AP US History Semester Exam Flashcards
A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement is
Jane Addams
Which of the following is a correct statement about women in the United States society in the years 1790-1810?
They were considered critical to educating good
republican citizens
Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth?
Wealthy individuals should use their money for social betterment
The Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s was characterized by which of the following?
A growing split between those who advocated non-violence and those who favored more aggressive tactics to achieve civil rights
Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions except the
Obligation to protect the Native Americans
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
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson challenged the authority of which of the following?
Puritan magistrates and ministers
Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank of the United States for which of the following reasons?
They believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite
In the seventeenth century, the earliest British colonies in Virginia were saved from economic ruin by
The introduction of tobacco cultivation
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abjors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire;…and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.” The quotation above contains ideas typical of
The Great Awakening
The most important factor in Andrew Jackson’s successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his
Reputation as a hero of the War of 1812
What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?
To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man
Which of the following conflicts resulted in the successful explusion of Europeans from the upper Rio Grande region of North America for nearly a decade?
The Pueblo Revolt
The purpose of the Truman Doctrine of 1947 was to
Prevent communism from further spreading through military aggression
By passing the Navigation Acts in the 1600s and 1700s, the British government intended to
Guarantee that the British government would have a financial share of all colonial exports
The quakers were unique among the religious groups that settled in North America during the seventeenth century because they
Allowed women to speak publicly in their religious meetings and to be missionaries
The proclamation line of 1763 was designed to
Limit western expansion of colonial settlement
Colonists from which of the following European nations generally had the most cooperative relations with American Indians?
France
The Stonewall riots of 1969 were significant because they
Led to the birth of gay rights organizations around the country
Which of the following best characterizes that National Origins Act of 1924?
It established immigration quotas based on a percentage of each nationality residing in the US in 1890
The photo above most likely shows the work of the following New Deal agencies?
CCC
Before 1800, which of the following European imports had the greatest impact of the lives of the Plain Indians?
Horses
The works of which of the following were integral to the Harlem Renaissance?
Claude McKay, Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
Allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A major consequence of the French and Indian War of 1754-1763 was the
Imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies
The Declaration of Sentiments issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for
Increased rights for women
New England Puritans sought primarily to create which of the following in Massachusetts?
A model community promoting government by strict religious principles
Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?
Chinese and Irish
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
The abolition of slavery throughout the United States
The American colonists’ slogan “No taxation without representation” was a rejection of
Virtual representation
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
That suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or precious servitude
Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860?
A greater number of men working at home
The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governor who failed to protect them against American Indian raids led to
Bacon’s Rebellion
Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?
Individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience
The Great Compromise of 1787 resulted in
A system of political representation for the states in the federal government
Which of the following led to increased United States involvement in the war in Vietnam?
Congressional approval of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The cartoon above is intended to express
A critique of Reconstruction
During the 1920s, both the Sacco and Vanzetti case and the rise of the new KKK reflected
Public fear and resentment of southern and eastern European immigrants
The United States home front during the First World War was marked by an increase in all of the following EXCEPT
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During the 1930s Black voters overwhelmingly switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party because
Black Americans benefited from some New Deal economic policies
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was “rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight” was reflected is
The draft riots in New York City
The goal of the Marshall Plan was to
Finance the economic reconstruction of Western Europe
The festival near Woodstock, New York, in 1969 is most closely associated with the
Counterculture
The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of
Protective tariffs
Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?
The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible
The Regulator movement of the 1770’s, Shays’ Rebellion in 1786 and the Whiskey Rebellion of the early 1790’s were all expressions of the hostility of frontier settlers to
The dominance of Eastern interests in government
The picture above best expresses which of the following middle-class views about women in the mid-nineteenth century?
Women were the moral and spiritual strength of the family
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that
Arrested persons must be informed of their rights
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine justified which of the following?
The right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries
The effects of deindustrialization in the 1970s included all of the following EXCEPT
An increased United States share of the world market in manufacturing
In Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that women
Experienced a discrepancy between the reality and the public image of their lives
Throughout the presidential election campaign of 1980, Ronald Reagan’s view of the best economic policy to pursue was based on his belief that
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The case of University of California Regents v. Bakke concerned which of the following issues?
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The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated with
Distress over loss of tribal autonomy
The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to
Draw attention of Protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor
Which of the following was most responsible for bringing to an end Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign?
Television audiences witnessed his manner of leveling unsubstantiated charges
Which of the following was a major effect of the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965?
Immigration from Asia increased significantly
The Second Great Awakening did which of the following?
It encouraged conversion to evangelical Christianity
Which of the following statements bet summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?
He refused to take a position on Reconstruction, prompting Republicans to impeach him for his irresponsibility
The Great Depression-era photograph above was taken with the goal of
Publicizing the plight of migrant farmworkers and their families
Upon becoming president, Gerald Ford announced, “our long national nightmare is over.” He was referring to
Watergate
The Alien and Sedition Acts were designed to
Weaken and deflect Republican criticism of the Federalists
The People’s Party advocated which of the following?
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to
Vertical integration
Coxey’s Army of 1894 and the Bonus Army of 1932 both marched on Washington, D.C. to
Demand economic relief
Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?
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Which of the following groups would most likely have voted for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election?
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The government under the Articles of Confederation consisted of
Only a unicameral legislature
The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in
Africa by free Black persons and former slaves
The Rosie the Riveter campaign during the Second World War encouraged women to
Enter the labor force
“One by one the southern states have legally disenfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every southern state has passed separate (railraod) car laws with a penalty against their infringment. The race, regardless of advancement, is penned into filthy, stifling partions cut off from smoking cars.” The author of the statement above was
An African American jouranlist in the 1890’s
The purpose of the Committee on Public Information, headed by George Creel, was to
Mobilize popular support for the First World War
“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” The statement above expressed the ideas of
Booker T. Washington
“To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all oner power vested by this Constitution.” Alexander Hamilton used the clause above to
Convince the federal government to create the First Bank of the United States
Late-nineteenth-century federal policies were detrimental to unskilled workers in all of the following ways EXCEPT
The federal income tax took a considerable portion of workers’ income
The Vietnam War differed from the Korean War in that the Vietnam War
Ended with the collapse of the government that the United States had supported
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because
There were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions
“Dollar diplomacy” refers to
United States aid to European nations immediately following the Second World War
All of the following were important to Richard M. Nixon’s victory in the 1968 presidential election EXCEPT
Strong support from labor unions
Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first peoples who colonized the Americas came from
Asia
Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank
Concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people
During the American Revolution, many women contributed to the cause of independence by
Collecting money, medicine, and food to supply the Continental Congress
The term “muckrakers” was used in the early twentieth century to refer to
Journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty
Gwendolyn Brookes, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson were all similar in that they
Contributed to the Harlem Renaissance
The introduction of tobacco during the early 1600s in the Virginia colony led to the
Use of indentured servants, and later enslaved Africans, for agricultural labor
The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that
Relied on the use of power-driven machinery
The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka stated that segregated schools were unconstitutional because`
Separation of students based solely on race constituted inherently unequal treatment
Which of the following is a major change in the status of women that occurred in the 1920s?
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All of the following groups of non-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT
Russians
Which of the following statements about the population of North America at the time of Christopher Columbus’ voyages is supported by the map above?
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In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting
African Americans’ voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment
In Horatio Alger’s books, the hero is successful primarily a result of his
Hard work and luck
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
Which of the following was true of the South in the post-Civil War period?
Landowners widely adopted sharecropping and tenant farming
The Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s entailed
Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and increases in defense spending
We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep… The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right.” The excerpt above reflects that common argument in the antebellum South that
Slaves lived better than northern factory workers
The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to
Prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth was based on the belief that wealthy industrialists should use their wealth to
Pay workers better wages and benefits
Which of the following is true of the Virginia and New Jersey plans that were presented at the Constitutional Convention?
They illustrated the struggle between states for representation and power in the creation of the new government
The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of his
Previous support for a strict interpretation of the Constitution
The chart above supports which of the following conclusions regarding economic condition in the Untied States during the last third of the nineteenth century?
Wheat farming became more lucrative
The decade of the 1970s was marked by all of the following economic conditions in the United States except
Increased competition from Western Europe and Japan
Richard Nixon’s diplomatic overtures to the People’s Republic of China were motivated in part by his belief that China
Had become an important global power that could not be ignored
Which of the following statements would best describe the point being made in the cartoon above about Ricard Nixon’s administration?
Nixon was reversing progress toward integration made in the 1960s
The years 1930-1980 have been described by one historian as a period hat saw the “rise and fall of the new Deal Order” What is meant here by the phrase “New Deal Order”?
A program intended by congressional Democrats to promote the growth of small businesses at the expense of major corporations
Betty Friedan’s best selling book of the 1960s observed that
Many middle-class housewives and mother felt frustration and lack of fulfillment
The early success of the Pennsylvania colony was due in large part to which of the following?
William Penn’s careful planning and his policy of selling land to settlers
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
“God’s wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire…”
Salem witch trials of the 1690s
During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery y slaves themselves was
Working slowly and breaking tools
Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
Election of 1860
In her influential 1962 work Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned
About the dangerous impact of pesticides
In period 1650-1750, all of the following contributed to British North American colonists’ sense of identity as British subjects EXCEPT the
Expansion of the colonies into western frontier regions
From 1984 to 1986, Reagan administration officials secretly sold arms to Iran to illegally finance
A rebellion against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua
Which of the following correctly describes the Committee on Public Information?
It was established to mobilize domestic support for the war effort during the First World War
Fredrick Turner’s theory emphasized the significance of the frontier for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
Western frontier had land that could be distributed to former slaves
“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of spirit.”
Transcendentalism
Which of the following characterizes the relationship between church and state for the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century?
Church membership was required for voting and holding public office
Someone who favored George Washington’s approach to foreign policy would be most likely to object to which of the following United States policies?
Declaration of neutrality at the beginning of the First World War
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
The power of the federal government expanded to ensure the equal protection of all citizens
Which of the following was Harry Truman’s stated reason for authorizing the use of the atomic bomb against Japan?
Using the atomic bomb would prevent the need for a costly invasion of Japan
Many anti-imperialists opposed the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 because they believed that
United States colonialism in the Philippines was incompatible with the American belief in self-determination
The bracero program encouraged
Mexican workers to come to the United States as temporary laborers from the 1940s to the 1960s
Which of the following most profoundly transformed the lives of slaves in the South in the mid-1700s?
The growth of a native-born African American population
What did the Northwest Ordinance accomplish?
It established procedures by which territories could become states
Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of the business monopolies, courts initially used its provision successful against
Labor unions
In the early 1960s, Malcolm X challenged the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Ciivl Rights movement by arguing that
African Americans must defend themselves against racism by using violence if necessary
“If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Which of the following grouse would most likely agree with the quote above?
Urban workers
The “Declaration of Constitutional Principles” of 1956 and George Wallace’s campaigns for the presidency in 1968 and 1972 all endorsed
Keeping the federal government out of state matters
William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slaavery Society were known for
Advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation
Which of the following best characterizes rural women in the new England colonies?
They used their influence over the demoes tic sphere as a basis for promoting social reform
Which of the following migration patterns had the greatest impact on United States society in the 1950s?
Immigration of East Asians to the West Coast
During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?
Scandinavian immigrants
On distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was
The separation of economic production from the home and family life
From the 1880s to the New Deal, the dominant United States government policy toward Americans Indians was to try to
Assimilate them into White culture
Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Alexander Hamilton’s economic plan primarily because he feared that it would
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The chart above illustrates the effect of President Richard Nixon’s policy of
Vietnamization
When the Soviet Union successfully launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957, Congress responded by
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Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after
They were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added shortly after ratification
Which of the following is most characteristic of President Eisenhower’s Cold War strategy?
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Shays’ Rebellion is significant because it
Strengthened the movement for a new constitution
According to the graph above, the largest decrease in the percent of Americans living below the poverty line accomplished which of the following federal policy
The Great Society
