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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The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the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


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