American Pageant 16th Edition AP Questions For Part Two

Which of the following realities of the early nineteenth century best explains why the embargo created such a negative response in the United States?

(A) The acceleration of the trend toward national unity

Which of the following best explains why conflicts like the one revealed by the cartoonist's perspective were more common in the mid-nineteenth century?

(C) The surge of international migrants and their set- tlement in major cities increased the hostility of nativists.

Based on the context of his remarks, Col. Mason would most likely receive support for his position on this issue in

(C) the North.

Which of the following developments most directly encouraged the trend revealed in the map above

(A) Improvements in transportation technology

Henry James's assertion that the embargo would "shake the Union itself" is most clearly supported by which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time?

(A) Increased sectionalism in the nation's economic and political foundations

The ideas expressed in the passage are best under- stood as part of the debate in American politics over

(D) the relative power of the national government.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, what motivated Americans to continue the trend illus- trated in the map above?

(A) Access to valuable resources that would fuel

Which of the following best describes the impact of the decisions made by the Constitutional Convention regarding slavery following the debate excerpted to the left?

(A) Conflict over the issue was postponed via compromise, rather than resolved.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the revolution described in the passage above?

(A) Governmental efforts to support the growth of a unified, national economy

The arguments made by Jefferson in this passage would be most directly reflected in the nineteenth- century debates over

(A) the scope of federal economic policies.

Which of the following groups would have advocated most strongly for government support of the trend revealed by the map?

(B) Middle-class farmers in the Old Northwest

Which of the following demographic changes was most directly caused by the developments described by the passage?

(B) Rapid population growth along the frontier

Which of the following details would most greatly have magnified the sentiments depicted in the cartoon?

(B) The tendency among immigrants to live in con- centrated ethnic communities

Which of the following regions of the United States would have been least affected by the economic transformation described in the passage?

(C) The South

The conflict revealed in the passage led most directly to which of the following?

(C) The creation of the first political parties

The conflict described in the passage best reflects the ongoing debates about

(C) the rightful scope of federal authority.

The trend shown in this map contributed most significantly to

(C) the debate over the status of slavery in newly acquired territories.

Which of the following most directly supports the author's contention that the economic changes of the era in question led to a "deeper revolution in human relations"?

(D) The widening wealth gap

Strong support in the South for the arguments made by Pinkney in this passage would most immediately lead to

(D) the growth of a distinctive, regional identity based partly on ideas about slavery.

Which of the following conflicts of the 1840s is most directly revealed by the cartoon above?

(A) Nativists sought to limit the political power of immi- grants, whom they saw as a debasing influence on society.