APUSH 1st semester test

Who had a major impact in communications in the early 19th Century?

Samuel Morse

Who is thought of as the "Father of the American Factory System"?

Samuel Slater

What were the two most prevalent movements that sprouted from the Second Great Awakening?

Abolitionists and Temperance

Gibbons v. Ogden centered on the issue of

Congress being responsible for regulating interstate commerce

Which of the following groups is LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?

Establish merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia

The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?

Established the United States as the dominant economic power in South America.

The French countered British movement into the Ohio River Valley in the early 1750s by building a fort at the confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers; the fort was called

Fort Duquesne

Which of the following was NOT a "spinoff" of the Second Great Awakening?

Immigration

All of the following accurately describe Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France EXCEPT:

It ended the threat of American Indian raids on western settlements.

The Glorious Revolution had what immediate affect on the American Colonies?

It sparked rebellions by Protestant colonists in Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York.

Which of the following statements about the "American System" is correct?

It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency.

In the 18th century, all of the following were generally true about colonial society in America EXCEPT

It was impossible for individuals to better themselves economically or socially.

In the mid-18th century, all of the following were generally true about slavery in the British colonies EXCEPT

It was strongly opposed in New England.

Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following best explains why Massachusetts Bay officials banished Anne Hutchinson?

She preached the doctrine of predestination.

What was a division within the Know-Nothing Party?

Slavery

A "wildcat" or "pet bank" was

State banks where Jackson deposited funds from the Second National Bank

Which of the following is NOT associated with Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts:

The Dutch retaliated by withdrawing from New Amsterdam and relocating to Quebec

In article "Fire Bell in the Night"

The Grimke sisters showed that even Christian people could be cruel masters

Which of the following best describes the situation of freedmen in the decade following the Civil War?

The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.

Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as

faith in 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

In 1840 the American Antislavery Society split into factions because

William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members

The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.

In the South, Methodist and Baptist evangelical preachers

adapted their sermons to support the rule of white, slaveholding planters.

Which of the following conditions in England motivated Puritans to migrate to New England in the 1630s? I. Political repression of dissident Protestants II. An economic recession III. Restrictions on Puritan religious practices

all of the above

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's adminis- tration because it

allowed the United States to use the port of New Orleans

In the early nineteenth century, Noah Webster argued for

an end to American dependence on foreign influences in regard to language.

Marshall's decision on the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia was

both B and C (unconstitutional, and ignored by Jackson)

Which of the following accurately describes a problem faced by Virginia in the last decades of the 17th century?

conflict between large plantation owners and settlers on Virginia's western frontier

Voting requirements during the Age of Jackson

declined

Daniel Webster's address to the Senate in 1830 in reply to Senator Hayne is best remembered for its

defense of the principal of national union

The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

demands for equal compensation for equal work

The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated with

distress over loss of tribunal autonomy

Examples of Economic Nationalism include all of the following except:

encouragement of importation of goods or services

All of the following contributed to the growth of the free African American population in the United States in the early nineteenth century EXCEPT

federal constitutional provisions for emancipation

The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT

federal financing of secondary education

The Virginia Plan differed from the New Jersey Plan in that it

gave the national government the power to overturn state laws.

A major consequence of the French and Indian war of 1754-1763 was the

imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies

Most American manufacturing took place

in homes

The North and South

in theory and in practice adopted different forms of republicanism.

The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for

increased rights for women

The Constitution offered to the states for ratification in 1787 achieved all of the following except

investing Congress with full and immediate power to regulate immigration.

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

ireland

Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions EXCEPT the

obligation to protect Native Americans

The government under the Articles of Confederation consisted of

only a unicameral legislature

Which of the following is typical of the role that colonial women played during the Townshend crisis?

organizing spinning bees and creating homespun clothing because they refused to buy English-made clothing

Population increases in New England affected parental control over marriage because

parents had less to give children in marriage portions

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of

protective tariffs

The most important factor in Andrew Jackson's successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his

reputation as a hero of the War of 1812

The Battle of Tippecanoe

resulted in a defeat for Native Americans in Indiana

"I have come to this country to introduce an entire new state of society; to change it from an ignorant, selfish system to an enlightened social system which shall gradually unite all interests into one and remove all causes for contest between individuals." The statement above was made by which nineteenth-century Utopian reformer?

robert owen

The Americans' victory at the Battle of Saratoga was crucial to their ultimate victory over the British for all of the following reasons except

state governments took advantage of increased American morale in order to raise taxes and supply the Continental army with much-needed cash.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

strengthen the moral cause of the union

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of

temperance

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established

that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude

William Penn's "Holy Experiment" included all of the following ideas EXCEPT

the Bible as religious authority for all

A postwar crisis developed for all of the following reasons except

the British threatened to invade America from Canada.

The British decided on their "southern strategy" because

the French presence made them wary of overcommitting their troops throughout the colonies and leaving their colonies in the West Indies vulnerable to French machinations.

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT

the establishment of teacher-training schools

One consequence of industrialization was

the formation of Labor Unions

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

the right of nullification

Which of the following was NOT a reason for increased democratization during the Jacksonian era?

the rise of trade union influence

The South Atlantic System included all of the following EXCEPT

the system revolved around European cravings for tobacco

Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank of the United States for which of the following reasons?

they believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite

The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of

transporting African Americans to Africa

President Monroe articulated the Monroe Doctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to

warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere

Early Unions were

weak, social, and local

The Alien and Sedition Acts were designed to

weaken and deflect Republican criticism of the Federalists

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

Which of the following is NOT TRUE of English colonial families in mid-18c America?:

women, while subservient to their husbands, set the moral standards by which children were raised and decided how the children would be educated and trained.