unit 4 american society college board q&a
The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of
protective tariffs
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
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office
The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by
banning discussion of antislavery petitions
Which of the following political changes most likely influenced the Second Great Awakening?
A participatory democracy expanded belief in the importance of the individual.
William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for
Advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation
Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?
Changes to property ownership requirements
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
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?
Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.
The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?
Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law
The development of the Second Great Awakening can best be linked to which of the following historical situations?
Increased geographical mobility aided travel to new regions and the sharing of ideas.
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 Second Great Awakening did which of the following
It encouraged conversion to evangelical Christianity
The United States Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) represented a departure from earlier practices in which of the following ways?
It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
Kansas
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
New England abolitionist
The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848
Possession of California and most of the Southwest
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of
Temperance
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
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
Which of the following most likely contributed to the emergence of the Second Great Awakening?
The cultural responses to the Enlightenment
Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?
The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents
Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"
The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.
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.
"William Henry Harrison: The Farmer of North Bend." What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?
To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man
The call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of
William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there
The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:
commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base
The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
demand for equal work or compensation
An important consequence of the "tariff of abominations" (1828) is that it led to the
enunciation of the doctrine of nullification
A significant result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 was that the United States
experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery
Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as
faith in the human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will
In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had
fewer european immigrants
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for
increased rights for women
A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the
increasing readership of newspapers
Members of the Hudson River School were best known for their paintings of
landscapes
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
most white families owned slaves
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the "burned-over district" because
of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the
passage of the Wilmot Proviso
Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that
political participation by the common man should be increased
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
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
Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT
the right of nullification
During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was
working slowly and breaking tools
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry