Questions 5 – 7 refer to the following excerpt. “We . . . the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King James, . . . having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic . . . and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet [proper] and convenient for the general good of the colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.” – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth colony, 1620   Question: The ideas introduced in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following patterns among the British North American colonies?

Questions 15 – 17 refer to the following excerpt. “Few wives in antebellum America enjoyed a life free from labor. Family life depended on the smooth performance of an extensive array of unpaid occupations in the household, and on the presence . . . of someone to provide that work—to supervise the children through the vicissitudes of a changing social and economic order; to make and mend clothes, quilts, pillows, and other household furnishings; to shop for items the household could afford . . . , and scavenge . . . for those it could not; to clean, cook, and bake; and, whenever necessary, to move from unpaid to paid labor to bolster the household income. The growth . . . of the cash [economy] of the Northeast had not rendered this labor superfluous. Nor had it reduced housework to unskilled labor.” – Jeanne Boydston, historian, Home and Work, 1990   Question: The growing number of women in the workforce in the second half of the twentieth century most directly contributed to

Questions 3 and 4 refer to the following map. Question:  Which of the following was a major difference between the Spanish colonies in the Americas in the 1500s and the English colonies in the Americas in the early 1600s?

Questions 24 – 27 refer to the following excerpt. “The question is simply this: can a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen, one of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution? . . . It is the judgment of this court that it appears . . . that the plaintiff in error is not a citizen . . . in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution.” -United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857   Question: Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?

Questions 3 and 4 refer to the following map. Question:  Which of the following best explains the presence of the Spanish in the areas depicted on the map?

Questions 8 – 11 refer to the following excerpt. “We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. . . . “We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death. “In our own native land, in defense of the freedom . . . , and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it—for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms.” – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 1775   Question: Which of the following most immediately built on the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

Questions 45 – 47 refer to the following excerpt. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” – President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell address, 1961   Question: Which of the following best characterizes the military-industrial complex in the decade following Eisenhower’s speech?

Questions 45 – 47 refer to the following excerpt. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” – President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell address, 1961   Question: Eisenhower’s concerns expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from the context of the

Questions 18 – 20 refer to the following map.    Question: The patterns of settlement shown in the map culminated in which of the following national crises by 1820?

Questions 34 – 37 refer to the following excerpt. “To turn the administration of our civic affairs wholly over to men may mean that the American city will continue to push forward in its commercial and industrial development, and continue to lag behind in those things which make a city healthful and beautiful. . . . If women have in any sense been responsible for the gentler side of life which softens and blurs some of its harsher conditions, may they not have a duty to perform in our American cities? . . . [I]f woman would fulfill her traditional responsibility to her own children; if she would educate and protect from danger factory children who must find their recreation on the street . . . then she must bring herself to the use of the ballot—that latest implement for self-government.” – Jane Addams, “Why Women Should Vote,” Ladies’ Home Journal, 1910   Question: The ideas expressed in the excerpt most clearly reflect the ideals of which of the following?