APUSH Take Home Test #3; 1815-1850

Agreement that ceded Florida to the United States and fixed the western boundaries of the Louisiana Territory

Adams-Onis Treaty

Henry Clay's ambitious nationalistic plans for tariffs, internal improvements and expanded manufacturing

American System

Which of the following states the principal of Manifest Destiny?

American's expansion to the West coast was inevitable and divinely sanctioned

In which of the following pairs of events did the first cause the second?

Andrew Jackson vetoed the Bank Re-charter Bill- the Whig Party formed

Small, short-lived third party that originated a new method of nominating presidential candidates in 1831

Anti-masons

The "moneyed monster" that Clay tried to preserve and Jackson killed with his veto in 1832

BUS

Young southern congressman who began as a nationalistic defender of protective tariffs and internal improvements

Calhoun

Rich Mexican province that Polk tried to buy and Mexico refused to sell

California

American steamship attacked by British for carrying supplies to Canadian rebels

Caroline

Southeastern Indian whose rights were upheld by the Supreme Court but that was nevertheless forcibly removed

Cherokee

New York governor who built the enormously successful Erie Canal

Clinton

Pioneering Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that declared labor unions legal

Comm. vs Hunt

Whitney's invention that enhanced cotton production and gave new life to black slavery

Cotton gin

The widespread cultural creed that glorified women's roles as homemakers, wives, and mothers and stressed the moral influenced of women in the home

Cult of Domesticity

Supreme Court case in which Daniel Webster successfully argued that a state could not change a charter once granted

Dartmouth College vs Woodward

Political party that generally stressed individual liberty, the rights of the common people, and hostility of privilege

Democrats

Liberal religious belief, held by many of the Founding Fathers, that stressed rationalism and moral behavior rather than Christian revelation

Diesm

Which of the following Supreme Court cases was NOT ruled upon during John Marshall's tenure as Chief Justice?

Dred Scott vs Sanford

Confusing four way campaign that ended up in the House of Representatives

Election of 1824

Somewhat inappropriate term applied to the Monroe administration suggesting they lacked major conflicts

Era of Good Feelings

Major water transportation route financed and built by New York State after President Madison vetoed a bill for federally financed internal improvements

Erie Canal

The Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States had legitimate reason to fear European intervention in the Western Hemisphere because

Europe's militaries were considerably more powerful than those of the United States

Legislation called the "bloody bill" by radical nullifiers, which authorized the President to use the army to collect tariffs

Force Bill

Often liberal and well-educated immigrant group whose clannish ways and Sunday beer drinking sometimes aroused suspicion

German

Nation that strongly backed Texas independence, hoping to turn it into an economic asset and antislavery bastion

Great Britain

By what means did the United States take possession of the Oregon Territory?

Great Britain ceded it to the United States as part of a negotiated treaty

Silver-tongued South Carolina who defended Calhoun and nullification in a famous debate in 1830

Hayne

Which of the following best explains why President Andrew Jackson resisted annexing Texas during his administration

He feared that debates over annexation would exacerbate sectional strife

Which of the following is NOT true of John Quincy Adams?

He was the only son of a president to attain presidency himself

Idealist Massachusetts educator who promoted the cause of public schools

Horace Mann

System of keeping government funds in separate vaults, established by Van Burren's "divorce bill" in 1840

Independent Treasury

Between 1820 and 1854, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States were from

Ireland

Famine-stricken immigrant group that made headway in American politics against the discrimination of native born Americans

Irish

Which of the following was LEAST influential in bringing about Andrew Jackson's victory in 1828?

Jackson's defense of Native American property rights

Reflecting a new focus on individualism, which of the following authors created the character of "Natty Bumpo," a rugged frontiersman who struggled against the disorders of his society?

James Fennimore Cooper

Begun as the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, it clamored against immigration and Catholicism

Know Nothings

To which sections would the Wilmot Proviso have applied in the map below

L and N

Legislation that lowered the price of land to aid western farmers hard-pressed by the Panic of 1819

Land Act of 1820

Area where the vulnerability of former Spanish colonies tempted European monarchies and aroused American concern

Latin America

Small antislavery party that took enough votes from Henry Clay to cost him the election of 1844

Liberty

Site of an early showpiece factory, where the workers were primarily New England farm girls

Lowell

State where "aroostook war" was fought over a disputed boundary with Canada

Maine

Which of the following is most closely associated with the presidency of James K. Polk?

Manifest Destiny

Supreme Court ruling that defended feral power by denying a state the right to tax a bank

McCulloch vs Maryland

The constitutionality of the Bank of the United States was upheld by the Supreme Court in the case of

McCulloch vs. Maryland

Grade-school lesson books that taught lessons of morality, patriotism, and idealism to 19th century public school students

McGruffey

The only major highway constructed by the federal government before the Civil War

National Road

Ohio College, once headed by Charles G. Finney, that stirred controversy b admitting women and black

Oberlin

Northwestern territory in dispute between Britain and United State, subject of "Manifest Destiny" rhetoric in 1844

Oregon

Seminole leader whose warriors killed 1500 American soldiers in years of guerrilla warfare

Osceola

Severe economic crisis during the Van Buren Presidency

Panic of 1837

Which of the following statements about the Whig Party is true?

Party members tended to advocate nationalistic economic policies

State financial institutions where Jackson deposited federal funds after removing them form the US Bank

Pet Banks

Dark-horse presidential winner of 1844 who effectively carried out his ambitious expansionist plants

Polk

"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members...The virtue is most request conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." The passage above was written by

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Description of Jackson's victory over Adams that defined it as a victory of the poorer masses over the wealthy classes

Revolution of 1828

Versatile machine invented by Elias Howe and improved by Isaac Singer

Sewing machine

Which of the following was an incident of the Mexican War?

Slidell Mission

Jackson's Treasury Department decree that required all public lands to be purchased with "hard" money

Specie Circular

Paper offered by Congressman Lincoln, demanding to know exactly where Mexico had allegedly shed American bood

Spot Resolution

Which of the following statements best describes Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision in Charles River Bridge vs Warren Bride (1837)?

Taney expanded economic opportunity and the powers of a state government

Independent nation that was the object of British, Mexican, and French scheming in the early 1840's

Texas

Which of the following statements related to the Lowell System is NOT true?

The Lowell System developed as a result of the United States' burgeoning textile industry

Which event was the most important cause of the Nullification Crisis'?

The passage of the Tariff of Abominations and Tariff of 1832

Presidents Monroe and Jackson claimed that westward relocation of Native Americans would be to the advantage of the Native Americans because

They would not be bothered west of the Mississippi

Leader who was elected on the Whig ticket but spent most of his presidency in feuds with his fellow Whigs

Tyler

Match the reform to the reformer

V-4; W-1; X-5; Z-2

The "Wizard of Albany" whose economically troubled presidency was served in the shadow of Jackson

Van Burren

Majestic New England statesman who defended "liberty and union, now and forever, one an inseparable"

Webster

New political party, originally anti-Jackson, that generally stood for national community and an activist government

Whig Party

During the first half of the 19th century, the expansion of suffrage increased popular interest in presidential elections. Partisan politics often shifted the voters' attention from issues to images. The "log cabin, hard cider" campaign helped which candidate win the election?

William Henry Harrison, 1840

Controversial amendment, passed by the House but not the Senate, stipulating that slavery should be forbidden in land gained from Mexico

Wilmot Proviso

Key components of Clay's American System included

a high protective tariff and internal improvements

The Whigs were

a pro-Bank party

The doctrine of nullification stated that

a state may repeal any federal law that it deems unconstitutional

The term "manifest destiny," used in 1846 by newspaper editor John L. O'Sullivan, could be described as a policy that would

bring democracy to the West and expand the territory of the United States

Which of the following technological innovations contributed the most to the economic development of the United States during the first four decades of the 19th century?

cotton gin

The mechanical reaper, invented by Cyrus McCormick in the 1830s, was most significant because it

cut wheat at a greater rate than the scythe

In the mid 19th century, the growth of cities was caused in part by the

expansion of industry

The Supreme Court decisions concerning Native Americans in 1831 and 1842

granted the tribes official status as foreign nations

The temperance movement of the 19th century

had a strong appeal to women

The acquisition of territory from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War was most significant in that it

heightened sectional tensions over the issues of slavery

The Know Nothing Party focused its efforts almost exclusively on the issue of

immigration

By the first decade of the 19th century, American manufacturing had been revolutionized by the advent of

interchangeable machine parts

The accusation of a "corrupt bargain" in the election of 1824 was significant because

it led to the overwhelming election of Jackson in 1828

When the Erie Canal was constructed

local markets grew at the expense of a national economy

The first and second Great Awakenings were similar in that both

made use of revivals to attempt to convert the sinful

The "Lowell System" of early 19th textile manufacturing was noteworthy for its

pioneering advocacy of such issues as parental leave, vacation time, and health insurance for employees

During the Bank War, Jackson and Taney destroyed the Bank by

placing deposits of federal tax money in state banks

In the 1820s, Robert Owen's community at New Harmony

rejected the individualism and materialism of industrial capitalism

The Monroe Doctrine intended to

restrict European involvement in the Western Hemisphere

The Irish

settled in cities

The Force Act of 1832 was passed in response to

the Tariff/Nullification crisis

All of the following were elements of Henry Clay's American System EXCEPT

the creation of large numbers of federal jobs in areas with high unemployment problems

Alexis de Tocqueville attributed American social mobility to

the lack of aristocracy and the availability of frontier land

Which of the following changes in westward migration occurred in 1848?

the number of pioneers headed for Oregon decreased while the number header for California greatly

In explaining why the nullification of the tariff was justified, John C. Calhoun contended that

the states were sovereign because they had formed a compact called the Constitution

The election of 1824 marked a turning point in presidential politics because, for the first time,

the system choosing nominees by congressional caucus failed

Moby Dick by Herman Melville, representative of the American Renaissance of the 1840s, is significant in that it

used a predominantly American occupation to explore man's struggle with the natural world and good and evil

Reform movements during the first half of the 19th century attempted to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT

widen the division between church and state