Thirty-five MCQs pertaining to the time period 1491 to 1945 The 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. Questions 1–4 refer to the map below Q1. Q2. Q3. Q4. Questions 5–7 refer to the excerpt below. “[T]he condition of the African race throughout all the States where the ancient relation between the two [races] has been retained enjoys a degree of health and comfort which may well compare with that of the laboring population of any country in Christendom; and, it may be added that in no other condition, or in any other age or country, has the Negro race ever attained so high an elevation in morals, intelligence, or civilization.” * John C. Calhoun, political leader, 1844 Q5. Q6. Q7. Questions 8–10 refer to the excerpt below. “My purpose is not to persuade children from their parents; men from their wives; nor servants from their masters: only, such as with free consent may be spared: But that each [English] parish, or village, in city or country, that will but apparel their fatherless children, of thirteen or fourteen years of age, or young married people, that have small wealth to live on; here by their labor may live exceeding well: provided always that first there be sufficient power to command them, . . . and sufficient masters (as carpenters, masons, fishers, fowlers, gardeners, husbandmen, sawyers, smiths, spinsters, tailors, weavers, and such like) to take ten, twelve, or twenty, or as is their occasion, for apprentices. The masters by this may quickly grow rich; these [apprentices] may learn their trades themselves, to do the like; to a general and an incredible benefit for king, and country, master, and servant.” * John Smith, English adventurer, A Description of New England, 1616 Q8. Q9. Q10. Questions 11–13 refer to the excerpt below. “There is, at present, no danger of another insurrection against the authority of the United States on a large scale, and the people are willing to reconstruct their State governments, and to send their senators and representatives to Congress. But as to the moral value of these results, we must not indulge in any delusions. . . . [T]here is, as yet, among the southern people an utter absence of national feeling. . . . “Aside from the assumption that the Negro will not work without physical compulsion, there appears to be another popular notion . . . that the Negro exists for the special object of raising cotton, rice and sugar for the whites, and that it is illegitimate for him to indulge, like other people, in the pursuit of his own happiness in his own way.” * Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 41. Q11. Q12. Q13. Questions 14–16 refer to the excerpt below. “The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality. “Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace, must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be a return to a belief in the pledged word, in the value of a signed treaty. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality.” President Franklin Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech, 1937 Q14.
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Questions 17–18 refer to the poster below Courtesy of Library of Congress, LC-USZ62–117090Q17.
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Questions 19–22 refer to the excerpt below.
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Questions 23–24 refer to the excerpt below.
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Questions 25–27 refer to the excerpt below.
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Questions 28–29 refer to the excerpt below Q28.
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Questions 30–32 refer to the excerpt below.
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Questions 33–35 refer to the image below. A nineteenth century painting from John GastQ33.
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The Answer Key
Click here to view another thirty-five multiple-choice question practice exam, with all questions also pertaining to the time period 1491 to 1945 (aka P1-P7), and with questions 1–13 found in the 2020 CED and questions 14–35 found in the 2017 CED. Sidenote #2In the past three years, my students most often missed the following: Q2.
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