APUSH Quarterly (Test 2)
- 1.After the revolution, the concept of 'republican motherhood" suggested that
- A.
A) women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their sons, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic
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B) voting would soon become a privelage granted to educated and/or married women
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C) the first duty of mothers was to serve the needs of government
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D) wives and mothers would be welcome in the emerging political parties
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E) women's virtues had been the inspiration for the ideals of the Revolution
- 2.The significance of George Washington's response to the whiskey rebellion was that it demonstrated the government
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A) hoped to enforece all federal laws by coercing the people into compliance
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B) would listen to the voice of the people no matter how it was expressed
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C) would not allow violence to prevent enforecement of federal laws
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D) would practice restraint and allow the courts to settle dissent over laws
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E) believed excise taxes were an unfair means to reduce the national debt
- 3.The Stamp Act crisis was important in the coming of the AMerican revolution for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
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A) the colonists demonstrated their willingness to use violence rather than legal means to frustrate British policy
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B) the crisis coincided with a british decision to garrison regular troops in american cities
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C) american patriots realized that british inflexibility made revoltions virtually inevitable
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D) the british maintained that the colonies had no right to independence from parliamentary authority
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E) patriot leaders claimed that the act denied them their British birthrights.
- 4.In the 1790s which of the following elements of Hamilton's financial plan created the greatest consitutional debate?
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A) assumption of the states debts at par value
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B) creating a national bank
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C) levying a tax on whiskey
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D) levying custom duties on imports
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E) taxing the slave trade
- 5.During the War for INdependence, the principal reason the american gov't sought diplomatice recognition fom foreign powers was to
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A) rally all the states behind a common cause
- B.
B) convince the British of the justice of the american cause
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C) make it easier to levy taxes on the citizens of the several states
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D) facilitate the purchase of arms and borrowing of money from other nations
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E) Allow Von Steuben, Lafayette, and others to join the American army
- 6.President washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 was issued in response to
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A) spanish expansion in the southeast
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B) dutch economic activity in the mid atlantic states
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C) canadian alliances with northern american indians
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D) French diplomatice overtures to invoke te Franco-American alliance
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E) enlgish boycotts of selected american manufactures
- 7.The argument between Great britain and its american colonies during the 1760s and 1770s over virtual representation concerned
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A) patterns of legislative apportionment in the colonial assemblies
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B) parliaments ability to reflect colonial interests
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C) the lack of colonial participation in negotiating the treaty of paris
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D) the increasing use of juryless admiralty courts in the colonies
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E) the representation of "free men of color" in colonial assemblies
- 8.The North American colonies took advantage of Great Britain's policy of salutary neglect to
- A.
A) establish religious freedom as a fundamental right
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B) work out trade arrangements to acquire needed products from other countries
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C) introduce the practice of slavery into the new world
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D) establish a standing army
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E) make favorable territorial settlements with the french
- 9.Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of the founding fathers toward political parties?
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A) parties are vehicles of ambition and selfish interest that threaten the existence of republican government
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B) parties are engines of democracy that provide citizens with a voice in government
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C) parties are necessary evils in any republic
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D) in a large republic, parties are the best means of creating effective coalitions of interest groups
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E) a two-party system is essential to a stable republic
- 10.The Declaration of Independence did all of the following except
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A) appeal to the philosophy of natural rights
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B) call for the abolition of the slave trade
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C) appeal to the sympathies of the English people
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D) criticize the provisions of the Quebec Act of 1774
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E) accuse George 3 of tyranny
- 11.Which of the following was true of the Continental COngress in its drafting of the Articles of Confederation?
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A) it was cautious about giving the new government powers it had just denied Parliament.
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B) it gave congress the exlusive right to issue currency
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C) it gave the national court system the power to review both national and state law
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D) it gave congress control of interstate commerce
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E) it rejected the arguements of men like Sam adams and Richard henry lee who feared strong governments
- 12.By the time of the American revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican governmen, sovereignty was located in
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A) the people
- B.
B) parliament
- C.
C) state gov'ts
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D) factions
- E.
E) a centralized government
- 13.The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to
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A) test the new process of amendment described in the consitution
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B) protect rights not specified in the consitution
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C) strengthen the power of the federal government
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D) restore to the states the powers they had enjoyed under the Articles of Confederaton
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E) clarify the federal relationship among the states
- 14.Alexander Hamilton's financial program was most favorable to
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A) western farmers
- B.
B) war veterans
- C.
C) southern planters
- D.
D) eastern merchants
- E.
E) state bankers
- 15.The industrial justification for revolutionary action contained in the Declaration of Independence was derived most directly from the work of
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A) Rousseau
- B.
B) Locke
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C) Montisquieu
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D) Hobbes
- E.
E) Voltaire
- 16.France decided to aid the North American colonies in their war for independence primarily because France
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A) was working to establish democratic rule in European countries
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B) saw the war as an oppurtunity to end the international slave trade
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C) wanted to weaken the British empire
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D) was allied with Spain, which had already joined the colonists' cause
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E) had long been the primary trading partner of the north american colonies
- 17.All of the following contributed to discontent among the soldiers in the Continental Army EXCEPT
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A) most soldiers were draftees
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B) the soldiers feared for the welfare of families back home
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C) the army had inadequate arms and ammunition
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D) the army paid soldiers in decpreciated paper money
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E) the army was inadequately fed and clothed
- 18.The KY and VA resolutions took the position that
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A) only the US Supreme Court had the power to restrict freedom of speech and press
- B.
B) the authority of state gov'ts ncluded the power to decide whether or not an act of congress was constitutional
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C) only fiscal measures initiated by state legislatures could be acted on by COngress
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D) congress was responsible for maintaining the vitality of a loyal opposition political party
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E) the "supremacy clause" of the constitution applied only to foreign affairs
- 19.Which of teh following most appropriately characterizes the violence exhibited in such episodes as Bacon's rebellion, the Boston Tea Party, Shay's and the Whiskey rebellion?
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A) most violence occured in urban areas.
- B.
B) most violence produced no deaths
- C.
C) the level of violence subsided after the american revolution
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D) violence was directed at "outsiders" or representatives of distant authority
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E) most violences occured because of the intervention of foreign powers in american internal affairs
- 20.The Federalist papers challenged the conven tional political wisdom of the 18th century when they asserted that
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A) a republican form of gov. could succeed only in small countries
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B) limitations on the popular will led to tyranny
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C) a weak central gov. was the only guarantee of individual rights
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D) a large republic offered the best protection of minority rights
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E) political parties were crucial to the success of the new gov.
- 21.As a result of the defeat at Yorktown, the British gov. realized that
- A.
A) they could maintain the colonies only through a commonwealth system
- B.
B) spain must be counted on to help subdue the american rebels
- C.
C) domestic political pressures neccessitated an end to the fighting and the beginning of peace negotiations
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D) the colonies wee lost and that all british troops must come home
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E) the war in american could continue, but on a more limited basis
- 22.Which of the following had the greatest impact on the instituition of slavery in the US in the first quarter of the 19th cent.
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A) demands of southern textile manufacturers for cotton
- B.
B) intro of crop rotation and fertilizers
- C.
C) use of more stringent techniques for slave control
- D.
D) invention of the cotton gin
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E) the 3/5 compromise
- 23.By the time of the Rev., the Amercian colonists had generally come to believe that creation of a republic would solve the problems of monachical rule because a republic would establish
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A) a highly centralized gov. led by a social elite
- B.
B) a strong chief executive
- C.
C) a small, limited, gov. responsible to the people
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D) unlimited male suffrage
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E) a society in which there were no differences of rank and status
- 24.The NW ordinances did which of the following?
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A) provided for the annexation of the ORegon territory.
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B) established reservations for native americans
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C) granted settlers a free homestead of 160 acres.
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D) established the terms for settlement and admission of new states
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E) banned slavery north of the 36 30 line.
- 25.WHich of the following was a widely held belief among the founding fathers of the US?
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A) direct democracy is superior to representative governments
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B) widespread ownership of property is bulwark of republican gov.
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C) political paties are an inevitable outgrowth of republican gov.
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D) universal male suffrage is essential to free gov.
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E) the separation of legislative, executive, and judicial functions leads to gov. chaos
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