AP US HISTORY TESTBACK QUESTIONS
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The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
a) Missouri Compromise
b) Fugitive Slave Act
c) Ostend Manifesto
d) Wilmot Proviso
e) The 11th amendment to the Constitution - Answer- a) Missouri Compromise
Which of the following is an example of Progressive Era legislation?
a) The Pure Food and Drug Act
b) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff
c) The Comstock Law
d) The Pendleton Act
e) The Dawes Severalty Act - Answer- a) The Pure Food and Drug Act
The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries generally
did which of the following?
a) strengthened the position of big business
b) strengthened the regulatory powers of the federal government
c) strengthened the position of organized labor
d) protected the civil and political rights of African Americans
e) protected the civil and political rights of women - Answer- a) strengthened the
position of big business
"We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the
people or the people must own the railroads...We demand a national currency, safe,
sound, and flexible...We demand a graduated income tax...We demand a free ballot"
Which of the following groups included the passage above in its platform?
a) American Federation of Labor
b) Union-Labor Party
c) People's Party (Populists)
d) National Grange
e) Democratic Party - Answer- c) People's Party (Populists)
In 1950 a major factor in President Harry Truman's commitment of American troops to
combat North Korea aggression was a desire to
a) force Congress to appropriate more money for the armed services
,b) preserve South Korea's markets for United States exports
c) overcome the stigma that the Democratic party had "lost" China to communism
d) convince Americans that containment was an inefficient way to deal with communist
expansion
e) direct the focus of American postwar foreign policy away from Europe - Answer- c)
overcome the stigma that the Democratic party had "lost" China to communism
Which of the following conditions in England motivated Puritans to migrate to New
England in the 1630s?
I. political repression of dissident Protestants
II. an economic recession
III. restrictions on Puritan religious practices
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) I and II only
e) I, II, and III - Answer- e) I, II, and III
Policy initiatives during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first two presidential terms included all of
the following EXCEPT
a) restricting agricultural production
b) restoring public confidence in the banking system
c) deficit financing
d) nationalizing basic industries
e) creating new jobs in the public sector - Answer- d) nationalizing basic industries
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The Central point of the 1960s cartoon above was that
a) the public was more interested in foreign policy than in domestic reforms
b) the President was more interested in domestic programs that in foreign policy
c) protesters were successfully challenging the goals of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great
Society
d) opposition to the Vietnam War improved Lyndon B. Johnson's hopes for reelection
e) the cost of the Vietnam War limited the President's ability to carry out domestic
programs - Answer- e) the cost of the Vietnam War limited the President's ability to
carry out domestic programs
Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the
"Redeemer" administrations?
a) participation by both Whites and African Americans in local government
b) establishment of a public school system
c) election of American American majorities to state legislatures
d) establishment of a vigorous Republican Party in the South
e) opening of public facilities to African Americans - Answer- b) establishment of a
public school system
, Which of the following is true of the slave system in 18th century British North America?
a) the slave system was legal only in the southern colonies
b) indentured servants increasingly replaced slaves in the southern colonies
c) slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves
d) most slaves worked on cotton plantations
e) all the southern colonies passed laws against freeing slaves - Answer- c)
slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves
The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?
a) upheld segregated railroad facilities
b) declared civil rights legislation unconstitutional
c) upheld literacy testing as a condition of voting in federal elections
d) outlawed segregation in public schools
e) restricted the right to purchase or sell land - Answer- a) upheld segregated railroad
facilities
Which of the following aroused the greatest controversy in the United States at the end
of the Spanish-American War?
a) payment of a $20 million indemnity to Spain
b) humanitarian efforts on behalf of concentration camp victims
c) acquisition of the Philippine Islands
d) Liberation of Cuba from Spanish control
e) increases in the size of the army and navy - Answer- c) acquisition of the Philippine
Islands
The decade after the Second World War was characterized by all of the following
EXCEPT
a) unprecedented prosperity
b) rapid and extensive suburbanization
c) a population explosion known as the "baby boom"
d) the growing strength of the movement for African American civil rights
e) widespread student opposition to the development of nuclear weaponry - Answer- e)
widespread student opposition to the development of nuclear weaponry
The American Colonization Society was established in the early 19th century with the
goal of
a) encouraging immigration from Ireland and Germany
b) encouraging Chinese contract laborers to emigrate to the United States
c) settling White Americans on western lands
d) settling American Indians on reservations
e) transporting African Americans to Africa - Answer- e) transporting African Americans
to Africa
Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American Federation of
Labor in organizing labor in the late 1800s?
a) its policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen
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The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
a) Missouri Compromise
b) Fugitive Slave Act
c) Ostend Manifesto
d) Wilmot Proviso
e) The 11th amendment to the Constitution - Answer- a) Missouri Compromise
Which of the following is an example of Progressive Era legislation?
a) The Pure Food and Drug Act
b) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff
c) The Comstock Law
d) The Pendleton Act
e) The Dawes Severalty Act - Answer- a) The Pure Food and Drug Act
The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries generally
did which of the following?
a) strengthened the position of big business
b) strengthened the regulatory powers of the federal government
c) strengthened the position of organized labor
d) protected the civil and political rights of African Americans
e) protected the civil and political rights of women - Answer- a) strengthened the
position of big business
"We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the
people or the people must own the railroads...We demand a national currency, safe,
sound, and flexible...We demand a graduated income tax...We demand a free ballot"
Which of the following groups included the passage above in its platform?
a) American Federation of Labor
b) Union-Labor Party
c) People's Party (Populists)
d) National Grange
e) Democratic Party - Answer- c) People's Party (Populists)
In 1950 a major factor in President Harry Truman's commitment of American troops to
combat North Korea aggression was a desire to
a) force Congress to appropriate more money for the armed services
,b) preserve South Korea's markets for United States exports
c) overcome the stigma that the Democratic party had "lost" China to communism
d) convince Americans that containment was an inefficient way to deal with communist
expansion
e) direct the focus of American postwar foreign policy away from Europe - Answer- c)
overcome the stigma that the Democratic party had "lost" China to communism
Which of the following conditions in England motivated Puritans to migrate to New
England in the 1630s?
I. political repression of dissident Protestants
II. an economic recession
III. restrictions on Puritan religious practices
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) I and II only
e) I, II, and III - Answer- e) I, II, and III
Policy initiatives during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first two presidential terms included all of
the following EXCEPT
a) restricting agricultural production
b) restoring public confidence in the banking system
c) deficit financing
d) nationalizing basic industries
e) creating new jobs in the public sector - Answer- d) nationalizing basic industries
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap08_us_history_q1.pdf
The Central point of the 1960s cartoon above was that
a) the public was more interested in foreign policy than in domestic reforms
b) the President was more interested in domestic programs that in foreign policy
c) protesters were successfully challenging the goals of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great
Society
d) opposition to the Vietnam War improved Lyndon B. Johnson's hopes for reelection
e) the cost of the Vietnam War limited the President's ability to carry out domestic
programs - Answer- e) the cost of the Vietnam War limited the President's ability to
carry out domestic programs
Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the
"Redeemer" administrations?
a) participation by both Whites and African Americans in local government
b) establishment of a public school system
c) election of American American majorities to state legislatures
d) establishment of a vigorous Republican Party in the South
e) opening of public facilities to African Americans - Answer- b) establishment of a
public school system
, Which of the following is true of the slave system in 18th century British North America?
a) the slave system was legal only in the southern colonies
b) indentured servants increasingly replaced slaves in the southern colonies
c) slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves
d) most slaves worked on cotton plantations
e) all the southern colonies passed laws against freeing slaves - Answer- c)
slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves
The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?
a) upheld segregated railroad facilities
b) declared civil rights legislation unconstitutional
c) upheld literacy testing as a condition of voting in federal elections
d) outlawed segregation in public schools
e) restricted the right to purchase or sell land - Answer- a) upheld segregated railroad
facilities
Which of the following aroused the greatest controversy in the United States at the end
of the Spanish-American War?
a) payment of a $20 million indemnity to Spain
b) humanitarian efforts on behalf of concentration camp victims
c) acquisition of the Philippine Islands
d) Liberation of Cuba from Spanish control
e) increases in the size of the army and navy - Answer- c) acquisition of the Philippine
Islands
The decade after the Second World War was characterized by all of the following
EXCEPT
a) unprecedented prosperity
b) rapid and extensive suburbanization
c) a population explosion known as the "baby boom"
d) the growing strength of the movement for African American civil rights
e) widespread student opposition to the development of nuclear weaponry - Answer- e)
widespread student opposition to the development of nuclear weaponry
The American Colonization Society was established in the early 19th century with the
goal of
a) encouraging immigration from Ireland and Germany
b) encouraging Chinese contract laborers to emigrate to the United States
c) settling White Americans on western lands
d) settling American Indians on reservations
e) transporting African Americans to Africa - Answer- e) transporting African Americans
to Africa
Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American Federation of
Labor in organizing labor in the late 1800s?
a) its policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen
