APUSH Exam Multiple Choice Practice
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
A majority of the early English migrants to the
Chesapeake Bay area were
(A) families with young children
(B) indentured servants
(C) wealthy gentlemen
(D) merchants and craftsmen
(E) disfranchised Catholics - ✔✔(B) indentured servants
Which of the following best describes Deism?
(A) A belief that the course of each individual's
life is predestined by God
(B) A concept of toleration advanced by Quaker
preachers
(C) The belief that God had created the world but
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,allowed it to operate through the laws of
nature
(D) A principle taught in colonial New England
colleges
(E) A radical theory encouraging free love and
communal living - ✔✔(C) The belief that God had created the world but
allowed it to operate through the laws of
nature
France decided to aid the North American
colonies in their war for independence primarily
because France
(A) was working to establish democratic rule
in European countries
(B) saw the war as an opportunity to end the
international slave trade
(C) wanted to weaken the British empire
(D) was allied with Spain, which had already
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,joined the colonists' cause
(E) had long been the primary trading partner
of the North American colonies - ✔✔(C) wanted to weaken the British empire
In the eighteenth century, British colonists
wishing to settle west of the Appalachians
were principally motivated by
(A) the comparatively small numbers of
American Indians in the old Northwest
(B) the low price and easy availability of land
(C) freedom from the threat of Spanish
authorities
(D) a desire to escape overcrowded cities along
the Atlantic coast
(E) promises of tax breaks for those willing to
establish frontier settlements - ✔✔(B) the low price and easy availability of land
British colonists in North America objected to the
Stamp Act primarily because it
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, (A) threatened the free press
(B) disrupted trade with the West Indies
(C) closed the colonial courts
(D) enriched corrupt officials
(E) taxed them without their consent - ✔✔(E) taxed them without their consent
African Americans who fled the violence of the
Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start
anew in Kansas were known as
(A) exodusters
(B) homesteaders
(C) scalawags
(D) jayhawkers
(E) the Colored Farmers' National Alliance - ✔✔(A) exodusters
President George Washington's Farewell Address
set a course for the nation by
(A) endorsing the economic policies of the
Federalists
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
A majority of the early English migrants to the
Chesapeake Bay area were
(A) families with young children
(B) indentured servants
(C) wealthy gentlemen
(D) merchants and craftsmen
(E) disfranchised Catholics - ✔✔(B) indentured servants
Which of the following best describes Deism?
(A) A belief that the course of each individual's
life is predestined by God
(B) A concept of toleration advanced by Quaker
preachers
(C) The belief that God had created the world but
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,allowed it to operate through the laws of
nature
(D) A principle taught in colonial New England
colleges
(E) A radical theory encouraging free love and
communal living - ✔✔(C) The belief that God had created the world but
allowed it to operate through the laws of
nature
France decided to aid the North American
colonies in their war for independence primarily
because France
(A) was working to establish democratic rule
in European countries
(B) saw the war as an opportunity to end the
international slave trade
(C) wanted to weaken the British empire
(D) was allied with Spain, which had already
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,joined the colonists' cause
(E) had long been the primary trading partner
of the North American colonies - ✔✔(C) wanted to weaken the British empire
In the eighteenth century, British colonists
wishing to settle west of the Appalachians
were principally motivated by
(A) the comparatively small numbers of
American Indians in the old Northwest
(B) the low price and easy availability of land
(C) freedom from the threat of Spanish
authorities
(D) a desire to escape overcrowded cities along
the Atlantic coast
(E) promises of tax breaks for those willing to
establish frontier settlements - ✔✔(B) the low price and easy availability of land
British colonists in North America objected to the
Stamp Act primarily because it
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, (A) threatened the free press
(B) disrupted trade with the West Indies
(C) closed the colonial courts
(D) enriched corrupt officials
(E) taxed them without their consent - ✔✔(E) taxed them without their consent
African Americans who fled the violence of the
Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start
anew in Kansas were known as
(A) exodusters
(B) homesteaders
(C) scalawags
(D) jayhawkers
(E) the Colored Farmers' National Alliance - ✔✔(A) exodusters
President George Washington's Farewell Address
set a course for the nation by
(A) endorsing the economic policies of the
Federalists
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