AP US History Semester I MCQs Flashcards
During the seventeenth century, colonists’ daily life was influenced the most by
The Puritans in Massachusetts
The “war hawks” in the period leading up to the war of 1812 garnered most of their support from
The south and west
One way that the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony encouraged the younger generation to join the Church was by writing
The halfway covenant
In his farewell address George Washington warned against
Foreign entanglements and the formation of political parties
Which of the following was a result of the Albany Congress?
The Iroquois remained neutral and the colonists rejected Franklin’s plan for unity
All of the following are associated with loose constructionism during the early years of the United States of America EXCEPT
Restrictions on federal legislative powers
The battle of Saratoga proved to be a significant turning point in the revolutionary war because it
Demonstrated to France that the Americans might win the war and subsequently led to the Franco-American Alliance of 1778
The most notable achievement of the United States under the articles of confederation was
The provision for land sales in the Northwest that would benefit the entire nation
During the Revolutionary War, the Loyalists
Made up approximately 20-30 percent of the population
The success of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 hinged on compromises over
Slavery and representation in Congress
During the period preceding the Revolutionary War, the British act provoking the most outrage among the colonists was
The passage of the Boston Port Act
In 1775 the Second Continental Congress
Adopted the Olive Branch Petition, declaring colonial loyalty to the Crown
Which of the following events represented the most significant action on the part of the colonists against British authority?
The Stamp Act Congress
Which of the following statements concerning the Federalist Papers is true?
They were written as propaganda to support the ratification of the Constitutional
All of the following were manifestation of mercantilist theory except
Virtual representation
The chief goal of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to
Check the power of the Democratic-Republicans
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Land Ordinance of 1785 or the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Land sales in admitted territories would be protected from speculators
Which of the following does NOT represent the views of Prime Minister Grenville after the Seven years’ War?
He wanted to reward the colonies through his extension of salutary neglect
The election of 1800 is historically and politically significant because it
Demonstrated that political parties could, in fact, bring about a peaceful revolution in a republican form of government
In 1798 President John Adams delivered the following message to Congress” I will never send another minister to France without assurance that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.” What event inspired this comment?
The XYZ Affair
The First Great Awakening led to all of the following EXCEPT
The renewed persecution of witches
The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?
It disrupted American shipping
The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of
Promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest
The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT
Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base
Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the
Spread of corn cultivation
Puritan migration from England came to a near halt between the years 1649 and 1660 because, during that period
The Puritans controlled the English government after the English Civil War
Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era?
She generally lost control of her property when she married
Which of the following was true of the French-American Alliance formed in 1778?
It influenced the British to offer generous peace terms in the Treaty of Paris in 1783
Under the Articles of Confederation the United States central government had no power to
Levy taxes
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
Which of the following is the author of the quotation above?
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton’s economic program was designed primarily to
Establish the financial stability and credit of the new government
The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of
States’ rights
Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier hypothesis” focused on the importance of
The existence of cheap unsettled land
Liberty of conscience was defended by Roger Williams on the grounds that
The state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirit
By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?
They were a majority in many church congregations
A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that they
Made it too difficult for the government to raise money through taxes and duties
The Puritans believed that the freedom to practice religion should be extended to
Puritans only
The Sugar Act of 1764 represented a major shift in British policy toward the colonies in that, for the first time, the British
Levied taxes aimed at raising revenue rather than regulating trade
All of the following influenced the United States’ decision to declare war against Great Britain in 1812 EXCEPT
The American government’s certainty that its navy was more powerful than Great Britain’s
The First Great Awakening was a direct response to
The Enlightenment
Which of the following states the principle of “virtual representation” as it was argued during the eighteenth century?
All English subjects, including those are not allowed to vote, are represented in Parliament
Which of the following most accurately describes the system of indentured service in the Chesapeake settlement during the seventeenth century?
Most indentured servants were lured by the promise of freedom and property upon completion of their service
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a significant achievement because it
Defined the process by which territories could become states
All of the following were elements of Henry Clay’s American System EXCEPT
The creation of large numbers of federal jobs in areas with unemployment problems
Anglo-American women in colonial times
Could own property or execute legal documents only if they were widowed or unmarried
In the seventeenth century the Chesapeake Bay settlement expanded its territorial holdings more quickly than did the Massachusetts Bay settlement primarily because
Farming of the chief Chesapeake export, tobacco, required a great deal of land
The debate over the First Bank of the United States was significant because it raised the issue of
How strictly the Constitution should interpreted
Which of the following statements about the Stamp Act is NOT true?
Colonial legislatures sent letters of protest to Parliament threatening secession from England if the Stamp Act was not repealed
The doctrine of nullification stated that
A state may repeal any federal law that it deems unconstitutional
The English colonists that settled Virginia and the neighboring Indian tribes had widely different attitudes about all of the following subjects EXCEPT
The centrality of religion in daily life
The Whig Party
Was formed out of opposition to many of Jackson’s policies
The principle of Popular Sovereignty stated
Allowed the decision of whether or not new territories would have slavery with a vote within that territory
Why did the Federalist Party disintegrate?
They fell from the graces of the American public after the Hartford Convention where some Federalists proposed seceding from the Union because of the War of 1812
Why did the Democratic-Republic Party disintegrate?
The Democratic-Republicans fell apart when Jackson formed a new political party that supported his ideals, called the Democrats
The Know-Nothing Party
All of these choices
The Oregon Treaty
Established the Northern border between the United States and Canada
The Missouri Compromise can be described by all of the following EXCEPT
It provided a method for counting slaves among state populations when determining the size of the states’ congressional delegations
Between 1820 and 1854, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from
Ireland
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members… The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.”
The passage above was written by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Free-Soil party advocated which of the following?
The exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories
The principle of Popular Sovereignty stated that
New territories would decide with a vote whether or not that territory would allow slavery
Reform movements during the first half of the nineteenth century attempted to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT
Widen the division between church and state
The Lowell system of early nineteenth-century textile manufacturing was noteworthy for its
Efforts to minimize the dehumanizing effects of industrial labor
The Wilmont Proviso
Sought to ban slavery in territory gained from the Mexican Cession
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
- The election of 1824 marked a turning point in presidential politics because, for the first time
The system of choosing nominees by congressional caucus failed
By what means did the United States take possession of the Oregon Territory?
The US acquired it through treaty with the British in Canada
Which of the following reformers fought for the rights of the mentally ill?
Dorthea Dix
President James K. Polk is most closely associated with
Westward Expansion
All of the following sparked support for the abolitionist movement EXCEPT
The Conscription Act
Which of the following was the LEAST influential in bringing about Andrew Jackson’s victory in the presidential election of 1828?
Jackson’s defense of Native American property rights
The Force Act of 1832 was passed in response to
The Tariff/Nullification crisis
Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman traveling through the US and commenting on its society attributed American social mobility to
The lack of an aristocracy and the availability of frontier land
Which of the following changes in westward migration occurred in 1848?
Oregon territory decreased while the number headed for California greatly increased
Supreme Court Decisions concerning Native Americans in 1831 and 1832
Denied them the right to sue in federal court, but affirmed their rights to land that was traditionally theirs
In the 1830’s, Southern states passed a number of laws regarding the behavior of free blacks. These laws were intended to
Encourage free blacks to migrate to the North
As a result of the Missouri Compromise
Slavery was banned north of 36° 30’ in the Louisiana Purchase territory
In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall’s rulings limited the extent of
States’ rights
All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise EXCEPT that
Sectionalism was reduced
John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a “corrupt bargain” when he appointed _______________ to become__________.
Henry Clay, secretary of state
The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was
The South
Andrew Jackson’s veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was
A major expansion of presidential power
Americans moved into Texas
After an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because
Antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery
In the case Marbury v. Madison 1803,
The Supreme Court declared an Act of Congress Unconstitutional, therefore giving the power of the Supreme Court, Judicial Review, or the power to nullify federal laws
The Federalist power lost control of the American Political Sphere after 1800, and disintegrated after the Hartford Convention, Federalist tendencies in government remained in the Judicial branch because of the fact that Supreme Court Justices and other federal judges serve life terms; this is evidenced by
The many instances where the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Federal Authority over States’ Authority!
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was
Removal by the US Army
The Adams-Onis Treaty
Granted the US the Florida Territory
The first great federal transportation project was
The construction of national roads
The construction boom of the canal networks in the North
I, II, III, IV, V
The Monroe Doctrine issued by President James Monroe in the 1823
All of these!
The group of Native Americans that lived in the Southeast and attempted to assimilate into white culture were the
Cherokee
The Nullification Crisis occurred in the State of ________ because they rejected a federal tariff, seeing it as benefiting Northern Industrial Manufacturers and hurting the South because now goods would cost more than the Free Market, without government interventions like tariffs, would dictate!
South Carolina
The Supreme Court Case __________ denied the State of Georgia the right to take Cherokee land.
Worcester v. Georgia
In response to the Supreme Court denying states from taking Cherokee land Jackson
Nullified the Supreme Court’s ruling by removing Indians to Oklahoma with the US military
From Jackson’s response to the Nullification Crisis when South Carolina nullified a federal tariff,it seems obvious
Jackson was a strong states’ rights advocate, but saw the states’ powers as limited and not sovereign
The “Trail of Tears” refers to
The removal of Indians in the East from the homelands
The Second Great Awakening
I, II, III, IV, only
The Reform Movement in the 1800s
I, II, III, IV only
The most plausible reason for the Texas Revolution was
The refusal of Texans to accept Mexican citizenship and abide by Mexican law
The Mexican American War 1846-1848, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
All of these
The Compromise of 1850
I, II, III, IV, only
During the 1800’s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was
Working slowly and breaking tools
“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 the spirit.”
The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends
Evangelicalism
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
Expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830’s and 1840’s was
The separation of economic production from the home and family life
Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank
Concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people
“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, not a single right.” George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857
The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that
Slaves lived better than northern factory workers
The role of women expresses in the cult of domesticity had it’s roots in
Republican motherhood
The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?
Possession of California and most of the southwest
The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by
Banning discussion of antislavery petitions
The Compromise of 1850
Abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia
The Wilmot Proviso sought to
Ban slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico
According to the principle of popular sovereignty
Territorial legislatures would determine whether a territory would have slavery
In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen Douglas Attempted to set up territorial Government based on
Popular sovereignty
Why did the Know-Nothings become popular?
They appealed to German and Irish immigrants
The Republican Party
Was primarily a sectional party
In the 1850’s, the most important literary example of Abolitionism was
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In the Dred Scott Case, The Supreme Court decision was largely the work of
Roger Taney
The Republican Party platform in 1860
Dealt exclusively with slavery
Individuals who opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories because they feared its effect of the labor system were known as
Free Soilers
Which one of the following does not apply to Lincoln’s initial policy toward the confederacy?
The deployment of troops along the “border states” to demonstrates a Union resolve to fight
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Confederate Constitution?
A strong central government
The chart labeled “Resources of the Union and the Confederacy, 1861” could suggest all of the following statements as true EXCEPT
All of the above statements are true
Which of the following states was NOT part of the Confederacy?
Missouri
In the beginning, the Civil War was
A struggle to preserve the Union
Which of the following was NOT a Northern advantage throughout the war?
Familiar terrain and public support
To secure the necessary troops for the war,
A and b
Lincoln and Davis learned early in the Civil War that
Successful conduct of the war required active, executive, leadership
The Emancipation Proclamation freed
Only slaves in the military occupation zones of the Union army
Confederate leaders were confident of British recognition, because
British textile mills were so dependent on Southern cotton
A minimal Reconstruction policy was favored by
President Lincoln
Which of the following groups was disappointed by the Fifteenth Amendment?
Feminists
At their state constitutional conventions, Southerners were required to do all of the following EXCEPT
Guarantee the political and civil rights of the freedman
The legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans was
Poverty and discrimination
The small number of African Americans elected to state or national office during Reconstruction demonstrated on the average
A desire to implement radical social programs
Andrew Johnson was indicted by the House for his violation of the
Tenure of Office Act
The South’s Refusal to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Forced the Republicans to abolish the existing southern governments and give the vote to African Americans
Which of the following were characteristics of southern state governments during the era of Radical Republican control?
II, III, and IV only
In his opinion on the case Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Robert Taney ruled that
Congress had no right to regulate slavery in United States territory
Following the Civil War, most freed slaves
Stayed in the South and worked as sharecroppers
The “new immigrants” who arrived in the United States after the Civil War were different from the “old immigrants” in that they
Spoke different languages and had different customs than most Americans and thus were not easily assimilated
The Industrial Revolution had which of the following effects on slavery in the South?
Rapid growth in the textile industry encouraged Southern planters to grow cotton, thereby making slavery more important to the economy
Congress brought impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson primarily because
Johnson sought to block the punitive aspects of Congressional Reconstruction
Which of the following is NOT a requirement set by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 for Southern states readmission to the Union?
The state had to pay reparations and provide land grants to all former slaves
Which of the following is true of the American rail system in the nineteenth century?
Government subsidies and land grants played a major role in its expansion
The failed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution was intended to prevent discrimination against
Women
What best accounts for the sharp increase of immigrants during the period 1880-1910?
Many southern and eastern Europeans turned to America for financial gain and political freedom
Which of the following was NOT a result of Reconstruction?
Government grants of 40 acres and a mule to each freedman
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1877?
The Democrats took back the House and the Senate
