APush Unit 5

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The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century? Options: The end of the Spanish-American War, Westward expansion, The booming internal slave trade, Increased manufacturing

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Westward expansion

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Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed by Senator Calhoun in the speech? The United States rejection of membership in the League of Nations, Support for assimilationist policies in the 1880s and 1890s, The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, The Great Migration of African Americans out of the South in the 1910s

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The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

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The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following? Northern politicians showed less interest in California than Southern politicians. The United States Senate could not agree on treaty terms with Mexico. The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery. Nativist groups opposed incorporating new states into the Union.

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The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery.

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The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?
The Northwest Ordinance, The Louisiana Purchase, The Missouri Compromise, The Wilmot Proviso

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The Missouri Compromise

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The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following? The spreading of violence associated with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions, The abolitionist roots of the Republican Party, The absence of racism in antebellum New England

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The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions

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The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects? Options: Accumulating support for the theory of slavery as a positive good, Encouraging armed rebellions by enslaved people in the South, Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery, Improving relations between native-born residents and recent Catholic immigrants

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Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery

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After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the “new birth of freedom” that the excerpt refers to? Options: Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, The compromise that resolved the election of 1876, Establishment of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations, Supreme Court rulings such as Plessy v. Ferguson

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Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

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Which of the following was the most significant impact of the South’s expansion described in the excerpt? Options: Conflict over the future of slavery, Growth of a national railroad network, Fewer social differences among White settlers, Greater opportunities for free African Americans

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Conflict over the future of slavery

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The ideology that supported the trend depicted in the map is most similar to the ideology that supported which of the following? Opposition to the international slave trade, Involvement in the Spanish-American War, Participation in the First World War, Isolationism prior to the Second World War

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Involvement in the Spanish-American War

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Which of the following most directly contributed to “the sharp increase of immigration after 1845” referenced in the excerpt?
The Second Great Awakening,
Crop failures and revolutions in Europe,
Removal of American Indians from the Southeast,
Tariff policies during Andrew Jackson’s administration

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Crop failures and revolutions in Europe