Unit 3 Ch 12-15 APUSH TEST

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

sale of federal lands to finance higher education

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

young unmarried women from rural New England

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, describing events earlier in the nineteenth century Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the excerpt's depiction of reactions to slave rebellions?

Additional restrictions were placed on enslaved and free African Americans.

Which of the following evidence did the American Temperance Society in the excerpt use to support its argument about the need for the temperance movement?

Alcohol consumption damaged people's physical and emotional well-being.

The Missouri Compromise did which of the following?

Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state.

Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837. The ideas expressed by John C. Calhoun and others who shared his views on slavery had which of the following effects on emerging abolitionist movements in the years leading up to the Civil War?

As many people came to see slavery as part of the Southern way of life, attitudes on both sides of the slavery argument hardened so that political compromise became difficult.

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

Changes to property ownership requirements

Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 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.

The Monroe Doctrine maintained that

European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas

Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 Which of the following most directly made possible the ideas described in the excerpt?

Innovations including textile machinery, steam engines, and interchangeable parts

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 Second Great Awakening did which of the following?

It encouraged conversion to evangelical Christianity.

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.

Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837. Which of the following most contributed to slaveholders such as Calhoun arguing in the 1830s and 1840s that slavery should be viewed as part of the Southern way of life?

Slave rebellions in Haiti, South Carolina, and Virginia had made many leaders in the South fear that enslaved African Americans could harm them.

Which of the following is based on the idea of states' rights?

The South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 Which of the following describes an interpretation of Clay's economic principles at the time as expressed in the excerpt?

The United States should increase domestic manufacturing to promote prosperity.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the change over time depicted on the two maps?

The building of canals and roads

President Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832 Which of the following factors best supports the argument in the excerpt?

The debates over the federal government's proper role had intensified during the early nineteenth century.

The change depicted on the maps most directly contributed to which of the following?

The drawing of a boundary line to discourage settlers from moving west of the Appalachians

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

— Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 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

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

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.

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, describing events earlier in the nineteenth century Which of the following claims best aligns with the evidence in the excerpt about the relationship between enslaved African Americans and White Southern citizens?

The slave system gave poor White citizens the feeling of social superiority over free and enslaved African Americans in a culture where African Americans held little power.

Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank

They believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite.

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

They called for expanded women's rights.

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

To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man

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

continued employment after marriage

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

A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was

develop a national economy by improving transportation

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

enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

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

In the 1850s, which of the following groups would have been most likely to benefit from the changes depicted on the maps?

immigrants from western Europe

The map above shows the United States immediately following the

passage of the Missouri Compromise

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

political participation by the common man should be increased

The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of

protective tariffs

William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which of the following issues?

Abolition of slavery

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (Seneca Falls Convention), 1848 Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?

Abolitionism

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

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

Declaration of Independence

Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 The ideas described in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?

More Americans producing goods for national markets

The graph above refutes which of the following statements?

Most Southern families held slaves

A vertical bar graph titled "Slaveholders in 1860

Most southern families held slaves.

Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837. 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.

Which of the following resulted from the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?

The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency, increased.

President Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832 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 call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of

William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

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

The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it

closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832 The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the

relationship between the federal government and the states

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

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.

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

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

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

Richard Lyman Bushman, historian, Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder, 2005 The developments described in the excerpt best illustrate which of the following?

The Second Great Awakening

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

"Let Southern oppressors tremble .... I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement .... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."

William L.Garrison

Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because

expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections

The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for

increased rights for women

Most Progressives sought all of the following EXCEPT the

legislative creation of socialist commonwealth

The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned

no slaves

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

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832 The excerpt most directly expresses an economic perspective that

prioritized regional interests

The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry

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

Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 One major change in United States politics from the 1820s to the mid-1850s was the

rise of political parties defined largely by regional interests

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

strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

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

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