Unit 5 APUSH Test – Flashcards
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Evidence in the excerpt most strongly suggests which of the following?
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Southern voters viewed the presidential election with contempt.
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Lincoln's rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following arguments?
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Changing the purpose of the war would strengthen the Union cause.
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Which of the following can be concluded based on the situation in which Calhoun gave this speech?
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Americans debated how to integrate conquered territories into the United States.
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Which of the following developments most likely influenced the argument expressed in the image?
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The conclusion of the Civil War stirred debates over citizenship.
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The speech given by Calhoun relates to which of the following?
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The effect of regional attitudes on federal policy making
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Which of the following developments most directly led to the activities described in the excerpt?
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The acquisition of significant territory following the Mexican-American War
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Which of the following developments most directly related to the increased sectional strife immediately prior to the election of 1860?
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The legal ruling that denied African Americans rights of citizenship
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Greenberg's argument most differs from Hietala's in that Greenberg claims that
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most Americans believed that Mexicans in the new territories could not assimilate
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The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to resolve debates about which of the following issues in the 1850s?
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The expansion of slavery
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People who shared the views expressed in the image most likely supported which of the following?
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The extension of political opportunities to formerly enslaved people
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Which of the following arguments about Reconstruction policies would both authors most likely disagree with?
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With Republicans in retreat, Southern Democrats grew more supportive of Reconstruction policies.
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Both authors would most likely suggest that the historical situation described in the excerpts contributed to which of the following?
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The continued alteration of Native American culture and society
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The excerpt best reflects the development of which of the following?
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The widely held belief that the United States had a right to expand westward
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The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?
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The growth of the abolition movement in the United States
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Which of the following differences between the North and the South during the Civil War is depicted in the graph?
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The South relied more on plantation agriculture than the North.
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Which of the following developments resulted most directly from the gold rush described in the excerpt?
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People from America, Europe, and Asia migrated to the region.
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The industrial resources of the North during the Civil War most likely accounted for which of the following?
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The disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies
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Ideas in the excerpt would most likely have influenced which of the following?
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Efforts at assisting enslaved people in escaping from the South
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Which of the following describes a trend in sectional development by 1860 reflected in the data in the graph?
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The North was becoming more diverse in its economic activities than the South.
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Which of the following groups would most likely have supported secession from the United States after the 1860 presidential election?
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Southern Democrats
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The excerpt best provides evidence about which of the following historical situations in the late 1840s?
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Growing sectional tensions caused by the Mexican-American War
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Which of the following developments in labor systems in the United States before the Civil War is reflected by the data in the graph?
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An internal trade in enslaved people spread throughout the South.
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The Fourteenth Amendment emerged from which of the following contexts?
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Republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights
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Which of the following conclusions can best be reached based on the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
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Sectional tensions erupted because most Southerners did not support Abraham Lincoln.
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Which of the following arguments about the Mexican-American War do the excerpts best support?
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It generated debates over citizenship.
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Levine's argument about Reconstruction in the excerpt differs from that of Langguth in that Levine argues
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Northern Republicans gradually withdrew their support for Reconstruction policies
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The artist who created the image would have most likely opposed which of the following developments?
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The ending of Reconstruction
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Which of the following developments was most directly connected to the collapse of the Whig Party in United States politics during the 1850s?
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The escalation of tensions between proslavery and antislavery factions
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The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?
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How Lincoln used executive powers to initiate wartime policy
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The excerpt best serves as evidence that, in 1861,
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citizens in the Southern states were deeply divided over secession
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Which of the following claims is supported by the arguments made by both Levine and Langguth?
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Local political tactics served to deny African Americans their rights.
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The phrase in the excerpt "Some of them seem willing to fight for you" could most likely be interpreted as having which of the following purposes?
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Highlighting the enlistment of formerly enslaved people into the Union army
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Rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following?
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The immediate end to the practice of slavery through legal reform
