AP Half Year Exam

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This quiz is for practicing for AP United States History for 11th grade.

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1.

Alexander Hamilton’s economic program was designed primarily to
- A.
  
  Prepare the United States for war in the event Britain failed to vacate its posts in the Northwest
- B.
  
  Provide a platform for the fledgling Federalist Party’s 1792 campaign
- C.
  
  Establish the financial stability and credit of the new government
- D.
  
  Ensure northern dominance over the southern states in order to abolish slavery
- E.
  
  Win broad political support for his own candidacy for the presidency in 1792
2.

The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of “separate spheres” for the sexes encouraged all of the following EXCEPT
- A.
  
  Accepting women as intellectual equals of men
- B.
  
  Idealizing the home as a haven in a competitive world
- C.
  
  Designating the home as the appropriate place for a woman
- D.
  
  Emphasizing childrearing as a prime duty of a woman
- E.
  
  Establishing a moral climate in the home
3.

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of:
- A.
  
  Freedom of the seas
- B.
  
  Freedom of speech
- C.
  
  The instituion of slavery
- D.
  
  States' rights
- E.
  
  Presidential power in foreign affairs
4.

The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
- A.
  
  There were more Black people than White people in the antebellum South.
- B.
  
  Most southern families held slaves
- C.
  
  Most southern families lived in rural areas.
- D.
  
  The southern population was much smaller than that of the North.
- E.
  
  Slaveholders were an extremely powerful group.
5.

Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier hypothesis” focused on the importance of
- A.
  
  The traditions of western European culture
- B.
  
  The absence of a feudal aristocracy
- C.
  
  Black people and Black slavery
- D.
  
  The conflict between capitalists and workers
- E.
  
  The existence of cheap unsettled land
6.

During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, farmers complained about all of the following EXCEPT
- A.
  
  Rising commodity prices
- B.
  
  High interest charges
- C.
  
  High freight rates
- D.
  
  High storage costs
- E.
  
  Large middleman profits
7.

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
- A.
  
  Prohibited United States intervention in the Caribbean.
- B.
  
  Warned against European seizure of the Panama Canal.
- C.
  
  Sought to end the wave of nationalization of American-owned property in the Caribbean.
- D.
  
  Declared the United States to be the “policeman” of the Western Hemisphere.
- E.
  
  Provided United States military support for democratic revolutions in Latin America.