APUSH Questions WC
Why had most local unions and all the national labor organizations disappeared by 1843?
A depression and surplus of unemployed workers spelled ruin for unions.
Charles Grandison Finney considered every person to be which of the following?
A moral free agent
As president, John Quincy Adams's support of Henry Clay's American System meant backing which action?
A national bank to stabilize currency and promote economic growth
What distinguished the entrepreneurial planters of the Cotton South in the 1840s and 1850s from the upper-class planters of the Old South?
A plain and simple life
In 1832, evangelicals gained control of what group and achieved success using revivalist methods?
American Temperance Society
How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844?
By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in Congress
How did leading African Americans in the North hope to elevate blacks to an equal social status with whites after the 1790s?
By securing respectability
How did the Chesapeake region contribute to the domestic slave trade?
By selling surplus African American slaves to the Cotton South
What helped American textile manufacturers outcompete British textile producers in the domestic market?
Getting protective tariffs from the federal government
Why did President Jackson veto the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States?
He believed the bank to be unconstitutional
How did the domestic slave trade affect slave marriages?
It destroyed about one in every four slave marriages.
What did Congress do in 1820 to meet the demand for cheap farmsteads?
It reduced the price of federal land.
Which statement characterizes the gang-labor system of slave labor in the Lower South?
Large work crews supervised by a black driver and a white overseer
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society's most successful tactic in affecting public opinion?
Mailing abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country
Which statement reflects part of Andrew Jackson's legacy?
Making the political system more democratic
The dramatic gain in productivity that occurred in American industry during the Industrial Revolution was due to what combination of factors?
New organizational techniques and new technology
Why did the planter elite of the South face political challenges in the 1840s and 1850s?
New state constitutions opened the franchise, making it more difficult for them to dominate government.
Why did expansion of the franchise advance the development of political parties?
Newly enfranchised women voters were eager to join social organizations.
Why did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution end up determining the election of 1824?
No one candidate received an absolute majority of electoral votes.
What was the dominant pattern of marriage relationships among the smallholding yeomen of the antebellum South?
Patriarchal, with husbands dominant
The May 1838 forced expulsion of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to the new Indian Territory is remembered by what name?
The Trail of Tears
Which statement characterizes the religious practices of African American slaves in the Deep South in the early nineteenth century?
The majority of them worshiped African gods and spirits.
Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?
The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency
Why did the Texas war party succeed with its call for a rebellion in 1835?
The new Mexican president nullified the Texans' exemption from the ban on slavery.
What common trait helped spur the growth of the fast-growing western cities of the early and middle 1800s?
Their role as flourishing commercial centers
What statement reflects a way the Whigs differed from the Democrats in the 1840s?
They believed that the wealthy should govern.
Why did many African American slaves choose not to run away?
They did not want to leave family and kin.
Why did American manufacturers turn to women as a source of labor in the 1820s and 1830s?
They hoped to pay lower wages.
Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians?
They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions.
In the early 1800s, what did the growing cities of the South all have in common?
They tended to be around the periphery of the South.
Why did the Mormons move their communities several times?
They were persecuted by other groups.
Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based?
Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure
Why did President Andrew Jackson insist on getting Congress to pass the Force Bill to threaten South Carolina even while he was willing to reduce the tariff that southerners objected to?
To assert federal authority and preserve the Union
Why did many Irish immigrate to the United States between 1840 and 1860?
To flee famine and overpopulation
What was the point of the ideology of the "separate sphere" promoted in the mid-nineteenth century by men like the evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?
Women should focus on domestic life, not public life.
What did women reformers refer to when they spoke about "domestic slavery" in the 1840s?
Women's loss of legal rights in the institution of marriage
What is exemplified by the unions and mutual benefit societies of the early 1800s?
Working-class attempts to gain some control over working conditions
The market revolution that took place in America beginning in the 1820s was prompted by the construction of
a system of canals and roads linking the Atlantic coast states and the trans-Appalachian west.
Women at the Seneca Falls Convention based their Declaration of Sentiments on
the Declaration of Independence.
Jackson's practice of appointing loyal members of his party to public offices became known as
the spoils system.