APUSH Unit 3 Multiple Choice Exam Questions Test Guide

APUSH Unit 3 Multiple Choice Exam Questions Test Guide

• The Founding Fathers failed to eliminate slavery because
• they did not truly believe in democracy.
• a fight over slavery might destroy national unity.
• they were more concerned with securing equality for women.
• the North, as its industry expanded, began to rely more heavily on slave labor.
• economic conditions would not allow such a loss.

B

• One reason that the United States avoided the frightful excesses of the French Revolution is

that

• America declared martial law until the Constitution was enacted in 1789.
• the American Revolution suddenly overturned the entire political framework.
• cheap land was easily available.
• political democracy preceded economic democracy.
• a strong sense of class consciousness already existed.

C

• The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to
• organize development of the western lands.
• deal with foreign affairs.
• apportion state representation equally.
• enforce a tax collection program.
• establish a postal service.

D

• The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• provided for the survey and sale of public lands in the Old Northwest.
• established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory.
• banned slavery from all territories of the United States.
• cleared the way for ratification of the Articles of Confederation.
• gave control over land to the territories in which they were located.

B

• Match each nation on the left with the correct description of the problem it presented for

U.S. foreign relations following the Revolutionary War.

• Britain 1. threatened American commerce in the Mediterranean
• France 2. demanded repayment of wartime loans
• Spain 3. occupied a chain of trading forts in the Old Northwest
• Barbary Coast 4. controlled important trade routes from the interior of North America

A) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4

B) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3

C) A-2, B-2, C-3, D-4 1 / 2

D) A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1

E) A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

D

• Shays's Rebellion was provoked by
• fear that the Articles of Confederation had created too strong a national government for

the United States.

• efforts by wealthy merchants to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new

constitution.

• a quarrel over the boundary between Massachusetts and Vermont.
• foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers.
• the government's failure to pay bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.

D

• Most of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention could best be labeled
• states' rightists.
• antifederalists.
• nationalists.
• ordinary citizens.
• counter revolutionaries.

C

• Which of the following is a compromise in the Constitution?
• counting all slaves in apportioning membership in the House
• continuation of the foreign slave trade
• direct election of the president
• control of interstate commerce by the national government
• prohibiting states from abolishing slave trade

B

• The antifederalist camp included all of the following groups except
• supporters of a strong central authority.
• states' rights supporters.
• backcountry dwellers.
• paper money advocates.
• debtors.

A

• Among other views, The Federalist, written during the ratification debate, argued that it was
• impossible to safeguard the rights of states from the power of a strong central

government.

• possible to extend a republican form of government over a large territory.
• inevitable that slavery would be abolished in the new republic.
• illegal to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution.
• best to establish a direct democracy.

B

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