APUSH ch 14 multiple choice questions, APUSH CH 13 multiple choice questions, Apush Quizlet
The United States ended its participation in the international slave trade in_________.
1808
The proportion of America's population living in cities increased from only 7 percent in 1820 to almost
20 percent
Of the 12 million people who lived in the South in 1860, how many were slaves
4 million
In the mid-nineteenth century, what percentage of all slaves worked as field hands?
75%
which of the following is an accurate conclusion that can be drawn from the map above?
A comparatively small percentage of African slaves were taken to British North America.
The period between 1800 and 1850 in the United States was characterized by _________.
A dramatic expansion of the population to the west
who, according to Jackson, made a "corrupt bargain" in the election of 1824?
Adams and Clay
The majority of people who came to America prior to 1800 were from:
Africa
Studies that compare DNA have revealed a close genetic relationship between American Indians and the people of:
Asia
The Whig Party and a new two-party system emerged from what conflict?
Bank War
Which of these is a prime example of an "instant" city?
Chicago
California was unusual in attracting large numbers of immigrants from
China
What Ohio River city became a growing center of the western economy?
Cincinnati
The excerpt describes effects of the:
Colombian Exchange
In the early nineteenth century, these Indian tribes dominated the southern high plains
Comanches and Apaches
If you were a War Hawk in the 1810 Congress, you would most likely be a ______
Democratic-Republican from the South and West
The planter elite consciously worked to create a lifestyle that resembled the ____________
English aristocracy
The phrase "black belt" refers to this in the South
Fertile soil of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
The Adams-Onis Treaty gave the United States possession of _______
Florida
What impact did Free-Soil candidate Martin Van Buren have on the election of 1848
He cost Lewis Cass New York and Pennsylvania, and with these two states the election
An extraordinary example of a complex and sophisticated mound-building society was:
Hopewell
When Europeans arrived in North America at the beginning of the sixteenth century:
Indians had developed a variety of disparate cultures and languages.
The largest groups of immigrants who came to the United States before the Civil War were from
Ireland and Germany
The essay Exposition and Protest was directed against a certain "abomination". Who was the author and what was the abomination?
John C. Calhoun and the Tariff of 1828
During his long tenure, Chief Justice John Marshal consistently steered Supreme Court decisions in the directions in the direction of _______
Judicial nationalism
The northern half of Indian territory was abolished in 1854 and replaced with the
Kansas and Nebraska Territories
The first trans-Appalachian states admitted to the Union were _______.
Kentucky and Tennessee
The admission of Missouri as a slave state was balanced by the admission of of what free state?
Maine
The most successful of the nineteenth century communitarian movements was _______
Mormonism
The Embargo Act had the greatest impact on
New Englanders
The oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States are occupied by the:
Pueblos
Bacon's Rebellion in 1676:
Revealed deep conflicts between the settled areas of Virginia and the frontier region to the West.
The French agent who helped establish French relations with the Huron Tribe was:
Samuel de Champlain.
Which area of the country had the smallest concentration of foreign-born residents in 1860?
South
The failure of the South to industrialize in the nineteenth century is best explained by ______
Southerners choosing to depend on "King Cotton"
When France first became interested in establishing colonies in the the New World:
Spanish policies forced the French to concentrate their efforts on the North Atlantic region.
During the seventeenth century:
Spanish, French, and English colonies throughout North America experienced profound changes
Which of the following be reasonably inferred from the map above?
The colonies in the Caribbean and Central and South America were extremely dependent on slave labor.
Which of the following correctly characterizes the fundamental nature of the slave trade?
The slave trade was most often a collaboration between white traders and American traders
Which statement was true of most white antislavery reformers?
They rejected the idea of social equality between whites and blacks
The United States entered the War of 1812 deeply divided along sectional line. The sections that were most pro-war were the __________.
West and South
A political consequence of German and Irish immigrants to New York City in the mid nineteenth century was the end of ____________ control of New York City.
Whig
Which of these people would have been most likely to oppose the Mexican-American War?
a New England Whig
One reason for the persistence of slavery in the South was that ________.
a child born of a slave was legally a slave
One result of slavery in the colonies was:
a highly stratified class structure
The most striking "democratic" trend in the election of 1828 was _________.
a surge in voter turnout
Democrats tended to see industrialization as
a threat to the nation
The United States gained the Oregon Territory south of the 49th parallel by
a treaty with Great Britain
In dealing with Indians, the primary concern of New England colonists was:
acquiring land for the expanding settlements.
American Indian societies most commonly reacted to the changes described in the excerpt by:
adapting European material goods while attempting to preserve cultural autonomy.
John Tyler became president _______.
after William Henry Harrison died in office
Important to understanding American history:
an appreciation for the ways that human beings adapted to geography and climate
In making his decisions, Jackson preferred to consult with __________.
an informal group of advisers
The early French efforts in American were based on commerce, especially the trade in:
animal furs.
In general, free-soilers were
antiblack
The Supreme Court decisions in Gibbon's v. Ogden and Dartmouth College v. Woodward
asserted the broad power of the federal government over interstate commerce
Popular sovereignty was based on the accepted constitutional principle that decisions about slavery should be made
at the state level
Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis (1857) was a(n) _________.
attack on slavery by a native Southerner
The Iroquois Confederacy:
attempted to control social violence by prohibited warfare among member nations.
French and Spanish American colonies differed from those of England:
because the French and Spanish settlements experienced much more cultural mixing between Europeans and natives.
The Puritans who settled in North America:
believed education was critical and quickly established a sophisticated education system
As urban free black populations grew in the early nineteenth century
blacks were often victims of urban violence
The Mexican American war began over
border dispute
In the election of 1848
both Cass and Taylor took deliberately vague positions on slavery in the territories
During the seventeenth century, most migrants to the Chesapeake colonies:
came as indentured servants
The vast majority of Africans bound into slavery were:
captured by other African who traded their victims to Europeans.
Women became deeply involved in reform movements through their
churches
With the significant international exchange that occurred after 1492, the three important crops transpanted to the New World were:
coffee, rice, and sugar.
John O'Sullivan
coined the term "manifest destiny"
In early New England:
colonial practices shaped the development of political concepts that are fundamental to the United States
Religion in the slave community _________.
combined African tribal traditions with evangelical Protestantism
During the Panic of 1819, many urban workers blamed their job losses on _____
competition for British imports
Jackson's presidential style might best be described as _________.
confrontational and controversial
Tyler's presidency would be best described as _______.
contentious and unsuccessful
As commander in chief during the war, James K. Polk defined the role of president by
coordinating as a battlefield commander and exposing himself to fire
By 1860, America's largest single export was ________.
cotton
According to the journal of Christopher Columbus, the natives he found:
could quickly become Christians because they had no religion of their own.
The eighteenth century plantation economy:
created widespread wealth for many white Americans and an unprecedented opportunity for freedom
One result of the slave trade was:
debilitating social and economic dislocations in West Africa
In the first half of the 1600s, American Indians in Virginia and Maryland most typically responded to the English colonization described in the excerpt by:
defending their territory against the English.
The Panic of 1837 ________.
destroyed van Buren's presidency
In British North America, slavery:
discouraged economic diversification that characterized the development of industry
An importer element in encouraging the English interest in the New World was:
economic dislocation throughout England.
Similar to evangelical preachers in the nineteenth century, northern abolitionists ______________
employed a confrontational and personal style
Southerners were particularly disturbed by free African American writers like David Walker, whose Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World _______________
encouraged slave rebellion
American efforts during the War of 1812 to grab territory in British Canada ______
ended in failure
Christopher Columbus:
established contact between two old worlds.
The planter ideology presented the male master as a ________.
father figure
Best-selling newspapers, pamphlets, and books in the mid-nineteenth century ________.
fed the popular appetite for sensationalism and scandel
The American Colonization Society __________________
focused on sending blacks back to Africa
It seems clear that when President Polk sent troops to Texas in 1845, he
hoped to provoke a war with Mexico
Although free blacks in the North could not, many blacks in the South, both free and slave, worked ________.
in skilled trades like carpentering and blacksmithing
The largest Indian populations in North America were:
in the farming areas of the Southwest, South, and Northeast.
At the Hartford Convention, representatives from five New England states ______.
insisted states could nullify unconstitutional federal actions
A main limitation on the United States ability to enforce the Monroe Doctrine was _______.
it possesses a much smaller military than other world powers
Jackson's view of the presidency was that __________.
it should be the leading branch because is symbolized the popular will
Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Henry Clay were example of ________.
leading sectional politicians
Before 1800, most of the original thirteen states had ________.
limited the vote to property owners or taxpayers
Compared to New England, early English settlement in Virginia and Maryland was characterized by:
lower life expectancy, a larger population of indentured servants, and a greater gender imbalance.
For the most part, The Chesapeake colonists during the seventeenth century:
maintained close emotional and political ties to England.
The "miracle crops" that first emerged in North America
maize and potatoes
Most early- nineteenth century cities locked
municipal water supplies, sewers, and garbage collection
The English colony of Roanoke:
mysteriously disappeared within a few years of being established.
The three elements of Henry Clay's American system were
national bank, tariff, roads and canals
Recent archaeological evidence has led some scholars to conclude that early migration in North America:
occurred by water as people used boats to travel along the western coastline of the continent.
Indian agriculture flourished in the South because:
of mild, moist climate, and rich, fertile soil.
By 1820, about what proportion of Americans lived west of the Appalachians?
one-quarter
Prior to the Civil War, what fraction of white families owned slaves?
one-third
The Hudson River School refers to a group of American _______.
painters
The response of Tecumseh to white expansion would best be described as
pan-Indian resistance
Generally pioneers traveling the Overland Trails in the 1840s and 1850s were
parts of organized westward-moving communities
During the colonial era of North America, slavery was:
present in all areas.
The official policy of the U.S. government form the time of Jefferson's administration was to ________.
promote the assimilation of Indian peoples
The most significant demographic development of the period 1820-1860 was
rapid population growth in the cities
Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the united states
recieved land and Mexico got money
The key to understanding the events that occurred during the generation after 1492 is:
recognizing the transformation Europe experienced in the centuries prior to Columbus' voyage.
The military tradition and influenced Spanish attitudes toward expansion was based on the:
reconquista.
The "Burned-Over District" in New York got its name as a hotbed of
religious and reform movements
An important element in the development of the African slave trade was the:
reluctance of the Catholic Church to allow enslavement of Christians.
In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia, the supreme court ___________.
ruled that the state of Georgia could not force the Cherokees to give up their land
One of the most common violations of the southern paternalistic code of behavior was _________.
sexual abuse of female slaves by their masters
Following the Stuart Restoration in 1660, King Charles II:
showed great interest in North America by establishing several proprietary colonies .
As a result of explorations of North American in the 1520a and 1540s, Spain:
showed little interest in the area of about fifty years.
The process described in the excerpt most affected Europeans through:
significant population growth and economic development in many part of Europe.
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania democrat, proposed that
slavery be banned from any territory acquired from mexico
A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that ________
slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers
The best description of travel on the Overland trails was that it was
slow, dangerous, and exhausting
The typical German immigrant in the 1840s-1860s was
small farmer or artisan
During the Mexican-American War, northern Whigs began to characterize the was as an
southern conspiracy to expand slavery
Scholarly research leads to the conclusion that Clavis technology:
spread quickly and influenced people throughout the North American continent.
In the purchase of Louisiana, Jefferson violated which principle that he had earlier upheld?
strict interpretation of executive power
Which of these resulted from the other three?
the "Trail of Tears"
One result of the Glorious Revolution:
the English Bill of Rights that protected civil liberties.
the justification for removal of Indians to the west was
the Indians needed a space where they could live undisturbed by whites
Portuguese interest in exploring Atlantic trade routes to the Indies was sparked by:
the Ottoman Turks' closing of the lucrative overland silk and spice trade in 1453.
Which of these resulted from the other three?
the Panic of 1837
One reason the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 failed to drive the Spanish out of New Mexico permanently was:
the Pueblo Indians had become so dependent on the Spanish for military protection from the Navaho and Apache tribes.
During the 1500s:
the Spanish empire in America created a society based on African, European and Indian Cultures
In the years from 1492 to 1590:
the Spanish, French, and English employed different approaches to establishing colonies in America.
The bold policy statement called the Monroe Doctrine essentially told Europeans to stay out of
the Western Hemisphere
On critical development in Europe that shaped overseas expansion was:
the close relationships between the emerging national monarchs and the developing merchant class.
Which of these helps explain the surge of migration westward after the War of 1812?
the defeat and removal of Indians during the war
A major even that occurred in North America during the Archaic period was:
the end of the Ice Age and retreat of the glaciers.
One of the most noteworthy features of the slave community in the American South was ________
the expanded kinship network that developed within it
White masters learned to live with the two key institutions of African American community life, which were ________.
the family of the African American church
Critical to the early survival of the Jamestown colony was:
the policies of the Powhatan Confederacy that allowed the settlement to be established.
When using the term "resisted revolution", historians are referring to:
the refusal of some Indian groups to shift to an agricultural society
The growth of the African American community was based on:
the relationship between Creoles and Africans and between the slaves and their masters.
Which of the following was a long-term result of the situation in Jamestown described in the excerpt?
the rise of the plantation system and the use of African slaves.
One reason that South Carolina embraced African slavery early in the colony's history is:
the role that Africans played in the production of indigo and rice.
Which of these fostered the growth of slave communities in the early nineteenth century?
the size of cotton plantations
Southern politics was largely controlled by _________.
the slave-owning elite
The Mexican-American war ws known as "Mr.Polk's War" because
the war was unpopular and politically divisive
The fundamental principle of the mercantilism is that:
the wealth of a nation is based on the amount of gold and silver specie that a nation accumulates.
Americans found British impressment particularly objectionable because
they demonstrated Britain's failure to recognize American citizenship
Jackson responded to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1832 by _________.
threatening to collect the tariff at gunpoint if necessary
Which commodity proved to be profoundly important to the history of Virginia?
tobacco
Europeans most typically explained the process described in the excerpt in which of the following ways?
viewing it as proof of the higher level of civilization among Europeans.
The identity that African Americans developed during the eighteenth century:
was initially based on the common religion that the slaves brought with them from Africa.
Critical to the success of the Hernan Cortes expedition:
were Indian allies and European disease.
Regarding expansion, Columbus and the Spanish:
were driven by the desire to create an empire
Who could join the general unions of the 1830s?
white men in skilled trades
An important common denominator in the public education, temperance, anti-prostitution and asylum reform movements was leadership by _______
women
The chief subject of discussion at the convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, was
women's rights
Most runaway slaves were ________.
young men
