APUSH Exam Unit 4

Which of the following best describes how the system represented in the above illustrations most directly affected women in the early 1800s?

Young women worked outside the home in larger numbers than ever before.

Parton's description of Astor's successes most reflects the spirit of

Manifest Destiny

Which of the following socioeconomic changes occurring in America by the early- to mid-1800s most allowed individuals, particularly women, to participate in social reform efforts?

A growing urban middle class

How can the developments represented in the above illustrations best be viewed as a turning point in U.S. social and economic history?

A shift from the self-sustaining economic family unit to income-earning outside of the home or family sphere began to occur.

As reflected in the map, what was the most pressing concern for the United States, which led to the Louisiana Purchase?

Access down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans

Which contemporaneous development most made possible the system depicted in the illustrations to become established?

Agricultural mechanization resulted in a native workforce willing to work in factories. Correct

Which political measure was adopted primarily to discourage rising national tensions, which the map hints at?

An agreement setting a northern boundary for slavery in western territories

How were changes in the labor system accommodating the industrial model represented in the above illustrations most like those of the World War II era?

Both created a huge expansion of factory jobs available to women.

How did the work of entrepreneurs such as Astor most redefine the American socioeconomic identity?

By supporting the emergence of a market economy

Which of the following best describes the relationship between the trends depicted by the three maps together?

Canals helped open the market economy to the westward lands, promoting migration to those lands.

Writings such as Grimké's above most sought to challenge which of the following social ideals of the nineteenth century?

Division of men and women into separate "spheres" of activity and influence

Which of the following best explains how ideals from the Enlightenment and the Second Great Awakening most directly led to the rise of the women's rights movement?

Embracing ideals from the movements, women became increasingly involved in reform efforts outside of the home, but faced social restrictions.

Which best explains the high concentration of slavery in the Chesapeake area around Richmond in 1820? Multiple

Farming of tobacco as a cash crop

All three maps together best suggest what trend?

Growth of canals resulted in increased migration of people westward.

While Astor was building his enterprise as described by Parton, the southeastern region of the U.S. was experiencing which economic development? Multiple

Increasing cotton production made possible by technological innovation, spurring the region's increased reliance on slavery

Which analysis of the changes in the U.S. economy during the early 1800s is most clearly supported by the developments shown in the illustrations?

Investment in transportation and infrastructure set the stage for U.S. industrialization.

Which of the following provides the best argument for how Madison's veto might have contributed to the rise of U.S. sectional tensions in the years leading up to and during the antebellum period?

It discouraged the formation of a well-integrated national economy.

How did the industrial developments represented in the above illustrations affect U.S. regionalism during the antebellum period?

It worsened sectional tensions by creating different regional economic preferences.

Which best accounts for the movement of cotton cultivation farther westward from the interior of states like Georgia and South Carolina into areas like Alabama and Mississippi by 1820?

Loss of arable land and increasing demand for cotton

Which of the following about the nature of the economy by the early- to mid-nineteenth century in America is best supported by the details in Grimke's argument?

More and more, incomes were earned outside of the home.

The underlying ideological debate in the early 1800s over federal public works bills like that referenced in the above excerpt is essentially the same as that concerning which of the following issues at the beginning of the twentieth century in America?

Regulation of monopoly and large trusts

Which most allowed for the rapid development of upland cotton growing in the South as shown on the map in the early 19th century?

Technology for separating the seed from the cotton fiber

Which political issue most directly arose largely in part due to a continuing trend of westward movement of the subject matter represented on the map?

Texas independence from Mexico

The maps best suggest which regarding the nature of the relationship between the East and the Old Northwest (mid-western states) by the mid-1800s?

The building of the canals and resulting migration patterns forged strong ties of interdependence between the Northeast and the Old Northwest.

Madison's concern expressed in the above quote most closely parallels the central point of contention in which of the following political controversies in the early days of the new United States?

The debates over the establishment of the first national bank

In relation to the general subject matter of the legislation referenced in the above excerpt, how were the subsequent actions of the northern states and the southern states different?

The northern states invested heavily in building a transportation infrastructure, while the South continued to move their agricultural goods to market through natural waterways.

Which of the following groups would most likely be sympathetic to Grimke's concerns expressed in the above letter?

Those who believed in the ideal of self-discovery and self-realization

Which development of the early 1800s most challenged the system of trade of which Astor was a part?

War between Britain and the United States

Which of the following was a major reason for the drafting of the legislation referred to in the above excerpt?

Westward movement by whites and resulting economic development

The tribes represented in the above map had well-established societies on their tribal lands by the 1830s. Based on the reasons for their removal and the information from the map, which can best be inferred about the nature of these societies at the time?

economically successful farming communities

The development of the social movement, of which organized events like that shown in the above illustration were a part, was in reaction against

the spread of Enlightenment ideals of rationalism and individualism into religious beliefs