APUSH Final

The fact that a former British prime minister expressed the ideas in the excerpt to an audience in the United States helped promote which of the following?

The participation of both Britain and the United States in an international collective Security system

A key significance of Churchill’s purpose in the excerpt was that it helped prompt the United States to

provide financial support to democratic nations in Western Europe to help restore a market economy

Which of the following was most responsible for the changed shown between 1938 and 1942 on the chart above?

Industrial mobilization related to the Second World War

Which of the following arguments at the time most challenged the viewpoint in the image?

Tax cuts and reducing the influence of government would benefit the public

The following cartoon criticizes which of the following policies of President Reagan?

reducing regulation of business and industry

All of the following contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919 EXCEPT

the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support the ideas expressed in the image?

Managers and owners of business enterprises

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?

the transformation of the United States into an industrial society

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the?

Midwest and Northeast

Which of the following claims is supported by the arguments made by both Levine and Langguth?

Local political tactics served to deny African Americans their rights

Which of the following arguments about Reconstruction policies would both authors most likely disagree with?

With Republicans in retreat, Southern Democrats grew more supportive of Reconstruction policies

By the 1870s, which of the following most reflected the continuation of the trend depicted on the maps?

The completion of transcontinental railroads

The development of the railroads as described in the excerpt had which of the following effects on westward expansion in the late 1800s?

New commercial centers and communities emerged along rail lines

The opinion in the excerpt can best be used to support which of the following arguments about the Fourteenth Amendment?

It was necessary to protect the civil rights of African Americans

The situation of the excerpt could be best used by a historian to support which of the following explanations of changes in society during the Gilded Age?

New scientific theories of race emerged to justify segregation

“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply

as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the

manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the

man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren.’’

These sentiments are most characteristic of

the Gospel of Wealth

Which of the following contexts is most helpful for understanding the situation depicted by the image?

the economy focused on the production of consumer goods

Which of the following best explains a conclusion about United States foreign policy in the early 1900s supported

by the point of view expressed in the excerpt?

Political leaders continued to promote the earlier idea of predestined national expansion.

The speech’s point of view can best be used to support which of the following historical arguments about the early

1900s?

Some Americans advocated economic development of overseas countries in order to justify imperialism.

The purpose of the Liberty Loan Campaign illustrated in the drawing above was to

finance American involvement in the First World War

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support the ideas expressed in the image?

Managers and owners of business enterprises

During the Great Depression, “Hoovervilles” were

shantytowns of unemployed and homeless people

Which of the following was most responsible for the change shown between 1938 and 1942 on the chart above?

Industrial mobilization related to the Second World War

The fact that a former British prime minister expressed the ideas in the excerpt to an audience in the United States helped promote which of the following?

The participation of both Britain and the United States in an international collective security system

A key significance of Churchill’s purpose in the excerpt was that it helped prompt the United States to

 provide financial support to democratic nations in Western Europe to help restore a market economy

Which of the following factors most directly contributed to the economic trend that Patterson describes?

A surge in the national birthrate

One significant result of the economic trend described in the excerpt was the

rise of the Sun Belt as a political and economic force

The situation depicted in the map had the most in common with which of the following earlier processes?

 Federal attempts to guarantee rights for formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction

Which of the following was a reason for the patterns depicted on the map?

Many counties and states actively resisted implementing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Which of the following arguments at the time most directly challenged the viewpoint in the image?

Tax cuts and reducing the influence of government would benefit the public.

The cartoon criticizes which of the following policies of President Reagan?

Reducing regulation of business and industry

All of the following contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919 EXCEPT

the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?

French military and financial assistance

Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth endorsed which of the following views?

Wealthy individuals have a duty to return their fortunes to society.

The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka stated that segregated schools were unconstitutional because

separation of students based solely on race constituted inherently unequal treatment

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

profit economically

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from

the United States Supreme Court

The Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s was characterized by which of the following?

A growing split between those who advocated nonviolence and those who favored more aggressive tactics to achieve civil rights

Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

The era from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War was characterized by

periodic economic panic and depression

A key purpose of Henry Clay’s American System was to

 develop a national economy by improving transportation

Which of the following correctly describes the Committee on Public Information?

It was established to mobilize domestic support for the war effort during the First World War.

The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governor who failed to protect them against American Indian raids led to

 Bacon’s Rebellion

The Federalist papers were written in order to

attain ratification of the Constitution

The United States home front during the First World War was marked by an increase in all of the following EXCEPT

support of individual liberties by the Supreme Court

 Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a study of

immigrant urban poverty and despair in 1890’s

Which of the following led to increased United States involvement in the war in Vietnam?

Congressional approval of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

President Jackson resisted the admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because he

feared that debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery

A major reason why Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing Louisiana from France was that he

hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available to future generations

The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to

finance the economic reconstruction of Western Europe

A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay area were

indentured servants

The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it

closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery

All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that it

was financed by private corporations without government assistance

Which of the following helped to convince several states to ratify the United States Constitution?

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton anonymously published essays explaining the benefits of a strong federal government.

Which of the following sought to address the Great Depression by reducing production?

The Agricultural Adjustment Act

A United States response to the successful orbiting of Sputnik in 1957 was to

expand federal aid into education

Which of the following is a major change in the status of women that occurred in the 1920s?

They began to vote in national elections.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

The search for new sources of wealth in the Caribbean

Historical developments such as that depicted in the image helped advance which of the following?

The spread of Spanish influence in the Western Hemisphere