APUSH Review May 2023

How did the government contribute to the building of the national rail network?

• They built and operated the first transcontinental rail lines.
• They provided free grants of federal land to the railroad companies.
• They created a spy agency to steal trade secrets from British railroad companies.
• They imported substantial numbers of Chinese immigrants to build the railroads.

What was the Roe v Wade decision?

• Freedom of Speech
• Right to privacy
• established the precedent for legislative reapportionment
• Feminine Mystique

Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rise of conservatism before 1980?

• Backlash against the counterculture
• Backlash against the Civil Rights Movement
• Backlash against the Rights Revolution
• Backlash against the hawks of the Vietnam era

3. The Spanish demand for maize from the Huejotzingo as tribute best serves as evidence of which of the following developments in the 15th-16th Centuries?

• increasing global biodiversity
• growing European populations
• industrial farming methods
• European notions of racial superiority

5. Prior to the Treaty of Tordesillas, ownership of territory in the New World was affirmed primarily through what authority?

• Conventions hosted by European governments
• The Catholic Church and Pope
• Victors in war laying claim
• Previously established international law

9. Based on the observations of Las Casas, which of the following best describes the Spanish policy toward Native Americans and their land in the 16th Century?

• only indigenous crops, such as tobacco, could be planted and harvested
• all Native Americans must be killed or removed from their land in order to claim it
• the Spanish were entitled to free labor and the resources of colonized territory
• native populations would not be killed or mistreated if they converted to Christianity

11. Native Americans lived in a world that was more pervasively religious --- or spiritual --- than Europeans did. Most Native languages did not even have a word for religion. That concept, in western use, can imply a set of beliefs or practices set apart from the rest of life. Separating the sacred and mundane did not make sense in the mental world of Native Americans...The physical world was teeming with spiritual forces. Fish nets might communicate with fish. Humans were not so different from the plants and animals surrounding them, not from sky, earth, fire and water. Humans were elemental and sentient, as were their surroundings. Thomas Kidd, historian, American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths, 2016 *******QUESTION******** According to the excerpt, Native American spirituality was mostly shaped by

• A. the avoidance of spirituality within existing tribal political and social systems
• B. the belief that was spirituality ingrained in nature
• C. the introduction of the word, “religion,” by Europeans
• D. the separation of religion and spirituality

Which mid-20th-century phenomenon helps to explain Vietnam?

• Civil Rights MOvement
• Decolonization
• Space Race
• Liberalism

Define “arms race”.

• The advancement and stockpiling of new weapons
• Removal of weapons from a country
• The bill that passed making all weapons illegal
• All of the above

How was the Korean War a “proxy war”?

• The ideological conflict between democratic capitalism and communism was not exclusive to the US and USSR
• Advancement of stockpiling of new weapons
• Lesson of alliances was learned.
• None of the above