APUSH Unit 4 Test

One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the

Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian.

Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?

Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans, including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother

The "canal era" of American history began with the construction of the

Erie Canal in New York.

The first major transportation project in the United States, which ran sixty-two miles and was completed in the 1790s, that proved to be a stimulus for western economic developments was the

Lancaster Turnpike.

Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was the

Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time.

Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

San Jacinto.

The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of

Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann

One adverse result for the United States of the outcome of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 was

a British naval blockade of the American coast.

Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was

a major expansion of presidential power.

The outcome of the War of 1812 was a

a stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States

Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in

a stronger religious influence in many areas of American life including abolitionism and benevolent and charitable organizations

Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program in Oregon, Texas, and the Southwest were the

abolitionists.

Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through

an inner light.

The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to

attract the vote of the states' righters.

The two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s

became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.

The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved

by a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border

Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

cotton gin.

As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South

developed a theory of biological racial superiority to justify slavery.

For free blacks living in the North

discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common.

In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson

dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification.

Life on the frontier was

downright grim for most pioneer families

The Spanish Franciscan missionaries treated the Indian inhabitants of California

extremely harshly, as Indian inhabitants of California were required to toil endlessly as poor farmers and herders and often came down with serious deadly diseases.

In interpreting the Constitution, John Marshall

favored the doctrine of loose construction

In his quest for California, President James K. Polk

first advocated buying the area from Mexico

The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved

forced removal from their traditional lands.

Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as

generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.

The cult of domesticity

glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers

The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was

hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress.

The resolutions enacted by the delegates at the Hartford Convention

helped to cause the death of the Federalist party.

The profitable southern slave system

hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole

When the war with Mexico began, President James K. Polk

hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California

Most slaves were raised

in stable two-parent households

At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was

incapable of being effectively enforced by the US armed forces.

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.

One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United States was

its function as a source of credit and stability, promoting the nation's expanding economy.

When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was

more interested in practical gadgets than scientific research

The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it

more reliant on women as members and social reformers

The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

nativism.

By the 1840s voter participation in the presidential election reached

nearly 80 percent.

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

newly won ascendancy of the masses.

The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when

no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College.

The War of 1812 was notable in the history of American warfare because

of the nation's apathy and national disunity.

America's military campaigns against Canada in the War of 1812 were

poorly conceived strategically and successfully repelled by the British and Canadians.

John Quincy Adams could be described as

possessing almost none of the arts of the politician.

Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States gaining

possession of Florida from the Spanish.

One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was

rape was more severely punished in the United States.

Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the

rich soil of the Willamette River Valley

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

slavery revived and expanded

As a result of the Missouri Compromise

slavery was banned north of the 36 30' in the Louisiana Purchase territory

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

slavery was reinvigorated in the south.

The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that

slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States

Slaves fought the system of slavery by

slowing down the pace of their labor, conducting periodic slave rebellions, and running away from their masters.

In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings limited the extent of

states' rights.

Most white southerners were

subsistence farmers.

The American workforce in the early nineteenth century was characterized by

substantial employment of women and children in factories.

The British government desired a political and military alliance with the independent Republic of Texas because

such an alliance would limit the ability of the United States to achieve political and economic dominance over Latin America

The Wilmot Proviso

symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories

The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over

tariff policy.

Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin endorsed the belief

that a Supreme Being endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior

A primary reason that the British government decided to compromise with the United States on the Oregon Country border was

the British government's belief that the Oregon Country was neither politically nor economically critical to British foreign policy interests.

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was

the rebellion against British rule and potato famine.

Ecological imperialism, as exemplified during the American historical period of 1790-1860, can best be described as

the wanton, heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade.

One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that

too much learning would injure women's brains, ruin their health, and make them unfit for marriage

For Native Americans, the War of 1812 meant

treaties in which they reluctantly relinquished lands north of the Ohio River.

The Era of Good Feelings

was a misnomer, because the period was a troubled one.

Despite early resistance, the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was

wealthy and politically powerful Americans feared that if the government failed to provide free public education, poor families and immigrants would utilize their free vote to elect candidates and political parties opposed by these political and economic elites

Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery

were creating disorder and havoc in America that threatened the nation's constitutional fabric.

Both the Democratic party and the Whig party

were mass-based political parties

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the

whip as a motivator.