APUSH up to WWII

Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first peoples who colonized the Americas came from

• Asia

• Africa

• western Europe

• Australia

• Mediterranean

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

• gave too many loans to assist unstable state

  and local banks

• was secretly funding the abolitionist movement

• was overly subsidized by state tax monies

• planned to create new paper money unsupported by gold or silver

During the American Revolution, many women contributed to the cause of independence by

• serving in the Continental Army as soldiers

• forming Committees of Correspondence

• collecting money, medicine, and food to supply the Continental Army

• petitioning the Continental Congress to give women the vote

  
  

• protecting Loyalists from mob violence

The term “muckrakers” was used in the early twentieth century to refer to

• laborers who worked in the meatpacking industry

• baseball players who lost important games on purpose to collect large bribes

• writers who wrote articles sympathetic to big-business

• captains of industry who defended the accumulation of wealth in lectures and pamphlets

• journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty

Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson were all similar in that they

• followed a style of painting called Cubism

• organized labor unions during the Gilded Age

• were persecuted by Senator Joseph McCarthy

• protested United States involvement in the

  Vietnam War

• contributed to the Harlem Renaissance

The introduction of tobacco during the early 1600s in the Virginia colony led to the

• devastating period of disease called the starving time

• use of indentured servants, and later enslaved Africans, for agricultural labor

• concentration of settlers and farms into small village communities

• emergence of peaceful and cooperative relationships with neighboring American Indian peoples

• development of a diversified economy

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

• relied on the use of power-driven machinery

• utilized wireless communications to improve efficiency

• gave workers greater autonomy, less supervision, and the chance to be creative

• relied on guilds to train artisans

• promoted more cooperation between labor unions and factory owners

Which of the following is a major change in the status of women that occurred in the 1920s?

• They began to vote in national elections

• They achieved income equality with men

• They gained the right to initiate divorce proceedings.

• They began to serve in the armed forces

• They were elected to federal office in large numbers

All of the following groups of non- English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT

• Germans

• Russians

• Scots

• Irish

• Dutch

In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting

• African Americans’ voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment

• the power of the Democratic Party in the region

• state laws allowing married women to own property

• corruption in the federal government

• antitrust laws regarding textile manufacturing