AP United States History Full-length practice exam 1

Jefferson's election in 1800 is sometimes called the 'Revolution of 1800' primarily because:

The debate between Theodore Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' and Woodrow Wilson's 'New Freedom' in 1912 centered primarily on which question?

The formation of the Populist Party in 1892 most directly reflected the grievances of:

The women's liberation movement of the late 1960s and 1970s differed from the earlier suffragist movement primarily in that it:

A Puritan minister preaching in Boston in 1640 stated: 'God hath contracted with us as a community. If we fail in our covenant, He shall afflict us; if we prosper, it is proof of His favor.' This idea is most closely associated with which Puritan concept?

The New Deal's most lasting domestic legacy is best described as:

A political speech from the early 1990s declared: 'There is a culture war in America today — a struggle for the soul of the nation over values, morality, and what kind of country we will be.' This rhetoric most directly reflects which political development?

How did the Cold War's nuclear arms race shape American domestic society and culture in the late 1940s and 1950s?

How did the growth of cotton production in the Deep South between 1793 and 1860 affect the institution of slavery?

The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII illustrates which broader pattern in American history?

The Mexican-American War (1846–1848) is most accurately described as which of the following in terms of its causes?

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) contributed to the American Revolution primarily because it:

A traveler describing the Great Plains around 1500 would most likely observe which of the following?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 addressed the question of slavery's expansion by:

The Truman Doctrine (1947) marked a decisive turn in American foreign policy primarily because it:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed which specific forms of discrimination?

Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign slogan 'Are you better off than you were four years ago?' and his presidency represented a decisive shift away from which prior political consensus?

A Southern newspaper editorial from 1861 declared: 'We secede not from rebellion but in defense of the constitutional right of self-determination — the same right invoked by our fathers in 1776.' The most effective historical rebuttal to this argument is that:

A labor organizer speaking in Chicago in 1886 declared: 'Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!' This slogan addressed which fundamental tension of industrial capitalism?

Which of the following best explains why Virginia colonists shifted from indentured servitude to enslaved African labor during the second half of the seventeenth century?

How did the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 transform the American West?

How did the financial crisis of 2008 and the federal government's response affect American attitudes toward economic institutions?

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments together represented which fundamental change to American constitutional law?

A former mill worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, writing in 1840, described: 'We came thinking to improve ourselves through honest labor and saving. But we find ourselves working fourteen-hour days in noise and dust, sleeping six to a room, and dismissed the moment we speak of wages.' This account most directly reflects which consequence of the Market Revolution?

The Nixon administration's policy of 'Vietnamization' attempted to achieve what goal?

The Market Revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed American society primarily by:

A Spanish colonial administrator writing in the 1540s described the encomienda system as 'a grant of Indian labor owed to those who served the Crown.' Which criticism most directly challenged this system?

Which of the following best explains why the federal government's policy toward the Plains Indians after 1865 shifted toward forced reservation confinement?

The 1676 King Philip's War in New England resulted in which of the following long-term consequences?

How did the Chesapeake and New England colonies differ in their primary economic foundations during the seventeenth century?

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) is best understood as:

Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 is historically significant primarily because it:

Which of the following best characterizes the political legacy of the Reagan Revolution for the subsequent forty years of American politics?

The Nixon administration's Watergate scandal resulted in which constitutional precedent?

The Stono Rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina is historically significant primarily because it:

The 1920s is characterized by historians as a decade of cultural tension primarily because:

Which of the following best explains why the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 shattered the second party system and directly led to the Republican Party's formation?

Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ('Star Wars') and the broader arms buildup of the 1980s are interpreted by historians primarily as which type of Cold War strategy?

A colonial observer writing in 1700 noted: 'Those Africans who arrive in Carolina are already skilled in growing rice, having cultivated it in their home country.' This observation best supports which historical argument?

How did patterns of industrial labor in the Gilded Age create conditions that led to the rise of organized labor movements?

The rise of personal computing and the internet from the 1980s through the 2000s transformed American society most significantly by:

Anti-Federalists opposed ratification of the Constitution primarily because they feared that:

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 are significant in constitutional history primarily because they prompted:

A freedman in Mississippi in 1868 stated: 'I have voted for the first time in my life and my vote counted as much as any man's. But the night riders burned my neighbor's barn for registering to vote.' This account most directly illustrates which dynamic of Reconstruction?

The Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954) overturned Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate but equal' doctrine by arguing that:

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs represented which expansion of the federal role in American society?

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 immediately resolved which American political debate?

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 most directly resulted from which combination of factors?

A pamphlet published in Philadelphia in 1776 declared: 'The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind. Government is at best a necessary evil.' This language is most characteristic of which document or author?

Why did William Penn design Pennsylvania as a 'Holy Experiment' with unusual guarantees of religious tolerance?

Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression contrasted with FDR's New Deal primarily in that Hoover:

The Hamilton-Jefferson debates of the 1790s over the Bank of the United States centered on which fundamental constitutional question?

A pamphlet circulating in Philadelphia in 1740 declared: 'You must be born again! Your wealth and church membership cannot save you — only God's sovereign grace through a direct experience of conversion.' This statement best reflects the theology of:

The September 11, 2001 attacks led to which fundamental changes in American domestic policy and civil liberties?

Which of the following best characterizes the 'New Immigration' of the 1880s–1910s compared to earlier immigration waves?