AP US HISTORY - Sem 2 Final Preview

The cartoon above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century

urban corruption

The primary goal of the government policy cited above was to

[Excerpt: The Dawes (Severalty) Act, 1887]

end tribal identities

During the late 19th century, western Native American life was most affected by

[Excerpt: The Dawes (Severalty) Act, 1887]

post-Civil War migrations of whites

Which of the following was most likely prohibited during the WWI years as a result of the law above?

[Source: Espionage Act, 1918]

discouraging someone from registering for the war draft

In the late 19th century, farmers had to adapt to new realities, as illustrated in the photograph above, requiring a greater dependence on

railroads

The Populist Party developed as a reaction to the growth of corporate power in agriculture and

economic instability in the farming sector

Which of the following events motivated the United States to have an expanded economic and military presence in Cuba?

Spanish-American War

Which of the following reasons does NOT represent why the US challenged Spanish authority in the Philippines?

Open door policy

What role in early 20th century world affairs does the political cartoon give the United States?

A force for the spread of democracy and prosperity

Bryan’s speech was promoting a stronger governmental role in (the)

[Excerpt: William Jennings Bryan, 1896]

American economic system

President Jackson’s “specie circular” policy and the issue expressed in Bryan’s speech are similar in that

[Excerpt: William Jennings Bryan, 1896]

The policies were meant to benefit the “common man”

Which of the following was most likely prohibited during the WWI years as a result of the law above?

[Source: Espionage Act, 1918]

clear and present danger

Which of the following factors LEAST likely influenced the trends shown in the graph?

[Graph: Urban and Rural Population of the United States, 1800-1920]

muckraking journalism

Which of the following most likely resulted from the trends shown in the graph?

[Graph: Urban and Rural Population of the United States, 1800-1920]

an increase in nativist sentiment

Which of the following best supports the answer to the previous question?

[Graph: Urban and Rural Population of the United states, 1800-1920]

the resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan

The poster was intended to

[Poster: “She’s a WOW”]

convince women that they had an essential role in the war effort

The poster’s message most directly conflicts with

[Poster: “She’s a WOW”]

the value system known as the “cult of domesticity”

The graph above expresses the least national defense spending during which time period?

[Graph: United States Defense Spending as a Percent of GDP, 1918-1953]

During the Great Depression

The graph’s fluctuation of defense spending can best be explained by which of the following?

[Graph: United States Defense Spending as a Percent of GDP, 1918-1953]

Stock market crash, Pearl Harbor attack, bombing of Hiroshima

In the excerpt above, President Wilson signaled a willingness to abandon which long-held American policy?

[Excerpt: Woodrow Wilson, Address to Congress War, April 2, 1917]

Non-involvement in European affairs

The decade after the Second World War was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

widespread student opposition to the development of nuclear weaponry

Which of the following was true of women in the five years following the Second World War?

Large numbers left their industrial jobs to make room for returning soldiers

The policy of containment, justified by George Kennan’s 1947 analysis of the international situation, called for

blocking the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence

All of the following were crises during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency EXCEPT

the Soviet Union blockading river, road, and rail traffic into West Berlin

Which of the following resulted from the Cuban missile crisis?

The Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States not to attack Fidel Castro.

Eisenhower’s concerns expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from the context of the

[Excerpt: President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell address, 1961]

Cold War

Kennedy’s views expressed in the excerpt best reflects a foreign policy built around

[Excerpt: President John Kennedy, speech in West Berlin, West Germany, 1963]

containment of communism

Kennedy’s strategies expressed in the excerpt have the most in common with which of the following?

[Excerpt: President John Kennedy, speech in West Berlin, West Germany, 1963]

Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric about the Soviet Union in the 1980s

The initial response of the United States to the outbreak of war in Korea was to

sock collective action against North Korea through the United Nations

The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to

Finance the economic reconstruction of Western Europe

Richard Nixon’s diplomatic overtures to the People’s Republic of China were motivated in part by his belief that China

had become an important global power that could not be ignored

A key diplomatic achievement of Richard M. Nixon’s presidency was

a visit to China in February 1972

The SALT, expanded trade with the Soviet Union, and President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China were all facets of the policy of

detente

In 1962, which of the following contributed most directly to a crisis in Soviet-American relations over Cuba?

The discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba

The purpose of the Truman Doctrine of 1947 was to

prevent communism from spreading further through military aggression

Which of the following most directly represents an attempt to put the principles stated in the excerpt into action?

[Excerpt: President George H. W. Bush address to Congress, March 6, 1991]

Participating in peacekeeping interventions in the Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing

The principles on human rights articulated by President Bush are most similar to

the ideas expressed by President Woodrow Wilson during and after the First World War

Which of the following events most directly led to President Bush believing that a new “world order” was emerging?

The end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union

Which of the following explanations for United States foreign policy debates after September 11, 2001, could the situation described in the excerpt best be used to support?

The national security efforts to prevent terrorism were controversial

The purpose of the excerpt could best be used to support which of the following explanations for why policies used to combat terrorism were controversial?

Some Americans worried that the freedoms of United States citizens might be violated by the efforts to stop terrorism.

Which of the following best explains a conclusion supported by the point of view expressed in the excerpt?

Terrorism challenged national security agencies

Which of the following demographic changes occurred in the United States in the three decades after 1965?

An increase in the proportion of people over the age of sixty-five

The George W. Bush administration created which of the following executive agencies?

Department of Homeland Security

The success of the new conservative movement in achieving its goals was most challenged by the

ongoing popularity of many social welfare programs

The new conservative movement most consistently criticized modern liberalism by claiming that it

threatened traditional visions of morality

Which of the following best supports Critchlow’s assertion about the Republican Party?

The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as president

Which of the following actions by later presidents was most consistent with the goals of the Reagan Revolution?

Bill Clinton’s support of welfare reform

In which of the following ways did the Reagan administration implement the “anticommunist ideology” describe in the excerpt?

Conducting a buildup of nuclear and conventional weapons

Which of the following developments during the Reagan administration could best be used as evidence to support Jacobs and Zelizer’s argument that Reagan’s ideology “was hard to translate into a lasting shift to the right in American politics”?

the continued funding of Social Security programs due to public popularity

As characterized by the excerpt, all of the following were goals of the Reagan administration EXCEPT

promoting equality for gay and lesbian Americans