WorksheetsAPUSH Exam Review
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What term describes the system of Indian labor used by Spanish colonies?
mercantilism
crop rotation
capitalism
encomienda
Anne Hutchinson was tried and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because she
led a group of farmers in revolt against the political leaders
spread a different interpretation of Puritan beliefs
was accused of being a witch
refused to accept Anglican beliefs
The most important export from the early Virginia colony was
Cotton
Tobacco
Rice
Corn
In the early years of the Virginia colony, a field laborer was most likely to be
A slave
A Powhatan
A landholder
An indentured servant
As a result of England's policy of salutary neglect, the colonies developed
A desire for fine British goods
An economy unconnected to Britain
A sense of self-sufficiency
A hatred for Britain
Which of the following was NOT a result of the First Great Awakening?
A number of colleges were founded
All colonies experienced a revival of Christian beliefs
An emotional style of preaching was developed
A greater allegiance to the king of England
The Mayflower Compact foreshadows the U.S. Constitution in which of the following ways?
It places power in the hands of a group of people rather than a single leader
It ensures both the right to free speech and the separation of church and state
It limits the term of office for all government officials
It establishes three branches of government in order to create a system of checks and balances
One significant impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old World was...
the growth of the food supply and subsequent population increase
the introduction of slavery in Europe
death from epidemic disease from the New World
An end to the feudal system in the
What country colonized the space in red?
Portugal
Spain
Britain
France
European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly because...
Europeans refused to provide antidotes to the diseases
Europeans deliberately spread disease throughout the New World
the Native Americans had no natural resistance to these diseases
the vast devastation of warfare with the Europeans left few to care for the sick
The age of salutary neglect drew to a close with...
the Boston Tea Party
the formation of the Republic of Texas
the Salem Witch Trials
the end of the French and Indian War
What term describes investors who pool their money together in order to establish a colony?
joint stock company
headright system
proprietary colony
caste system
What term describes a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds.
Columbian Exchange
Protestant Reformation
Triangles of Trade
Reconquista
What term describes the route used to transport African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to New World colonies?
Middle Passage
triangular trade
Atlantic highway
Portuguese Way
Who was a former African slave who wrote one of the eras first slave narratives detailing his experience coming to America from Africa?
Olaudah Equiano
Frederick Douglass
Bartholomew de las Casas
Stono Vassey
Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after
slavery was allowed to continue without federal interference
they were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added shortly after ratification
they were assured that the Supreme Court would have the power of judicial review
the other states threatened to organize the government without them
"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.”
John Adams, former president of the United States, letter to Thomas Jefferson, former president of the United States, 1815
Which of the following is the most likely reason why Adams dates the beginning of the American Revolution to the 1760s?
Renewed efforts by Great Britain to consolidate imperial control over the colonies
The forging of American Indian political alliances with European powers
Increased involvement of colonial merchants in the Atlantic economy
The expansion of the colonial population into the interior of the continent
Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?
French military and financial assistance
The failure of Loyalists to participate in military action
The British failure to capture Philadelphia
A major American military victory at Valley Forge
The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to
enable American citizens to trade through the port of New Orleans
open British Caribbean ports to American trade
provide for statehood for western territories
secure sufficient funds for payment of the national debt
Britain attempted to pay for the debt resulting from the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) by
charging immigrants a fee to relocate to North America
selling ships from its navy to colonial merchants
increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies
sponsoring expeditions to locate valuable resources
Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) in North America?
Intensified competition between the French and Indians
Intensified competition between France and Spain over colonies
Intensified competition between Spain and Britain over colonies
Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following?
France for its failure to support the colonial war effort
Politicians who believed a small island could not effectively rule a distant continent
The authors of the Declaration of Independence
The king of England and the principle of monarchy
Which statement is true of the United States Constitution?
The Constitution’s checks and balances helped establish a stable government.
The Constitution established a unicameral legislature.
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Constitution.
The Constitution cannot be amended.
The Federalist papers were written in order to
mobilize popular support for keeping the Articles of Confederation
attain ratification of the Constitution
persuade the Continental Congress to declare independence
frustrate Spanish efforts to sway the political loyalty of the Southwest
After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to
require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire’s administrative expenses
end slavery in the North American colonies
encourage colonial expansion into the Ohio Valley by moving all American Indian peoples further west
strengthen the French colonial holdings in Canada and the northwest to discourage Spanish expansion
The Great Compromise of 1787 resulted in
a final settlement of the question of slavery
a renewal of the Articles of Confederation
a system of political representation for the states in the federal government
a border agreement between the United States and Canada
Which one of the following was NOT an advantage the British had in their war effort to suppress the American rebellion?
A larger military
Shorter supply lines
A larger and stronger navy
Greater financial resources
Which of the following was NOT a feature of the Articles of Confederation?
They called for a bicameral legislature
Unanimity was required to amend the AOC
Nine of thirteen states were required to pass legislation
There was no national court system
Shays' Rebellion
convinced many political leaders of the destructive consequences of a strong central government.
was eventually suppressed when the federal government sent troops to Massachusetts.
convinced some political leaders of the necessity of giving more power to the central government.
came about when American settlers clashed with the British over western land claims.
In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the Committees of Correspondence were MOST important because they
kept Parliament informed as to what colonists were planning.
provided a record of the negotiations in the Continental Congress.
show that the group that would become the Federalists were already very powerful.
were the first attempt to maintain close political cooperation among all colonists.
The central point of Thomas Paine's Common Sense was that it...
suggested economic reforms for the colonies.
suggested a plan of reconciliation with Britain.
outlined a logical approach to protesting against Parliament.
pointed out the absurdity of continued loyalty to King George III.
The phrase in the Declaration of Independence stating "that governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" illustrates the principle of
federalism.
judicial review.
equality before the law.
the Social Contract theory.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 is significant because it
guaranteed universal suffrage.
gave free land to all settlers.
balanced the number of free and slave states in the Union.
included provisions for territorial growth and the admission of new states.
The Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise both dealt with
the admission of new western states.
the territorial expansion of slavery.
the regulation of interstate commerce.
the representation of states in Congress.
The Whiskey Rebellion was significant in U.S. history MAINLY because
the federal government used force to enforce the laws of the land.
the forces of prohibition achieved a ban on alcoholic beverages.
the states proved that they could nullify federal laws.
the states were able to pass legislation reversing a national tax.
Which of these BEST describes the purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
To prevent immigrants from becoming citizens
To protect the U.S. from French invasion
To punish the Federalist party for supporting the national bank
To silence criticism of President John Adams
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
threatened secession if the US declared war on Great Britain.
supported the idea of state’s rights and nullification of federal law.
were written by Federalists who wanted to impeach President Jefferson.
declared that state tariffs would not be deposited into the National Bank.
Which statement BEST describes why the election of 1800 is called the "revolution of 1800"?
It was the first time that two candidates ran for President.
It was the first time that there was an election while America was at war.
It was the first time that common people were able to vote in an election.
It was the first time that power was peacefully transferred to a different political party.
Ms. Chapman is from
New York
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Rockford
Which is an outcome of the war of 1812?
The Americans were defeated
Britain took over America again
The Americans were disappointed in war
The Americans felt a sense of pride that they held their own against a major world power
Who benefitted the most from the Transportation Revolution?
North
South
Great Britain
Mexico
in which case did a state try to tax a branch of the federal government, only to have that tax collection denied by John Marshall?
McCullough v. Maryland
Cohens v. Virginia
Fletcher v. Peck
A series of resolutions issued at the end of the Seneca Falls Convention, NY. in 1848; modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the list of grievances called for economic and social equality for women, along with a demand for the right to vote.
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Sauce
Declaration of Sentiments
Deceleration of Van Rooster
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves
in the Border States
in the rebelling states
in the entire US
in the West
During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was able to
distribute 40-acre plots to all ex slaves who wanted land.
greatly increase the number of former slaves who could read .
convince many Southern whites to join the Republican Party.
repress much of the violence committed against ex-slaves.
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Davis Crenshaw
John Calhoun
Stephen Douglas
Which was the first state to secede?
Virginia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Enforced a strict law saying runaway slaves in the North must be captured and returned to their masters.
Reconstruction Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Slave Codes
Black Codes
What did the North call its strategy to blockade the South's coastline and gain control of the Mississippi River?
Anaconda Plan
Total War
Trench warfare
Blockade Plan
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th
14th
15th
16th
Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Jay Cooke
Thomas Edison
Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.
Interstate Commerce Act
Dawes Act
Transcontinental Act
Laissez Faire Act
What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt? For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.
Daley
Grant
Tilden
Tweed
Congressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusive practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco, etc.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Celler-Kefauver Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
What happened at Sand Creek in 1864?
The Navajo started their "Long Walk."
The US Army killed many Native Americans.
Native Americans gave up their fight for lands.
Native Americans killed many settlers.
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the railroad industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the finance industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the oil industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Carnegie made a fortune by mastering the concept of taking over all aspects of the production process or
philanthropy
vertical integration
horizontal integration
plausible deniability
Rockefeller made a fortune by taking over an entire industry or
vertical integration
horizontal integration
graft
strikes
Which of the following groups contributed most directly to exposing economic, social, and political evils in the Progressive era?
activist policemen
populist farmers
muckraking journalists
immigrant anarchists
The central provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
included trade unions under the antimonopoly provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
declared that no single corporation could control more than 75 percent of a given industry.
established minimum wage rates for goods produced in interstate commerce.
outlawed corporate interlocking directorates and price discrimination against different purchasers.
Select the statement that best describes the difference between the AFL and the Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor allowed only skilled workers to join their union
The AFL allowed skilled and unskilled laborers to join their union
The Knights of Labor allowed skilled and unskilled workers to join their union
Both labor unions worked to improve lives for the owners of major companies
What was the significance of Plessy v Ferguson
It ended segregation of schools
It ended segregation everywhere
It established that Whites and Blacks would remain separate but equal
It declared that Dred Scott was property
Select the statement that best describes the impact of the Social Gospel.
White men were given increased power
Women and African Americans challenged their place politically, socially, and economically.
White men sought to gain more political rights
All people in America became equal
What is the most likely reason that Truman dropped the atomic bombs?
The Japanese started the war, so the U.S. would end it
To prevent additional loss of life that might accompany a prolonged war
It would be cheaper than a land war in Japan
To promote American business interests
What was one of the reasons for the worsening conditions for African Americans in the south?
influence of Communist agitators
dust storms made it impossible to farm
widespread racist violence, such as lynchings
return of industrial workers to the south
One significant effect of the move to northern cities such as Chicago was
the breakdown of African American families
the outbreak of race riots as white immigrants viewed blacks as competitors for jobs
decreased educational opportunities for African Americans
the return of the majority of black families to the South after the North failed to meet expectations
How did the U.S. acquire the Philippines and Guam?
They were acquired through a joint resolution of Congress.
The indigenous residents of the islands petitioned for annexation.
They were ceded by Spain after the War of 1898.
They were acquired after a U.S.-engineered coup deposed the Filipino monarch.
Alfred Thayer Mahan suggested that the key to U.S. prosperity is
to rectify problems at home before venturing abroad..
to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries.
to engage in international warfare.
to seek overseas markets for its domestic products
President Wilson ended the policy of U.S. neutrality in response to which of the following?
Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine and air warfare
the fear of an immediate attack on the U.S. by Mexico
Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann telegram
distrust of the activities of German Americans within the United States
Which of the following did Woodrow Wilson propose after World War I in order to establish a lasting peace?
the UN
the League of Nations
NATO
Alliance for Progress
Which of the following most directly led to the post-World War I “Red Scare”?
the fear that the Soviet Union would invade the U.S.
the fear that Soviet spies were in the highest level of U.S. government
the fear that Marxists would destroy the business monopolies
the fear that U.S. labor strikes were linked to the Russian Revolution
Why were certain groups of immigrants—British, German, and Scandinavian—less restricted than those from other countries?
There was substantial ethnic prejudice in the U.S. against Southern Italians, as well as Jewish and Catholic immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe.
Britain and Germany, which both had huge overpopulation problems, put substantial pressure on the United States to admit a large number of immigrants.
Legislators were unaware of the potentially discriminatory aspects of the law until it had been passed.
Legislators believed that people who spoke English and other Germanic languages would make better citizens.
Which of the following is the most accurate characterization of the Bonus Army?
They wanted to spark a Socialist revolution in order to overcome the effects of the Great Depression.
They were largely immigrants who had little understanding of the Great Depression, and they were inflamed by Communist agitators.
They were a rag-tag bunch of ne’er-do-wells who wreaked violent havoc in the nation’s capital and made it difficult for people to do business.
They were a racially integrated group of World War I veterans who camped together many months in Washington, D.C. in order to demand early payment of bonuses.
FDR’s New Deal programs have the most in common with which of the following?
the Omaha Platform of the Populist Party
Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive agenda
the expansion of the federal government during Johnson’s Great Society
business policy under Calvin Coolidge
Why were women recruited as members of the Army and Navy during World War II?
Women engaged in any sort of combat that men engaged in.
Women were used in technical occupations such as telegraphy and nursing, which freed male recruits for combat roles.
The Army and the Navy were in competition for the number of U.S. citizens they could recruit.
Becoming a WAVE made women feel patriotic and thereby improved American morale.
How were American women discriminated against in the war effort?
Unlike male workers, they were not allowed to work at night.
Their husbands received all of their earnings.
In contrast to men, women were never given security clearances.
They were usually paid less than male workers.
Executive Order 9066 affected which of the following groups?
Japanese Americans
Mexican Americans
African Americans
Americans
The central provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
included trade unions under the antimonopoly provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
declared that no single corporation could control more than 75 percent of a given industry.
established minimum wage rates for goods produced in interstate commerce.
outlawed corporate interlocking directorates and price discrimination against different purchasers.
Two constitutional amendments, adopted in part because of World War I, were the Eighteenth, which dealt with ____, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was ____.
prohibition; an income tax
direct election of senators; woman suffrage
prohibition; woman suffrage
women suffrage; prohibition
The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by
the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.
urban immigrants' resistance to prohibition.
public anger at evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation.
the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against
capitalism.
new immigration laws passed in 1924.
the Nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850's.
the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.
The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
formally ended World War I for the United States, which had refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
set a schedule for German payment of war reparations.
condemned Japan for its unprovoked attack on Manchuria.
officially outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry and conflict.
Which landmark legislation ended segregation in all public places, nationwide?
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
the New Deal
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
By 1968, the democratic party lost the election signaling
the rise of the Silent Majority and the growing opposition to the Vietnam War
the electoral impact of more African Americans voting
unity within the country resulting from a progressive decade of change
internal migration from South to west.
In the Post WWII/EIsenhower Era the U.S. attempted to control Latin America by
providing direct economic aid to both communist and non-communist countries
carrying out covert CIA operations to control governments of Latin America
working for friendly relations with nations built on respect and autonomy
President Nixon's policy of detente
was designed to improve European defense against a possible soviet attack
began an era of relaxed tensions between the US and its two Cold War rivals: China and the Soviet Union
aimed at ending the division between Germany and Korea.
The court case that ended segregation in public schools
Brown v. Board
Plessy v. Ferguson
Miranda v. Arizona
Tinker v. DesMoines
What organization was formed to pursue world peace in 1945?
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
League of Nations
Which of the following lead to Carter's downfall as a president?
Stagflation
Watergate
Iran-Contra
Bay of Pigs
Which University saw a protest become deadly during the Vietnam War?
Ohio State
Berkeley
Kent State
NYU
President Reagan asked who to "Tear Down this Wall!"
Mikhail Gorbachav
Josef Stalin
Nikita Kruschchev
Vladimir Putin
During whose Administration do we get involved in the Persian Gulf War?
Bill Clinton
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Don't Ask to Don't Tell (DADA) discouraged which minority group from enlisting in the military?
African Americans
Latinos
Japanese
LGBT
