AP US History Key Concepts: Colonial to Reconstruction Era

The development that brought "corne" to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is best know as the..

Columbian Exchange

Gerard's description of "corne" in the excerpt best reflects which of the following?

Inability to find uses for North American crops

A major implication of Las Casas' argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the

epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans

Which of the following most directly resulted from the change in the Native American populations described by Las Casas?

The Spanish introduced new Crops into the Americas, altering the native diet.

In their colonization of the Americas, the Spanish used the encomienda system to...

organize and regulate Native American labor

The excerpts from Anne Hutchinson best represents which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s?

Efforts by colonial women to establish independent communities separate from men

The ideas expressed in the excerpts have the most in common with which of the following?

The women's liberation movement of the 1970s, then women sought to achieve gender equality in the workforce

The ideas expressed in the passage above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in United States history?

The racial stereotyping and categorization of American Indian groups

The beliefs and concerns expressed in the excerpt above most immediately resulted in which of the following?

Increased intensity and destructiveness in European-American Indian warfare

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

Which of the following best characterizes relations between the English and American Indians in New England following Metacom'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 and war between the groups

Which of the following most shaped the events described in the excerpt?

The establishment of African slavery in the Spanish colonies

The conflict described in the excerpt led primarily to which of the following changes in Spanish colonial policy?

Widespread use of warfare to maintain control of Native Americans

English colonization patterns in North America differed most from Spanish colonization in that the English...

adopted some of Native Americans' more egalitarian views on the roles of women

The excerpt most strongly suggests that in 1774 which of the following was correct?

American colonists felt the need to unite against the threat from American Indians.

The key concern that Galloway's plan designed to address was the...

lack of American representation in the British Parliament

The ideas expressed in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?

The adoption of plans for gradual emancipation in the North

Which of the following developments from the 1800s emerged from ideas most similar to those expressed in the excerpt?

Efforts by American Indians to achieve political sovereignty through treaties with the United States government.

Which of the following most likely helped to prompt the petition in the excerpt?

American colonists' declaration of independence from Britain

Which of the following is the best interpretation of the meaning of the political cartoon to the left?

His domineering nature trampled the Constitution and use of the veto to create one-man rule.

Which of the following actions by President Andrew Jackson best supports the interpretation of his presidency in the cartoon shown above?

Refusal to support the admission of Texas to the union as a slave state

The ideas expressed in the excerpt 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

Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?

The belief in White cultural and political superiority

In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?

Manifest Destiny

The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?

Increasing division between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories.

The language and themes of the excerpt 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 began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on...

achieving the right to vote

Which of the following most directly contributed to "the sharp increase in immigration after 1845" referenced in the excerpt?

Crop failures and revolutions in Europe

Which of the following 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 proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?

The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions

The sentiments expressed in the proclamation would have been most widely condemned by White residents of...

coastal South Carolina

The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?

Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery

The sentiments such as those depicted in the cartoon above most directly contributed to which of the following?

The willingness of abolitionists to use violence to achieve their goals

Which group was most likely the intended audience of the cartoon above?

Members of the Republican Party

The cartoon above is best understood in the context of the.

variety of proposals leaders made that ultimately failed to reduce sectional conflict.

The cartoon shows the effects of what 1854 law that is forcing slavery down the throat of the freesoiler?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The politicians doing the forcing... are supporters of what political position on slavery in the territories?

Popular Sovereignty

The idea of the expansion of slavery as seen in the Democratic platform saw all the following as places for this expansion EXCEPT...

Hawaii

The passage above best serves as evidence of which of the following?

The changing purpose of the Civil War

Which of the following actions of the Lincoln administration best exemplified the belief expressed in the quotation above?

The decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of this speech is referencing which of the following documents?

Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

The image most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction..

temporarily altered race relations in the South

The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the

expansion of federal power

During Reconstruction, which of the following was a change that took place in the South?

African Americans were able to exercise political rights

The excerpt above would best serve as evidence of which of the following?

The social and economic continuities that characterized the antebellum and post-Civil War South

The practices described in the excerpt above most directly led to..

The progressive stripping away of the rights of African American

The excerpt above best serves as evidence of which of the following?

The increasing conflict between the U.S. government and American Indians as the country expanded territorially

The excerpt quoted above would be most helpful to historians analyzing the...

U.S. government interaction and conflict with American Indians.

The beliefs and concerns expressed in the excerpt above resulted most directly in which of the following?

increased settlement in areas forcibly taken from American Indians.

The excerpt above is best understood in the context of...

The passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Which of the following was a major consequence of the ideas expressed in the passage above?

The movement for women's suffrage was temporarily halted in order to concentrate on granting African Americans and immigrants equal protection under the laws.

Which of the following most directly resulted from the excerpt above?

The South's environment and infrastructure was increasingly destroyed

The excerpt above would be most useful to historians analyzing the..

strategies and leadership of the Union Army.

Which of the following cultural and social shifts resulted most directly from the trends described in the excerpt?

The emergence of new ideas about the proper roles of husbands and wives.

Which of the following pieces of historical evidence from the United States census could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?

Data showing changes in the number of textile mills

Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution?

The emergence of new forms of transportation