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APUSH Semester 1 Review

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A goal of the Spanish in the New World was religious conversion to Catholicism.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

What was the #1 killer of Native Americans in the New World?

a)

warfare

b)

disease

c)

heart attack

d)

hypothermia

3.

This person recognized that Native American societies had complexities and sophistication before the Europeans' arrival

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Juan Ginés de Sepulveda

c)

Hernán Cortés

d)

Bartolomé de las Casas

4.

A goal of the US Government was to assimilate Indians so that they would behave more like white Americans

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Like the French the ___________ saw Native Americans are trading partners and allies.

a)

Spanish

b)

Portuguese

c)

Dutch

d)

English

6.

Henry Hudson was known for his harsh treatment of the Native Americans.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The English saw American Indians as obstacles to profiting from the new land.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The Spanish were heavily involved with the fur trade.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Competition for food and other resources led to a breakdown in relations between the English and Native-Americans.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

This war, also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom's Rebellion — took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676.

a)

the French and Indian War

b)

King Phillip's War

c)

the Seven Years War

d)

the Winnebago War

11.

The Great Awakening was a catalyst for Spanish conquistadors to start to tolerate American Indian cultural practices.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The Navigation Acts were indicators of

a)

divine right

b)

self-rule

c)

mercantilism

d)

socialism

13.

The Great Awakening was a ___________ movement.

a)

literary

b)

social

c)

religious

d)

political

14.

The Great Awakening has roots in

a)

New England

b)

the Middle Colonies

c)

Virginia

d)

all of these

15.

Denominations merged as celebrity preachers gained large followings during the First Great Awakening.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

During the American revolution most Native-American tribes sided with the Loyalists.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The number one sought after commodity for the French in the New World was

a)

gold

b)

horses

c)

fur

d)

workers

18.

During the French and Indian War most Natives sided with the British.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

As a result of the French and Indian War, the British lost territorial land claims in the New World.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

This was an attempt to prevent colonial and American Indian border conflicts that failed as people rushed in to claim abandoned lands.

a)

the Quebec Act

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

the Homestead Act

d)

the Dawes Act

21.

As a result of the debt acquired during the French and Indian War, the British

a)

allowed for self-rule.

b)

exerted more control of the colonies.

c)

banned religious freedom.

d)

borrowed money from the Spanish.

22.

Supporters of the American Revolution are to Patriots as supporters of the British crown are

a)

Sallys

b)

Whigs

c)

Liberals

d)

Loyalists

23.

Early on, settlers in this colony express concern over the immorality of slavery.

a)

Georgia

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Massachusetts

24.

Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Thomas Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the colonies to fight for egalitarian government in

a)

the Federalist Papers

b)

the Declaration of Independence

c)

the Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature

d)

Common Sense

25.

The Declaration of Independence was the basis for the first government of the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Protestant evangelical fervor negatively affected the colonial independence movement.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

The philosophy deeply impacted the American Revolution

a)

the Renaissance

b)

the Enlightenment

c)

Romanticism

d)

Transcendentalism

28.

Republican motherhood and the cult of domesticity are synonyms.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

Fear of a central government that was too strong led to limited power in

a)

the Declaration of Independence

b)

the Articles of Confederation

c)

the Constitution

d)

the Federalist Papers

30.

This document created three branches of government to provide for not only making but also enforcing laws.

a)

the Mayflower Compact

b)

the Articles of Confederation

c)

the Constitution

d)

the Bill of Rights

31.

This document provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory

a)

the Constitution

b)

the Northwest Ordinance

c)

the Homestead Act

d)

the Dawes Act

32.

Jay's Treaty was controversial because it failed to address impressment but gave preferable treatment to British imports.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

The Federalist Papers were a series of eighty-five essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution.

a)

the Federalist Papers

b)

the anti-Federalist Papers

c)

Common Sense

d)

Resolutions Against the Stamp Act

34.

This party advocated for a weak central government.

a)

the Federalists

b)

the anti-Federalists

35.

The cultivation of cotton in the South during the early 1800s contributed to the dramatic shifts in agriculture and manufacturing in the mid-19th century.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

Cotton production was made profitable by the

a)

success and simplicity of the cotton gin

b)

invention of the Deere steel plow

c)

improved agricultural techniques

d)

use of the McCormick reaper

37.

As a result of increased immigration in the mid-1800s nativism was felt most strongly in

a)

northern urban areas

b)

southern plantations

c)

the western frontier

d)

the Great Lakes

38.

The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was

a)

the North

b)

the South

c)

the frontier

39.

Most immigrants prior to the Civil War settled in the

a)

North

b)

South

c)

West

40.
a)

the Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

the Compromise of 1850

c)

the Missouri Compromise

d)

the 3/5ths Compromise

41.

The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be admitted as a slave state and _________to be admitted as a free state. It also stated that slavery was prohibited north of the ____ parallel.

a)

Massachusetts; 36-30

b)

Maine; 36-30

c)

Kansas; 54-40

d)

Oregon; 54-40

42.

The Missouri Compromise is illustrative of the intensifying national debate over

a)

the new economy

b)

slavery

c)

states' rights

d)

tariffs

43.

Why did the Americans want the Louisiana territory?

a)

For control of the Mississippi ports

b)

To spy on the Spanish

c)

To control Haiti

d)

For gold and silver

44.

Federalists would have supported the Louisiana Purchase.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

The ideas expressed in Polk's State of the Union Address most directly support the growing sense of

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Abolitionism

c)

Nativism

d)

Tariff Wars

46.

Texas was admitted to the Union as a ____ state.

a)

free

b)

slave

47.

Commodore Matthew Perry negotiated an agreement with which country that had previously been closed to foreign trade for over 200 years?

a)

France

b)

Russia

c)

China

d)

Japan

48.

This event led to the rapid settlement of California in the mid-1800s.

a)

the Mexican War

b)

the gold rush

c)

the legalization of slavery

d)

steamboats

49.

Jim Crow was a character representing African Americans and designed to reinforce racial stereotypes that blacks were inferior.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

The Election of _____ was a catalyst for the Civil War.

a)

1844

b)

1848

c)

1860

d)

1864

51.

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 freed the slaves

a)

True

b)

False

52.

The Civil War amendments caused African Americans to receive some rights and protections during Reconstruction, but they were then circumvented through local laws allowing segregation and disenfranchisement.

a)

True

b)

False

53.

This cartoon deals with this landmark Supreme Court case.

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Brown v. Board of Education

54.

Jim Crow Laws allowed for the continued civil rights that African Americans had gained during Reconstruction.

a)

True

b)

False