APUSH 2018 International Practice Exam MCQ

The development that brought corn to the attention of botanists is best known as the ____

Columbian Exchange

The description of corn in the excerpt best reflects WOTF?

Assumptions about the superiority of European culture

The confederacy formed to "exasperate the Indians against the English" was motivated primarily by which of the following?

Dispossession of Wampanoag land and threats to their sovereignty

WOTF best characterizes relations between the English and American Indians in New England following Metacom's War (King Phillip's War)?

Dramatic decline and dispersion of the American Indian population

Compared with French and Spanish interactions with American Indians, English interaction with American Indians more often promoted ______

Separation between the groups

WOTF was correct in 1774 according to "A Plan of a Proposed Union Between Great Britain and the Colonies"?

Some members of the First Continental Congress sought a compromise between submission to British authority and independence.

The key concern that Galloway's plan (the proposed union between Great Britain and the Colonies, 1774) was designed to address was the __

Lack of American representation in the British Parliament

The ideas expressed in the excerpt (Petition for freedom to the MA council and House of Reps, 1777) contributed to which of the following?

The adoption of plans for gradual emancipation in the North

WOTF developments from the 1800s emerged from ideas most similar to the excerpt?

The ratification of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution

WOTF most likely helped to prompt the petition in the excerpt?

American colonists' Declaration of Independence from Britain

The ideas expressed in the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the ___

Relationship between the federal government and the states

The excerpt most directly expresses an economic perspective that ____

Prioritized regional interests

Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?

The secession of most Southern states

The language and themes of the excerpt (Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848) were most directly inspired by the ______

Declaration of Independence

Which other "Righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?

Abolitionism

In the decades following the Civil War, the woman's rights movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on ___

Achieving the right to vote

WOTF most directly contributed to the "Sharp increase of immigration after 1845" referenced in the excerpt?

Crop failures and revolutions in Europe

WOTF could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the excerpt that "ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue" of the period?

Growing concern about the political and cultural influence of Catholic immigrants

The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in which other period?

The period from after the First World War through the 1920s

After 1863, WOTF most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the Gettysburg Address refers to?

Ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

WOTF most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the Gettysburg Address?

Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories

Lincoln's main purpose in the Gettysburg Address was to ___

Gain continued support for the war effort

WOTF most directly led to the changes described in the excerpt? (Photographer took a photo of a carpentry shop near a new brick manufactory)

Technological innovations in the production of goods

The conditions described in the excerpt most directly contributed to the ____

Growth of an organized labor movement

WOTF is one important continuity in urban life in the US throughout the nineteenth century?

Immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce

The image ("As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?") was created most directly in response to ___

The power gained by urban political machines

WOTF changes to the US during the nineteenth century most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

The rapid growth of cities

During the late nineteenth century, politicians such as the one depicted in the image most likely would have opposed WOTF?

Calls for reform to local and state governments

The ideas addressed in the image ("Columbia's Easter Bonnet") most directly relate to ____

Debates about US acquisition of overseas territories

WOTF most directly led to the circumstances illustrated by the image?

The US victory in the Spanish-American War

The ideas expressed in the image reveal that in 1901, WOTF was most true of the US?

Interventionism had become a more prevalent feature of foreign policy.

The developments referenced by the image most directly contributed to US involvement in

The suppression of an independence movement in the Philippines

This excerpt ("Progressive Party Platform," 1912) suggests that Progressives in the early 20th century most typically sought to____

Challenge political inequality

Progressivism, as described in the excerpt, has the most common with WOTF later domestic party initiatives?

Lyndon Johnson's protection of voting rights during the Great Society

WOTF groups is most credited with advancing progressivism?

Middle-class women

The "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt of the Black Chicago Renaissance was most directly a response to the experience of _____

Economic depression

Before moving to Chicago, the people described in the excerpt most likely were engaged in which of the following?

Sharecropping or tenant farming

WOTF most likely contributed to the decline of the "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt?

Anticommunist measures during the Cold War

WOTF most directly contributed to Roosevelt's view that freedom from want was necessary?

The experience of domestic and global economic upheavals during the 1930s

WOTF most immediately increased enthusiasm in the US for upholding the freedoms outlined in FDR's speech?

The attack on the US at Pearl Harbor

The rise of "domestic containment" most directly contributed to WOTF characteristics of the US society during the Cold War period?

Greater cultural homogeneity

The pattern described of Americans who "got married, moved to the suburbs, and had babies" most directly contributed to WOTF long term developments?

The rise of youth rebellion through the counterculture

A desire for greater national security in the US emerged immediately after the Second World War because of fear of WOTF?

The spread of international communism

The overall trend from 1960 to 1970 on the graph resulted from all of the following EXCEPT the _____

Adoption of digital technologies

A development related to the overall trends from 1960 to 1980 depicted on the graph was the _____

Increase in public concern regarding air and water quality

The overall trend from 1980 to 2010 depicted on the graph was most directly caused by the ______

Increasing integration of the US into the world economy

The overall trend from 1980 to 2010 depicted on the graph most directly led to the decline in ____

Union membership

WOTF most directly contributed to the sentiments expressed in the excerpt (Students for a Democratic Society, 1962)?

Social inequalities exposed during the Civil Rights movement

Based on the excerpt, Students for a Democratic Society would most likely support ____

A decrease in the US intervention in Asia

Reagan's administration implemented the ideas expressed in his speech for party nomination by _____

Reducing regulation of industry

WOTF would be most likely to support the view expressed in Reagan's party nomination?

White males in the Sunbelt

The excerpt reflects many Americans' belief at the time that the federal government _____

Had been unable to solve social and economic problems

WOTF earlier trends was most similar to the pattern described in the excerpt (Globalization and Its Discontents, 2002)?

The development of Atlantic world commerce in the 1600s and 1700s

WOTF contributed most directly to the trend described in the excerpt?

The spread of computer technology and Internet use