APUSH Midterm MCQ

AP U.S. History multiple choice question practice

the House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when

no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral college

as president, John Quincy Adams was known for all of the following except

his support of the spoils system

Andrew Jackson' Democratic political philosophy was based on his

support of states' rights

The purpose behind the spoils system was

to reward political supporters with public office

the nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted over

tariff policy

in response to SC's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson wanted to

dispatch naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification

In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following except

refuse to own slaves

The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was

forced removal

supporters of the Whig party included all of the following except

backers of Andrew Jackson

Americans moved into Texas

after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and and Stephen Austin

When the Irish flocked to the US in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

were too poor to move West and buy land

German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to

preserve their own language and culture

Native-born Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would

establish the Catholic Church at the expense of Protestantism

All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except

they worked dive days a week for eight hours a day

the Deist faith embraced all of the following except

the concept of original sin

All of the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it

focused on a rational experience of faith instead of an emotional one

Unitarians endorsed the concept of

free will and salvation through good works

the original prophet of the Mormon religion was

Joseph Smith

New England reformer Dorothea Dix is notable for her efforts on behalf of

prison and asylum reform

All told, only about __ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slave holding family

1/4

For free blacks living in the North

discrimination was common

in 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship__

The Amistad

Oregon country was claimed by all of the following nations except

France

In the 1840s. the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called ______________

Manifest Destiny

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, included

US payment of $15 million for the cession of Northern Mexico

the Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War

In 1848 the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except

giving women the right to vote

According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

the people in any given territory

The Underground Railroad consisted of

an informal network of homes where laves could hide on their escape to freedom

the most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning

the new Fugitive Slave Law

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by

popular sovereignty

In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that

protection of slavery was guaranteed in all territories of the West

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

anti-Catholic and anti-foreign attitudes

the Decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

proslavery southerners

Stephen Douglas argues in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln Douglas Debates that

slavery would stay down if the people voted it don no matter what the Supreme Court said

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state

In the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union party was formed

as a middle-of-the-road party fearing for the break up of the union

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in SC

rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede

The Constitutional Convention was called to

revise the Articles of Confederation

The delegate whose contributions to the Philadelphia Convention were so notable that he has been called the "Father of the Constitution" was

James Madison

The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable sceme for

apportioning congressional representation

Under the Constitution, the president of the US was elected by a majority vote of the

electoral college

the Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South controversy over slavery through the

3/5 compromise

The one branch of govt. elected directly by the people in the un-amended Constitution is the

House of Representatives

The new Constitution established the idea that the only legitimate government was one based on

the consent of the governed

The founders failed to eliminate slavery because

a fight over slavery might destroy national unity

In interpreting the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton

none of the above (1. believed it could not be amended 2. supported strong state govts. 3. favored loose construction 4. supported strict construction)

The new Constitution did not create

a cabinet

The Bill of Rights as intended to protect __ against the potential tyranny of__.

individual liberties; a strong central govt.

Al of the following were true of Alexander Hamilton except

his intelligence was constantly under question

The Whiskey Rebellion f 1794 arose in southwestern PA when the federal govt.

levied an excise tax on whiskey

Britain made neutrality very difficult for the United States during the French and British conflicts of the 1790s by

seizing American merchant ships in the West Indies

In Jay's Treaty, the British

promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest

The US acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River, the rights of depsit at New Orleans, and the large disputed territory north of Florida in

the Pinckney Treaty

Foreign relations between the US and France deteriorated in the late 1790s over

French seizure of American merchant ships

the main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to

silence and punish critics of John Adams

The Federalist dominate Congress's Alien Act was aimed at___, whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at___.

recent French immigrants; newspapers

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to

the Alien and Sedition Acts

Hamiltonian Federalists advocated

a strong central government

To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizen of a republic was an

independent farmer

The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except

believers in a strong central government

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties

John Marshall, as chief justice, of the United States, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of the govt. by

asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation, giving the Supereme Court the power to determine constitutionality

Napoleon chose to sell LA territory to the US for all of the following reasons except

he was afraid the Spanish might seize LA in a new war

TJ was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the LA territory from France b/c

he believed that the purchase was unconstitutional

Who served as the crucial guide, aiding Lewis and Clark in their expedition through the LA territory?

the Shoshone woman Sacajawea

The British policy of impressment was a kind of

forced enlistment

The British impressed American sailors into the British navy b.c

they needed more men

to deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, TJ

enacted an economic embargo

The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except

retaliate for the British burning of DC

The battle of Tippecanoe resulted in

the death of the dream of an Indian confederacy

America's campaign against Canada in War of 1812 was

poorly conceived because it split up the military and ultimately a failure.

The Battle of New Orleans

saw British troops defeated by Andrew Jackson's soldiers

At the pace of conference at Ghent, the British began to withdraw many of its earlier demands for all of the following reasons except

the American victory at New Orleans

Te outcome of the War of 1812 was a

stimulus to the patriotic nationalism in the US

With the demise of the Federalist party

the Democratic-Republicans established one-party rule

As a result of the Missouri Compromise

slavery was banned north of the 36" 30' in the LA purchase territory

All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise except that

extremists in both the North and South were not satisified

The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had in common all of the following characteristics except

an unwillingness to subjugate others

Native American civilization was least highly developed in

North America

The term "Colombian Exchange" describes

the transfer of plants, animals, and disease between the Old and New Worlds

which did not contribute to the emergence of a new interdependent global economic system?

European explorers' desire to create new cultures

VA, MD, the Carolinas, GA were similar in that they were all

economically devoted to growing commercial agriculture products, often a staple cash crop

All of the following were true of the Pilgrims except

they arrived at their destination with no casualities

Economically, the colony of PA

had an agricultural economy based on food crops

English yeoman who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called

indentured servants

The Salem witchcraft trials were

the result of unsettled social and religious tensions in rapidly evolving MA

In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England

had a more diversified mercantile economy

by the 18th century the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on___, the Chesapeake colonies relied on___, the southern colonies relied on____

cattle and grain; tobacco; rice and indigo

The religious revival movement in North America, which focused on the emotional experience of faith and challenged older, established and "colder religious authorities, was called

the Great Awakening

One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was

self-taxation through representation

The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was

fur trapping

Which of the following were allies of the Iroquois during the French and Indian War

Britain

When William Pitt became PM during the seven years' war, he

focused the full might of the British empire on North America

The first Navigation Laws were designed to

keep Britain in control of its colonies' trade

The British parliament passed the Stamp Act to

raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense

When colonists shouted "No taxation without representation" they were denying Parliament's power

to levy revenue-raising taxes on the colonies

The Intolerable Acts

closed Boston Harbor

Th Boston Tea Party of 1773

was a response to the New Tea Act

The colonists faced all of the following weaknesses in the War for Independence except

the use of of mostly European officers