APUSH Midterm Review

Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860 ?

A greater number of men working at home

Which of the following political changes most likely influenced the Second Great Awakening?

A participatory democracy expanded belief in the importance of the individual.

The Missouri Compromise did which of the following?

Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state.

Which of the following explains how the growth of a market-based economy in the United States in the early 1800s most directly influenced changes in gender roles?

As home and the workplace became separated, women were increasingly expected to be responsible for housework and childcare while men took jobs outside the home.

Which of the following was an interpretation of the speech by opponents of the goals Clay expressed in the excerpt?

Clay's manufacturing plan would benefit one section of the country more than others.

Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?

Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government

Which of the following pieces of historical evidence from the United States census could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?

Data showing changes in the number of textile mills

The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?

Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories

Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?

Individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience.

The ideology that supported the trend depicted in the map is most similar to the ideology that supported which of the following?

Involvement in the Spanish-American War

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

It affirmed the principle of judicial review.

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

It disrupted American shipping.

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.

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

Midwest and Northeast

The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments?

Popular support for the idea of Manifest Destiny

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

Possession of California and most of the Southwest

Which of the following resulted from arguments made by Southern politicians, such as the one in the excerpt, in the years prior to the Civil War?

Slaveholders became more insistent that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.

President Andrew Jackson's creation of a monetary system based on state-chartered banks most likely contributed to which of the following?

The Panic of 1837

Sentiments of business leaders and politicians like that expressed in the excerpt most likely contributed to which of the following?

The creation of diplomatic ties with foreign nations

Which of the following most likely contributed to the emergence of the Second Great Awakening?

The cultural responses to the Enlightenment

Emerson's remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century?

The emergence of a national culture

Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution?

The emergence of new forms of transportation

Which of the following cultural and social shifts resulted most directly from the trends described in women in the work force?

The emergence of new ideas about the proper roles of husbands and wives

Which of the following developments best represents a logical extension of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The expansion of participatory democracy in the Progressive Era

Which of the following statements would an abolitionist claim supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The immorality of slavery had a widespread corrupting effect on Southern culture.

The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?

The political debates over economic development

Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?

The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph (a lot of immigration in the early 1900s)

The transformation of the United States into an industrial society

People who shared the views expressed in the excerpt most likely opposed which of the following?

The use of federal government funding for internal improvements

Which of the following statements best characterizes the activists who attended the Seneca Falls Convention?

They called for expanded women's rights.

"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit." The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?

Transcendentalism

Which of the following of Jackson's policies undermined his position as described in the excerpt?

Using federal power to forcibly relocate American Indian groups

The rhetorical purpose expressed in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following?

Using international commerce to expand United States influence

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

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

William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for

advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation

The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by

banning discussion of antislavery petitions

Most young women who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills during the 1830s experienced all of the following EXCEPT

continued employment after marriage

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

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

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

A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the

increasing readership of newspapers

Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions EXCEPT the

obligation to protect Native Americans

The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory

The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of his

previous support for a strict interpretation of the Constitution

Under Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court decisions tended to

promote business enterprise

The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in

republican motherhood

The most important factor in Andrew Jackson's successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his

reputation as a hero of the War of 1812

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

sale of federal lands to finance higher education

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

states' rights

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

strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

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 Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

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

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

transporting African Americans to Africa

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

urban areas of the North

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