Establishment of Distinctly American Political, Economic, and Cultural Characteristics 1800-1860

The federal law depicted did all the following EXCEPT

Outlaw the fugitive slave laws inside the state area ceded by France

What period of nationalism does this law most clearly reflect?

Political Nationalism reflected in the political unity necessary to achieve sectional balance during the Era of Good Feelings

What Constitutional conflict surrounded the 1803 event depicted above?

Power of the executive branch to buy foreign land

Religious revivals like the one depicted in the image above reflected efforts to challenge and promote

Predestination and self-determination

During Chief Justice John Marshall's leadership, the Supreme Court reshaped American judicial nationalism in all of the following ways except

Recognized legitimate state authority to regulate the economy when pre-existing property rights curtail progress

The increase in textile manufacturing, especially the construction of large factories such as the ones in Lowell, Massachusetts, is most directly reflected in the

Significant increase in the percentage labor force engaged in manufacturing by 1840

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support Calhoun's views expressed in the excerpt?

Southern Jacksonian Democrats

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that

The cult of domesticity compelled women to focus on the home and the domestic sphere

The "camp meeting" in the illustration was most beneficial to what denomination(s)?

Southern protestants, because they were amenable to allowing change into their churches

What federal law does the map above depict?

1820 Missouri Compromise

Which of the following events exhibits an adherence to Washington's message?

A self-imposed embargo against foreign trade

Based on the above analysis by Dr. Alan Brinkley, which of the following best explains the political development based on the economy of the North and South from 1800-1860?

A wedge developed between the North and South because of the North's rapid industrialization and the South's dependence on slavery

Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by 1860?

Abolitionists

It can be inferred from Tables 1 and 2 that the War of 1812

Accelerated the rate of urbanization in the US

Which statement below most accurately describes the argument against executing the event depicted above?

Amendment 10 reserved powers to the states that are not delegated directly to the federal government

Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in immigration after 1845 shown on the graph?

An increase in sectional tensions

All of the following are false statements about the removal of Indians from their ancestral homelands EXCEPT

Any Indian who agreed to assimilate into American culture was allowed to stay and coexist with white settlers

Women gained more rights during the Second Great Awakening through all of the following EXCEPT

Being elected to political offices to allow them to advocate for more rights and privileges

Congress's decision on the issue described by Grundy resulted in

Declaration of war against Great Britain

Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court responded to the Indian Removal Act by

Declaring the Indian Removal Act to be illegal because it unilaterally violated the sanctity of rior existing treaties

Which of the following was a significant cause of the trend from 1840-1855 shown in the graph?

Economic hardships and political instability in Europe

The strongest opposition to the demands of the War Hawks came from

Hartford Convention members who had strong trade relations with Britain

Emerson's notion of American self-reliance is most clearly reflected in the writings of

Henry David Thoreau who articulated the responsibility of the individual to resist unjust laws

In this passage, George Washington's stated position on existing American treaties with European nations is that they should be

Honored

What legal precedent does the Court establish in its ruling above?

Judicial Review

Which statement below most accurately reflects the perspective of modern critics of the legal precedent established in the excerpt above?

Judicial socialism is a more democratic law-making process

In keeping with the concerns expressed in this passage, foreign policy actions of presidents Washington and John Adams

Maintained official neutrality and avoided being drawn into war

Which of the following most directly undermines Calhoun's assertions?

Many slaves engaged in forms of resistance to slavery

During the antebellum era, what invention below had the opposite effect on free labor in the North than the cotton gin had on slave labor in the South?

Mechanical Reaper

This federal law became necessary because

Missouri wanted admittance to the Union as a slave state, which would have offset the balance between slave and free states

Emerson criticized American scholars and writers because, in his view, they:

Needed to be more original

Which region of the US benefitted most from the industrial and urban trends reflected in the two tables?

New England

In the 1840s and 1850s, the views expressed by Calhoun most directly contributed to

State protests over the abusive federal government power to regulate slavery

Which of the following is the primary reason why western settlers in 1811 might want to expand United States territorial holdings?

Strengthen the political influence of the agrarian republic on national policy-making

The increasing use of steamboats on major rivers in the US and the boom in canal building that following the completion of the Erie Canal are best reflected by the

Sustained growth in the urban percentage between 1820 and 1860

The immigrants represented by the graph most typically settled in which of the following regions of the United States?

The Northeast

Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best describes the change in American foreign policy in 1823?

The United States would consider European interference in the Western Hemisphere as a security threat

Washington's concerns are supported by the fact that during his terms as president

The United States' alliance with France was being exploited by Edmond Genet

A successful outcome from the decision made by this Congress was

The elimination of both British impressments and Indian hostilities

The main trend shown in the graph was mostly directly associated with which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time?

The emergence of an industrialized economy

The ideals expressed in the Monroe Doctrine augment the ideals expressed in which of the following previously established American policies?

The idea of "right of deposit" established in Pinckney's Treaty

Based on the passage above, which of the following concepts would Emerson regard as most contrary to his message?

The influence of classical Greek and Roman designs on American architecture

The establishment of the Monroe Doctrine was a reaction to which of the following events?

The intention of the European powers to reclaim Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere

Which of the following was a direct impact of the invention of the cotton gin after the War of 1813?

The invention of the steel plow to allow for more rapid planting of cotton crops

Emerson's writing exemplifies the ideas of Americans who worried about the consequences of

The market revolution and materialism

Which of the following developments in the antebellum period best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?

Woman crusaders focused religious revivals in the burned over district of upstate New York

President Jackson pushed through the Indian Removal Act of 1830

To protect the natives from white settlers flooding into the area

This passage can be interpreted as a catalyst for

Utopian societies that concentrated on intellectual discourse