AP US History Quiz

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What was William Jefferson Clinton foreign policy mostly about

  1. Air strikes everywere

  2. protection of human rights

  3. protection of animal rights


Correct Option: B

What two other elections are connected with the Election of 2000

  1. Election of 1824 and 1876

  2. Election of 1800 and 1872

  3. Election of 1824 and 1856

  4. Election of 1800 and 1885


Correct Option: A

What did NAFTA create

  1. Free Trade with Mexico only

  2. Free Trade with Canada only

  3. eliminated trade barriers between U.S., Mexico, and Canada

  4. eliminated trade barriers between U.S., Mexico, and Spain


Correct Option: C

Which president was elected after George H.W. Bush

  1. Barack Obama

  2. William Jefferson Clinton

  3. George W. Bush

  4. Donald Trump


Correct Option: B

What was Operation Air Strike

  1. military strikes against Lebanon

  2. military strikes against Iran

  3. military strikes against Iraq

  4. military strikes against Kuwait


Correct Option: C

Which president won the election of 1988

  1. Michael Dukakis

  2. George W. Bush

  3. George H.W. Bush

  4. Ronald Reagan


Correct Option: C

All of these were apart of the "New Federalism" except

  1. Decrease the size of the national gov

  2. State completely take over Medicade

  3. State completely take over welfare and foodstamps

  4. No changes


Correct Option: B

Which president was elected after Carter

  1. George HW Bush

  2. Obama

  3. JFK

  4. Ronald Reagan


Correct Option: D

How was the economy when Jimmy Carter became president

  1. Bad

  2. Ok

  3. Good


Correct Option: A

When Nixon resigned who became president?

  1. Gerald Ford

  2. Jimmy Carter

  3. Ronald Reagan

  4. Donald Trump


Correct Option: A

Which president was under investigation for Watergate

  1. Nixon

  2. LBJ

  3. JFK

  4. Carter


Correct Option: A

What is the Nixon Doctirine

  1. Withdraw USforces frommany foreign overseas troop commitment

  2. No colonization on the western hemisphere

  3. Colonize anywhere in the world


Correct Option: A

Which president used the phrase "Vietnamization" and what was it

  1. Richard Nixon. Withdrawing troops from Vietnam

  2. Gerald Ford. Withdrawing troops from Vietnam

  3. LBJ. Withdrawing troops from Vietnam

  4. Jimmy Carter. Withdrawing troops from Vietnam


Correct Option: A

What was is the defination of detente

  1. not easing tentions with a foreign countries

  2. eating more

  3. military strikes

  4. easing hostile or strained relations with a foreign country


Correct Option: D

Which resolution allowed the President to take any measures he deemed necessary to protect US

  1. Gulf of Mexico Resolution

  2. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution


Correct Option: B

What President created the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What was the use of it.

  1. LBJ. discrimination was outlawed based on a person color etc

  2. Nixon. discrimination was outlawed based on a person color

  3. Reagan. discrimination was outlawed based on a person color

  4. JFK. discrimination was outlawed based on a person color etc


Correct Option: A

Which act required man and women receive equal pay for equal work in 1963

  1. Pay Act

  2. Equal Pay Act

  3. Equal chance Act

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

Which president made the "New Frontier"

  1. Lyndon Baines Johnson

  2. Richard Nixon

  3. John F Kennedy

  4. Harry Truman


Correct Option: C

Which SCOTUS case replaced Plessy v. Ferguson

  1. Schenk v. US

  2. Brown v. Board of Education


Correct Option: B

When did the Korean War began

  1. 1965

  2. 1964

  3. 1950

  4. 1985


Correct Option: C

Which president made the Fair Deal

  1. FDR

  2. Nixon

  3. Truman

  4. Eishenhower


Correct Option: C

Which president made one and two square deal

  1. Theodore Roosevelt

  2. FDR

  3. Harry Truman

  4. Nixon


Correct Option: B

Which president made the square deal

  1. Theodore Roosevelt

  2. FDR

  3. Harry Truman


Correct Option: A

Which plan sent 12 billion to European countries to help rebuild the economy

  1. Eisenhower Plan

  2. Marshall Plan

  3. Nixon Plan

  4. Bartlett Plan


Correct Option: B

What doctrine helped countries from communism

  1. Monroe Doctirine

  2. Truman Doctirine

  3. Washington Doctirine

  4. Nixon Doctitine


Correct Option: A

Following can be seen as clashes btw traditional and modern culture during post WW1 era except

  1. The rise of the KKK

  2. The Teapot Dome Scandal

  3. Scopes Monkey Trial

  4. Emergency Quota Act of 1924


Correct Option: B

Buying on margin contributed to the stock market crash in 1929 because it

  1. required investors to purchase onlyhigh risk,violating stock

  2. impose high interest rates that discourages trading

  3. Prevented traders from learning the true financial state

  4. allowed traders to pay for stock with projected profits


Correct Option: D

Which conference discussed efforts to re draw the world map

  1. Yalta Confrence

  2. Teheran Confrence

  3. San Francisco Confrence

  4. Postdam Confrence


Correct Option: A

What doctrine was produced due to the SCOTUS case Schenck v. U.S.

  1. Civil liberties cannot be curtained by war time

  2. Japanese interment camps

  3. Civil liberties can be curtained even violated in time ofwar

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

What is the act that permitted U.S. to lend armaments to England

  1. Nuetrality Act

  2. Lend-Lease Act

  3. Dawes Act

  4. Harley-Smooth Tariff


Correct Option: B

What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact

  1. Kellogg company for cereal

  2. Condemned war as a means of foreign policy

  3. maintain peace


Correct Option: B

What is the policy that promotes interest in Latin America

  1. Open Door Policy

  2. Close Door Policy

  3. Open Neighbor policy

  4. Good Neighbor Policy


Correct Option: D

Which act by FDR provided payment to farmers in turn to cut production in half

  1. Farm Credit Act

  2. Agricultural Adjustment Act

  3. Farmers relations board

  4. Farmers Credit Act


Correct Option: B

Which act by FDR put the banks under control of the Treasury Dept

  1. Banking Act of 1933

  2. Emergency banking bill

  3. Emergency act of 1944

  4. Banking relief Act


Correct Option: B

Which tariff was the highest protective tariff in American history.

  1. Tariff of 1828

  2. Tariff of 1848

  3. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

  4. Tariff of Abomination


Correct Option: C

How many presidents were impeached during American history

  1. 2

  2. 3

  3. 4

  4. 1


Correct Option: A

Which amendment outlawed the use of the liquor in America

  1. 13th Amendment

  2. 17th Amendment

  3. 18th Amendment

  4. 21th Amendment


Correct Option: C

What was the Tea Pot Dome Scandal

  1. oil comp bribethe Secretary of Interior to drill public land

  2. A part of the Missouri gang

  3. oil companies did not bribe no one


Correct Option: A

Which Treaty ended WW1

  1. Treaty of Ghent

  2. Treaty of Paris

  3. Treaty of Versailles

  4. Treaty of France


Correct Option: C

What did the War Industry Board create

  1. coordinated all facets of industrial and agricultural produc

  2. coordinated all facets of fish and agricultural production

  3. coordinated all facets of industrial and fish production


Correct Option: A

Sherman-Anti trust Act of 1890 forbidden what?

  1. Helped monopolies grow

  2. allowances of collective bargaining

  3. SCOTUS from declaring monoplies unconstitutional

  4. Combination or conspiracy in restraint of trde


Correct Option: D

Dawes Act is similar to what other act

  1. Interstate Commerce Act

  2. Homestead Act

  3. Indian Removal Act

  4. Native American leave Act


Correct Option: B

The McKinley Tariff caused what conflict

  1. Mexican-American War

  2. WW1

  3. WW2

  4. Spanish-American War


Correct Option: D

Andrew Johnson was impeached because

  1. refused to carry out Lincoln's plan for reconstruction

  2. he vetoed the Wade-Davis Bill

  3. Congress was controlled by Republicans and he was a democrat

  4. violated the Tenure of Office Act firingthe Secretary of War


Correct Option: D

The Know-Nothing Party focused its efforts almost exclusively on the issue of

  1. the right to bear arms

  2. prohibition of alcohol

  3. womens rights

  4. immigration


Correct Option: D

Result of the Emancipation Proclamation

  1. slave in the union and the confederacy were declared free

  2. Maryland seceded from the union

  3. 200,000+ free blacks joined the Union Army

  4. African Americans in the U.S. received the right to vote


Correct Option: C

"Bleeding Kansas" was a direct factor to what doctrine

  1. Judicial Review

  2. imperialism

  3. containment

  4. popular sovereignty


Correct Option: D

As a result of the Mexican-American War, all the following became part of the U.S. except

  1. California

  2. New Mexico

  3. Nevada

  4. Texas


Correct Option: D

The Cherokee of Georgia were forced off their land because

  1. refused to assimilate to the"American" way of life

  2. gold was found Georgia.= Indian Removal act be enforced

  3. SCOTUS refused to hear the case

  4. The Seminole tribe, conquered the land


Correct Option: B

Andrew Jackson position on the Second National Bank and the American System typified his

  1. distrust of large national gov programs

  2. tendency to favor the interest on the North

  3. abhorrence of the spoils system

  4. commitment to developing a national econoomy


Correct Option: A

The Louisiana Purchase was an important factor in the development of U.S. trade because it

  1. Opened new markets among the western Indian Nations

  2. added French factories in the Louisiana Territory=economy

  3. Gave the country complete control of the Mississippi river

  4. help the fast completion of the transcontinental rail road


Correct Option: C

John Marshall strengthened the Court by

  1. establishing the principles of federalism,

  2. Establish judicial review in McCulloch v. Maryland

  3. declaring the Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

  4. Establish judicial review under Marbury v. Madisson


Correct Option: D

George Washington establish the principles of executive privilege in a dispute w/ Congress over

  1. Alien Sedition Acts

  2. Jay Treaty

  3. Legality of political parties

  4. Whiskey Rebellion


Correct Option: B

Shays rebellion is a significant event in US history because

  1. Showed strength,fairness of the newly created government

  2. Americans realized that excessive taxation often = violance

  3. Made many Americans realize that slavery could not last

  4. Showed weekness under the federal gov under the Articles


Correct Option: D

The Albany Plan of Union failed because

  1. Required N.E. colonies to contribute a lot of troops and $

  2. There was no legitimate executive power to enforce it

  3. No political leader with national status would support it

  4. no colony wanted to share tax collecting power w/ federalgov


Correct Option: D

As a result of the Hartford Convention following the War of 1812

  1. The federalist party lost credibility and later died out

  2. The new England states threaten to sucede

  3. The constitution was amended to limit the president to 8 yrs

  4. Congress passed the War Powers Act.


Correct Option: A

The first important cash crop in the American colonies was

  1. cotton

  2. tobacco

  3. corn

  4. tea


Correct Option: B

What two religions where revived during the first Great Awakening?

  1. Methodist and Congregationalist

  2. Methodist and Presbyterian

  3. Puritan and Catholics


Correct Option: A

What was the first and one of the most successful slave revolts in 1739?

  1. Stono Rebellion

  2. Gabriel's Conspiracy

  3. Nat Turner Rebellion

  4. Nathanial Revolt


Correct Option: A

What was the purpose of Bacon's Rebellion.

  1. Bacon wanted to help the state with taxes

  2. Bacon wanted to start a militia against the French

  3. Bacon wanted to start a militia against Native Americans.

  4. Bacon wanted to be a general along side George Washington


Correct Option: C

What were the Navigation Acts

  1. English colonies can only buy goods from England.

  2. English colonies can buy goods from who ever they want

  3. English colonies can only buy goods from England and Spain

  4. English colonies can buy good only from the France


Correct Option: A

What is salutary neglect? What years were the practiced?

  1. Absence of England officials in the colonies. 1650-1750

  2. Absence of England officials in the colonies. 1625-1763

  3. England officials running the colonies. 1625-1763

  4. England officials running the colonies. 1650-1750


Correct Option: A

In Connecticut what was the first written document in which they were governed?

  1. Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizen?

  2. Mayflower Compact

  3. Fundamental Orders

  4. Declaration of Independence


Correct Option: C

What was the Mayflower Compact. Why was it important.

  1. Created legal authority and an assembly. Consent of governed

  2. Created the right to assemble. Consent from the governed.

  3. Create legal authority. Consent deprived from God

  4. The King ruled and everyone listened


Correct Option: A

What settlement established the House of Burgesses which property holding white male can vote.

  1. Virginia

  2. Maine

  3. Massachusetts

  4. Jamestown


Correct Option: A

What are indentured servants? And what were they promised after their time?

  1. Promised seven years labor, after which the receive freedom.

  2. Promised four years labor, after which they receive freedom

  3. Promised 10 years labor, after which they receive freedom

  4. Promised six years labor, after which the receive freedom.


Correct Option: A

What is the name of England's first settled colony? Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored the settlement

  1. Roanoke

  2. New York

  3. Jamestown

  4. Georgia


Correct Option: A

Which company settled Jamestown and what year?

  1. Virginia Company 1604

  2. East India Company 1604

  3. Virginia Company 1614

  4. Dutch East India Company 1645


Correct Option: A

What is the name of corporate business that wanted to settle and develop land in North America

  1. Stock companies

  2. Joint Companies

  3. Free market companies

  4. Joint Stock companies


Correct Option: D

What is the name of those of mix of European and Native Blood

  1. Mestizos

  2. Peninsulares

  3. Zambos

  4. Native


Correct Option: A

Which German friar started the Protestant Reformation?

  1. Martin Luther

  2. George Washington

  3. Alexander The Great

  4. Freedman Royal


Correct Option: A
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