APUSH Test Questions 4-5

Which of the following was the most important cause of the trends depicted on the map above?

A Southern inability to develop a free-labor manufacturing economy

Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry?

African American slaves worked from sunup to sundown all year long

Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century?

American businesses soon dominated in many European markets

From 1854 to 1856, which of the following was the fundamental principle all Republicans agreed on?

An absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories

Which of the following examples embodied the synthesis of African and American culture that existed in the South in 1850s?

Black evangelical Christianity

How did planters attempt to resolve a labor crisis in the cotton South in the early nineteenth century?

By buying domestic slaves from the Chesapeake region

Which of the following represents a territory added to the United States in the same period as Polk's speech?

California

During the 1850s, pro-slavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?

Cuba

By 1860, the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?

Deep South

The excerpt illustrates a new direction in US policies regarding...

European colonization

From 1818 until the early 1840s, the Oregon Territory was administered under which of the following arrangements?

Great Britain and the United States controlled it jointly

The Trail of Tears was the direct consequence of which of the following government actions?

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?

Irish immigrants

Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense

Which of the following statements describes the Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845?

It failed because Mexico had suspended diplomatic relations with the United States and refused to even see Slidell

Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?

It produced and exported over 2/3 of the world's cotton supply

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States an abroad

Which of the following statements characterizes Andrew Jackson's intentions toward Native Americans during his presidency?

Jackson meant to remove all Native Americans east of the Mississippi, even those who had adapted to white society

Which man who sought the presidency in 1844 is matched with the correct description?

James Polk- expansionist, dark-horse candidate of the Democratic Party who won the election

Many African American slaves who converted to Christianity compared themselves to which of the following groups?

Jews

The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the...

Kansas-Nebraska Act

home state of Henry Clay

Kentucky

Which of the following areas is correctly matched with its primary crop?

Louisiana--sugar

Which of the following statements characterizes the planter elite of the Upper South in the early and mid-1800s?

Many elite planters considered themselves benevolent masters

In which of the following ways was Chief Justice Roger Taney different from his predecessor, John Marshall?

Marshall was nationally oriented while Taney favored states' rights

home state of John Quincy Adams

Massachusetts

The excerpt above references the judicial rationale for the Supreme Court decision in the case of...

McCullough v. Maryland

What can you conclude about migrants from the passage?

Migrants were motivated by religious factors

Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States?

Most held low-wage jobs as farm workers, day laborers, or laundresses

Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act

Why did the United States decline to annex Texas in 1837?

President Van Buren feared that annexation would spark an American civil war over the issue of slavery

What did the Wilmot Proviso introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?

Prohibit slavery in any territory the United States acquired from Mexico

The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts?

Promoting the spread of knowledge through public lectures

Which of the following would be most similar to Sojourner Truth's argument as presented in the excerpt?

Seneca Falls Convention "Declaration of Sentiments"

Which statement characterizes the typical relationship between slaves and their masters in the 1850s?

Slaves were investments and therefore were generally provided with clothes, shelter, and enough food to keep them healthy

home state of John C. Calhoun

South Carolina

home state of Andrew Jackson

Tennessee

Which of the following statements describes the American Party, or Know-Nothings, that emerged in the North in the 1850s?

The American Party originated in anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic societies of the 1840s

Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

The Second Great Awakening

What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?

The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean

How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?

The possibility of expansion into Texas became a major issue in the presidential election

Why was the domestic slave trade crucial to the southern economy?

The trade provided tens of thousands of new workers to build plantations

Which of the following statements was true of the American South in 1860?

The vast majority of southern white families did not own any slaves

Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?

They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy

Which of these factors made enslaved African Americans reluctant to attempt to escape to the North?

They hesitated to leave their families and communities behind

Which of these statements describes Southern rice planters of the mid-nineteenth century?

They were at the apex of the plantation aristocracy

The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

Transcendentalism

Which of the following is properly paired?

Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass

Polk's speech best illustrates which of the following arguments made by supporters of Manifest Destiny?

Western expansion would allow the U.S. to spread its superior culture

The popular 1844 phrase "Fifty-four forty or fight!" served as...

a push for American control of the entire Oregon territory

The ideas expressed in the painting above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in U.S. history?

a sense of unique national mission and a superior cultural identity

Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?

aid to fugitive slaves

In 1858, in his so-called Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas...

asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it

The two excerpts above are beset understood in the context of the...

assertion of U.S. power and expansionism in the Western Hemisphere

How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?

by passing protective tariffs

Which of the following were core institutions for African American society in the mid-nineteenth South?

church and family

Under the task system, slaves were required to...

complete a precisely defined job each day

Which of the following most directly contributed to the formation of the Republican Party?

congressional establishment of popular sovereignty in western territories

Which of the following best describes a pattern of continuity in American history reflected in the document?

debates about the appropriate role of the national government shaped political parties

The sentiments expressed in the painting led most directly to...

environmental transformation of the western region

Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?

expansion of slavery

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?

he argued that people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature

How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina's claimed right of nullification in 1832?

he asked Congress for a Force Bill authorizing him to use the military to suppress any act of nullification

In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?

he justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed

Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?

he thought it interfered with the rights of states and the liberties of the people

In the nineteenth-century South, free blacks lived primarily...

in the coastal cities and the Upper South

Which of the following statements characterizes blacks' resistance to slavery by the 1820s?

in their situation, most blacks had no choice but to build the best possible lives for themselves

Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?

individuality

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?

it brought workers together under one roof in a factory

The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineers project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?

it increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost

Which of the following methods was a highly uncommon form of slave resistance in the slave South?

large-scale uprisings

Smallholding planters in the nineteenth-century South owned about how many slaves, on average?

one to five

What aspect of early nineteenth-century American government had the founders condemned as contrary to republican ideals?

political parties

Which of the following were the three key elements of Clay's American system?

protective tariff, subsidized internal improvements, and the national bank

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?

railroads

The excerpt represents a response to the question of the...

relationship between state and federal governments

On which issue was the Whig philosophy of the 1830s critically different from that of the Federalists in the 1790s?

rule by an elite based on talent

The map references a continuity over time regarding debates fueled by...

sectionalism

During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?

strengthening the legal rights of married women

Which of the following elements defined the Democrats under Andrew Jackson?

support for average Americans

Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s?

tariffs on imported goods

Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America?

temperance

The map referenced above provides evidence to support the argument that...

the American acquisition of lands in the west gave rise to a contest over the extension of slavery into western territories

What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specify should be done in an election like the election of 1824, in which no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes?

the House of Representatives decides the outcome

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

the Market Revolution

The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked...

the Mexican War

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?

the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed

The excerpt above refers to...

the Monroe Doctrine

With which of the following statements would the authors of the document excerpted above be most likely to agree?

the U.S. Constitution protected slavery

The excerpt provides evidence of...

the United States' attempt at asserting itself as a dominant power

Which of the following represents the most immediate cause of South Carolina's actions?

the election of Abraham Lincoln

The excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that...

the federal government may assert its power over state governments

The two excerpts quoted above would be most useful to historians analyzing...

the heated controversy generated by the acquisition of new territory in the West

The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as...

the labor theory of value

Which of the following statements characterizes the American party system by the early 1840s?

the practice of Americans voting for a particular party along ethnic and religious lines began to emerge

The excerpt most directly represents a reaction to...

the rapid industrialization of the United States

The argument excerpted above shows the influence of all of the following EXCEPT

the temperance movement

Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?

they criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism

Why did several eastern states expand suffrage in the 1810s?

they wanted to discourage westward migration

Which of the following was the primary function of the Second Bank of the United States?

to stabilize the nation's money supply by forcing state banks to convert their paper money periodically into gold and silver coin

In 1845, Texans claimed that their boundary extended...

to the Rio Grande on the south and west

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented

James K. Polk's declaration that American blood had been shed "upon American soil" was his call for...

war with Mexico

In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln...

warned that the nation could not endure as "a house divided against itself," that is, half slave and half free