Best APUSH Review

The ideas about government expressed by Paine and Jefferson are most consistent with which of the following?

• The concept of hereditary rights and privileges
• The belief in Manifest Destiny 
• The principle of religious freedom 
• The ideas of the Enlightenment 

Efforts by Republicans to establish a base for their party in the South after the Civil War ultimately failed because

• Republicans feared the South would secede again if the party became too successful 
• Republican opposition to African American rights alienated many White Southerners 
• Republicans grew weary of pressing their Reconstruction agenda in a hostile environment 
• Republicans believed it better to withdraw from the South than to become corrupted by Southern politics 

The change in settlement patterns from 1700 to 1775 had which of the following effects?

• A decrease in the coastal population
• An increase in conflicts between British settlers and American Indians 
• A decrease in the economic importance of slavery and other forms of coerced labor 
• An increase in trade with French Canada

The export of New World crops to the Old World transformed European society mostly by

• improving diets and thereby stimulating population growth 
• encouraging enclosure of open lands and pushing workers off of farms 
• promoting greater exploration of the interior of the American continents 
• fostering conflicts among major powers over access to new food supplies 

The ideas expressed in Washington’s Farewell Address most strongly influenced which United States foreign policy decision in the twentieth century?

• The establishment of the United Nations in 1945
• The formation of the NATO alliance between the United States and Western Europe in 1949 
• The refusal to join the League of Nations in 1919 
• The oil embargo against Japan in 1941

Which of the following groups most strongly opposed Washington’s point of view in his Farewell Address?

• Democratic-Republicans
• New England merchants
• Southern plantation owners
• Federalists

Most historians would argue that the recommendations of Washington’s address ceased to have a significant influence on United States foreign policy as a result of

• westward expansion in the nineteenth century 
• support for Cuban revolutionaries in the Spanish-American War 
• Woodrow Wilson’s support for international democratic principles during the First World War
• involvement in the Second World War

The concerns expressed by Washington in his Farewell Address was a response to the

• debate over the proper treatment of American Indian tribes in the trans-Appalachian West 
• dispute over the possibility of annexing Canada from Great Britain 
• controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France 
•  conflict with Great Britain over the treatment of American Loyalists 

Advocates for poverty stricken individuals and terrible living conditions by industries would have most likely agreed with which of the following perspectives?

• The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was justified. 
• Capitalism, free of government regulation, would improve social conditions. 
• Both wealth and poverty are the products of natural selection. 
• Government should act to eliminate the worst abuses of industrial society.

Truman issued the Truman Doctrine primarily in order to

• support decolonization in Asia and Africa
• support United States allies in Latin America 
• protect United States interests in the Middle East 
• bolster noncommunist nations, particularly in Europe