APUSH: Unit 4 Progress Check
William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which of the following issues?
Abolition of slavery
Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?
Individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience.
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Most White families owned slaves
The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
Most southern families held slaves.
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?
Northern abolitionists
Which of the following most directly contributed to the change over time depicted on the two maps?
The building of canals and roads
Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution?
The emergence of new forms of transportation
Which of the following statements best characterizes the activists who attended the Seneca Falls Convention?
They called for expanded women's rights.
What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?
To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man
"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit." The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?
Transcendentalism
The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it
closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was to
develop a national economy by improving transportation
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
President Jackson resisted the admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because he
feared that debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery
The map above shows the United States immediately following the
passage of the Missouri Compromise
The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to
prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory
The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of his
previous support for a strict interpretation of the Constitution
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
Henry Clay's "American System" called for all of the following EXCEPT
sale of federal lands to finance higher education
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it
strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
The election of 1800 has been referred to as constituting "another revolution" because
the party in power stepped down after losing the election
When Thomas Jefferson said in 1801, "We are all republicans - we are all federalists," he meant that
the principles of American government were above party politics
One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was
the separation of economic production from the home and family life
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in
urban areas of the North
In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were
young unmarried women from rural New England
Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860 ?
A greater number of men working at home
The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in
Africa by free Black persons and former slaves
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.
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Asserted American independent in the realm of foreign policy.
"Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. . . . We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address, 1801 The excerpt best reflects which of the following?
Conflicts over how the Constitution should be implemented and interpreted
All of the following accurately describe Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France EXCEPT:
It ended the threat of American Indian raids on western settlements.
The Supreme Court established which of the following by its ruling in Marbury v. Madison ?
The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts.
Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?
The transformation of the United States into an industrial society
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 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.
The drawing above has been cited as evidence of the nineteenth-century middle-class view of the
home as a refuge from the world rather than as a productive unit
"Not far from this time Nat Turner's insurrection [a slave rebellion] broke out; and the news threw our town into great commotion. . . . "It was always the custom to have a muster every year. On that occasion every White man shouldered his musket. The citizens and the so-called country gentlemen wore military uniforms. . . . "I knew the houses were to be searched; and I expected it would be done by country bullies and the poor Whites. . . . "It was a grand opportunity for the low Whites, who had no Negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance to exercise a little brief authority, and show their subserviency to the slaveholders; not reflecting that the power which trampled on the colored people also kept themselves in poverty, ignorance, and moral degradation. . . . Colored people and slaves who lived in remote parts of the town suffered in an especial manner. In some cases the searchers scattered [gun]powder and shot among their clothes, and then sent other parties to find them, and bring them forward as proof that they were plotting insurrection." Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, describing events earlier in the nineteenth century 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
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
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 most likely contributed to the emergence of the Second Great Awakening?
The cultural responses to the Enlightenment
"It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, . . . yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. . . . But the principal differences between the people of this country and of all others, arise from different forms of government, different laws, institutions and customs. Thus the . . . feudal system of England originated terms which formed . . . a necessary part of the language of that country; but, in the United States, many of these terms are no part of our present language,—and they cannot be, for the things which they express do not exist in this country. . . . The institutions in this country which are new and peculiar, give rise to new terms or to new applications of old terms, unknown to the people of England; which cannot be explained by them and which will not be inserted in their dictionaries, unless copied from ours. . . . No person in this country will be satisfied with the English definitions of the words congress, senate, and assembly, court, [etc.] for although these are words used in England, yet they are applied in this country to express ideas which they do not express in that country." Noah Webster, "Preface," An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828 The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations in the early 1800s?
The emergence of a new and distinctive American culture
Which of the following resulted from the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?
The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency, increased.
"The creation of a home market is not only necessary to procure for our agriculture a just reward of its labors, but it is indispensable to obtain a supply of our necessary wants. . . . Suppose no actual abandonment of farming, but, what is most likely, a gradual and imperceptible employment of population in the business of manufacturing, instead of being compelled to resort to agriculture. . . . Is any part of our common country likely to be injured by a transfer of the theatre of [manufacturing] for our own consumption from Europe to America? ". . . Suppose it were even true that Great Britain had abolished all restrictions upon trade, and allowed the freest introduction of the [products] of foreign labor, would that prove it unwise for us to adopt the protecting system? The object of protection is the establishment and perfection of the [manufacturing] arts. In England it, has accomplished its purpose, fulfilled its end. . . . The adoption of the restrictive system, on the part of the United States, by excluding the [products] of foreign labor, would extend the [purchasing] of American [products], unable, in the infancy and unprotected state of the arts, to sustain a competition with foreign fabrics. Let our arts breathe under the shade of protection; let them be perfected as they are in England, and [then] we shall be ready . . . to put aside protection, and enter upon the freest exchanges." Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?
The political debates over economic development
Under Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court decisions tended to
promote business enterprise