AP US History Midterm

Which of the following would have been most likely to support the presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan in 1896?

A) A Kansas farmer

Which of the following describes the Lowell system in early nineteenth century New England?

A) A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities

Which of the following did not contribute to the United States decision to declare war against Great Britain in 1812?

A) American military and economic preparedness for war

Which of the following statements about American cities between 1890 and 1930 are correct

A) Area of residence increasingly became an indicator of social class

The Norths advantages over the South in the Civil War included all EXCEPT:

A) Greater agreement over war arms

Seneca Falls Convention demanded

A) Greater rights for women

In part, President Lincoln refrained from taking action to emancipate slaves until the Civil War had been in progress for almost two years because

A) He sought to retain loyalty of the border states

Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

A) It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.

Deists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries believed that

A) Natural laws, set by the Creator, govern the operation of the universe

The Hartford Convention was a manifestation of

A) New England Federalist opposition to the War of 1812

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 to 1863 was:

A) Possible British recognition of the Confederacy

The Kansas-Nebraska Act heightened the sectional crisis because it:

A) Repealed the Missouri Compromise

The direct impact of the Civil War on the economy included all of the following except:

A) The emergence of the trust as a form of business organization.

Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth & early 20th centuries?

A) They included large numbers of middle-class, college educated women

WHich of the following best characterizes the response of Great Britain and France to the American Civil War

A) They saw advantages in a divided Union but pursued cautious policies toward each side.

Which of the following had integration rather than Black separtism as a goal

A) WEB Du Bois and the Niagara movement

In the early 1830's the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were

A) Young unmarried women from rural New England

The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

A) assimilate American Indians into the mainstream American culture

The horizontal integration of American industry was primarily response to

A) economic competition

In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney's major contribution to American technology was his:

A) introduction of interchangeable parts

The era from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of WW1 was characterized by

A) periodic economic panic and depression

The Reconstruction Acts go 1867 provided for

A) temporary Union military supervision of the ex-Confederacy

Why did immigration decline from 1882-1900?

B) Congressional legislation

Most Southern families owned slaves

B) False

Which of the following was the most persistent throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

B) Inadequate water and sewer systems

The hostility of the Know-Nothing party was directed primarily against

B) Irish and German Catholic immigrants

Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico towards Texas?

B) It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's

Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to

B) Provide a port to allow an outlet for Western crops

The theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of:

B) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspirations, self-reliance, dissent and nonconformity

B) Ralph Waldo Emerson

The public's response to Upton Sinclairs novel the Jungle helped bring about

B) The Pure Food and Drug Act

Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"

B) The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

All of the following statements about higher education in the United States from 1865 to 1917 are correct EXCEPT

B) The teaching of religion became increasingly important at major northeastern institutions

All of the following conditions influenced the development of American agriculture during the first half of the 19th century except:

B) a widespread interest in conserving soil and natural resources

The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it:

B) strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following except

B) the right of nullification

70% of atlantic cities where white

C) 1850

The second Sioux War was caused by all of the following except:

C) A concentrated effort on the part of the major Protestant denominations to convert the Sioux to Christianity

The principal foreign policy issue confounding the Wilson administration between the outbreak of WW 1 and US entering the war in 1917?

C) Freedom of the seas

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century

C) Ireland

Which of the following statements of the Monroe Doctrine is accurate:

C) It stressed that Europe and the Western Hemisphere had essentially different political systems

Which of the following best accounts for the fact that Slavic immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries settled principally in midwestern cities like Pittsburg, Detroit and Chicago?

C) Midwestern steel, meatpacking, and other mass production industries offered many unskilled jobs

Henry Clay's American system called for all of the following except:

C) Sale of federal lands to finance higher education

Which of the following resulted from the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?

C) The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency, increased

An important consequence of the tariffof abronations is that it led to:

C) enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

Madison v Marbury is famous for

C) judicial review

All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures EXCEPT the

C) massive exodus of former slaves from the South

Which of the following would most likely have said "children should be children as long as they can"

C) mid 19th century educational reformer

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

C) preserve the Union

Marbury v Madison affirmed the Supreme Courts

C) right to determine the constitutionality of congressional enactments

The establishment of Brook Farm and the Oneida Community in the antebellum United States reflects

C) the blossoming of perfectlonistic aspirations

All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the late nineteenth century except that it:

C) was financed by private corporations without government assistance

Helen Hunt Jackson's: A Century of Dishonor was significant because it aroused public awareness of the:

C) wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on the Indians

Canal era

D) 1820-1850

Which of the following provided sources of revenue for the federal government in the period from 1800 to 1860

D) 3 & 4

The nullification controversy of 1832/1833 was significant because

D) Enhanced Andrew Jacksons reputation as a strong President

In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had:

D) Fewer European immigrants

Which of the following statements about the American system is correct

D) It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency

American people dealing with the West is part of democracy

D) Jacksonian Democracy

Which of the following would most likely have expressed opposition to the idea of Manifest Destiny?

D) Members of the Whig party in Congress during the Mexican War

The black codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to:

D) Place limits on socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

Which of the following moved the greatest numbers into Appalacia as the American Indians of the region were defeated?

D) Sotch-Irish, German, and English immigrants

Why did the Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

D) The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election

Of the following, which was the most important cause of agrarian discontent in the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

D) The feeling that the railroads were exploiting farmers

The election of 1800 has been referred to as constituting another revolution because:

D) The party in power stepped down after the loss of the election

In the late 19th century controversy over the social and religious implications of Darwinism theory, all of the following popular beliefs were felt to be threatened by Darwin except

D) Uniqueness of man in nature

A proposal for the uncompensated emancipation of American slaves was advanced by

D) William Lloyd Garrison in the Liberator i 1831

All of the following were considered legitimate functions of the federal government in the late 19th century except

D) assuring the welfare of the poor and unemployed

During the last decade of the nineteenth century, the primary use of the Sherman Act was to

D) curb labor unions

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States in the first quarter of the 19th century

D) invention of the cotton gin

An important reason for the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine was to

D) protect republican institutions of governments in the Western Hempisphere

When Thomas Jefferson said in 1801 "We are all republicans-we are all federalists" he meant that

D) the principles of American government were above party politics

The farmers protest movement lost momentum at the end of the 1890's for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

E) Absorption of the populists by the AFL

Of the following which was the principal issue on which the United States sought settlement with Great Britain at the outset of the War of 1812?

E) An end to impressment

The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following

E) Asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy

Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the 19th century

E) Cities built sewers and supplied purified water

In the late nineteenth century United States farmers sought federal relief from distress caused by:

E) Discriminatory freight rates

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the new immigrants of the late 19th century except that the immigants

E) Dominated the professors of law, medicine and engineering

A major reason why Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing Louisiana from France was that he:

E) Hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available to future generations

Joseph Pulitzer achieved fame and wealth as a:

E) Newspaper publisher

Which of the following most likely increased Mexican suspicious of United States territorial objectives in the 1830's and 40's

E) Rhetoric on manifest destiny in the American press

In the late nineteenth century, all of the following encouraged American jingoism Except:

E) Social Darwinism

Which of the following statements is true about immigration to the United States during the last 2 decades of the 19th century?

E) Southerners and Eastern Europeans came in larger numbers than earlier in the century

When the emancipation proclomation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

E) Strengthen the moral cause of the Union

The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

E) The natural population increase of American born slaves

All of the following were reasons for the failure of the People's (Populist) party except:

E) The prosperity of the early 1890's undermined popular support for Populist economic reforms

President Jackson's Indian policy resulted in which of the following?

E) The removal of the Cherokee from the Southeast to settlements across the Mississippi

Which of the following statements best describes the clothing, industry in the late 19th century

E) The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?

E) The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following is correct about the tariffs passed during the 1816-1828 period?

E) They were the first tariff who's major focus was protection

During Reconstruction, Southern Blacks typically did which of the following.

E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers

The call for the immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves is associated with the position of:

E) William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

E) able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

Which of the following was true of the American labor movement in the late nineteenth century?

E) it was involved in a major of violent strikes

The open door policy of the early 20th century called for

E) open access to China for American investments and commercial interests

All of the following elements of the Radical Republicans program were implemented during Reconstruction EXCEPT

Provisions of 40 acres to each freedman

Republican party view on slavery in 1860

Slavery should not be expanded but should be protected where it already is present