APUSH Exam MC QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS BEST STUDYING MATERIAL NEW UPDATE GRADED A
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A - Ans – After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to A) Require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empires administrative expenses B) End slavery in the North American colonies C) Encourage colonial expansion into the Ohio Valley by moving...
APUSH Exam MC QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS BEST STUDYING
MATERIAL NEW UPDATE 2024-2025
GRADED A
A - Ans –
After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to
A) Require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empires
administrative expenses
B) End slavery in the North American colonies
C) Encourage colonial expansion into the Ohio Valley by moving all Amerindians
D) Strengthen the French colonial holdings in Canada and the northwest to discourage
Spanish Expansion
E) Convert all Catholic colonists to the beliefs to the Anglican Church
C - Ans –
Which of the following happened as a rsult of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676?
A) Governor Berkeley abolished the House of Burgesses
B) New laws were passed protecting workers' rights.
C) Tenisons between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed
D) Indentured servants received additional free land after fulfilling thier terms of service
E) The king allowed Virginia colonists to select their own governor
D - Ans –
The Federalist Papers challenged the conventional olitical wisdom of the 18th century
wen they asserted that
A) A republican form of government could succeed only in small countries
B) Limitations on the popular will led to tyranny
C) A weak central government was the only gurantee of individual rights
D) A large republic offered the best protection of minority rights
E) Political parties were crucial to the success of the new government
C - Ans –
The encomienda system implemented by the Spanish empire in the New World was
intended to serve which purpose?
A) A method of farming that would result in the greatest outcome of produce
B) A form of government where indigenous leaders and Spanish conquistadoes were
given highest authority
C) A system of large manors and estates with Indian slaves managed for the benefits of
the conquistadores
D) To militarily protect the conquered Spanish lands from foreign invaders
E) A system of trade between Spain and its acquired lands
,C - Ans –
Which ofthe following did the Black Panthers andthe Nation of Islam have in common in
the late 1960s?
A) They advoacted the ending of segregation in the North rather than the South
B) They sought affiliation with the American Communist party
C) They emphasized developing a greater sense of Black Nationalism and solidarity
D) They advocated nonviolent menas to achieve their goals
E) The split off from the Souther Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) after the
death of Martin Luther King Jr.
E - Ans –
A key diplomatic achievement of Richard M. Nixon's presidency was
A) A nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union
B) The signing of the Camp David Accords
C) A joint Apollo-Soyuz space mission with the Soviet Union
D) A visit to Angola to help the African nation resist communist guerillas
E) A visit to China in 1972
A - Ans –
One of the goals of Reagonomics was to
A) Encourage private investment through tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy
B) Redistribute income to the bottom fifth of wage earners
C) Reduce military spending
D) Restrict immigration from Mexico
E) Use outsourcing to increase Corporate profits
D - Ans –
During his presidency, Richard Nixon did which of the following?
A) Supported the use of busing to end racial segregation in public schools
B) Intensified conflict between the United States and Japan
C) Abolished the Tennessee Valley Authority
D) Ended American Participation in the war in Vietnam
E) Created the National Eronautics and Space Administration
C - Ans –
What was a major reason President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to run for
reelection in 1968?
A) He was ineligible to hold a third term as president
B) He was threatened with impeachment for government scandals
C) His Vietnam War policies had reduced his popularity with voters
D) Most Americans were unhappy with his failure to establish social reforms
E) He had fearsof assassination after Kennedy.
C - Ans –
The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the U.S.:
,A) It severly damage American manufacturing
B) I enriched many cottong plantation owners
C) It disrupted American shipping
D) It was ruinous to subsistence farmers
E) It had little economic impact
C - Ans –
France decided to aid the North American Colonies in thier war for independence
primarily because France:
A) Was working to establishdemocratic rule in European countries
B) Saw the war as an opportunity to end the international slave trade
C) Wanted to weaken the British government
D) Was allied with Spain, which hd already joined the colonists' cause
E) Had long been the primary trading partner of the North American Colonies
C - Ans –
The Navigation Acts were part of the british policy known as:
A) Isolationism
B) Capitalism
C) Mercantilism
D) Monopolism
E) Imperialism
B - Ans –
President George Washington's Farewell Address set a course for the nation by:
A) Endorsing the economic policies of the Federalists
B) Discouraging permanent alliances with foreign nations
C) Endorsing the two-party system
D) Calling for strict term limits for federal officeholders
E) Calling for the adoption of universal suffrage
B - Ans –
Which of the following most accurately described the attitudes of the seventeenth-
century Puritans towards religious liberty?
A) Having suffered persecution in England, they extended toleration to everyone
B) They tolerated no one whose expressed religious views varied from their own views
C) They tolerated all Protestant Sects but not Catholics
D) They tolerated Catholics but not Quakers
E) They had no coherent views on religious liberty
E - Ans –
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the followng EXCEPT:
A) Create a government that would be satisfactory to both sides and free states
B) Create a government that would be satisfactory to both large and small states
C) Create a strong central government that would not threaten the sovereignty of the
states
, D) Establish a balance of power between the three branches of the national government
E) Determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
At present, the main theories concerning the peopling of the Americas are:
A) Norsemen landed in Greenland and Eskimos landed in Alaska. Their descendents
spread out all over North and South America
B) Humans first evolved from pre-human species in South America. These indigenous
humans were later joined by migrants from Africa
C) Hunters from Asia walked across a glacial corridor in the Bering Straits, and other
arriving from Asia by boat landed at various places along the western coast of America
D) Fishermen in outrigger canoes coming from Polynesia landed in South America,
while Norsemen from Scandinavia landed and spread out from Greenland to
Newfoundland - Ans - C.
Which of the following was NOT true about Native American religious beliefs at the point
of the initial European contacts was
A) They prayed to ancestor and animal spirits
B) They depended on medicine men to understand the unseen and heal
C) They believed that nature was alive, pulsating with a spiritual power
D) They believed God had given humanity domination over nature - Ans - D.
The fact that Spain, rather than its rival, Portugal, was the dominant power in the
Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries was largely a result of the
A) fact that Spanish ships were faster than Portuguese ships
B) large numbers of Spanish settlers who arrived in the New World
C) Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494
D) success of Christopher Columbus in the New World - Ans - C.
The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was
A) wheat
B) potatoes
C) tobacco
D) maize - Ans - D.
The institution of encomienda allowed the
A) native people to enslave members of other tribes
B) Europeans to marry Native Americans
C) European governments to give Indians to colonists if the colonists promised to
Christianize them
D) governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish
African slavery - Ans - C.
Men became conquistadors because they wanted to
A) gain God's favor by spreading Christianity
B) satisfy their desire for gold
C) seek adventure, as the heroes of classical antiquity had done
D) all of the above - Ans - D.
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