APUSH CH. 9-11 TEST

33. Which of the following were the key elements of Clay's American system?

a. protective tariff, subsidized internal improvements, and the national bank

3. By the eve of the Civil War, sentiments such as those expressed in excerpt above most clearly formed the basis for

a. the Southern defense of slavery as a positive good

17. In which of the following areas did regional interests and perspective have the LEAST impact on national policy?

d. American Indian policy*

9. Which of the following resulted from the sentiments expressed in the excerpt above?

d. Increasingly bitter national debates over the institution of slavery

20. By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery?

c. steam engines

28. The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?

d. it increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost

16. The excerpt above best exemplifies which of the following historical developments or processes in the first half of American history?

d. resistance from state governments in the North and the South at different times to federal attempts to assert authority over them

5. Which of the following antebellum era historical developments was LEAST likely to have spurred efforts such as those described in the excerpt above?

d. the progress toward a unified new national culture

23. Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?

a. American ingenuity

14. The opening of canals and new roads in the US, as depicted in the map above, had the LEAST impact on which of the following ?

a. European immigration to the US

55. Who was the famous back abolitionist who wrote an autobiography about his/her former life as a slave?

a. Fredrick Douglas

49. Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

a. He attacked the US constitution because it condoned slavery

48. In his 1829 pamphlet, an appeal.. to the colored citizens of the world, Dvid Walker did which of the following?

a. He justified slave rebellion and earned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice was delayed

11. which of the following developments LEAST contributed to the grievances articulated in the petition above?

a. Increased agricultural production resulting from technological inventions

25. The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

a. The market revolution

51. The public movement for women' rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

a. The second great awakening

6. the efforts described in the excerpt above can best be understood in the context of

a. attempts to match the democratic political ideals with social realities

46. The Oneida community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?

a. complex marriage

57. The increase of slavery in the new Southwest during the antebellum era

a. created new tensions over the spread of slavery

36. In 1832, a South Carolina state convention committed which of the following actions

a. declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state

15. The sentiments expressed in the excerpt above most closely parallel those expressed in the political debates

a. during the first national administrations in the 1790s

7. the arguments made in the excerpt above are best understood in the context of

a. the mergence of African American abolitionist movements

26. Why did congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?

a. to link midwestern settlers to the seaboard states

52. what was the purpose of the female moral reform society, which middle class NY women founded in 1834?

a. to provide moral guidance for young working women living away from their families

54. Which person or group most sternly advocated sending enslaved blacks to Africa as an answer to problem of slavery

b. American Colonization Society

38. Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the US in 1832?

b. He thought it interfered with the rights of the states and the liberties of the people

24. Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?

b. Irish immigrants

32. Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-19th-century America?

b. Irish immigrants

47. For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the 19th century even as other social experiments failed?

b. Mormon society hd strong, hierarchal leadership

41. Which of the following laws required the Treasury department to accept only gold and silver in payment purchases of federal land?

b. The Specie Circular

2. The excerpt above was most likely a response to which of the following?

b. The abolitionist criticism of the treatment of slaves in the South

42. President Martin Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 by

b. adopting a hands-off policy, limited government stance

10. The sentiments expressed expressed in the petition above can best be understood in the context of

b. debates over the federal government's role in the economy

53. Horace Mann and Catherine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s

b. educational reform

37. How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina's claimed right of nullification in 1832?

b. he asked congress for a Force Bill authorizing him to use the military to suppress any act of nullification

22. Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?

b. its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories

29. Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the US in the nineteenth century?

b. railroads

30. Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the US in 19th century?

b. railroads

13. As shown in the map above, the national system of roads and canals most closely linked which regions' economics together?

b. the East and Midwest

43. which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

b. the Second Great Awakening

27. How did the appearence of canals and steamboats in the US affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s

b. the canals and steamboats cut in half most travel and communication time

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

b. the cult of domesticity

19. the maps above most clearly demonstrate which of the following antebellum-era historical processes?

b. the free and forced migration of people across the continent

50. What was the gag rule passed by the House of Reps in 1836?

b. the policy automatically labeled and prevented discussion of any anti-slavery petitions received by the house

8. during the antebellum era, which of the following groups shared the most similar experience to that described in the except above?

c. American Indians

1. the author's sentiments in this excerpt can best be understood as

c. An expression of Southern pride in the instituion of slavery

39. the Trail of Tears was the direct consequence of which of the following government actions

c. Indian Removal Act of 1830

45. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individuals mystical union with God and achievement of self-realization ?

c. Spending time alone in nature

21. How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?

c. by passing protective tariffs

35. Andrew Jackson and his supporters won the election in 1828 in part by

c. calling themselves Democrats to portray a more egalitarian image

34. What did the 12th amendment to the constitution specify should be done in an election like the election of 1824, in which no political candidate received a majority of the electoral votes?

c. the House of Representatives decides the outcome

31. Charles Grandison Finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820s by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons?

c. the importance of personal conversion

18. What contributed most to the process illustrated in the maps above?

c. the over cultivation of arable land in the Southeast

12. The expansion of the US transportation network by 1837, as shown in the map above, benefitted MOST from which of the following technological advances?

c. the steam engine

44. the philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

d. Transcendentalism

4. Which of the following best explains why many state governments in the North continued to restrict African American citizenship during the antebellum era?

d. anti-black sentiments persisted in popular politics and culture

40. In the Us supreme court case of Worcester vs Georgia 1832 John Marshal and the court majority issued a decision that

d. upheld Indian natio's political authority in their communities