the map most strongly affecte American Indians by
increasing armed conflict with United States citizens and threatening traditional ways of life
(Photo of a Ford assembly line) The 1920s potograph above illustrates a production process that led to
lower prices and greater availability for mass-produced consumer goods
(Cartoon of man leaning on table that says "In counting [the ballot] there is strength") The carton above is a comentary on late-ninteenth-century
municipal corruption
The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War werre intended to
place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
preserve the Union
(Quote from Marion Crocker of the General Federation of Women's Clubs 1912) People who shared Crocker's ideas at the time most typically sought to achieve their goals by
promoting federal legislation to protect the environment
The "Atlanta Compromise" is the name given to the
proposal that African Americans emphasize making economic progress over the quest for political and social equality
(Excerpt from Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852) The excerpt most directly reflects the
public visibility of African Americans in abolitionist campaigns
(Picture of sad woman with her children) The Great Depression-era photograph above was taken with the goal of
publicizing the plight of migrant farmworkers and their families
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported
restrictions on Catholics holding public office
Of the following, the most important cause of the Great Depression was
serious dislocation in international trade
During the Great Depression, "Hoovervilles" were
shantytowns of unemployed and homeless people
(Quote that begins with "This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth") These sentiments are most characteristics of
the Gospel of Wealth
(Speech by Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1950) The political climate during McCarthy's era had the most in common with which of the following?
the attacks on radicals and immigrants following the First World War
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
the suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
