APUSH Final Review Quiz

Which of the following most supported the development of the commerce described in the third paragraph?

• Maize cultivation spread northward from Mexico.

• Native Americans constructed extensive road networks.

• Native Americans in the Northeast of North America formed extensive empires.

• Metal tools became valuable objects in Native American religions

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1.2: Native American Societies Before European Contact

English colonization patterns in North America differed most from Spanish colonization in that the English

• more often settled as families and rarely intermarried with Native Americans

• relied more on coerced labor from Native Americans

• enjoyed relatively peaceful relations with Native Americans

• adopted some of Native Americans’ more egalitarian views on the roles of women

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2.2: European Colonization

The Virginia colonists’ interactions with American Indians, as described in the excerpt, most directly contributed to which of the following?

• English colonists became primarily concerned with converting American Indians to Christianity

• English relations with American Indians became mostly hostile and characterized by conflict.

• The English sought political alliances with American Indians in an attempt to establish equal sovereignty for both groups

• English colonists routinely intermarried with American Indians in an effort to blend the cultures of both groups.

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2.5: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans

The speech in the excerpt was delivered in which of the following historical situations during the mid-1700s?

• The use of Native American laborers in plantation agriculture

• The attempts by French settlers to acquire Native American land

• Competition between European empires for Native American allies

• The founding of the first British colonies in Native American territory

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2.5: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans

Which of the following most directly addressed reservations about the process depicted in the image?

• The rise of sectional unity in the new republic

• The addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution

• The establishment of the nation’s first political parties

• The election of George Washington as the nation’s first president

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3.8: The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification

The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?

• The creation of the Monroe Doctrine

• The approval of the Louisiana Purchase

• The abolition of the international slave trade

• The passage of the Missouri Compromise

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4.4: America on the World Stage

Which of the following of Jackson’s policies undermined his position as described in the excerpt?

• Allowing territories to determine whether slavery should be legal within their borders

• Rejecting the Supreme Court’s power to determine constitutionality of laws

• Using federal power to forcibly relocate American Indian groups

• Encouraging individuals to settle west of the Mississippi River

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4.8: Jackson and Federal Power

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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5.5: Sectional Conflict - Regional Differences

Ideas expressed by Douglass in the excerpt were most likely interpreted as supporting which of the following arguments?

• The war would make African Americans feel free

• The war was the product of years of injustice against African Americans.

• The war would take enormous sacrifice of military combat to achieve victory.

• The war was no longer just about preserving the union of the states.

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5.9: Government Policies During the Civil War

Which of the following best characterizes the “sectional reunion” Blight describes?

• Gilded Age financial policies encouraged economic growth in the North and the South.

• The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves

• New political alliances united northern and southern members of the Democratic Party to win control of both houses in Congress.

• White laborers in the North and African American farmers in the South joined together in the Populist movement.

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5.11: Failure of Reconstruction