Period 4 Exam

Which of the following best explains why Washington warned against foreign alliances?

Britain and France were at war with each other, and both threatened United States interests.

Which of the following best describes Jefferson's point of view about government as expressed in the excerpt?

Government should limit interference in the lives of its citizens.

Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to modify the argument in the excerpt that many enslaved people engaged in oppositional activities?

Large-scale rebellions by enslaved African Americans in the first half of the 1800s were largely unsuccessful.

Where was a system of factory labor as described above, first put into place?

Lowell, Massachusetts

Which of the following best describes the context from which the ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged?

Political leaders sought to encourage domestic economic development.

Which of the following contributed most directly to the population movement described in the excerpt?

The overcultivation of the soil

Which of the following best describes a major purpose of the proposed amendment?

To give Congress additional constitutional powers

Which of the following was most likely a main purpose of Jefferson's inaugural address?

To summarize his beliefs about the ideal political system

Washington most likely wrote about political parties for which of the following purposes?

To warn the public that political parties result in national divisions

In the decades following the Civil War, the woman's rights movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on

achieving the right to vote

Marshall's opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland serves as evidence of

the Supreme Court's belief in loose construction of the Constitution over state laws

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

Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?

Abolitionism

Which of the following groups would mostly likely have supported this proposed amendment?

Advocates of limiting federal powers to those specifically written into the Constitution

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 language and themes of the excerpt were most directly inspired by the

Declaration of Independence

Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the third paragraph of the excerpt that enslaved people engaged in oppositional activities?

Enslaved African Americans routinely caused tools to break or worked more slowly as means of resistance.

The economic growth of the South relied primarily on the export of goods to which of the following?

Europe

What steps did factories take to control their workforce?

Hired only paupers (individuals who could not provide for themselves or their families).

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

Midwest and Northeast

The ideas described in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?

More Americans producing goods for national markets

The passage above is representative of which of the following movements?

Revivalism

Which of the following does the author use as evidence to support her argument that slaveholders were "keen to master their slaves' senses of pleasure"?

Slaveholders held parties to encourage the loyalty of the enslaved.

Which of the following best describes a context in the first half of the 1800s that influenced the development of slavery as described in the excerpt?

Southern planters used enslaved people to produce cotton for international markets.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the spread of settlement depicted on the map?

Sustained population growth after the American Revolution

Which of the following issues of the period was Jefferson most likely concerned with in the excerpt?

The creation of political parties

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

The emergence of new forms of transportation

The patterns of settlement shown in the map culminated in which of the following national crises by 1820?

The emergence of sectional tensions over the admission of the state of Missouri

The trend in the population percent increase from 1790 to 1800 most likely indicates which of the following?

The rapid movement of migrants to newly settled states such as Kentucky and Tennessee

South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification, dealing with the Tariff of 1828 (Abominations) most directly challenged which of the following ideas from McCulloch v. Maryland?

The supremacy of federal law

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?

The transformation of the United States into an industrial society

The percentages of White and African American populations in South Carolina shown in the table most directly suggest the

expansion of slavery in the Deep South

Marshall's opinion in Marbury v. Madison would most directly lead to

increased power of the judicial branch because of judicial review

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

its right to determine the constitutionality of congressional enactments

Unlike the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening resulted in what?

placed a greater emphasis on slavery as a sin

Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Alexander Hamilton's economic plan primarily because he feared that it would

promote urban mercantile interests at the expense of agricultural interests

The area marked X on the map was part of

the Louisiana Purchase