Define “arms race”.

The advancement and stockpiling of new weapons

Removal of weapons from a country

The bill that passed making all weapons illegal

How was the Korean War a “proxy war”?

The ideological conflict between democratic capitalism and communism was not exclusive to the US and USSR

Advancement of stockpiling of new weapons

Lesson of alliances was learned.

Influential critics of the 1950’s, such as David Riesman, were most concerned with which of the following aspects of the life in the United States following the Second World War?

Alienation and conformity in modern society

The economic responsibilities of being a world superpower

The threat to the nation from communist subversion

The spread of political corruption

During the decade of the 1960’s, young people, Black people, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, and women were among the groups protesting various aspects of American society. All of the following were protested against by one or more of these following groups EXCEPT the

excessive cost of the social security system

United States involvement in the Vietnam War

exclusion of women from the mainstream of American life

increasing bureaucratization and impersonality of American institutions

The 1970’s and the 1980’s saw an increase in all of the following EXCEPT

the percentage of two-parent households

support for consumer and environmental movements

the number of women holding political office

Trust in the effectiveness of the United States government declined in the 1970s most directly in response to the

revelation of political scandals in the executive branch

increased power of the women’s rights movement

expansion of nuclear weapon arsenals

passage of civil rights reforms

Which of the following was an achievement of the John F. Kennedy administration?

Passage of civil rights legislation

Passage of bills to create health insurance for the aged and to increase aid to education

Extension of diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China

Passage of the Alliance for Progress to provide economic aid for Latin America

Which of the following increased the oppression of African Americans in the south during this period of time?

Jim Crow laws codified this segregation into a system of oppression

Separate but equal" 14th amendment

How did Progressives respond to the issue of patronage?

Doling out federal jobs and contracts to supporters.

Denying employment to many supporters

What was the Populist Party platform?

Direct Election of senators, initiative, referendum to hold officials accountable

How did the expansion of railroads affect the economy?

The growth of government influence through the Civil War led to a fivefold expansion of railroads

Small corporations took advantage of the economic downturn

Which of the following were goals and strategies used by labor unions

Workers unionized in order to improve their wages and working conditions

unions used strikes as means of leveraging their significant numbers.

strikes were often dealt with harshly by private security hired by the company

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Prompted by lobbying from nativist and labor groups

1882 law banned immigration from China

It was the first immigration law to target a specific nationality.

Which of the following was the primary cause for the development depicted in the painting?

a. A desire for economic opportunity through settlement and access to new resources

b.Persecuted groups searching for religious freedom and refuge in the West

c.Increased immigration resulted in less available land in the East

d.Slave-holding interests in the South demanded more land for cotton production

Which of the following was a direct effect of the changes depicted in the maps?

a.Sectional tensions eroded political loyalties, ending the Second Party System

b.Lincoln’s election in 1860 without electoral votes from western states and territories

c.South Carolina seceded from the Union due to violence in Kansas

d.Emergence of violent conflict along the border of the Utah and New Mexico territories

Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

d.Recent immigrants from Europe

Fugitive slave law was...

Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.

The notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery which caused many to join the abolitionist movement.

Uprisings during the Civil War (1863), mostly of working-class Irish-Americans, in protest of the draft. Rioters were particularly incensed by the ability of the rich to hire substitutes or purchase exemptions.

Uncle Tom's cabin was...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery which caused many to join the abolitionist movement.

The notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.

Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.

Uprisings during the Civil War (1863), mostly of working-class Irish-Americans, in protest of the draft. Rioters were particularly incensed by the ability of the rich to hire substitutes or purchase exemptions.

The notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.

Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery which caused many to join the abolitionist movement.

How did Lincoln's assassination and Johnson's impeachment affect reconstruction?

Johnson was against affording rights to blacks

Abolitionists further helped their cause prior to the Civil war by

Helping slaves escape to freedom

How did Texas become an independent republic?

Americans were invited to settle and contribute to MExico's economy

Many brought protestantism and slaves with them

War ensued resulting in Texas Victory

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30 sec • 3 pts

How did the government contribute to the building of the national rail network?

They built and operated the first transcontinental rail lines.

They provided free grants of federal land to the railroad companies.

They created a spy agency to steal trade secrets from British railroad companies.

They imported substantial numbers of Chinese immigrants to build the railroads.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

What was the Roe v Wade decision?

Freedom of Speech

Right to privacy

established the precedent for legislative reapportionment

Feminine Mystique

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rise of conservatism before 1980?

Backlash against the counterculture

Backlash against the Civil Rights Movement

Backlash against the Rights Revolution

Backlash against the hawks of the Vietnam era

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

3. The Spanish demand for maize from the Huejotzingo as tribute best serves as evidence of which of the following developments in the 15th-16th Centuries?

increasing global biodiversity

growing European populations

industrial farming methods

European notions of racial superiority

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

5. Prior to the Treaty of Tordesillas, ownership of territory in the New World was affirmed primarily through what authority?

Conventions hosted by European governments

The Catholic Church and Pope

Victors in war laying claim

Previously established international law

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

9. Based on the observations of Las Casas, which of the following best describes the Spanish policy toward Native Americans and their land in the 16th Century?

only indigenous crops, such as tobacco, could be planted and harvested

all Native Americans must be killed or removed from their land in order to claim it

the Spanish were entitled to free labor and the resources of colonized territory

native populations would not be killed or mistreated if they converted to Christianity

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

11. Native Americans lived in a world that was more pervasively religious --- or spiritual --- than Europeans did. Most Native languages did not even have a word for religion. That concept, in western use, can imply a set of beliefs or practices set apart from the rest of life. Separating the sacred and mundane did not make sense in the mental world of Native Americans...The physical world was teeming with spiritual forces. Fish nets might communicate with fish. Humans were not so different from the plants and animals surrounding them, not from sky, earth, fire and water. Humans were elemental and sentient, as were their surroundings. Thomas Kidd, historian, American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths, 2016 *QUESTION** According to the excerpt, Native American spirituality was mostly shaped by

A. the avoidance of spirituality within existing tribal political and social systems

B. the belief that was spirituality ingrained in nature

C. the introduction of the word, “religion,” by Europeans

D. the separation of religion and spirituality

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APUSH Review May 2023

How did the government contribute to the building of the national rail network?

What was the Roe v Wade decision?

Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rise of conservatism before 1980?

3. The Spanish demand for maize from the Huejotzingo as tribute best serves as evidence of which of the following developments in the 15th-16th Centuries?

5. Prior to the Treaty of Tordesillas, ownership of territory in the New World was affirmed primarily through what authority?

9. Based on the observations of Las Casas, which of the following best describes the Spanish policy toward Native Americans and their land in the 16th Century?

Which mid-20th-century phenomenon helps to explain Vietnam?

Define “arms race”.

How was the Korean War a “proxy war”?

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