APUSH final Per 3-4
In a famous 1837 speech, South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun defended slavery as a
"positive good."
The shaded area of the map above represents American territorial expansion in which of the following decades?
1800s
The Alien and Sedition Acts did all of the following EXCEPT
ease popular fears of an imminent war with France by quieting public criticism and opening direct negotiations with the French government.
Courtesy, Winterthur Museum. Women's status during the late 1700s changed as they
gained new standing in American political culture.
Which of the following issues best reflected Jackson's abuses of executive power?
his refusal to uphold certain Supreme Court rulings
The majority of Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s settled
in cities along the east coast.
One impact of the widespread cultivation of cotton and other cash crops in the South was the
increased political power the South was able to wield in Congress.
Which of the following set of historical events is in the correct chronological order?
Stamp Act, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
Which of the following was NOT a provision of Hamilton's financial plan?
Taxing the states to pay off the war debt
Which person or group most strongly advocated sending enslaved blacks to Africa as an answer to the problem of slavery?
The American Colonization Society
Antebellum era reform movements such as abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights had their origins in all of the following EXCEPT
the Monroe Doctrine.
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 is NOT correctly identified?
The Declaratory Act—reasserted the supremacy of the British king over the colonies
Which of the following early American political parties most vocally championed the "common man," welcomed immigrants, and benefitted from the expansion of voting rights to most white males?
The Democrats
U.S. Roads and Canals, 1837 Nancy A. Hewitt and Steven F. Lawson, Exploring American Histories, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 266. Reprinted by permission. As shown in the map above, the national system of roads and canals most closely linked which regions' economies together?
The East and the Midwest
Ograbme, 1807 What is the author's point of view with the above 1807 cartoon?
The Embargo Act created a dissention among federalist against Jefferson's policy.
Which of the following connected the Great Lakes to the East Coast and fueled the economic rise of New York City?
The Erie Canal
We Owe Allegiance to No Crown, John Woodside, c. 1814 Picture Research Consultants & Archives The painting above is best understood in the context of
the emergence of a new national culture.
The most divisive issue in regards to western expansion during the antebellum era was
the extension of slavery.
Library of Congress The American independence movement was least fueled by
the fear of attack from other European powers.
Ograbme, 1807 The main idea shown in the cartoon directly relates to which of the following events?
Embargo Act
U.S. Roads and Canals, 1837 Nancy A. Hewitt and Steven F. Lawson, Exploring American Histories, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 266. Reprinted by permission. The opening of canals and new roads in the United States, as depicted in the map above, had the LEAST impact on which of the following?
European immigration to the United States
Who was the famous black abolitionist who wrote an autobiography of his/her former life as a slave?
Frederick Douglass
Which of the following contributed the LEAST to the growing colonial sentiment toward independence in the 1770s?
Frustration over the British government's refusal to send troops to protect the colonies from Indian attacks
All three maps together best suggest what trend?
Growth of canals resulted in increased migration of people westward.
Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers is correctly matched?
John Locke—natural rights
In the 1790s, the United States successfully negotiated free navigation of the Mississippi River with
Spain
Photograph Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA How can the developments represented in the above illustrations best be viewed as a turning point in U.S. social and economic history?
A shift from the self-sustaining economic family unit to income-earning outside of the home or family sphere began to occur.
Who famously admonished her husband to "remember the ladies"?
Abigail Adams
Andrew Jackson's expansion of the Executive branch of government most closely resembles which of the following presidencies?
Abraham Lincoln
As reflected in the map, what was the most pressing concern for the United States, which led to the Louisiana Purchase?
Access down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans
Which of the following treaties is correctly matched with its description?
Adams-Onis Treaty—acquired Florida from Spain
"The Bloody Massacre in King Street, March 5, 1770." Boston, 1770. The perspective of which of the following groups is best represented in the image?
American colonists
This image came about most directly as a result of
Andrew Jackson's correspondence with the King of England.
Ograbme, 1807 Which of the following resulted from the regional political and economical loyalties, which overshadowed national concerns from 1807-1814?
Hartford Convention
"The Bloody Massacre in King Street, March 5, 1770." Boston, 1770. Which of the following did NOT contribute to events depicted in the image?
Britain's continued participation in the slave trade
Library of Congress Which of the following turning points set the stage for the controversy depicted in the cartoon above?
Britain's victory over France in North America
Which of the following best describes the relationship between the trends depicted by the three maps together?
Canals helped open the market economy to the westward lands, promoting migration to those lands.
What recurring issue would accompany white expansion westward beyond the Mississippi River, as could be predicted based on evidence shown in the map?
Conflicts with Native Americans and ceding of land by Native Americans.
Which of the following was NOT an example of Manifest Destiny?
Demilitarizing the Great Lakes
Ograbme, 1807 Which of the following groups would have been least likely to support the authors views expressed in the cartoon?
Democratic-Republicans
The painting above illustrates Andrew Jackson's Native American policy that was expressed in the
Indian Removal Act
In which area did the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans most agree?
Indian policy
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 the early 1800s?
It blended European styles with regional American tastes.
Which of the following best describes "republican motherhood"?
It encouraged women to instill virtue and civic values into their sons.
Which of the following was an outcome of the American Revolution?
It inspired a number of other independence movements.
Which of the following statements best describes the Lowell system?
It involved using mill girls from rural areas to work in textile factories.
Which of the following was NOT true about the 1820 Missouri Compromise?
It successfully kept the issue of slavery from becoming a national debate until just a few years before the Civil War.
Which of the following best describes the Monroe Doctrine?
It was an American pronouncement to European countries not to interfere with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
What was the rationale of the U.S. government for the particular geographic borders of the reservations for the Southeastern tribes represented in the above map?
It was thought the land was undesirable, bordering inhabitable land, such that white settlers would not want to encroach into the area.
Photograph Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA How did the industrial developments represented in the above illustrations affect U.S. regionalism during the antebellum period?
It worsened sectional tensions by creating different regional economic preferences.
Which of the following is properly matched?
Jay's Treaty—the British promised to abandon their forts in the Northwest, which averted a possible war with England
Which of the following Supreme Court cases is correctly identified?
Marbury v. Madison—established the principle of judicial review
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibiting colonial migration west of the Appalachian Mountains resulted from all of the following EXCEPT . . .
Parliament's decision to punish the colonies for their refusal to pay taxes.
The government removal policies in the 1830s in relation to the tribal lands shown in the above map were most directly due to which of the following causes?
Regional development in the New South for growing cash crops, particularly, short-staple cotton.
Which of the following groups of immigrants heavily settled along the western frontier of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia and later led the Paxton and Regulator uprisings?
Scots-Irish immigrants
Which of the following exposed the inability of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation to put down civil unrest and prompted calls for a new, stronger central government?
Shays' Rebellion
1796 Presidential Election Map 1800 Presidential Election Map Henretta et al., America's History, Seventh Edition, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 211. Reprinted by permission. During the 1790s, disagreements in which area were LEAST responsible for the emergence of political parties?
Slavery
After ratification, constitutional compromises remained the most controversial in which area?
Slavery
Which of the following was an argument proffered by some Americans against removal of the tribes shown in the above map?
Some of them had adopted white American ways.
Which of the following compromises at the constitutional convention was LEAST likely the result of regional and sectional differences in the United States?
The Executive Elections Compromise, which created an indirect election of the president through the Electoral College.
Advocates for individuals such as those shown in the image would have most likely agreed with which of the following perspectives
The Supreme Court decision Worcester v Georgia
Which of the following best describes the outcome of the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
The U.S. Army won a decisive victory, effectively ending Indian resistance in the Northwest Territory for almost 20 years.
Which of the following correctly characterizes the War of 1812?
The United States was able to reassert sovereignty over its existing western lands and remove Britain's military presence.
Ograbme, 1807 The Hartford Convention laid out what ideology that was later used in the mid-1800's?
The ability to succeed from the Union
The maps best suggest which regarding the nature of the relationship between the East and the Old Northwest (mid-western states) by the mid-1800s?
The building of the canals and resulting migration patterns forged strong ties of interdependence between the Northeast and the Old Northwest.
The XYZ Affair, Sedition Act, and Convention of 1800
demonstrated the challenges America faced as result of the French Revolution and the spread of its ideals.
The main trend shown in the illustration was most directly associated with which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time
The displacement of American Indians from the Southeast
In which of the following areas were political debates LEAST affected by regional and sectional differences in the first half of the 19th century?
The expansion of white male suffrage
Map of Slave Populations in 1820 and 1860 Nancy A. Hewitt and Steven F. Lawson, Exploring American Histories, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 298. Reprinted by permission. The maps above most clearly demonstrate which of the following antebellum-era historical processes?
The free and forced migration of peoples across the continent
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 most clearly contributed to the growing regional differences over the issue of slavery in the late 1700s?
The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, which greatly increased the profitability of cotton growing.
Map of Slave Populations in 1820 and 1860 Nancy A. Hewitt and Steven F. Lawson, Exploring American Histories, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 298. Reprinted by permission. What contributed most to the process illustrated in the maps above?
The overcultivation of arable land in the Southeast
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
U.S. Roads and Canals, 1837 Nancy A. Hewitt and Steven F. Lawson, Exploring American Histories, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 266. Reprinted by permission. The expansion of the U.S. transportation network by 1837, as shown in the map above, benefitted MOST from which of the following technological advances?
The steam engine
American Indians, women, and religious followers had which of the following in common during the antebellum era?
They developed unique cultures reflecting their interests and experiences.
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.
Which of the following was a primary reason why Indian tribes attempted to form advantageous alliances with other tribes and European countries during the mid- and late 1700s?
They wanted to limit the movement of white settlers.
What did the forced relocation of American Indians and the internal slave trade both have in common?
They were driven by efforts to exploit the nation's natural resources.
In the decades before the American Revolution, the English colonial westward movement . . .
disrupted the existing French-Indian fur trade.
The image above most directly reflected the view of Andrew Jackson by which following groups?
Whigs and National Republicans
Which of the following court cases is best matched with the map above?
Worchester vs. Georgia
Photograph Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Which of the following best describes how the system represented in the above illustrations most directly affected women in the early 1800s?
Young women worked outside the home in larger numbers than ever before.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was
a widely read criticism of continued British rule of the colonies.
The growth and profitability of Southern cotton did all of the following EXCEPT
catapult the wealth of the average Southern white above most Northerners.
This cartoon was intended to
comment on the perceived tyranny of Andrew Jackson.
The increase of slavery in the new Southwest during the antebellum era
created new tensions over the spread of slavery.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
led to the infamous Trail of Tears.
The march of the Paxton Boys demonstrated
many western settlers' desire for Indian lands.
Despite England's superior military, industrialized economy, and larger population, the colonists were ultimately able to succeed in their war for independence because they possessed all of the following EXCEPT. . .
overwhelming popular support.
The Articles of Confederation suffered from all of the following weaknesses EXCEPT
prohibiting amendments to the original articles.
1796 Presidential Election Map 1800 Presidential Election Map Henretta et al., America's History, Seventh Edition, Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 211. Reprinted by permission. The maps above are best seen as evidence of the
regional basis of early American political parties.
Opposition to the proposed American System of internal improvements was a result of
regional interests overriding national concerns.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, considered by many to be the greatest success of the Articles of Confederation Congress apart from the Declaration of Independence, did all of the following EXCEPT
set aside large reservations for Indian tribes in the area, guaranteeing a generation of mostly peaceful relations with American Indians.
During the second half of the 1700s, the Spanish
settlements provided for significant cultural blending.
Library of Congress The image above can best be seen as depicting
the British government constraining colonial rights.
All of the following contributed to the ratification of the Constitution EXCEPT
the unanimous support of all of the major patriot leaders and founding fathers.
All the following are true of the Tariff of 1828 EXCEPT it
was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.