Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam 2019, Premium Edition by Princeton Review

Author:Princeton Review
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 Review Questions

See Chapter 14 for answers and explanations.

1. The scalawags were

(A) another name for the Redeemers, who refused to accept the fact that the South had lost the Civil War

(B) Northern politicians who traveled to the South after the Civil War to exploit the political and economic instability for their own personal gain

(C) advocates of civil rights for the newly freed slaves

(D) white Southerners who supported Republican policies during Reconstruction

2. Which of the following statements about Supreme Court decisions during the latter part of the nineteenth century is most accurate?

(A) They reduced federal power over the states by narrowly defining the applicability of the Constitution to state law.

(B) They cleared the way for the liberal reforms of the twentieth century by broadly interpreting constitutional guarantees of individual rights.

(C) They had little practical effect because the executive branch consistently refused to enforce the Court’s rulings.

(D) They used the Fourteenth Amendment to create numerous environmental regulations and human rights, stifling American business growth.

3. The term vertical integration refers to

(A) Reconstruction-era efforts to assimilate newly freed slaves into all social strata of American society

(B) an architectural movement that sought to blend urban skyscrapers with the natural landscape surrounding them

(C) the industrial practice of assigning workers a single, repetitive task in order to maximize productivity

(D) control of all aspects of an industry, from production of raw materials to delivery of finished goods

4. The passage of the Pendleton Act was a direct result of the

(A) assassination of Abraham Lincoln

(B) failure of Reconstruction

(C) assassination of James A. Garfield

(D) Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

5. The Haymarket Affair represented a major setback for the

(A) women’s suffrage movement

(B) civil rights movement for African Americans

(C) Knights of Labor

(D) Temperance movement

6. Japan was outraged by the American annexation of Hawaii in 1898 primarily because

(A) Japan depended heavily on trade with Hawaii to support its economy

(B) the United States had signed a treaty with Japan granting Japan rights to Hawaii

(C) the Japanese were committed to the principle of self-rule throughout the Pacific

(D) nearly half of Hawaii’s residents were of Japanese descent

7. The “new immigrants” who arrived in the United States after the Civil War were different from the “old immigrants” in that they

(A) came mostly from Latin American countries

(B) settled in rural areas in the Midwest where land was plentiful

(C) were better prepared than previous immigrants had been to face the challenges of urban life

(D) spoke different languages and had different customs than most Americans and thus were not easily assimilated

8. The “Ghost Dance” movement among Western Native Americans stressed all of the following EXCEPT

(A) the belief that the world would soon come to an end

(B) rejection of alcohol and other trappings of white society

(C) unity among Native Americans of different tribes

(D) nonviolence

9. In the late nineteenth century, political machines such as Tammany Hall were successful primarily because

(A) they operated primarily in rural areas, where the government could not monitor their activities

(B) they focused on accomplishing only a narrow set of human rights objectives

(C) they championed the

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