Period 4 AP Classroom- economic and political

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

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

Asserted American independent in the realm of foreign policy.

Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?

Changes to property ownership requirements

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

In the 1850s, which of the following groups would have been most likely to benefit from the changes depicted on the maps? (Map is about travel time)

Immigrants from western Europe

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 best explains the expansion of participatory democracy in the early nineteenth century?

The extension of suffrage rights to most adult White men

"Louisiana as ceded by France is made part of the United States. Congress may make part of the United States other adjacent territories which shall be justly acquired. "Congress may sever from the United States territory not heretofore within the United States, with consent of a majority of the free males above 21 years, inhabiting such territory." -James Madison, secretary of state, proposed constitutional amendment [not passed], 1803 Which of the following best describes the historical situation in which the amendment was proposed?

The federal government sought to acquire more western land in North America.

The expansion of a market economy in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following?

The improvement of transportation and availability of goods

-Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?

The political debates over economic development

-President Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832 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

Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank of the United States for which of the following reasons?

They believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite.

What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?

To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man

-"By command of the President of the United States of America." Thomas Jefferson, 1802 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

Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

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

enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because

expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections

-Noah Webster, "Preface," An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828 The historical concept of the American identity, as characterized in the excerpt, was most clearly distinguished from the identities of other nations by the

importance of liberal ideas about natural rights and liberties

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

introduction of interchangeable parts

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

its right to determine the constitutionality of congressional enactments

The map above shows the United States immediately following the (it had which were slave states and which were free)

passage of the Missouri Compromise

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

political participation by the common man should be increased

The area marked X on the map was part of (it was where modern day North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska)

the Louisiana Purchase

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

the party in power stepped down after losing the election

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

the right of nullification

One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

the separation of economic production from the home and family life

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

young unmarried women from rural New England