Period 4 APUSH test

Which phrase by Burleigh best addresses the motives of the largest number of immigrants coming to the United States during the years from 1816 to 1848?

"a good pay for labor"

Treaty of Ghent

Ended the War of 1812, nothing really changed

Marbury vs. Madison

Established judicial review

Embargo act

Jefferson tries to stop the British and French from empress our sailors but it doesn't work

Givens vs. Ogden

Strengthens federal power and interstate commerce (GO on the interstate)

President Jackson's veto of the Bank bill would contribute most significantly to

a financial panic

Monroe Doctrine

- European Nations cannot colonize the Western Hemisphere (when a country becomes independent you cannot get it) and the US cannot interfere with Europe, **goes against Washinton's farewell address - America is the protector of all the new nations in the western hemisphere

Missouri Compromise terms

- Missouri can become a slave state - Maine becomes a free state - 36 30 line (slavery line): slavery can exist below the line but not above

Nullification Crisis

- South carolina nullifies the Tariff of Abominations, high tariff of wool and steel (hurts the south's economy) - VP John C. Chalhon leads the crisis and will threaten secession - Battle between south carolina and america

Which of the following most directly contributed to the development described in the excerpt?

A belief by southern businessmen that the southern economy should focus on the export of select agricultural products

Which of the following can be concluded about the United States based on the author's descriptions in the excerpt?

A common national culture was developing.

In the first half of the 1800s, which of the following resulted from the debates about the cotton economy described in the excerpt?

A distinct Southern economic and cultural identity emerged.

Changes in ideas about men's and women's gender roles in the family, resulting from the market revolution, most directly contributed to which of the following shifts in American social practices during the same period?

A new emphasis on the separation between the public and private spheres

Support for the bill would have been consistent with support for which of the following?

American System

Which of the following reinforced the message that Burleigh was sending people who wanted to move to America?

American System

Innovations in shipping and the growth of commercial networks were most directly related to which of the following other developments of the first half of the nineteenth century?

An increase in the number of Americans moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

Which of the following claims is supported by the author's main argument in the excerpt?

Andrew Jackson can be blamed for the unintended effects of Indian removal.

Compromise of 1833`

Andrew Jackson urged Congress to pass the Force Bill which forces the tariff by using the Military Henry Clay comes to compromise

Monroe counted on which of the following European nations to be an ally if any nation challenged the Monroe Doctrine?

Britain, because it opposed the strengthening of its European rivals

The Second Great Awakening was most directly related to which of the following other historical developments of the early nineteenth century?

Challenges to Enlightenment views of rationalism

Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the third paragraph of the excerpt that enslaved people engaged in oppositional activities?

Enslaved African Americans routinely caused tools to break or worked more slowly as means of resistance.

Which of the following can be concluded about the relationship between the United States and Europe based on the situation described in the excerpt?

European styles continued to influence American society.

Who of the following provided the strongest influence on President Monroe in the writing of the Monroe Doctrine?

George Washington

Which of the following best describes Jefferson's point of view about government as expressed in the excerpt?

Government should limit interference in the lives of its citizens.

Which of the following individuals would be most critical of Van Buren's economic policy as presented in this excerpt?

Henry Clay

Market revolution

Henry Clay creates American System first industrial revolution

Monroe's government

Increasing the power of the national government over the states

Which of the following pieces of evidence would help modify an argument in the excerpt about President Jackson's intentions toward American Indians?

Jackson had led United States armies that conquered American Indian peoples in the Southeast and forced land cessions.

Indian Removal Act

Jackson said it was protection for the Indians west of the Mississippi, Georgia is trying to get Indians out

Bank War

Jackson wanted to get rid of the national bank and vetoed the bank's charter, Hired and fired 4 treasury secretaries and gets them to make the revenue go to the "pet banks" (takes money from federal bank and put them in the state banks), makes the federal banks go bankrupt which causes the worst recession we've seen

Which of the following is or are most similar to the statement in the excerpt?

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

The growth of manufacturing in the United States from 1800 to 1850 was most directly connected to which of the following broader historical processes?

Large numbers of international migrants moving to northern cities

Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to modify the argument in the excerpt that many enslaved people engaged in oppositional activities?

Large-scale rebellions by enslaved African Americans in the first half of the 1800s were largely unsuccessful.

Which of the following describes a context that most influenced the implementation of the government policy discussed in the excerpt?

Many Americans desired the United States to expand its western land claims.

Which of the following is a piece of evidence used by Howe to support his claim in the third paragraph of the excerpt about religious organizations in the early nineteenth century?

Members of the Evangelical United Front employed more people than the Post Office did.

Missouri Compromise

Missouri wants to become a slave state which upsets the balance in the Senate, Henry Clay negotiated the compromise

Which best explains why the American people were so supportive of the Monroe Doctrine

Nationalism

Which of the following best describes the context from which the ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged?

Political leaders sought to encourage domestic economic development.

Which of the following pieces of evidence would best refute Jackson's claim about his predecessors' policies toward American Indians, as described in the first paragraph of the excerpt?

President George Washington enforced treaties guaranteeing American Indians in New York rights to their land.

The claims in the excerpt were most likely interpreted as opposing which of the following existing federal government policies at the time?

Promoting economic development through foreign trade

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves through virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families

Which of the following best explains how the purpose of the speech in the excerpt was interpreted by federal officials?

Red Jacket sought to protect Iroquois independence from the United States.

Which of the following most directly led to the expansion of participatory democracy in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Reduction of property ownership requirements for voting

Corrupt Bargain

Refers to the presidential election of 1824 in which Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, convinced the House of Representatives to elect Adams rather than Jackson.

Which of the following does the author use as evidence to support her argument that slaveholders were "keen to master their slaves' senses of pleasure"?

Slaveholders held parties to encourage the loyalty of the enslaved.

Which of the following best describes a historian's likely interpretation of the situation in which the excerpt was produced in the early 1800s?

Some Americans promoted international strength through a unified national economy.

Which of the following resulted from the mass production of cotton described in the excerpt?

Some southerners relocated their plantations to the west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Which of the following best describes a context in the first half of the 1800s that influenced the development of slavery as described in the excerpt?

Southern planters used enslaved people to produce cotton for international markets.

John Ross

The Cherokee Chief who went to Washington asking for past treaties be honored and his people not to be removed from their land

Which of the following best describes the political situation in which Jefferson gave the address in the excerpt?

The Democratic-Republican Party had won the presidency for the first time.

The excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following developments?

The creation of a unique American culture

The expansion of suffrage to most adult White men in the early nineteenth century most directly resulted in which of the following?

The growth of new political parties

The petition could best be used as evidence by historians studying which of the following?

The ideas that led some Americans to advocate for improved transportation

Which of the following best explains a major reason for the emergence of the Second Great Awakening in the United States?

The rise of individualistic and evangelical spiritual beliefs inspired religious conversion.

Which of the following describes a piece of evidence used by Howe to support his overall argument about the motivations of religious reformers?

They desired to teach people personal autonomy.

Which of the following was most likely a main purpose of Jefferson's inaugural address?

To summarize his beliefs about the ideal political system

Florida Purchase Treaty

Under the Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the U.S., and the U.S. gave up its claims to Texas

Jefferson's call to avoid entangling alliances is similar to advice found in

Washington's Farewell address

Which of the following groups provided the greatest support for Jackson's veto of the Bank?

Westerners

Judiciary Act of 1801 (Midnight Judges Act)

a law that increased the number of federal judges, allowing President John Adams to fill most of the new posts with Federalists

Which of the following was the immediate cause of the publication of the statement in this excerpt?

a new tariff

Gag Rule

a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue, mean to stop any anti-slavery discussion in Congress

The development of which of the following best demonstrates the growing power of the nativist movement in the mid-19th century?

a series of restrictive laws

Webster-Hayne Debate

about the nullification of the tariffs

Monroe's Foreign Policy

all about territory borders (our nation's borders), John Quincy Adams is the Secretary of State

49th Parallel

border dispute, new technology allows for us to put the border on the parallel

The crop that best fits Downing's description as one of "the great staples" in mid 19th century America was?

cotton

The expansion of suffrage to most adult White men by the 1820s and 1830s most directly contributed to the

emergence of political rallies and events to encourage people to vote for particular parties

sectionalism

ends the era of good feelings, disagreements over slavery, taxes, and the role of the federal government

Van Buren believed that the strength of the American economy was based on

farmers and planters

Hartford Convention

federalist came up with a list of demands they want met or they will succeed, demands not met and the federalist party dies

Andrew Jackson

first common man president

Tecumesh believed that which of the following would be the best way for the American Indians to respond to the desire of white settlers for land?

forming a confederacy among all American Indians

The opposition to foreigners is most similar to the view that many had toward which of the following in America at this time?

free African Americans

In the United States, support for the War of 1812 was the strongest from

frontier settlers who wanted land and protection from American Indians

The expansion of participatory democracy in the Jacksonian era most likely influenced the Second Great Awakening by

giving rise to individualistic beliefs

Which of the following describes a policy of Jefferson's that reflects the attitude toward Federalists expressed in this speech?

he showed that party was unimportant by appointing some Federalists to his cabinet

While Calhoun and many other Southerners disagreed with President Jackson's opposition to nullification, they agreed with him on

his opposition to the anti-slavery movement

Which of the following caused the movement described in the excerpt?

immigration

A piece of evidence used by Howe in the second paragraph of the excerpt to support his argument about the goals of prison reform was that prison reformers

intended to use prisons to rehabilitate criminals

In the two decades following Burleigh's comments, the portions of the United States most affected by immigration were the

lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

Trail of Tears

last forced relocation, most have already left on their own (if they left early they got extra money or extra land) over 4,000 died on the way

Tariff of Abominations

law that significantly raised tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods (hurt the south)

President Jackson's guiding principal to check "the injustices of government" was

limited government

Who of the following would be most likely to agree with German's position on the war?

merchants from New England

Specie Circular

no paper currency only hard currency (only silver and gold), paper money leads to inflation, leads to Panic of 1837

The development of commercial farming in the Old Northwest by the time this excerpt was written gave support to

population growth in Eastern cities

spoils system

putting loyal supporters in government jobs who had no idea how to do the job

At the time the petition was produced, Congress most likely interpreted the petition's purpose as

requesting federal funding for transportation construction projects

The excerpt could best be used by historians studying the

resistance against the expansion of United States influence

American System

second national bank, transportation (roads, canals, bridges), and a new protective tariff

judicial review

supreme court has the ability to deem a law unconstitutional

Jefferson's statement "that the minority possesses their equal rights, which equal law must protect" was supported by his actions with regard to

the Alien and Sedition Acts

Based on this excerpt, which of the following would Tecumseh most likely have objected to?

the Louisiana Purchase

McCulloch v. Maryland

the bank is constitutional and Maryland cannot tax the federal government

Which of the following is the best support for German's claim that the United States has "abundant cause for war"?

the impressment of US sailors

Louisiana Purchase

the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.

Era of Good Feelings

time during Monroe's presidency when the country entered a period of national unity

Martin Van Buren

top 5 worst presidents

Based on the voting patterns shown in the chart, support for federal funding for internal improvements was strongest in

undeveloped regions