Thirty-five MCQs pertaining to the time period 1491 to 1945 he APUSH practice exam appearing below consists of thirty-five multiple-choice questions. All thirty-five questions pertain to the time period 1491 to 1945 (aka P1-P7), with questions 1–13 found in the 2020 CED and questions 14–35 found in the 2017 CED. My students will take this practice exam in mid-March. They will have thirty-five minutes to complete. Those who correctly answer 26 (75%) of the thirty-five questions within thirty-five minutes will earn at least a 4 on the May Exam, I’m predicting. This should prove especially true for those students willing to take a very close look at the questions they answered incorrectly and at the questions they answered correctly by only way of a wild-guess. Questions 1–4 refer to the following excerpt. “May it . . . please your most excellent Majesty, that it may be declared . . . in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain; . . . and [they] of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.” * The Declaratory Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1766 Questions 5–7 refer to the following excerpt. “The Erie Canal poured into New York City [wealth] far exceeding that which its early friends predicted. . . . In the city, merchants, bankers, warehousemen, [and] shippers . . . seized the opportunity to perfect and specialize their services, fostering round after round of business innovations that within a decade of the opening of the Erie Canal had made New York by far the best place in America to engage in commerce. . . .” “Even before its economic benefits were realized fully, rival seaports with hopes of tapping interior trade began to imagine dreadful prospects of permanent eclipse. Whatever spirit of mutual good feeling and national welfare once greeted [internal improvements] now disappeared behind desperate efforts in cities . . . to create for themselves a westward connection.” * John Lauritz Larson, historian, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States, 2015 Questions 8–10 refer to the following excerpt. “The normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom. That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national [western] territory, ordained that ‘no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law,’ it becomes our duty by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.” * Republican Party platform, 1860 Questions 11–13 refer to the following image from the 1940s. Questions 14–16 refer to the graph below. Questions 17–19 refer to the exerpt below. “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. “He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. . . . “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. . . . “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.” * Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848 Q17: The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that
Q18: Which of the following developments in the second half of the nineteenth century best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?
Q19: Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by the 1870s?
Questions 20 and 21 refer to the excerpt below.
Q20: The excerpt was written in response to the
Q21: The ideas about government expressed in the excerpt are most consistent with which of the following?
Questions 22 and 23 refer to the excerpt below.
Q22: The Immigration Act of 1924 most directly reflected
Q23: Which of the following evidence would best support Ngai’s argument in the excerpt?
Questions 24–26 refer to the late-nineteenth-century photograph below by journalist Jacob Riis. © Bettmann/CORBISQ24: Conditions like those shown in the image contributed most directly to which of the following?
Q25: The conditions shown in the image depict which of the following trends in the late nineteenth century?
Q26: Advocates for individuals such as those shown in the image would have most likely agreed with which of the following perspectives?
Questions 27 and 28 refer to the excerpt below.
Q27: Which of the following aspects of Muir’s description expresses a major change in Americans’ views of the natural environment?
Q28: Muir’s ideas are most directly a reaction to the
Questions 29–32 refer to the excerpt below.
Q29: The concerns expressed by Washington were a response to the
Q30: The ideas expressed in Washington’s address most strongly influenced which United States foreign policy decision in the twentieth century?
Q31: Which of the following groups most strongly opposed Washington’s point of view in the address?
Q32: Most historians would argue that the recommendations of Washington’s address ceased to have a significant influence on United States foreign policy as a result of
Questions 33–35 refer to the excerpt below.
Q33: The export of New World crops to the Old World transformed European society mostly by
Q34: The patterns described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following developments?
Q35: The trends described by Taylor most directly illustrate which of the following major historical developments in the Atlantic world?
The Answer Key
Click here to view APUSH Practice Exam #2. This practice exam consists of another thirty-five MCQs pertaining to the time period 1491 to 1945, with questions 1–32 found in the 2020 CED and questions 33–35 found in the 2014 CED. (work in progress — to post later in March) Sidenote #2In the past three years, my students most often missed the following: Q4
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