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AP U.S. History Quotes
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Clay
Abe Lincoln
Philip Henry Sheridan
2. you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thrones - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold (Dem. nomination)
Declaration of Sentiments
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
William Jennings Bryan
3. Who is James K. Polk?
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Clay
Abe Lincoln
Ben Franklin
4. all we ask is to be let alone
Philip Henry Sheridan
Jefferson Davis
Philip Henry Sheridan
Booker T Washington
5. God who gave us life - gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are a gift of God? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - and that His justice cannot sle
Thomas Jefferson
William Jennings Bryan
Representative Robert Harper
Know Nothing Party
6. ...We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation - under God - shall have a new birth of freedom; and that gov of the people - by the people - shall not perish from the earth (Gettysburg Address)
Abe Lincoln
Philip Henry Sheridan
John Smith
Thomas Jefferson
7. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union - and is not either to save or to destroy slavery -letter
Patrick Henry
Woodrow Wilson
Abe Lincoln
Daniel Webster
8. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster
Andrew Jackson
Know Nothing Party
Woodrow Wilson
9. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal -Seneca Falls Convention
John Smith
Declaration of Sentiments
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T Washington
10. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union - and is not either to save or to destroy slavery -letter
Abe Lincoln
Abigail Adams
Thomas Jefferson
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
11. penny saved is a penny earned
John Fremont
Thomas Paine
Abe Lincoln
Ben Franklin
12. Millions for Defense! But not one cent for tribute (XYZ affair)
Hernando Cortes
Daniel Webster
Philip Henry Sheridan
Representative Robert Harper
13. He that will not work - shall not eat
John Smith
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
14. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
Philip Henry Sheridan
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
15. Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream
Karl Marx
Abe Lincoln
Philip Henry Sheridan
Abigail Adams
16. Take away the heritage of a people - and they are easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
17. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one. Government - like dress - is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Karl Marx
John Winthrop
Thomas Paine
Abe Lincoln
18. America for Americans!
Thomas Jefferson
Know Nothing Party
Abe Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
19. Vote or Die.
Ben Franklin
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
John Fremont
Patrick Henry
20. In all things purely social we can be as separate as fingers - yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress (Atlanta Compromise Speech)
Daniel Webster
Abe Lincoln
Booker T Washington
James Otis
21. America for Americans!
John Winthrop
Daniel Webster
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
Know Nothing Party
22. We have an illness only gold will cure (speech to Montezuma)
Hernando Cortes
Daniel Webster
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
Abigail Adams
23. Taxation without representation is tyranny
Abe Lincoln
John Fremont
John Smith
James Otis
24. ON the first day of January in the Year of our Lord - one thousand and eight hundred and sixty three - all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state - the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States
Abe Lincoln
Abigail Adams
James Otis
John Smith
25. Take away the heritage of a people - and they are easily persuaded.
Philip Henry Sheridan
Henry Clay
Abe Lincoln
Karl Marx
26. Log Cabin and hard Cider - Van Van He's a used up man! - Tippecanoe and Tyler Too! - Polk - 5440 or Fight! Re-annexation of Texas and Re-occupation of Oregon
Philip Henry Sheridan
William Henry Harrison
Karl Marx
John Fremont
27. Log Cabin and hard Cider - Van Van He's a used up man! - Tippecanoe and Tyler Too! - Polk - 5440 or Fight! Re-annexation of Texas and Re-occupation of Oregon
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
John Fremont
Thomas Paine
28. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Philip Henry Sheridan
Declaration of Sentiments
John Winthrop
Daniel Webster
29. John Marshall has made his choice - now let him enforce it
Andrew Jackson
John Fremont
Horace Greeley
John Winthrop
30. We are all Federalists - we are all Republicans..
Thomas Jefferson
Know Nothing Party
Declaration of Sentiments
John Winthrop
31. Millions for Defense! But not one cent for tribute (XYZ affair)
Jefferson Davis
Representative Robert Harper
Thomas Paine
Booker T Washington
32. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian
John Winthrop
Ben Franklin
Philip Henry Sheridan
Jefferson Davis
33. Go West - young man - and grow up with the country
Horace Greeley
Henry Clay
Karl Marx
John Winthrop
34. Vote or Die.
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Paine
Know Nothing Party
35. Free Soil - Free Labor Free Speech - Free Men - and Fremont
Jefferson Davis
Daniel Webster
John Fremont
Abe Lincoln
36. I know not what course others may take - but as for me - give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Abe Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Horace Greeley
37. He that will not work - shall not eat
Woodrow Wilson
John Smith
Daniel Webster
Jefferson Davis
38. I know not what course others may take - but as for me - give me liberty or give me death!
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
Philip Henry Sheridan
John Fremont
39. We are all Federalists - we are all Republicans..
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
John Fremont
Abigail Adams
40. Taxation without representation is tyranny
Thomas Jefferson
James Otis
Representative Robert Harper
William Henry Harrison
41. all we ask is to be let alone
Jefferson Davis
William Henry Harrison
John Fremont
Booker T Washington
42. penny saved is a penny earned
Ben Franklin
Thomas Paine
P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
James Otis
43. God who gave us life - gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are a gift of God? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - and that His justice cannot sle
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Patrick Henry
44. ON the first day of January in the Year of our Lord - one thousand and eight hundred and sixty three - all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state - the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States
Daniel Webster
William Jennings Bryan
Abe Lincoln
Abigail Adams
45. Remember the Ladies
Abe Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
Abigail Adams
Abe Lincoln
46. Go West - young man - and grow up with the country
Thomas Jefferson
Horace Greeley
Declaration of Sentiments
Woodrow Wilson
47. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one. Government - like dress - is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments
Thomas Paine
48. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Know Nothing Party
Abe Lincoln
Booker T Washington
John Winthrop
49. Free Soil - Free Labor Free Speech - Free Men - and Fremont
Representative Robert Harper
Thomas Jefferson
John Fremont
Abe Lincoln
50. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal -Seneca Falls Convention
Abe Lincoln
Representative Robert Harper
Hernando Cortes
Declaration of Sentiments