APUSH Review (Periods 4-7)

Which of the following was a significant cause of the trend from 1843 to 1854 shown in the graph?

• Active encouragement of migration by the United States government

• Economic and political difficulties in Germany and Ireland

• Incentives offered by United States companies looking to hire skilled migrants

• Adoption of free trade policies by European governments

The main trend shown in the graph was most directly associated with which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time?

• The convergence of European and American cultures

• The emergence of an industrialized economy

• The displacement of American Indians from the Southeast

• The resurgence of evangelical Protestantism

“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

[Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing the unanimous opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954]

Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision excerpted?

• Radicals critiqued government actions as doing too little to transform the racial status quo.

• Education advocates raised awareness of the effect of poverty on students’ opportunities.

• Civil rights activists became increasingly divided over tactical and philosophical issues.

• Segregationists in southern states temporarily closed many public schools in an effort to resist the decision.

The Brown vs. Board of Education decision reversed which of the following earlier decisions?

• Marbury v. Madison, which established the principle of judicial review

• Worcester v. Georgia, which established that the federal government rather than individual states had authority in American Indian affairs

• Dred Scott v. Sandford, which proclaimed that slaves could not be citizens

• Plessy v. Ferguson, which endorsed racial segregation laws

Conditions like those shown in the image contributed most directly to which of the following?

• The passage of laws restricting immigration to the United States

• An increase in Progressive reform activity

• A decline in efforts to Americanize immigrants

• The weakening of labor unions such as the American Federation of Labor

The conditions shown in the image depict which of the following trends in the late nineteenth century?

• The growing gap between wealthy people and people living in poverty

• The rise of the settlement house and Populist movements

• The increased corruption in urban politics

• The migration of African Americans to the North

The poster most likely reflects the

• wartime mobilization of United States society

• emergence of the United States as a leading world power

• expanded access to consumer goods during wartime

• wartime repression of civil liberties

The poster was intended to

• persuade women to enlist in the military

• promote the ideals of republican motherhood

• advocate for the elimination of sex discrimination in employment

• convince women that they had an essential role in the war effort

The image most directly reflects which of the following developments during the early 1940s?

• The wartime repression of civil liberties

• the emergence of the United States as a world power

• the limited access to consumer goods during wartime

• the wartime mobilization of United States society

Production activities like those depicted in the image most directly contributed to

• calls to limit arms and naval destroyers for the major world powers

• critical wartime provisioning for the Allies that led to victory

• efforts to rebuild Western Europe's postwar economy

• concerns about the political influence of the military-industrial complex