UNIT 4 HISTORY FINAL REVIEW

In the history of American transportation, the canal era occurred during which of the following period?

1820-1850

Which period was the peak of manifest destiny?

1842-1853

Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by

Irish Immigrants

The hostility of the Know-Nothing party was directed primarily against

Irish and German Catholic Immigrants

The creator of the image would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

Jackson's political actions were unconstitutional

Which of the following is or are most similar to the statement in the excerpt?

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

What is not a belief of the American system?

Lower tariffs can help farmers sell their goods overseas

By going to war, the United States gained the territory labeled as the

Mexican cession

What are of the map would the Wilmot Proviso have affected?

Oregon Territory

The theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following groups disagree most strongly with clay's ideas about tariffs and trade?

Southern Farmers

Which group of Americans was most in favor of expansion in the United States in the 1830 s and 1840's

Southern slave owning landholders

As described in the excerpt, which individual or body makes the final decision on whether a law is valid in a state?

States

From the excerpt Clay makes all these points except?

That free trade with Europe will help the American system

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs

Sojourner truth strongly rejects criticism of women that are based on which of the following?

The cult of domesticity

Which of the following most directly helped maintain the "balance between the northern and southern parts of the the United States" before the Mexican-American War referenced in the excerpt?

The passage of the Missouri Compromise

President Jackson's veto of the Bank bill would contribute most significantly to

a financial panic

President Jackson pushed through the Indian Removal Act of 1830

because these tribes inhabited some of the most fertile farmland and locations and he believed white settlers has the rights to the land

New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of

prison and asylum reform

The "acquisition of a new empire" referenced in the excerpt most directly fostered sectional division through the

renewed debate over the expansion of slavery

The primary objective of the founders of the Know Nothing Party was the

restriction of the rights of immigrants

Which of the following events allowed for an almost immediate realization of the goals of manifest destiny in the 1840s?

the American victory in the Mexican War

The establishment of Brook Farm and the Oneida Community in the antebellum United States reflected

the blossoming of perfectionist aspirations

The term "cult of domesticity" refers to

the idealization of women in their roles as wives and mothers during the early nineteenth century

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

the right of nullification

Abolitionism and the women's rights movement received a boost from which of the following events?

the second great awakening

The Irish Immigrants to early nineteenth-century America

were mostly Roman Catholics and hate the British

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 wets and buy land

The American phase of industrial revolution first blossomed

with textile mills

What ideas follow most closely what rights women pushed for in 1850

women were pushing the boundaries of the Cult of Domesticity and wanted voting rights

After the Revolution, the concept of the "republican mother" suggested that

women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their sons, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic

In the early 1830s, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were

young unmarried women from rural New England

Which citizen would have agreed with Manifest Destiny the most?

A plantation owner from Georgia

Which of the following was the immediate cause of the publication of the statement in this excerpt?

An increase in the tariff passed by Congress

The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was

Henry Clay

John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed _____ to become _____

Henry Clay, secretary of state

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ireland

Which of the following groups provided the greatest support for Jackson's veto of the Bank?

Southerners

Which o the following environmental factors led to the further development of the growing divisions between the North and South in the antebellum period?

The fact that a good portion of the new territory in the Mexican cession was south of the 36 degree parallel

Which of the following most directly contributed to the decision by the United States to fight the Mexican-American War?

The idea of Manifest Destiny

Which of the following historical developments during the nineteenth century best supports Potter's argument about the underlying cause of sectional conflict?

The increasing prominence of the Whig Party in national politics

Which of the following resulted from the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?

The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency, increased

Which of the following causes would have drawn the fewest women in 1850?

Utopias

All of the following groups would have been likely to agree with the image's depiction of Andrew Jackson EXCEPT

Western farmers who opposed the national bank

Deists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries believed that

natural laws, set by the Creator. govern the operation of the universe

Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following EXCEPT

opponents of public education

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

political participation by the common man should be increased

Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized

the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

Based on the excerpt from John L. O'Sullivan's opinion on manifest destiny, what was the purpose of American expansion?

to expand the ideals of equality and freedom

Which of the following events could best be interpreted as reflection the exercise of power depicted in the image?

American Indian removal despite the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia

The Indian tribe that resisted the removal the most, which had a functioning, semi-sovereign government was the

Cherokee

Based on the excerpt, which of the following groups was President Jackson trying to help?

Common individuals

Those people most opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program were the

antislavery forces

Compared with canals, railroads

could be built almost anywhere

The "Declaration of Sentiments and resolutions" issued by the Seneca Falls Convention demanded

greater rights for women

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

hatred of Andrew Jackson

In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney's major contribution to American technology was his

introduction of interchangeable parts

In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that

labor unions were not illegal conspiracies

All of the following are false statements about the removal of Indians from their ancestral homeland except

many Indians suffered as a result of the harsh winter and lack of food and supplies on their way west