APUSH Unit 3; Period 4
In 1818, the United States and Great Britain established joint occupation of what area?
Oregon
What river formed the boundary between U.S. territory and the territory jointly occupied by Britain and the United States? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Columbia River
What did the first American factory produce?
Cotton textiles
How did the builders of steamboats used on the Mississippi change the design of these vessels?
Gave them wider hulls and shallower drafts in order to travel on shallow rivers
How did President John Quincy Adams react when Congress rejected his activist economic policies of high tariffs and subsidies for roads and canals?
He accused Congress of following public opinion
Why did President Jackson veto the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States?
He believed the bank to be unconstitutional
Why was the Erie Canal so successful?
It linked the economies of the Midwest and the Northeast
When William Henry Harrison, the new Whig president, died a month after taking office, who became president and subverted the Whig agenda almost immediately?
John Tyler
While mass uprisings among slaves were rare in the antebellum South, who did attempt one in 1831?
Nat Turner
Why did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution end up determining the election of 1824?
No one candidate received an absolute majority of electoral votes
What issue was a cause of the Panic of 1819?
Poorly managed state banks
Moral reform was primarily a women's movement to attack what problem?
Prostitution
Transcendentalism owed much of its inspiration to what European movement that rejected the values of the Enlightenment?
Romanticism
Which group supported Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828?
Southern farmers
What did southerners fear after New York congressman James Tallmadge proposed to admit Missouri as a state only if it banned slavery?
That this was the first step toward the end of slavery
Which political party reflected the ideology of "artisan republicanism"?
The Working Men's Party
Why did the Freemasons fall into disrepute in 1826?
The kidnapping and murder of a disloyal member had raised suspicions
Which statement characterizes the religious practices of African American slaves in the Deep South in the early nineteenth century?
The majority of them worshipped African gods and spirits
What was a major contributing factor to the democratization of politics in the 1820s and 1830s?
The popular election of most offices
What was a slave owner's most effective tool of discipline?
The threat of sale
Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based?
Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure
How did Major Stephen H. Long describe the grassland plains west of Arkansas and Missouri?
Wholly unfit for cultivation
In his view of states' rights, John C. Calhoun believed that..
a state convention in any state could declare a federal law null and void in that state
In 1830, about 36 percent of white families in the South held slaves. By 1860, the share of white families owning slaves had
declined
The top 5 percent of the southern white population owned what proportion of the entire slave population in 1860?
over 50 percent
What was the Specie Circular of 1836?
A law that required government land to be paid for in gold or silver
What statement describes the concept of republican motherhood?
A limited revision of traditional domestic roles for women
As president, John Quincy Adam's support of Henry Clay's American System meant backing which action?
A national bank to stabilize currency and promote economic growth
Which presidential candidate had constituencies in every part of the nation?
Andrew Jackson
Who encouraged Congress to restrict abolitionist use of the mail system?
Andrew Jackson
Who were the major financial backers of the American Anti-Slavery Society?
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
What was reality like after the Panic of 1837?
Bank customers are flooding the bank, seeking their deposits
Which republican-minded American argued that wives' role was to ensure their husband's "perseverance in the paths of rectitude"?
Benjamin Rush
Which of the following gives us a clue to how seriously white plantation owners feared servile insurrection?
Between capture and execution, a short amount of time elapsed
In what respect were the Whigs of the 1830s similar to the Federalist at the beginning of the nineteenth century?
Both sought leaders with wealth and ability
How did Shaker communities become self sustaining and even comfortable?
By perfecting their crafts
Who were the first Indians to develop a specialized horse culture?
Comanches
Why was the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in London so important for American companies?
Displays at the exhibition catapulted some of them into multinational businesses
Conversations on Common Things (1824) was written by what woman reformer of the early and mid nineteenth century?
Dorothea Dix
How did the trans Appalachian migration of men indirectly influence the number of children on the eastern seaboard in the first years of the nineteenth century?
Due to a limited number of men, marriages were delayed and older women produced fewer children
The supposed designs of what nation on Texas, California, and Cuba encouraged southerners to demand the immediate annexation of Texas in the lead-up to the 1844 presidential election?
Great Britain
In 1834, Philip Hone wrote in his diary the New Yorkers celebrated the victory of Jacksonian Democrats with shouts of "Down with the aristocracy!" He continued: "They have succeeded in raising this dangerous spirit...,and have gladly availed themselves of its support to accomplish a temporary object; but can they allay it at pleasure?" What was Hone concerned about?
He feared that Jacksonian Democrats had invited mob rule and chaos to the nation
Why did Thomas Jefferson write that the Missouri crisis was like "a fire-bell in the night?"
He feared that slavery might destroy the American experiment in republicanism
What was one reason that John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, rejected monogamy?
He hoped to free women from their status as the property of their husbands
Why did John C. Calhoun of South Carolina withdraw from the election of 1824?
He knew that William Crawford was popular in the South
Why did James K. Polk win the presidential election of 1844?
Henry Clay's stand on Texas cost him the election
What partially explains the success of the Shakers and the Oneida community relative to the failure of Brook Farm?
High quality production of one commodity
Which Old World faith were Africans in the United States most likely to follow before the Second Great Awakening?
Islam
How did the southern defense of slavery shift as a result of the proposal in the House of Reps to ban slavery from Missouri?
It became more extreme
How did the domestic slave trade affect slave marriages?
It destroyed about one in every four slave marriages
The Supreme Court case of Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824 struck down a New York law that created a monopoly on steam boat travel into NYC. Why was this decision important?
It prevented state and local laws from interfering with interstate trade
On December 26, 1833, Henry Clay of Kentucky addressed the Senate censuring President Jackson's conduct. What had Jackson done that angered Clay so much?
Jackson had used his veto power to block congress
Which statement correctly summarizes the changes in voting patterns between 1824 and 1840?
Jacksonian Democrats dominated the party competition in this time period
Which political party, led by key African Americans who escaped slavery, sought an electoral end to the slavery issue and, in so doing, became the first antislavery political party when it ran a candidate for president in 1840?
Liberty Party
Which leader of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century organized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
Lucretia Mott
What was the American Anti Slavery Society's most successful tactic in affecting public opinion?
Mailing abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country
In response to the House of Reps refusal to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state, southern congressmen refused to admit which other area to join the Union as a free state?
Maine
What feminist wrote "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," and in 1844, proclaimed a new era of gender relations?
Margaret Fuller
Which of these politicians opposed the annexation of Texas?
Martin Van Buren
What two major works of the 1850s lauded social restraint and criticized individualism?
Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter
What generalization can be made about the removal of Native Americans?
Native Americans had lost almost all of their lands in the eastern states before 1820
What are two major hazards that whites faced moving west on the Oregon Trail?
Native peoples and the Rocky Mountains
The dramatic gain in productivity that occurred in American industry during the Industrial Revolution was due to what combination of factors?
New organizational techniques and new technology
What famous circus founder also ran a museum of oddities and hoaxes in the middle of the nineteenth century?
P.T Barnum
When compared to previous elections, the Whigs attempted which novel strategy to win the presidential election of 1836?
Running four "regional sons' to send the contest to the House of Representatives
What was Margaret Fuller's most significant contribution to transcendental philosophy?
She believed that men and women were equally capable of transcendence
Which marriage rules existed among slaves but not among the planter elite in the decades before the Civil War?
Shunning of marriages between cousins
Why did young girls in mid nineteenth century cities turn to prostitution?
Some poor young women did not like the alternative ways of making a living
How did local, state, and federal tax policy in the middle of the 1800s favor the wealthy?
Stocks and inheritances were not taxed
Which organization, founded in Philadelphia, had a mission of supporting the development of mechanical skills and knowledge?
The Franklin Institute
Why were Shakers so reliant on conversions and adoptions to maintain their community?
The Shakers' prohibition against sexual intercourse meant no new Shakers
What does the success of St. Louis craft workers in winning a ten hour day reveal about the early labor movement in the United States?
The ability of skilled workers to shape working conditions
Immediately after the American Revolution, slavery was in steep decline. Why was it revived in the early 1800s?
The cotton gin enabled short-staple cotton to be harvested on the mainland at profitable prices, requiring slaves
The Missouri Compromise set a precedent that slave states and free states were admitted simultaneously to preserve the balance in which institution, thus allowing southerners to block any abolitionist measures after 1820?
The senate
Why did many educated Congregationalists in New England rename themselves "unitarians" in the early nineteenth century?
They discarded the concept of the Trinity and worshipped "united" God
How did wealthy planters influence tax policies in southern states?
They ensured that slave property was exempt from taxation
What statement describes Cherokee society in the 1820s
They had partially assimilated to Anglo-American ways of living
What unusual move did the Whigs make in 1840 to try to generate support for their candidates?
They sought the support of women
How did abolitionist women frequently violate social taboos in the 1830s?
They spoke to mixed audiences that included men and women
Why were the mechanical institutes important in the first half of the nineteenth century?
They spread mechanical knowledge and skills
How were the elites different from the rest of society?
They were dressed in well-tailored clothes in a furnished house tended by servants
How did African Americans of the urban North aim to accomplish social uplift from the 1790s onward?
Through temperance and hard work
Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison ran in 1840 in part on his war record and his victory in what battle?
Tippecanoe
Why did president Andrew Jackson insist on getting Congress to pass the Force Bill to threaten South Carolina even while he was willing to reduce the tariff that southerners objected to?
To assert federal authority and preserve the Union
What was one consequence of the Taney Court's decision in the case of "Mayor of New York v. Miln (1837)"?
To enhance the regulatory role of state governments
What was the intention of the First Bank of the United States?
To stimulate economic growth by granting commercial credit
Why did the paymaster of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Ithamar A. Beard, conclude that the yeomen farmer and artisan-republican ideal was no longer possible in America?
Too many Americans worked for others
Which company, founded n 1856, was formed to consolidate the operations of smaller telegraph companies?
Western Union
What was the point of the "separate spheres" ideology promoted in the mid nineteenth century?
Women should focus on domestic life, not public life
Owing to the influence of Andrew Jackson, state constitutions were rewritten between 1830 and 1860 to embrace the principle of
election, rather than appointing, of officials
James Gordon Bennett's newspaper, "The New York Herald," was so successful because it...
embraced sensational journalism
In Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842), Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the right of workers, at least in Massachusetts, to...
form unions and call strikes
Attacks on abolitionist meetings and newspaper offices revealed what underlying factor in white American society?
racism
The slave trade changed after 1808 in the United States in that it..
shifted to a domestic enterprise
In asserting the states' right to nullify federal laws, John Calhoun, in "The South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828)," built on the arguments expounded first in..
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Most Americans blamed which party for the depression of 1837-1848?
the democratic party
Why did new disciplined political parties emerge in the 1820s in a number of states?
the power of notables in communities waned
Jackson's practice of appointing loyal members of his party to public offices became known as...
the spoils system
The nullification controversy developed over southern resistance to what action?
the tariffs of 1828 and 1832
Who were the "notables" who had dominated American political life until the 1820s?
the wealthy elite
The Mormon trek followed general trends of American migration in the nineteenth century in that is..
went west
In the 1830s and the 1840s, American middle-class and elite households were similar in that they both...
were in distinct areas of town
