APUSH Unit IV

Which of the following presidential actions of the first half of the 19th century challenges the main principles behind the previous quote?

Andrew Jackson's veto of the bill that called for the re-charter of the Second Bank of the United States

Which of the following events best illustrated Thomas Jefferson's fear that the issue discussed in the excerpt had come to realization?

Bleeding Kansas

Who of the following would most likely agree with the excerpt written by John L. O'Sullivan?

A white male squatter from Tennessee

Which of the following most directly undermines Calhoun's assertions?

Many slaves engaged in forms of resistance to slavery

The previous excerpt would have been most strongly supported by which group?

New England Federalists in the 1810s

Based on the map, which of the following groups would have most likely objected to the outcome of the events that were established in the compromise of 1820?

Quakers in the Northeast

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support Calhoun's views expressed in the excerpt?

Southern landowners

Which of the following events allowed for an almost immediate realization of the goals of manifest destiny in the 1840s?

The American victory in the Mexican War

According to the excerpt, which of the following has supremacy in American law?

The Constitution

Calhoun's sentiments in his Fort Hill Address led to what major crisis in American History?

The Nullification Crisis in which South Carolina refuted the Tariff of 1832 and threatened the succession

Which of the following environmental factors led to the further development of the growing division between the North and South in the antebellum period?

The fact that a good portion of the new territory in the Mexican Cession was south of the 36-30 parallel

Which of the following was a reason Congress believed it necessary to enact a measure in response to the "Missouri Question" in 1820?

The federal government wanted to maintain the balance of free and slave states

The ideals expressed in the Monroe Doctrine augment the ideals expressed in which of the following previously established American policies?

The statement of "no entangling alliances" expressed in President George Washington's Farewell Address

The event that had occurred by the mid-1840s that might serve as evidence to support Professor Miller's interpretation include all of the following EXCEPT

Thomas Edison installing electric lights at the New York Stock Exchange

Based on the excerpt from John L. O'Sullivan's opinion on manifest destiny, what was the purpose of American expansion?

To expand the ideals of equality and freedom

Calhoun's comment about the "great struggle" was in reference to the

battle between supporters of states' rights versus those who supported federal power

Garrison was an outspoken opponent of

slavery

John C. Calhoun's reference to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions embodies his belief of

states' rights

To make the argument that the opening of the Erie Canal was one of the important events of the 1820s that helped transform American society, historians such as Professor Miller might point to

the rise of New York City to become America's largest city and busiest port

The idea that American politics as well as American society had entered the modern era by the mid-1840s seems plausible when one recognizes that by that time

two well-organized political parties had been formed, able to compete with each other in elections in every section of the country

The abolitionist movement

was generally unpopular throughout the United States prior to the Civil War

Based on the information in the map, which of the following best describes the circumstances of events in the early 19th century?

The United States was attempting to maintain a balance between free and slave states

Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best describes the change in American foreign policy in 1823?

The United States would consider any attempt of European interference in the Western Hemisphere as unfriendly toward the United States

Which of the following divisive issues is Thomas Jefferson warning the reader about in the above excerpt?

The destruction of the US bank

The establishment of the Monroe Doctrine was a reaction to which of the following events?

The intention of the European powers to reclaim Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere

In the 1840s and 1850s, the views expressed by Calhoun most directly contributed to

increased sectional divisions between the North and the South

One of the "basic changes that set modern America off from its premodern past that was clearly apparent by the 1830s was the

proliferation of large, mechanized textile factories such as those constructed in Lowell, Massachusetts

The goal of the American Colonization Society was to

relocate free blacks to Africa