APUSH Ch 13, 14, & 15

The nullification crisis in South Carolina ultimately ended when

A compromise tariff was passed the enabled South Carolina to save face

The American Transcendentalists may best be characterized as which of the following

A group of Northern writers who believed that every person possesses an inner light

The Know Nothing were

A nativist movement in the mid nineteenth century

All of the following conditions influenced the development of American agriculture during the first half of the nineteenth century EXCEPT

A widespread interest in conserving soil and natural resources

The reformer Dorothea Dix is best known for

Championing the mentally ill

President Jackson resisted the Admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because they

Feared that debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery

Who is considered the "father of American History?"

George Bancroft

The "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" issued by the Seneca Falls Convention demanded

Greater rights for women

19th century school of art featuring landscape paintings was

Hudson River

The majority of Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s settled

In cities along the east coast

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

Introduction of interchangeable parts

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

Irish and German Catholic immigrants

During the 1840s and 1850s, which set of immigrant groups arrived in unprecedented numbers, resulting in a nativist backlash in popular culture?

Irish and Germans

Which statement best describes the state of American art and literature in early 1800s

It blended European styles with regional American tastes

Which of the following statements best describes the Lowell system?

It involved using mill girls from rural areas to work in textile factories

Washington Irving and his works such as Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the best representative of which literary school?

Knickerbocker

The Indian Removal Act of 1830

Led to the infamous Trail of Tears

Each of the following was a communal attempt at achieving human harmony while living together in a utopian community EXCEPT

New Jeruselum

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

Of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

Political participation by common man should increase

Which of the following transportation systems opened up the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830

Railroads and steamboats

Which of the following movements, glorifying women's role as homemakers, resulted in part from the increasing separation between home and the workplace brought on by industrialization?

The Cult of Domesticity

Which of the following early American political parties most vocally championed the "common man," welcomed immigrants, and benefited from the expansion of voting rights to most white males?

The Democrats

Which of the following connected the Great Lakes to the East Coast and fueled the economic rise of New York City?

The Erie Canal

Antebellum era reform movements such as abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights had their origins in all of the following EXCEPT

The Monroe Doctrine

The most divisive issue in regards to western expansion during the antebellum era was

The extension of slavery

Which of the following was NOT a result of antebellum technological innovations such as textile machinery, the steam engine, the telegraph, and the use of interchangeable parts?

The heightened isolation of rural Americans

Which of the following developments LEAST strengthened the increasing economic linkage of the North and the Midwest during the antebellum era?

The spread of plantation agriculture

What did the Hartford Convention, the nullification crisis, and some Marshall Court decisions all have in common?

They illustrated attempts by the federal government to assert greater control over the states and the resistance those attempts created

All the following are true of the Tariff of 1828 EXCEPT it

Was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

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

Women suffrage