AP US History Semester Exam Flashcards
(143 cards)
A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement is
Jane Addams
Which of the following is a correct statement about women in the United States society in the years 1790-1810?
They were considered critical to educating good
republican citizens
Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth?
Wealthy individuals should use their money for social betterment
The Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s was characterized by which of the following?
A growing split between those who advocated non-violence and those who favored more aggressive tactics to achieve civil rights
Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions except the
Obligation to protect the Native Americans
The poster above advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?
Portray the strikers as the heroic champions of workers and ordinary people
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson challenged the authority of which of the following?
Puritan magistrates and ministers
Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank of the United States for which of the following reasons?
They believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite
In the seventeenth century, the earliest British colonies in Virginia were saved from economic ruin by
The introduction of tobacco cultivation
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abjors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire;…and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.” The quotation above contains ideas typical of
The Great Awakening
The most important factor in Andrew Jackson’s successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his
Reputation as a hero of the War of 1812
What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?
To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man
Which of the following conflicts resulted in the successful explusion of Europeans from the upper Rio Grande region of North America for nearly a decade?
The Pueblo Revolt
The purpose of the Truman Doctrine of 1947 was to
Prevent communism from further spreading through military aggression
By passing the Navigation Acts in the 1600s and 1700s, the British government intended to
Guarantee that the British government would have a financial share of all colonial exports
The quakers were unique among the religious groups that settled in North America during the seventeenth century because they
Allowed women to speak publicly in their religious meetings and to be missionaries
The proclamation line of 1763 was designed to
Limit western expansion of colonial settlement
Colonists from which of the following European nations generally had the most cooperative relations with American Indians?
France
The Stonewall riots of 1969 were significant because they
Led to the birth of gay rights organizations around the country
Which of the following best characterizes that National Origins Act of 1924?
It established immigration quotas based on a percentage of each nationality residing in the US in 1890
The photo above most likely shows the work of the following New Deal agencies?
CCC
Before 1800, which of the following European imports had the greatest impact of the lives of the Plain Indians?
Horses
The works of which of the following were integral to the Harlem Renaissance?
Claude McKay, Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
Allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there