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AP U.S. History Quotes

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. all we ask is to be let alone






2. We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?






3. We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?






4. He that will not work - shall not eat






5. Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream






6. Remember the Ladies






7. 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






8. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian






9. We are all Federalists - we are all Republicans..






10. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian






11. America for Americans!






12. Vote or Die.






13. He that will not work - shall not eat






14. Take away the heritage of a people - and they are easily persuaded.






15. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union - and is not either to save or to destroy slavery -letter






16. 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






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.






18. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union - and is not either to save or to destroy slavery -letter






19. 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






20. Remember the Ladies






21. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.






22. 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.






23. 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)






24. We are all Federalists - we are all Republicans..






25. Take away the heritage of a people - and they are easily persuaded.






26. Free Soil - Free Labor Free Speech - Free Men - and Fremont






27. America for Americans!






28. ...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)






29. Millions for Defense! But not one cent for tribute (XYZ affair)






30. Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream






31. We have an illness only gold will cure (speech to Montezuma)






32. Who is James K. Polk?






33. Taxation without representation is tyranny






34. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill (and that) the eyes of all people are upon us...






35. penny saved is a penny earned






36. ...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)






37. John Marshall has made his choice - now let him enforce it






38. John Marshall has made his choice - now let him enforce it






39. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill (and that) the eyes of all people are upon us...






40. Go West - young man - and grow up with the country






41. 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)






42. Free Soil - Free Labor Free Speech - Free Men - and Fremont






43. Millions for Defense! But not one cent for tribute (XYZ affair)






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






45. all we ask is to be let alone






46. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal -Seneca Falls Convention






47. Taxation without representation is tyranny






48. Who is James K. Polk?






49. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal -Seneca Falls Convention






50. penny saved is a penny earned