Download AP US History Chapters 6-9 Test 1. The primary economic

AP US History Chapters 6-9 Test
1. The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New
France was
A) farming.
B) fishing.
C) mining.
D) fur trapping.
E) rum manufacturing.
2. The French wanted to control Louisiana because they
A) liked its climate.
B) wanted to keep the area unfortified.
C) would then control the mouth of the Mississippi.
D) feared Dutch expansion into the territory.
E) saw it as a dumping ground for undesirables.
3. The clash between Britain and France for control of the
North American continent sprang from their rivalry for
control of
A) Cape Breton Island.
B) the Ohio River Valley.
C) the Mississippi River.
D) the Great Lakes.
E) the St. Lawrence River.
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4. The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754
was to
A) achieve colonial unity and common defense against the
French threat.
B) propose independence of the colonies from Britain.
C) declare war on the Iroquois tribe.
D) prohibit New England and New York from trading with
the French West Indies.
E) gain peace with France.
5. Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected
by the individual colonies because
A) it did not provide for the common defense.
B) the British approved it.
C) it did not seem to give enough independence to the
colonies.
D) they did not feel that they had been well represented at
the Albany Congress.
E) it placed too much power in the hands of local
governments.
6. In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years'
War,
A) France surrendered all of its territorial claims to North
America.
B) England turned Florida over to Spain.
C) Spain ceded all of Louisiana, including New Orleans, to
Britain.
D) France lost all its valuable sugar islands in the West
Indies.
E) the British got all of Canada except Nova Scotia.
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7. As a result of the Seven Years' War, Great Britain
A) gained control of Louisiana.
B) became the dominant power in North America.
C) annexed the island of Cuba.
D) gained exclusive control of the slave trade.
E) all of the above.
8. For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War
A) ended the myth of British invincibility.
B) left them in need of experienced officers.
C) offered the opportunity to grow closer to the British.
D) gave them the opportunity finally to gain control of
Mississippi.
E) helped improve relations between Britain and the
colonies.
9. The disunity that existed in the colonies before the Seven
Years' War can be attributed to
A) the enormous distances between the colonies.
B) geographical barriers like rivers.
C) conflicting religions.
D) varied nationalities.
E) all of the above.
10. France had to give up its vision of a North American New
France when
A) its fishing industry faltered.
B) farming proved to be unprofitable.
C) King Louis XIV died.
D) it was defeated by the British in 1713 and 1763.
E) it could not entice enough settlers to America.
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11. With the British and American victory in the Seven Years'
War,
A) the American colonies grew closer to Britain.
B) Americans now feared the Spanish.
C) a new spirit of independence arose, as the French threat
disappeared.
D) the Indians were stopped from ever again launching a
deadly attack against whites.
E) the British no longer retaliated against the Indians.
12. The Proclamation of 1763
A) was warmly received by American land speculators.
B) removed the Spanish and Indian menace from the
colonial frontier.
C) declared war on Chief Pontiac and his fierce warriors.
D) prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian
Mountains.
E) opened Canada to American settlement.
13. In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763
A) American colonists obeyed the law they hated.
B) relations with France improved.
C) relations between the American colonies and the British
government improved.
D) the American colonies believed their destiny had been
destroyed.
E) American colonists moved west, defying the
Proclamation.
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14. Change in colonial policy by the British government that
helped precipitate the American Revolution involved
A) removing British troops from American soil.
B) beginning a war with Spain.
C) removing the majority of the British navy from American
waters.
D) compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of
the financial costs of the empire.
E) all of the above.
15. The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued
that a just society depends on
A) a powerful central government.
B) a weak army.
C) a strong aristocratic tradition.
D) support for hierarchical institutions.
E) the willingness of all citizens to subordinate their private
interests to the common good.
16. Mercantilists believed that
A) a mother country needed to import more goods than it
exported.
B) power came from a small colonial empire.
C) the mother country produced raw materials and colonies
produced the finished product.
D) a country's economic wealth could be measured by the
amount of gold and silver in its treasury.
E) colonies drained a country of its resources.
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17. In some ways, the Navigation Laws were a burden to
certain colonists because
A) northern merchants derived greater benefit from the
system than did southern planters.
B) those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide
financing for the Royal Navy, which protected colonial
and British trade.
C) they stifled economic initiative.
D) Britain had the only European empire based on
mercantilistic principles.
E) they gave greater benefits to slaves holders.
18. The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to
A) raise money to support new military forces needed for
colonial defense.
B) punish the American colonists.
C) reduce the number of printed documents in America.
D) enable tax collectors to become wealthy.
E) raise taxes to a higher level than in Britain.
19. Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because
A) it was a very expensive tax.
B) they believed it could not be repealed.
C) Parliament passed the tax, not the colonists.
D) they opposed all taxes.
E) they wanted their independence.
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20. “Virtual” representation meant that
A) almost all British subjects were represented in
Parliament.
B) every member of Parliament represented all British
subjects.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to
Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation
except taxes.
E) each member of Parliament represented only people in
his district.
21. The local committees of correspondence organized by
Samuel Adams
A) promoted his bid to become governor of Massachusetts.
B) promoted independent action in each colony to support
the British.
C) kept opposition to the British alive, through exchange of
propaganda.
D) served as a precursor to the United States Postal
Service.
E) led the Boston Massacre.
22. The First Continental Congress was called in order to
A) consider ways of redressing colonial grievances.
B) become a legislative body.
C) write the Declaration of Independence.
D) decide which of Parliament's taxes the colonies would
and would not pay.
E) help implement provisions of the Quebec Act.
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23. The First Continental Congress
A) was attended by delegates from each of the thirteen
colonies.
B) adopted a moderate proposal for establishing a kind of
home rule for the colonies under British direction.
C) made a ringing declaration of America's independence
from Britain.
D) called for a complete boycott of British goods.
E) adjourned shortly after convening.
24. As the War for Independence began, the colonies had the
advantage of
A) highly reliable and well-supplied troops.
B) potential aid from the Armed Neutrality League.
C) a well-organized, strongly committed, and united
population.
D) many outstanding civil and military leaders.
E) able naval leaders.
25. Perhaps the most important single action of the Second
Continental Congress was to
A) select George Washington to head the army.
B) draft new appeals to the king.
C) adopt measures to raise money.
D) postpone an immediate demand for independence.
E) support independence.
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26. The Olive Branch Petition
A) was passed by Parliament.
B) was an expression of King George III's desire for peace.
C) promised no treason charges if colonists stopped
fighting.
D) was an attempt by the colonists to gain support of Native
Americans.
E) professed American loyalty to the crown.
27. One purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to
A) warn other nations to stay out of the Revolution.
B) ask for an end to slavery.
C) appeal for fairer treatment by Parliament.
D) explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had
revolted.
E) condemn Parliament for its actions.
28. In a republic, power
A) comes from the aristocrats.
B) comes from a select few based on religion.
C) comes from the people themselves.
D) resides in property owners.
E) belongs only to the educated.
29. Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense
A) was published before any fighting took place between
the colonists and the British.
B) remained unpopular for several years before being
accepted by the public.
C) called for American independence and the creation of a
democratic republic.
D) called on the British people to overthrow the king.
E) led to Paine's eventual arrest and imprisonment in
America.
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30. Loyalists were least numerous in
A) New York
B) Pennsylvania.
C) Virginia.
D) the middle colonies.
E) New England.
31. Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris
because British leaders
A) realized that they had been beaten badly.
B) wanted to help Spain as well.
C) had changed from Whig to Tory.
D) were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance
with France.
E) feared continued war might lead to a loss of their Latin
American colonies.
32. The Founding Fathers failed to eliminate slavery because
A) they did not truly believe in democracy.
B) a fight over slavery might destroy national unity.
C) they were more concerned with securing equality for
women.
D) the North, as its industry expanded, began to rely more
heavily on slave labor.
E) economic conditions would not allow such a loss.
33. The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to
A) organize development of the western lands.
B) deal with foreign affairs.
C) apportion state representation equally.
D) enforce a tax-collection program.
E) establish a postal service.
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34. A major strength of the Articles of Confederation was its
A) control over interstate commerce.
B) strong judicial branch.
C) presentation of the ideal of a united nation.
D) ability to coin money.
E) strong executive branch.
35. Shays's Rebellion was provoked by
A) fear that the Articles of Confederation had created too
strong a national government for the United States.
B) efforts by wealthy merchants to replace the Articles of
Confederation with a new constitution.
C) a quarrel over the boundary between Massachusetts
and Vermont.
D) foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers.
E) the government's failure to pay bonuses to
Revolutionary War veterans.
36. Shays's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need
for
A) lower taxes.
B) granting long-delayed bonuses to Revolutionary War
veterans.
C) a vigilante effort by westerners to halt the Indian threat.
D) a stronger central government.
E) a weaker military presence in the West.
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37. The debate between the supporters and critics of the
Articles of Confederation centered on how to
A) reconcile states' rights with strong national government.
B) transfer territories to equal statehood.
C) abolish slavery yet preserve national unity.
D) balance the power of legislative and executive offices of
government.
E) conduct foreign policy while remaining neutral.
38. The Constitutional Convention was called to
A) write a completely new constitution.
B) allow the most radical Revolutionary leaders to write
their ideas into law.
C) weaken the power of the central government.
D) revise the Articles of Confederation.
E) reassess our foreign alliances.
39. The “large-state plan” put forward in the Constitutional
Convention
A) ultimately provided the framework of the Constitution.
B) was proposed by Patrick Henry.
C) favored states such as New Jersey.
D) favored southern states over northern states.
E) based representation in the House and Senate on
population.
40. The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention
worked out an acceptable scheme for
A) regulating interstate commerce.
B) levying taxes for raising a militia.
C) apportioning congressional representation.
D) electing the president.
E) choosing Senators.
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41. Under the Constitution, the president of the United States
was to be elected by a majority vote of the
A) general public.
B) Senate.
C) Electoral College.
D) House of Representatives.
E) state legislatures.
42. The Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South
controversy over slavery through the
A) “large-state plan.”
B) “small-state plan.”
C) “three-fifths” compromise.
D) closing of the slave trade until 1807.
E) Northwest Ordinance.
43. The new Constitution established the idea that the only
legitimate government was one based on
A) a strong central government.
B) an unwritten constitution.
C) the authority of the state.
D) control by wealthier people.
E) the consent of the governed.
44. Probably the most alarming characteristic of the new
Constitution to those who opposed it was the
A) creation of a federal district for the national capital.
B) creation of a standing army.
C) absence of a bill of rights.
D) omission of any reference to God.
E) creation of the presidency.
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45. In 1649 Maryland's Act of Toleration
A) was issued by Lord Baltimore.
B) abolished the death penalty.
C) gave freedom only to Catholics.
D) protected Jews and atheists.
E) guaranteed toleration to all Christians.
46. North Carolina and Rhode Island were similar in that they
A) were very aristocratic.
B) exercised no independent prerogative.
C) depended on trade with Spain.
D) were the two most democratic colonies.
E) were founded by Roger Williams.
47. Among the Puritans, it was understood that
A) they would establish democratic government in America.
B) clergymen would hold the most powerful political office.
C) the purpose of government was to enforce God's laws.
D) all adult white male landowners could vote for political
leaders.
E) women could become religious leaders.
48. The New England Indians' only hope for resisting English
encroachment lay in
A) acquiring English muskets.
B) enlisting the aid of the French.
C) intertribal unity against the English.
D) building fortifications.
E) allying themselves with the Dutch.
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49. The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was
A) Indian attacks on frontier settlements.
B) the wealthy planter class losing control of the colony.
C) a shortage of indentured servants.
D) to halt the importation of African slaves.
E) all of the above.
50. As a result of Bacon's Rebellion,
A) African slavery was reduced.
B) planters began to look for less troublesome laborers.
C) Governor Berkeley was dismissed from office.
D) Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the Virginia militia.
E) better relations developed with local Indians.
51. Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were
A) large merchant planters.
B) landowning small farmers.
C) landless farm laborers.
D) black slaves.
E) native Americans.
52. The riches created by the growing slave population in the
American South
A) were distributed evenly among whites.
B) helped to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
C) created a serious problem with inflation.
D) were not distributed evenly among whites.
E) enabled poor whites to escape tenant farming.
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53. The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping
industry
A) was not that profitable.
B) involved America, France, and England.
C) relied on the Spanish fleet for protection.
D) saw the Spanish gaining the largest profits.
E) involved the trading of rum for African slaves.
54. As the Revolution approached, Presbyterian and
Congregational ministers in general
A) remained neutral.
B) supported the Revolutionary cause.
C) sided with the Anglican clergymen.
D) opposed the idea of revolution.
E) split on the issue of independence.
55. One political principle that colonial Americans came to
cherish above most others was
A) the property qualification for voting.
B) one man, one vote.
C) the separation of powers.
D) self-taxation through representation.
E) restricting the right to vote to men only.
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