AP US History Spring Semester Exam, 2025
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1. In 1917, automobile production in the United States
was the nation's largest industry.
saw Charles and Frank Duryea built the first practical gasoline-powered car.
saw nearly five million cars on American roads.
was almost nonexistent.
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2. The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Texas
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3. The Haymarket Square riot of 1886
sparked public outrage over the police firing into a crowd of workers.
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
took place in Indianapolis.
resulted in a strike at the McCormick Harvester Company.
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4. In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,
workers generally controlled the pace of production.
job security for industrial workers had significantly increased since 1865.
laborers could expect to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week.
while safety conditions were poor, mechanization reduced the overall rate of accidents.
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5. By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas
increased mainly as a result of longer life expectancy.
rose as the number of children born into urban families doubled.
consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children.
soared as the rates of infant mortality and disease significantly declined.
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6. In the 1890s, Jacob Riis
favored stopping immigration as a way to improve urban American cities.
crusaded to expose political corruption in major American cities.
reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.
pushed for the creation of mass transit systems and outlying suburbs in America's cities.
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7. Tenement buildings in urban America were
first constructed in Chicago in the 1880s.
intended to be occupied as single-family dwellings.
initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.
subsidized by city governments.
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8. The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was
A & P.
Seven-Eleven.
Piggly Wiggly.
Food Lion.
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9. At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures
had been invented by D. W. Griffith.
were the first true mass entertainment medium.
operated under strict morality codes.
both were the first true mass entertainment medium, and operated under strict morality codes.
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10. The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by
the economic depression of 1893.
the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
the new technology of skyscrapers.
both the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the new technology of skyscrapers.
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11. Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish-American War,
has been considered bold and reckless.
was a minor part of the battle.
resulted in nearly a hundred American dead or wounded.
All these answers are correct.
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12. The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War
required Spain to pay the United States $20 million for its military costs.
was quickly ratified by the United States Senate.
transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States.
was rejected by Spain and was never implemented.
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13. Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii
did not have a sugar industry.
was largely governed by a representative assembly.
had a native population of under ten thousand inhabitants.
had witnessed a revolution staged by American planters.
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14. In 1892, the People's Party called for
government subsidies of water for agricultural use.
the federal government to purchase surplus crops.
a government network of crop warehouses.
government subsidies of wheat, corn, and cotton.
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15. During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of
a lower birth rate.
the movement to work outside the home.
higher levels of education.
All these answers are correct.
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