APUSH Exam Multiple Choice Practice Questions with Correct
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A majority of the early English migrants to the
Chesapeake Bay area were
(A) families with young children
(B) indentured servants
(C) wealthy gentlemen
(D) merchants and craftsmen
Which of the following best describes Deism?
(A) A belief that the course of each individual's
life is predestined by God
(B) A concept of toleration advanced by Quaker
preachers
(C) The belief that God had created the world but
allowed it to operate through the laws of
nature
(D) A principle taught in colonial New England
colleges
(E) A radical theory encouraging free love and
communal living - ✔✔(C) The belief that God had created the world but
allowed it to operate through the laws of
nature
France decided to aid the North American
colonies in their war for independence primarily
because France
(A) was working to establish democratic rule
,in European countries
(B) saw the war as an opportunity to end the
international slave trade
(C) wanted to weaken the British empire
(D) was allied with Spain, which had already
joined the colonists' cause
(E) had long been the primary trading partner
of the North American colonies - ✔✔(C) wanted to weaken the British empire
In the eighteenth century, British colonists
wishing to settle west of the Appalachians
were principally motivated by
(A) the comparatively small numbers of
American Indians in the old Northwest
(B) the low price and easy availability of land
(C) freedom from the threat of Spanish
authorities
(D) a desire to escape overcrowded cities along
the Atlantic coast
(E) promises of tax breaks for those willing to
establish frontier settlements - ✔✔(B) the low price and easy availability of land
British colonists in North America objected to the
Stamp Act primarily because it
(A) threatened the free press
(B) disrupted trade with the West Indies
(C) closed the colonial courts
(D) enriched corrupt officials
(E) taxed them without their consent - ✔✔(E) taxed them without their consent
,African Americans who fled the violence of the
Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start
anew in Kansas were known as
(A) exodusters
(B) homesteaders
(C) scalawags
(D) jayhawkers
(E) the Colored Farmers' National Alliance - ✔✔(A) exodusters
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) discouraging permanent alliances
with foreign
nations
The Supreme Court established which of the fol-
lowing by its ruling in Marbury v. Madison ?
(A) States have the authority to nullify acts of
Congress.
(B) The Bank of the United States is constitutional
under the implied powers clause.
, (C) States may not interfere with interstate
commerce.
(D) The Supreme Court has the authority to
determine the constitutionality of congres-
sional acts.
(E) Government contracts cannot be repealed by
popular majority. - ✔✔(D) The Supreme Court has the authority to
determine the constitutionality of congres-
sional acts.
Support for slavery in the Southern states was
based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(A) Most White families owned slaves.
(B) Slaveholders believed that slaves were
inferior and required White guardianship.
(C) Slavery was condoned in the Bible.
(D) White plantation owners feared abolition
would destroy the South's economy.
(E) Poor White farmers feared the economic
competition of four million freed persons. - ✔✔(A) Most White families owned slaves.
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the
United States following the potato famine of the
1840s settled in
(A) urban areas of the North
(B) seacoast cities of the South
(C) rural sections of the Old Northwest
(D) California
(E) Appalachia - ✔✔(A) urban areas of the North
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