APUSH Unit IV
America's artistic achievements in the first half of the 19th century
Borrowed heavily from existing European styles in painting and architecture
Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of bank of United States partly because he believed that the bank
Concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people
The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the tariff of 1828 ended when
Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833
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 in 1817 with the construction of the
Erie Canal in New York
And the new continental economy, each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the south blank for export; the West grew grains and livestock to feed blank; and the east blank for the other two regions
Grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made machines and textiles
The American phrase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
In the New England textile industry
Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the 19th century?
Ireland
The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the
Methodists and Baptists
The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
Nativism
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of new York were known as the "burned over district" because
Of the intense religiius zeal created during the second great awakening
Of the following, the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at
Oneida, New York
Native born protestants Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would
Out breed, outvote, and eventually overwhelm politically socially and culturally
The Force Bill of 1833 provided that the
President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties
Which of the following stress the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in
Republican Motherhood
The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was
Samuel Slater
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved the defense of
States rights
Throughout the first half of the 19th century, women reformers were most active in the cause of
Temperance
Which of the following best describes deism?
The belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
Opposing the tariff of 1828, Southerners labeled it a "Yankee tariff" quotation because
The tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expense
All the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except
They worked a maximum five days a week for eight hours a day
Which of the following transportation development open the west to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?
Turnpikes and canals
Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?
Turnpikes and canals
A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was
a gradual, steady improvement in average wages and standards of living for all workers including unskilled workers.
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
a strong religious influence in many areas of American life including abolitionism and benevolent and charitable organizations
Transcendentalists believe that all knowledge came through
an inner light
The new two party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s
became an important part of the nation's checks and balances
German immigrants to the United States
came to escape economic hardships and autocratic government
People in the West tended to prefer Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election because he
campaigned against the forces of corruption and privilege in government
Compared with canals, railroads
could be built almost anywhere with sufficient financial capital
Despite his suspicions of the federal government, Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party
created the spoils system in the federal government
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
Perfectionism in the mid-19th century is best defined as
faith in the human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will
Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as
faith in the human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will
President Jackson resisted the admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because he
feared that debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery
The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT
federal financing of secondary education
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved
forced removal from their traditional lands
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was
forced removal from their traditional lands
Cult of Domesticity
glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers
All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market oriented, national economy in early 19th century America except
government regulation of all major economic activity
The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was
hatred of Andrew Jackson and his use of executive power at the expense of the states and congress
The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
in the New England textile industry
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
In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that
labor unions were not illegal conspiracies in Massachusetts provided that their strategies and tactics were honorable and peaceful
Whether they were propertied or landless, immigrants were often enticed to leave their homelands by
letters from family or friends in the U.S., bragging about easy opportunities for wealth
The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it
more reliant on women as members and social reformers
The house of representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when
no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College
As one of the greatest of the revivalist preachers, Charles Grandison Finney advocated
opposition to slavery, a perfect Christian kingdom on earth, and opposition to alcohol
Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that
political participation by the common man should be increased
John Quincy Adams could be described as
possessing almost none of the arts of the politician
New England reformer Dorthea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
prison and asylum reform
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office
In the 1820s and 1830s, the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were
slavery and economic distress
As a result of the development of the cotton gin
slavery revived and expanded
Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was
sold to England for production of textiles in their mills
The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
stemmed from the hard, struggling, and monotonous life of many American men and women.
The American work force in the early nineteenth century was characterized by
substantial employment of women and children in factories
The American workforce in the early 19th century was characterized by
substantial employment of women and children in factories
The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except
taking the country off the gold standard
The nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over
tariff policy
Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish immigrants for all of the following reasons except
the Irish immigrants were very slow to learn American English and mostly spoke Gaelic in their urban neighborhoods
Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the bank of United States except that
the bank was beholden to British financial interests
The Deist faith embraced all of the following except
the concept of original sin
Andrew Jackson based his veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of United States on
the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation as well as unconstitutional
The key to Oneida's financial success was
the manufacture of steel animal traps and silverware
Andrew Jackson supported all the following except
the right of nullification
The underlying basis for modern mass production was the
the use of interchangeable parts
All the following are true statements about German immigrants except
they typically settled in Northeast coastal cities.
Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828 because
this same use of the power of the federal government could be used to suppress slavery.
The purpose behind the spoils system was
to reward political supporters with public office
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 and ruin their health
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in
urban areas of the North
Tax-supported public education between 1825 and 1850
was deemed essential for social stability and democracy
All of the following are true of the second great awakening except that it
was not as large, democratic, or influential in terms of social reform as the First Great Awakening.
A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the
wave of nationalism that followed the War of 1812
When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they
were too poor to move west and buy land
The Second Great Awakening tended to
widen the lines between classes and regions
In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were
young unmarried women from rural New England
