APUSH AP EXAM Questions and Answers
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Chesapeake Bay Area - Correct Answer ✅majority of
migrants who moves there were indentured servants,
economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic
Deism - Correct Answer ✅the belief that God had created
the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
exodusters - Correct Answer ✅african americans who fled
the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to
start a new in Kansas (west)
scalawags - Correct Answer ✅term used by southerners in
the reconstruction era for fellow southerners who either
supported republican reconstruction policies or gained
economically as a result of these policies, A derogatory term
for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up
land from desperate Southerners
new south advocates - Correct Answer ✅recovering from
the devastation from the Civil War, promoted a self-sufficient
southern economy built on modern capitalist values,
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industrial growth, and improved transportation--supported
expansion of southern industry
open door policy - Correct Answer ✅policy that China
should be open to trade with all of the major powers,
including the US, should have equal rights to trade there. This
was the official position toward China as announced by
secretary of state john hay in 1899. To protect US economic
interests in China
Greenback Labor Party - Correct Answer ✅political party of
the 1870s and early 1800s, supported that govt should put
more money in circulation and supported 8-hr work day and
female suffrage. received support from farmers. argued that
more greenbacks should be put in circulation to help farmers
who were in debt
socialist party - Correct Answer ✅3rd party that gained
popularity in the early 1900s. dedicated to the welfare of the
working class. called for more radical reforms than the
progressives favored: public ownership of the railroad,
utilities, and even major industries such as oil and steel
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progressive party - Correct Answer ✅called for reforming
city government, better conditions for urban workers, the
education of newly arrived immigrants, and the regulation of
big businesses; use government power to regulate industrial
production and labor conditions
Palmer Raids - Correct Answer ✅related to the fear of
communism and radicalism; part of the red scare; measure to
hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential
threats to American Security. These raids let to the arrest of
nearly 5,000 people and the deportation of nearly 400
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" - Correct Answer ✅1962
book that helped launch the national environmental
movement
Missouri Compromise - Correct Answer ✅an effort to
maintain a balance between free and slave states; admitted
Maine to the Union as a free state, Missouri to the Union as a
slave stated, and stated that any part of the Louisiana
Territory north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes would be non-slave
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territory; a victory for antislavery advocates b/c it closed
most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
Monroe Doctrine - Correct Answer ✅maintained that
European powers should not pursue any future colonization in
the Americas; stated that the Western Hemisphere was the
hemisphere of the US and not of Europe
Frederick Jackson Turner - Correct Answer ✅wrote the
frontier thesis which states that the frontier experience
played an essential role in shaping the unique character of
American society. It promotes independence and
individualism. It was a key factor in the development of
American individualism and democracy
transcendentalism - Correct Answer ✅Emerson and
Thoreau. Argued for a mystical and intuitive way of thinking
as a means for discovering one's inner self and looking for
the essence of God in nature. Suggesting that artistic
expression was more important than the pursuit of wealth
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Chesapeake Bay Area - Correct Answer ✅majority of
migrants who moves there were indentured servants,
economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic
Deism - Correct Answer ✅the belief that God had created
the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
exodusters - Correct Answer ✅african americans who fled
the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to
start a new in Kansas (west)
scalawags - Correct Answer ✅term used by southerners in
the reconstruction era for fellow southerners who either
supported republican reconstruction policies or gained
economically as a result of these policies, A derogatory term
for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up
land from desperate Southerners
new south advocates - Correct Answer ✅recovering from
the devastation from the Civil War, promoted a self-sufficient
southern economy built on modern capitalist values,
,APUSH AP EXAM Questions and Answers
(latest Update 2024)
industrial growth, and improved transportation--supported
expansion of southern industry
open door policy - Correct Answer ✅policy that China
should be open to trade with all of the major powers,
including the US, should have equal rights to trade there. This
was the official position toward China as announced by
secretary of state john hay in 1899. To protect US economic
interests in China
Greenback Labor Party - Correct Answer ✅political party of
the 1870s and early 1800s, supported that govt should put
more money in circulation and supported 8-hr work day and
female suffrage. received support from farmers. argued that
more greenbacks should be put in circulation to help farmers
who were in debt
socialist party - Correct Answer ✅3rd party that gained
popularity in the early 1900s. dedicated to the welfare of the
working class. called for more radical reforms than the
progressives favored: public ownership of the railroad,
utilities, and even major industries such as oil and steel
,APUSH AP EXAM Questions and Answers
(latest Update 2024)
progressive party - Correct Answer ✅called for reforming
city government, better conditions for urban workers, the
education of newly arrived immigrants, and the regulation of
big businesses; use government power to regulate industrial
production and labor conditions
Palmer Raids - Correct Answer ✅related to the fear of
communism and radicalism; part of the red scare; measure to
hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential
threats to American Security. These raids let to the arrest of
nearly 5,000 people and the deportation of nearly 400
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" - Correct Answer ✅1962
book that helped launch the national environmental
movement
Missouri Compromise - Correct Answer ✅an effort to
maintain a balance between free and slave states; admitted
Maine to the Union as a free state, Missouri to the Union as a
slave stated, and stated that any part of the Louisiana
Territory north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes would be non-slave
, APUSH AP EXAM Questions and Answers
(latest Update 2024)
territory; a victory for antislavery advocates b/c it closed
most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
Monroe Doctrine - Correct Answer ✅maintained that
European powers should not pursue any future colonization in
the Americas; stated that the Western Hemisphere was the
hemisphere of the US and not of Europe
Frederick Jackson Turner - Correct Answer ✅wrote the
frontier thesis which states that the frontier experience
played an essential role in shaping the unique character of
American society. It promotes independence and
individualism. It was a key factor in the development of
American individualism and democracy
transcendentalism - Correct Answer ✅Emerson and
Thoreau. Argued for a mystical and intuitive way of thinking
as a means for discovering one's inner self and looking for
the essence of God in nature. Suggesting that artistic
expression was more important than the pursuit of wealth
