APUSH

The majority of white families in the south owned..

no slaves.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the "burned-over district" because...

of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening.

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the..

passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act.

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slaver power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s except..

passage of the Wilmot Proviso.

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that..

political participation by the common man should be increased.

The southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry.

The National Road was contstructed for the purpose of..

promoting trade and communication with the old northwest.

The KKK formed during reconstruction with the purpose of..

keeping African Americans from exercising rights.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the government could not..

levy taxes.

Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons except...

most white families owned slaves.

Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by

Irish immigrants.

The following is true of the case of Marbury v. Madison...

It affirmed the principle of judicial review.

THe first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in..

Kansas.

The Supreme's Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

Missouri Compromise.

"Let Southern oppression tremble..."

William L. Garrison

The American transcendentalists may best be characterized as...

a group of Northern intellectuals who shared a belief in the value of human intuition and the presence of divinity in nature.

The Federalist papers challenged the conventional political wisdom of the eighteen century when they asserted that..

a large republic offered the best protection of minority rights.

Thomas Jefferson believed all of the following except..

a strong national government is essential to keep order in the United States.

The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of "separate-spheres" encouraged all of the following except..

accepting women as intellectual equals of men.

Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's administration because it

allowed the US to use the port of New Orleans.

The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it..

closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery.

Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs except..

commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.

Shay's Rebellion frightened many Americans when..

debt-ridden farmers attacked courts in western Massachusetts.

The constitutional convention of 1787 did all of the following except...

determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights.

The key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was to..

develop a national economy by improving transportation.

The Northern Ordinance..

established the terms for settlement and admission of new states.

Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as..

faith in the human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will.

Alexander Hamilton's domestic and foreign policies were directed primarily toward strengthening the federal government by..

favoring the interests of the propertied and monied classes.

Rapid Rail construction after the Civil War was possible because..

federal and state governments provided important incentives.

The following did not contribute to the decline of open range cattle ranching at the end of the nineteenth century..

federal recognition of American Indian land claims.

The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was passed to..

force Native Americans to adopt Western culture and farming practices.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry..

increased southern fears of northern hostility.

The Embargo Act of 1807 had the following effect on the US..

it disrupted American shipping.

All of the following accurately describe Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France except...

it ended the threat of Amerindian raids on western settlements.

The following statement was not true of the COnfederacy during the Civil War..

it was plagued by large slave uprisings.

The "Three Fifths Compromise originally contained in the constitution referred to the...

rate at which one slave counted toward congressional representation.

What was the main focus of the Ghost Dance movement?

restoring the traditional way of life to Native Americans and repelling white settlement.

The Republican Party of the 1850's took the following position on slavery..

slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories of new states.

During the period of Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to..

southern white who supported Radical Republicans.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, the Harftord Convention,etc... involved a defense of...

state's rights.

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century most women reformers were active in the cause of..

temperance.

The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the US in 1834 was..

the expansion of credit by state banks and speculation.

The following statement describes a provision of the 1867 Reconstruction Act..

the law divided the south into districts run by the union military.

The Wilmost Proviso specifically provided for

the prohibition of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory.

THe following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830..

turnpikes and canals.

President Monroe articulated the Monroe DOctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to

warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere.

Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis argued that America's frontier..

was a fundamental factor in American government and individualism.

The primary intention of the Adams administration in enforcing the Sedition Act..

was to intimidate critics of Adams' foreign policy toward France and England.

After the Revolution, the concept of the "republican mother" suggested that...

women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their sons, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic.

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

young unmarried women from rural New England.