Test your basic knowledge |

AP U.S. History

Subjects : history, ap
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Huerta's enemy - reluctantly supported by U.S.; U.S. sought Villa's submission due to terrorism - eventually assassinated; Wilson's policy highly unpopular






2. Repeat candidate for president - proponent of silver-backing (16:1 platform) - cross of gold speech against gold standard; Democratic candidate (1896)






3. Heavily evangelized to the point there were no more people left to convert to other religions - upstate New York - home to the beginning of Smith's Mormonism movement






4. Government would protect America's foreign investments with any force needed; under president Taft

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


5. Organized Seneca Falls Convention - founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization






6. Taught American landscape painting rather than Classical subjects






7. Part of 'First' New Deal Program (1933-1935) - insured deposits < $5000 - reassured American public of the worth of banks






8. FDR encouraged democracies to quarantine their opponents (economic embargos); criticized by isolationists






9. Small oil companies sold stock and authority to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (consolidation) - cornered world petroleum market






10. Symbol of women workers during the war






11. Founded by Emerson - strong emphasis on spiritual unity (God - humanity - and nature) - literature with strong references to nature






12. 'I have a dream' 25 -000 people (including whites) convened for political rally - MLK's speech to historical event; attempted to push civil rights bill through Congress






13. Led a slave rebellion in Virginia - attacked many whites - prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


14. Planes hijacked by terrorists for destruction; blame pinned on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - sought out in attempt to completely destroy terrorism






15. Society naturally punishes criminals indiscriminantly






16. Ideas of Wilson: small enterprise - states' rights - more active government - trust busting - left social issues up to the states






17. South to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; North wins Hayes as president






18. Due to threat of nuclear war - Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom






19. Argued that states had the right to determine whether or not the laws passed by Congress were constitutional






20. Germany announced that it would sink all (including American) ships - attempt to involve U.S. in war






21. Preservation of New Deal - attempt at additions; raised minimum wage - public housing - old-age insurance extension - agricultural price supports (lowering of farm price)






22. Worked towards asylums for the mentally insane - worked alongside Mann






23. Part of Nixon's tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam; wean the South Vietnamese off of American support - gradually reducing number of American troops present






24. Often debtors sold to slave traders by African kings seeking riches; Columbian Exchange






25. Helped lead settlement house movement - co-founded NAACP - condemned war and poverty






26. Started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) — 'Back to Africa' movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks






27. Believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific - searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth






28. Women must gain economic rights in order to impact society (cf. rising divorce rates)






29. Stock prices fell drastically; without buyers - the stocks became essentially worthless; cause bank crashes - &c.






30. Drafting extremely hated by Northerners - sparked by Irish-Americans against the black population - 500 lives lost - many buildings burned






31. First Utopian society - by Robert Owen






32. Nonviolent protest to college students (NC) being refused lunch service; part of 'sit-in' movement to integrate all aspects of life (hotels - entertainment - &c.)






33. Nixon's domestic policy; federal revenues shared with states (revenue sharing) - minimum income proposed






34. American commander-in-chief; first president - set precedents for future presidents - put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax) - managed first presidential cabinet - carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule






35. In Brook Farm Community - literary nationalist - transcendentalist (nascent ideas of God and freedom) - wrote 'The American Scholar'






36. The principle that a state should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery






37. Known as 'wartime food czar;' created recreation policies and reintroduced leisure culture and conservation ethic to get Americans escaping the cities and improve tourism - etc.






38. Increased already high rate of inflation by quadrupling the price of crude oil






39. Philippines - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam: granted to U.S. at the end of Spanish-American War; Philippines were captured after treaty - and thus not part of spoils - but kept as territory with an inevitable movement for independence; Philippines and






40. Workers unable to escape (locked into factory) - all died; further encouraged reform movements for working conditions






41. Mandated the toleration of all Christian denominations in Maryland - even though Maryland was founded for Catholics (but majority was protestant)






42. Single tax on speculated land to ameliorate industrialization misery






43. Beginnings of trusts (destruction of competition); vertical- controlling every aspect of production (control quality - eliminate middlemen - Rockefeller); horizontal- consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market (highly detrimental)






44. Supported abolition - broke off of Anti-Slavery Society






45. Worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom






46. Agricultural depression as precursor to the depression; unheeded omen of problems in the economic structure (prices too low — too much supply for the demand)






47. Prohibited discrimination in any government-related work; increased black employment






48. Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals - Communist Party lost power - Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control






49. Mass migration northward; mainly blacks migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination






50. Reagan called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire'; Korean passenger plane shot down near Moscow (increased anti-Soviet rhetoric); Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) used space-based lasers as defense from nuclear attack

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183