APUSH Review

Question 1

Which two treaties ended the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War)?

Answer 1

The Seven Years’ War ended in 1763, with the First Treaty of Paris between France, Spain, and Great Britain; and the Treaty of Hubertusburg between Saxony, Austria, and Prussia

Question 2

What 1823 U.S. policy opposed European colonialism in the Americas?

Answer 2

The Monroe Doctrine, which was first issued in 1823 in President James Monroe’s seventh State of the Union speech, written by John Quincy Adams

Question 3

How was the Red Scare in post-World War I America connected to organized labor movements?

Answer 3

Labor unions were largely thought to be controlled by liberals with Marxist sympathies. Although it was by no means universal, many early 20th Century union leaders were, in fact, Communists, or sympathetic to socialist ideologies. (This tendency reversed after WWII.)

Question 4

Which of the following was an unintended consequence of the liberal successes of the 1960s?

Answer 4

Answer: Conservative Republicans mobilized to defend traditional mores and curb government authority. Liberal ideals were realized in Supreme Court decisions that expanded democracy and individual freedoms, Great Society social programs and policies, and the power of the federal government, yet these unintentionally helped energize a new conservative movement that mobilized to defend traditional visions of morality and the proper role of state authority

Question 5

Question: What factor best explains why the western territories and states were first to grant women suffrage?

Answers:
1. An uneven gender ratio led to the earlier adoption of attitudes supporting women’s voting rights in western territories and states.

2. Women living in western territories and states were considered part of the “cult of domesticity.”
3. A rigid social class structure based on a tradition of aristocracy dominated the western states and territories.
4. Women’s unions and strikers in western territories and states demanded these rights earlier than their eastern counterparts.

Answer 5

Answer: An uneven gender ratio led to the earlier adoption of attitudes supporting women’s voting rights in western territories and states

Reasoning: The relatively small population of women in many western states both made women’s suffrage less threatening to men’s authority and encouraged men to interpret women’s suffrage as part of an overall effort to bring families westward.

Question 6

Questions: Nineteenth-century reformers who supported women’s suffrage often had previous political experience with which other reforms?

Answers:
1. Industrialization and Jim Crow

2. Industrialization and Jim Crow
3. The “STOP ERA” movement and prohibitiion
4. Abolition and temperance

Answer 6

Question: Abolition and temperance

Answers: Attendees at the Seneca Falls Convention—the birthplace of the Declaration of Sentiments—included many people who also advocated abolition and temperance. Their ranks included Frederick Douglass.