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APUSH Exam Final
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Which of the following was NOT part of the coalition that comprised the Populists in the late 19th century? | Grain-elevator operators |
The U.S. entered WWII... | after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. |
The Constitutional Convention's Great Compromise of 1787 addressed... | how states would be represented in Congress. |
In the election of 1884, the Republican Party was divided into conservative and reform-minding factions known as... | Mugwumps and Half-Breeds. |
Which one of the following was NOT associated with the war in Vietnam? | General Douglas MacArthur |
Which of the following is an example of government corruption in the post-Reconstruction era? | The Credit Mobilier scandal |
Which of the following was NOT a problem that faced the U.S. immediately after the end of WWII? | Rebuilding sections of the nation that had been destroyed by the war |
The event that sparked the outbreak of the American Civil War... | was South Carolina's attack on Fort Sumter. |
The Know-Nothings... | was a nativist movement in the mid-19th century. |
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution... | guaranteed the right to vote for any American citizen regardless of race or gender. |
The first motion picture to use sound was... | The Jazz Singer. |
The power and strength of industrial unions in achieving their objectives in dispute with management can be clearly seen in which of the following? | The Lawerence Textile Workers' strike |
Which of the following occurred during the presidential administration of George Washington? | The Whiskey Rebellion |
In the 1920's, the re-born Ku Klux Klan... | turned its wrath on Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and blacks. |
"Muckrakers" was a derisive term used by Theodore Roosevelt to describe... | journalists, whom he claimed were sensationalizing their stores of corrupt business practices. |
The Norris - La Guardia Act of 1932... | outlawed yellow dog contracts. |
In the 19th century, the federal government helped to settle the Great Plains with the passage of which of the following acts? | The Homestead Act |
In his Farewell Address, Washington recommended... | that the U.S. should maintain a policy of neutrality with other nations. |
Which of the following was the only other president, other than President Clinton, to be impeached by the House of Representatives? | Andrew Johnson |
Which of the following was NOT an objective of Populists? | Abolishing the graduated income tax |
Those Northernesr who traveled to the South following the Civil War, some for personal gain and some to help reform the South, were referred to as... | carpetbaggers. |
Which of the following time periods best corresponds to the Gilded Age? | 1870-1900 |
Which of the following was a member fo the Central Powers during WWI? | Germany |
Which of the following was NOT one of Secretary of Treasury ALexander Hamilton's economic programs? | A tax on exports |
The Monroe Doctrine... | warned the European powers to not attempt re-colonization in the Western Hemisphere. |
Which of the following would an advocate of states' rights NOT use to support his view? | The decisions of the Marshall Court |
The first state to secede from the Union was... | South Carolina. |
Which of the following did President Eisenhower do during his two terms as president? | He sent troops to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in 1957. |
Which of the following are NOT associated with Radical Republican Reconstruction? | The Jim Crow Laws |
The impressment of American sailors was an important cause of which of the following? | The War of 1812 |
Which of the following did the U.S. NOT intervene in the early 20th century? | Argentina |
Which of the following established the Civil Service Commission? | The Pendleton Act |
The Essex decision, the Leopard-Chesapeake incident, and the Berlin Decree are all associated with events that led to which of the following? | The War of 1812 |
Margaret Sanger was an important reformer who... | advocated in favor of women's reproductive rights. |
Which of the following played a major role in the First Great Awakening? | George Whitefield |
Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association... | found considerable support among blacks in northern urban areas. |
The Dred Scott decision... | reconfirmed that African-Americans were not citizens. |
All of the following are true about the American System EXCEPT... | It was strongly supported by Southern political leaders. |
Democratic Party Congressmen who opposed Lincoln's goal of forcefully restoring the Confederate States to the Union were called... | copperheads. |
Which of the following initially supported the New Deal but later became a harsh critic of Roosevelt and his New Deal policy? | Senator Huey Long |
Which of the following was NOT a border state? | Ohio |
Which of the following was an early 20th century leader whose education reform espoused by a "learn-by-doing" approach to education? | John Dewey |
All of the following are true about the Bill of Rights EXCEPT... | It was not supported by the anti-federalists. |
Which of the following was the deciding factor in the U.S. decision to enter WWI? | The Zimmerman Note |
Which of the following made a significant contribution to assembly-line mass production? | Henry Ford |
Jackie Robinson... | broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. |
Which of the following is associated with the post-WWI Civil Rights Movement? | Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas |
Which of the following would NOT have been supported by a Southern expansionist in the antebellum period? | The Walker Expedition |
Which of the following is the name for President Harry Truman's reform program? | The Fair Deal |
Which of the following did President Andrew Jackson veto because he maintained it was unconstitutional? | The Maysville Road Bill |
Which of the following time periods are associated with the radical Republicans? | the Reconstruction period |
The Treaty of Tordesillas... | was the papacy's plan to prevent conflict between Portugal and Spain. |
The Tet offensive is considered one of the turning points of... | the Vietnam War. |
All of the following characterized New Immigration, or the second wave of immigration from the 1890's to 1930's EXCEPT... | the Chinese. |
Booker T. Washingon believed that... | blacks should forgo political equality until they achieved eocnomic equality. |
The major goal of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 was... | to prevent the U.S. from becoming involved in another global conflict. |
The Republican Party in the antebellum period was comprised of all of the following EXCEPT... | the Southern planter-slaveholders. |
The Federal Reserve Act... | was the first major reform of the nation's banking system since the Civil War. |
The Navigation Laws of 1660 and 1663 were designed to... | enhance Britain's economic position at the expense of the United States. |
Which of the following happened as a result of the Spanish-American War? | The U.S. gained control of the Philippines. |
The first Southern state to be re-admitted into the Union was... | Tennessee. |
The Hartford Convention was convened... | by New Englanders that were opposed to the War of 1812. |
Which of the following was a characteristic of the antebellum period? | The South was opposed to a high protective tariff. |
Which of the following did NOT occur during the Cold War? | The Palmer raids |
The Emancipation Proclamation... | abolished slavery in those states that were in open rebellion against the U.S. government. |
The Saturday Night Massacre... | was an event related to the Watergate scandal. |
The Democrats... | did NOT evolve from the Whigs. |
WHich of the following was NOT associated with a slave rebellion? | The Ludlow Massacre |
The Albany Congress of 1754 was an assembly of 7 colonies that sought to improve relations with which Indian tribe? | the Iroquois tribe |
Which of the following was an immediate cause of WWI? | The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
Which of the following presidents initiated Operation Desert Storm? | George Bush |
Because of a Soviet boycott of the United Nations in 1950... | troops were sent to assist South Korea after it had been invaded by North Korea. |
Charles Fremont... | was the Republican Party's first presidential candidate. |
All of the following are a group of contemporaries EXCEPT... | Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, and William McKinley. |
Richard Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign because... | as governor of Maryland he had received payoffs from businessmen, which he did not. |
Which of the following was an abolitionist who believed in using violence to destroy the institution of slavery? | John Browne |
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the North American Free Trade Alliance are modern day examples of the U.S. practice of... | internationalism. |
Which of the following was the first woman to run for vice president? | Geraldine Ferraro |
Huey Long | was a Louisiana senator who posed a political challenge to FDR's reelection. |
All off the following was a reason for U.S. participation in the Spanish-American War EXCEPT... | Spanish dictator Franco's friendship with Nazi Germany. |
Francis Perkins... | was the first female cabinet member in U.S. history. |
All of the following are associated with the presidency of Jimmy Carter EXCEPT... | The Limited Test Ban Treaty. |
In the Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817... | the Great Lakes region was demilitarized. |
The Keating-Owen Act of 1916... | banned from interstate commerce products made by child labor, under the age of 14. |
President Lincoln... | sought to contain the spread of slavery, not abolish it. |
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" led Congress to pass which of the following acts? | the Pure Food and Drug Act |
The Anaconda Plan... | was the Union's military strategy for defeating the Confederacy. |
Critics referred to which of the following as "Seward's Folly?" | The purchase of Alaska |
The Whiskey Rebellion took place in 1794 when... | Pennsylvania farmers refused to pay an excise tax on liquor. |
Which of the following is associated with the transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century? | Henry David Thoreau |
Which of the following was an effect of the Revolutionary War? | The confiscation of Loyalists' property |
The Gag Resolution was adopted by the U.S. Senate in order to... | prevent senators from discussing abolitionist proposals. |
All of the following is associated with economic and political corruption in the post-Civil War era EXCEPT... | the Teapot Dome. |
The Brain Trust was a name given to... | Franklin D. Roosevelt's political advisors. |
Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense... | provided intellectual justification for American independence. |
The Elkins Act of 1903... | strengthened the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. |
Which of the following was a radical trade union? | The Industrial Workers of the World |
Native Americans received their citizenship rights... | from an act of Congress in 1924. |
In the Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Court ruled... | that Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce. |
All of the following contribute to the expansion of U.S. industrialism in the late 1800's EXCEPT... | the demise of the capitalist class as a political force. |
Which of the following improved U.S. relations with the Philippines? | The Tydings-McDiffie Act |
The state law limiting max working hours for women was... | Muller v. Oregon. |
General Douglas MacArthur was dismissed as a commander of the United Nation's forces fighting in the Korean War because... | he publicly criticized Truman's policy. |
Which of the following was passed during Wilson's presidency? | The Federal Reserve Act |
Keynesian economics... | is synonymous with the Roosevelt administration's deficit spending in order to stimulate the economy. |
The Taft-Hartley Act... | was passed by COngress over President Truman's veto. |
The Bonus Army... | demanded that the federal government pay their WWI bonuses immediately. |
All of the following ideas would be examples of Puritain beliefs EXCEPT... | Everyone is encouraged to interpret the Bible. |
Which of the following was the first U.S. Secretary of War (now Defense)? | Henry Knox |
Ronald Reagan's military objectives included... | the construction of the extensive anti-missile satellite system. |
Britain's Proclamation of 1763... | prevented the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
In 1947, President Truman responded to the request from two nations for military assitance to fight communist groups attempting to overthrow... | Greece and Turkey. |
W. E. D. DuBois... | led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
"Bleeding Kansas"... | involved a pre-Civil War conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. |
Which of the following hurt President Wilson's efforts to win Senate approval? | His failure to take a Republican Party leader on the treaty mission to France |
Al Smith lost the presidential election because... | of his Catholicism, which cost him Protestant votes. |
The Populist Party platform included all of the following EXCEPT... | a gold- or silver-based economy. |
Mercantilism refers to an economic policy that emphasizes... | establishing colonies and a favorable balance of trade for the mother country. |
The rags-to-riches stores of the Gilded Age were written by... | Horatio Alger. |
All of the following acts were passed in order to promote Britain's mercantilist policy EXCEPT... | the Virginia Resolutions |
In the mid-19th century, strong opposition arose to immigrants who came from... | Ireland and Germany. |
The precedent for using federal troops to break up a major strike was set by... | Rutherford B. Hayes. |
Which of the following statements best describes the U.S. government's policy in the Spanish Civil War? | The U.S. maintained a policy of neutrality. |
Which of the following Supreme Court cases was heard by the Marshall Court? | McCulloch v. Maryland |
The president of the Confederate States of America was... | Jefferson Davis. |
"Dixiecrats"... | was a faction of Southern Democrats who opposed their party. |
After the Civil War, the North was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT... | social turmoil as millions of Northerners were displaced by the war. |
War hawks were... | those Congressmen who supported the war against Britain in 1812. |
The "Revolution of 1800" refers to... | the election of Thomas Jefferson. |
A weakness of the Articles of Confederation was... | nine of thirteen states were needed to pass legislation. |
The president that sent a naval force to fight against the Barbary pirates... | Thomas Jefferson. |
Which New Deal agency gave legal protection to labor unions, set up the National Labor Relations Board, and gave workers the right to bargain collectively? | NRA, Section 7 |
The Dawes-Severalty Act of 1887 was passed in order to... | break up Native AMerican tribes by offering them lands out West. |
Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana territory from France was unexpected in that... | he was a strict constructionist. |
Which of the following groups of political leaders was opposed to U.S. entry into WWI? | Jeanette Rankin, Robert LaFollette, and George Norris |
A major riot occurred in NYC in July 1983, which was caused by... | strong opposition to the military draft. |
The Camp David Agreement is associated with the presidency of... | Jimmy Carter. |
The only Democrat elected president between 1861 and 1912 was... | Grover Cleveland. |
Which of the following statements best articulates President Andrew Jackson's policy toward Native Americans? | Jackson favored a policy whereby Native Americans would migrate west. |
The military turning point in the American Revolution occurred as a result of which of the following battles? | The Battles of Saratoga |