period 4 test

Which of the following most likely contributed to the emergence of the Second Great Awakening?

The cultural responses to the Enlightenment

Which of the following factors best supports the argument in the excerpt?

The debates over the federal government's proper role had intensified during the early nineteenth century.

The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?

The political debates over economic development

Which of the following best describes a major purpose of the proposed amendment?

To give Congress additional constitutional powers

The American Temperance Society used which of the following evidence in the excerpt to explain why it believed the temperance movement would be successful?

Its supporters held the moral and religious high ground.

Which of the following describes an interpretation of Clay's economic principles at the time as expressed in the excerpt?

The United States should increase domestic manufacturing to promote prosperity.

Which of the following political changes most likely influenced the Second Great Awakening?

A participatory democracy expanded belief in the importance of the individual.

The national identity described in the excerpt most strongly reflects the influence of which of the following?

European precedents along with an American national culture

Which of the following most contributed to slaveholders such as Calhoun arguing in the 1830s and 1840s that slavery should be viewed as part of the Southern way of life?

Slave rebellions in Haiti, South Carolina, and Virginia had made many leaders in the South fear that enslaved African Americans could harm them.

The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments?

The development of regional cultures increasingly defined by the presence of enslaved people

The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?

The emergence of a larger middle class in the North

The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments during the first half of the nineteenth century?

The formation of new political parties

People who shared the views expressed in the excerpt most likely opposed which of the following?

The use of federal government funding for internal improvements

Which of the following of Jackson's policies undermined his position as described in the excerpt?

Using federal power to forcibly relocate American Indian groups

The rhetorical purpose expressed in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following?

Using international commerce to expand United States influence

President Jefferson sought the protections described in the excerpt most likely for the purpose of

establishing trade routes

The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?

The creation of the Monroe Doctrine

Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?

The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.

The historical concept of the American identity, as characterized in the excerpt, was most clearly distinguished from the identities of other nations by the

importance of liberal ideas about natural rights and liberties

Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the excerpt's depiction of reactions to slave rebellions?

Additional restrictions were placed on enslaved and free African Americans.

Which of the following groups would mostly likely have supported this proposed amendment?

Advocates of limiting federal powers to those specifically written into the Constitution

Which of the following evidence did the American Temperance Society in the excerpt use to support its argument about the need for the temperance movement?

Alcohol consumption damaged people's physical and emotional well-being.

Which of the following explains how the growth of a market-based economy in the United States in the early 1800s most directly influenced changes in gender roles?

As home and the workplace became separated, women were increasingly expected to be responsible for housework and childcare while men took jobs outside the home.

The ideas expressed by John C. Calhoun and others who shared his views on slavery had which of the following effects on emerging abolitionist movements in the years leading up to the Civil War?

As many people came to see slavery as part of the Southern way of life, attitudes on both sides of the slavery argument hardened so that political compromise became difficult.

Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?

Changes to property ownership requirements

Which of the following was an interpretation of the speech by opponents of the goals Clay expressed in the excerpt?

Clay's manufacturing plan would benefit one section of the country more than others.

Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?

Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government

The development of the Second Great Awakening can best be linked to which of the following historical situations?

Increased geographical mobility aided travel to new regions and the sharing of ideas.

Which of the following resulted from arguments made by Southern politicians, such as the one in the excerpt, in the years prior to the Civil War?

Slaveholders became more insistent that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.

The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations in the early 1800s?

The emergence of a new and distinctive American culture

The sentiments described in the excerpt best reflect which of the following developments?

The emergence of reform movements during the Second Great Awakening

Which of the following best explains the expansion of participatory democracy in the early nineteenth century?

The extension of suffrage rights to most adult White men

Which of the following best describes the historical situation in which the amendment was proposed?

The federal government sought to acquire more western land in North America.

Which of the following statements would an abolitionist claim supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The immorality of slavery had a widespread corrupting effect on Southern culture.

Which of the following claims best aligns with the evidence in the excerpt about the relationship between enslaved African Americans and White Southern citizens?

The slave system gave poor White citizens the feeling of social superiority over free and enslaved African Americans in a culture where African Americans held little power.

Which of the following evidence was used by the American Temperance Society in the excerpt to explain why people would join the temperance movement?

The use of specific studies would convince people to believe the movement's goals.