AP US History Sample Test!
- 1.The Navigation Acts were part of the British policy known as
- A.
Isolationism
- B.
Capitalism
- C.
Mercantilism
- D.
Monopolism
- E.
Imperialism
- 2.Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that
- A.
An aristocracy posed no danger to the Republic
- B.
The National Republicans alone knew what was right for the people
- C.
Political participation by the common man should be increased
- D.
Political rights should be granted to women
- E.
Franchise restrictions should be racially neutral
- 3.President Monroe articulated the Monroe Doctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to
- A.
Respond positively to the recent Latin American revolutions
- B.
Rule out United States involvement in South America
- C.
Provide a rationale for United States intervention in the Isthmus of Panama
- D.
Warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere
- E.
Encourage Britain to help the fledgling Latin American states
- 4.Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?
- A.
Turnpikes and canals
- B.
Railroads and steamships
- C.
Turnpikes and railroads
- D.
Clipper ships and turnpikes
- E.
Canals and railroads
- 5.Which of the following best describes the situation of freedmen in the decade following the Civil War?
- A.
Each was given 40 acres of land and a mule by the Union government
- B.
All were immediately granted political equality by the Emancipation Proclamation
- C.
The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters
- D.
They were required to pass a literacy test before being granted United States citizenship
- E.
They supported the passage of Black Codes to ensure their economic and political rights
- 6.Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?
- A.
The restoration of the power in the federal judiciary
- B.
The legality of the national banking system
- C.
The political and legal status of the former Confederate states
- D.
The relationship between the United States and Britain
- E.
The proposed annexation of Colombia
- 7.The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson(1896) did which of the following?
- A.
Denounced business combinations in restraint of trade
- B.
Sanctioned separate but equal public facilities for African Americans
- C.
Declared that the Fourteenth Amendment applied principally to the protection of corporations
- D.
Defined the constitution as color blind
- E.
Empowered Congress to cancel treaties with American Indian tribes unilaterally
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