APUSH MIDTERM 1

The Proclamation of 1763 did which of the following?

Set a boundary along the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the English colonists were forbidden to settle.

The Stono Rebellion and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741 revealed which of the following?

Resistance to slavery

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

Kansas

The map shows the United States as it appeared in

1821

Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?

A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers

Which of the following describes "the Lowell system" in early nineteenth-century New England?

A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities

"In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies."The appeal quoted above was made by

Abigail Adams

In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700's?

All the colonies

The Missouri Compromise did which of the following?

Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state.

. Of the following, which was the principal issue on which the United States sought settlement with Great Britain at the outset of the War of 1812?

An end to impressment

All of the following contributed to discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army EXCEPT:

Most soldiers were draftees.

The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:

Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.

The graph above refutes which of the following statements?

Most southern families held slaves.

In 1787-1789, which of the following groups was most likely to oppose ratification of the Constitution?

Farmers in isolated areas

Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women's rights?

Dorothea Dix

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?

Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia

The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?

Established the United States as the dominant economic power in South America.

The Northwest Ordinances did which of the following?

Established the terms for settlement and admission of new states.

Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?

For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.

President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 was issues in response to

French diplomatic overtures to invoke the Franco-American Alliance

Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?

French military and financial assistance

The goals presented in the excerpt from the act have the most in common with which of the following?

Increases in the federal tariff in the 1820s

The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following goals for England's North American colonies?

Integrating them into a coherent imperial structure based on mercantilism

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ireland

Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by

Irish immigrants

Which of the following is true of the case of Marbury v. Madison?

It affirmed the principle of judicial review

Which of the following was true of the French-American Alliance formed in 1778?

It contributed little to the American victory in the Revolutionary War.

The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?

It disrupted American shipping.

The system of indentured labor used during the Colonial period had which of the following effects?

It enabled poor people to seek opportunity in America.

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

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

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

Which of the following was true of the first Great Awakening?

It resulted in divisions within both the Congregational and Presbyterian churches.

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

Which of the following statements about the Monroe Doctrine is accurate?

It stressed that Europe and the Western Hemisphere had essentially different political systems.

Which of the following was true of the United States Constitution as adopted at the Constitutional Convention?

It was built on a series of compromises.

Which of the following was true of the Continental Congress in its drafting of the Articles of Confederation?

It was cautious about giving the new government powers it had just denied Parliament.

Which of the following statements about the "American System" is correct?

It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency.

The area marked X on the map was part of

Louisiana Purchase

The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

Missouri Compromise

"Still, though a slaveholder, I freely acknowledge my obligations as a man; and I am bound to treat humanely the fellow creatures whom God has entrusted to my charge. ... It is certainly in the interest of all, and I am convinced it is the desire of every one of us, to treat our slaves with proper kindness." — Letter from former South Carolina governor James Henry Hammond, 1845 "Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of Liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and denounce ... slavery 'the great sin and shame of America'!" — Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?

Northern abolitionists

The Republican party originated in the mid-1850's as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

The argument between Great Britain and its American colonies during the 1760's and 1770's over "virtual representation" concerned

Parliament's ability to reflect colonial interests

Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?

Participation by both Whites and African Americans in local government

Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of the Founding Fathers toward political parties?

Parties are vehicles of ambition and selfish interest that threaten the existence of republican government.

The Jefferson administration advocated which of the following changes as a means of restoring republican ideals?

Reducing the scope of activities of the federal government

The theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following best explains why Massachusetts Bay officials banished Anne Hutchinson?

She challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy.

Which of the following is true of the slave system in eighteenth-century British North America?

Slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves.

A Maryland master placed the following newspaper advertisement in 1772 after Harry, his slave, had run away: "He has been seen about the Negro Quarters in Patuxent, but is supposed to have removed among his Acquaintances on Potomack; he is also well acquainted with a Negro of Mr. Wall's named Rachael; a few miles from that Quarter is his Aunt, and he may possibly be harboured thereabouts." Which of the following statements about conditions under slavery is best supported by the passage above?

Slaves maintained social networks among kindred and friends despite forced separations.

In his Atlanta Compromise speech, Booker T. Washington called for which of the following?

Support for African American self-help

Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election

The language used in both excerpts most directly reflects the influence of which of the following?

The Second Great Awakening

Settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods?

The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:

The South's superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.

The Stamp Act crisis was important in the coming of the American Revolution for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

The colonists demonstrated their willingness to use violence rather than legal means to frustrate British policy.

In the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of slavery in British North America?

The number of slaves increased rapidly in the last quarter of the century.

The Halfway Covenant provided for which of the following?

The baptism of children of baptized but unconverted Puritans

Which of the following contributed most directly to the change in the number of Africans transported to the New World after 1800?

The outlawing of the international slave trade by Great Britain and the United States

Which of the following best describes the situation of freedom in the decade following the Civil War?

The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.

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 excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?

The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good

Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?

The political and legal status of the former Confederate states

The illustration above was most likely meant to symbolize which of the following?

The principles of republican agrarianism

The pattern depicted on the graph from 1450 to 1800 best serves as evidence of which of the following?

The replacement of indigenous labor and indentured servitude by enslaved Africans in New World colonies

Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"

The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following was true of the Northeast American Indian tribes at the time Europeans first began colonization?

Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans.

Which of the following was a characteristic of colonial Pennsylvania?

There was no established church.

Which of the following was true of most Puritans who emigrated to seventeenth-century New England?

They considered themselves non-Separatists.

Which of the following statements about Africans brought as slaves to the British North American colonies is true?

They maintained cultural practices brought from Africa.c

By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?

They were a majority in many church congregations.

Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?

They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.

Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?

Turnpikes and canals

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?

Upheld segregated railroad facilities.

Which of the following most appropriately characterizes the violence exhibited in such episodes as Bacon's Rebellion, the Boston Tea Party, Shays' Rebellion, and the Whiskey Rebellion?

Violence was directed at "outsiders" or representatives of distant authority

Which of the following had integration rather than Black separatism as a goal?

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Niagara movement

"Let Southern oppressors tremble .... I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement .... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."The author of the statement above was

William L. Garrison

The call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of

William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, was founded by

a joint stock company anxious to return a profit to investors

The Federalist papers challenged the conventional political wisdom of the eighteenth century when they asserted that

a large republic offered the best protection of minority rights

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of "separate spheres" for the sexes encouraged all of the following EXCEPT

accepting women as intellectual equals of men

Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to

acquire a port to provide an outlet for western crops

The most unpopular and least successful of President Thomas Jefferson's policies was his

adherence to neutrality in dealing with England and France

Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's administration because it

allowed the United States to use the port of New Orleans

As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for

an electoral college

The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was

an expansion of credit and speculation

In the United States, the Haitian rebellion of the 1790's prompted

an increased fear of slave revolts in the South

The primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was to

avoid conflict with the trans-Appalachian Indians

The rough map above was used by Thomas Jefferson to

begin planning the division of federal lands into new states

Although Congress accepted most of Alexander Hamilton's economic proposals, it rejected his

call for direct subsidies to manufacturers

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

"Be it enacted ... That after the five and twentieth day of March, 1698, no goods or merchandizes whatsoever shall be imported into, or exported out of, any colony or plantation to his Majesty, in Asia, Africa, or America ... in any ship or bottom, but what is or shall be of the built of England, Ireland, or the said colonies or plantations ... and navigated with the masters and three fourths of the mariners of the said places only ... under pain of forfeiture of ships and goods." — English Parliament, Navigation Act, 1696 One direct long-term effect of the Navigation Act was that it

contributed to the rise of opposition that ultimately fostered the independence movement

The Declaration of Independence did all of the following EXCEPT

criticize the provisions of the Quebec Act of 1774

Shays' Rebellion frightened many Americans when

debt-ridden farmers attacked courts in western Massachusetts

Daniel Webster's address to the Senate in 1830 in reply to Senator Hayne is best remembered for its

defense of the principle of national union

The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

demands for equal compensation for equal work

By the 1750's, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

disdain for British constitutional monarchy

Alexander Hamilton's financial program was most favorable to

eastern merchants

An important consequence of the "tariff of abominations" (1828) is that it led to the

enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

Alexander Hamilton's economic program was designed primarily to

establish the financial stability and credit of the new government

The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to

expand their commercial and mercantile network

During the War for Independence, the principal reason the American government sought diplomatic recognition from foreign powers was to

facilitate the purchase of arms and borrowing of money from other nations

Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as

faith in human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will

All of the following contributed to the growth of the free African American population in the United States in the early nineteenth century EXCEPT

federal constitutional provisions for emancipation

In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had

fewer European immigrants

The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

To make the new government viable, the first Congress of the United States did all of the following EXCEPT

grant subsidies to encourage industrial development

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

A major reason why Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing Louisiana from France was that he

hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available to future generations

The major purpose of England's mercantilist policy was to

increase England's prosperity

The Constitutional Convention designed the electoral college to

insulate the presidency from the popular will

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

introduction of interchangeable parts

Which of the following is a true statement about the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War?

it recognized United States sovereignty over the territory east of the Mississippi River, between the Great Lakes and Florida

In Marbury v. Madison, the United Stated Supreme Court affirmed

its right to determine the constitutionality of congressional enactments

Members of the Hudson River School were best known for their paintings of

landscapes

Most Progressives sought all of the following EXCEPT the

legislative creation of socialist commonwealth

Under the Articles of Confederation the United States central government had no power to

levy taxes

All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measured EXCEPT the

massive exodus of former slaves from the South

Colonial cities functioned primarily as

mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

The Navigation Acts were part of the British policy known as

mercantilism

The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned

no slaves

The financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT

nullification of all private debts to the states

The map above shows the United States immediately following the

passage of the Missouri Compromise

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

political participation by the common man should be increased

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was

possible British recognition of the Confederacy

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

preserve the Union

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

profit economically

Under Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court decisions tended to

promote business enterprise

The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of

promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest

The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to

protect rights not specified in the Constitution

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to

raise revenue to pay for British troops in the colonies

The "Three-Fifths Compromise" originally contained in the Constitution referred to the

rate at which one slave counted toward congressional representation

In the Colonial period, Quakers were known for all of the following EXCEPT their

refusal to pay taxes

The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the

restriction of the rights of immigrants

The goal of the American Colonization society was to

return freed slaves to Africa

Henry Clay's "American System" called for all of the following EXCEPT

sale of federal lands to finance higher education

Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the

spread of corn cultivation

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and theSouth Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of

states' rights

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

strengthen the moral cause of the Union

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

strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of

temperance

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from

the United States Supreme Court

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions took the position that

the authority of state governments included the power to decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional

France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the new American nation in 1778 following

the defeat of the British General Burgoyne at Saratoga

All of the following were objectives of W.E.B. DuBois EXCEPT

the implementation of Booker T. Washington's program for Black progress

The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

the natural population increase of American-born slaves

The election of 1800 has been referred to as constituting "another revolution" because

the party in power stepped down after losing the election

By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in

the people

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

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War

The First Great Awakening led to all of the following EXCEPT

the renewed persecution of witches

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

the right of nullification

The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of

transporting African Americans to Africa

President Monroe articulate the Monroe Doctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to

warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere

The "Great Awakening" refers to the

wave of religious revivals that swept the colonies in the 1740's

In the eighteenth century, colonial Virginia and colonial Massachusetts were most alike in that both

were royal colonies

After the Revolution, the concept of the "republican mother" suggested that

women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their sons, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic

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

young unmarried women from rural New England