APUSH Chapter 5 Quizzes

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Who would most likely have said "... children should be children as long as they can."

A mid-19th century educational reformer

Which of the following best describes the "Lowell System" of early 19-century New England?

A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing

How was the question of the Oregon boundary eventually resolved between the United States and Britain?

Britain peacefully settled for the proposed line of 49 degrees latitude.

Saw more than 100,000 conversions, many in the "Burned-Over District" of New York

Charles Finney

Penned "Civil Disobedience" and revered nature

Henry David Thoreau

Called for statewide school systems, teachers', colleges and a 6-months school year.

Horace Mann

All of the following states contained lands gained by the United States in the Mexican War EXCEPT

Idaho

Which country supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the 19th century?

Ireland

The "Know-Nothing Party" was created in opposition to

Irish and German immigrants

Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?

It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and early 1830s

What distinguished William Henry Harrison's presidency?

It was the shortest presidency in American history

Founded the Mormon faith based on a vision from the angel Moroni

Joseph Smith

Which of the following would most likely have expressed opposition to the idea of Manifest Destiny?

Members of the Whig Party in Congress during the Mexican War

Which of the following movements originated in the United States?

Mormonism

Began the Shaker movement, which believed in celibacy and communal property

Mother Ann Lee

Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, reliance, dissent, and nonconformity?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wrote of self-reliance and the sacredness of nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Began the perfectionist community of New Harmony to try to transition to cooperative ownership

Robert Owen

What did the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 do?

Settled a boundary dispute between Maine and Quebec

The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it

Strengthened the ties between eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

The Whigs of the 1830s and 1840s are different from the Jacksonian Democrats in that the Whigs

Supported Henry Clay's American System

All of the following were part of the settlement in the Mexican War EXCEPT

The U.S. seized Mexico City and forced Mexico to pay war debts.

All of the following are true about Irish immigrants EXCEPT

They primarily settled in the rural areas of the Midwest

Steamboats allowed for transportation both directions on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, increasing trade.

True

The Mormons had to flee to Illinois and later to Utah because of persecution due to their ideas and practices.

True

All of the following conditions influenced the development of American agriculture during the first half of the 19th century EXCEPT

a widespread interest in conserving natural resources

In the pre-Civil War era, the railroad's most important impact on the economy was the

accessibility to Eastern urban markets provided to Midwestern farmers

The "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" at the Seneca Falls convention demanded

greater rights for women

All of the following were features of John Tyler's presidency EXCEPT

he was reelected in 1844 by a wide margin

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

introduction of interchangeable parts

The establishment of New Harmony, Brook Farm and the Oneida Community in the antebellum United States reflected

the blossoming of perfectionist aspirations

Manifest Destiny is best described as

the notion that America was ordained by God to spread to the Pacific Ocean

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

young unmarried women from rural New England


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