US History 1 Fourth Exam Study Guide Fall 2015

Which of the following statements describes the Federalists' response to the War of 1812?

Some Federalists at the Hartford Convention in 1814 proposed secession from the Union

Which of the following took place in response to the Jefferson administration's purchase of Louisiana?

Some New England Federalists devised a plan to secede from the Union and establish a northern confederacy.

Which slaves became free as a result of the Virginia legislature's passage of a manumission act in 1782?

All slaves over the age of forty-five

Which of the following describes the relationship between social status and wealth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history?

Americans respected those who raised their status through talent and hard work

The spread of the cultural attitude known as sentimentalism in early nineteenth-century America had which of the following social and cultural consequences?

It deeply influenced the kind of literature people read and the plays they saw

Which of the following statements describes the extent to which parents exercised control over their children's marriages in the United States in 1800?

Because landholdings shrank, parents lost leverage over their childrens choices of marital partners

How did evangelical Christians spread religious revival during the Second Great Awakening?

By holding large camp meetings

Which of the following developments ended the debate over emancipation in the South in the early nineteenth century?

Gabriel Prosser's slave uprising

Why did Thomas Jefferson dispatch the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?

He wanted a report on the physical features and the plant and animal life of the Louisiana Territory known as the "Corps of Discovery".

Which of the following describes the Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820?

It allowed Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a slave state, it created the free state of Maine from territory that belonged to Massachusetts, one of its purposes was to maintain the equal representation of free states and slave states in the Senate, it included a northern border in the Louisiana Territory above which slavery was thereafter prohibited.

The 1783 Treaty of Paris addressed Native Americans living in the Old Northwest in which of the following ways?

It stipulated that Native tribes would be by the british until 1793

Which of the following objections to the system of state-sponsored mercantilism emerged in the United States by 1820?

It violated the equal rights of citizens and lessened the power of government

Which of the following describes Jefferson's approach to the opportunity to purchase Louisiana in 1802?

Jefferson realized that he needed to reconsider his interpretation of the constitution. He took an approach that involved a loose interpretation so that he could add new territory, a provision not expressed in the constitution. He used treaty making powers and questioned his pro-French foreign policy to purchase Louisiana in 1802

Which of the following statements characterizes federal land price policies in the Northwest Territory during 1790-1820?

Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans pressured Congress to reduce the minimum and permit payment by installments.

Which of the following best characterizes the Native American response to whites' assimilation efforts in the Midwest in the late eighteenth century

Many Native Americans repeat UA did white missionaries and force Christian converts to participate in need of rituals

The southern migrants who moved along the coastal plain toward the Gulf of Mexico between 1790 and 1820 originated in which of the following

North and south carolina

Which of the following describes the political developments taking place in America during the first two decades of the nineteenth century?

Ordinary white men's rising political status led to the age of democracy for the Common Man.

Noah Webster influenced American society in the late eighteenth century through which of the following means?

Publishing dictionaries and spelling books to make American spelling and grammar more uniform

Which of the following spurred the Panic of 1819 in the United States?

Reckless practices pursued by shady state-chartered banks which gave unlimited credit to people buying farms that couldn't really afford

Which of the following describes the textile industry that was emerging in New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the 1780s?

Textile manufacturers built their mills on cheap land near the growing seaport cities

Why did Thomas Jefferson call his election to the presidency the "Revolution of 1800"?

The bloodless transfer of power showed that popularly elected governments could be changed in an orderly way, even in times of bitter partisan conflict.

Why did a group of prominent citizens found the American Colonization Society in 1817?

They aimed to encourage Southern planters emancipate their slaves for resettlement in Africa

How did yeomen and tenant farmers who were influenced by the Second Great Awakening in the nineteenth century treat their children?

With strict rules and harsh discipline

Washington's Secretary of War, Henry Knox, favored which of the following approaches to Native Americans?

assimilation

The Second Great Awakening deeply influenced American culture and society by

challenged the Calvinist doctrine of predestination and helped to make American intellectual culture more optimistic.

In theory, companionate marriage gave wives equality of rank and fortune but did not solve the issue of

domestic tyranny

In which of the following ways did the growth of rural manufacturing affect New Englanders in the early eighteenth century?

farm families became more dependent on market forces beyond their control

As a result of the Embargo Act of 1807, the American economy

fell into a slump; by 1808, exports had plunged to about one-fifth the pre-embargo level.

Why was the decision in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803) of great importance in American history?

it marked the first occasion on which the Supreme Court declared that it had the power to rule national laws unconstitutional

In the early republic, Benjamin Rush and other leaders argued that women should be educated so they could do which of the following?

oversee the instruction of their sons in the principles of liberty and government.

Which of the following phrases describes the federal judiciary at the time Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801?

packed with hostile fedeeralists

On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the commonwealth system was consistent with republican ideology?

state support for private business contributed to the overall public good

In 1801, Jefferson responded to the Barbary States' threats against American shipping by

stopping the "tribute" (bribes) that the United States had hitherto paid, retaliating when the Barbary States renewed their attacks, then working out a diplomatic solution involving much lower tribute payments

Which of the following was true of the "Era of Good Feeling"?

there was an absence of political party oppositon

Why was the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 significant?

with the massive victory against the British -- the Federalists looked unpatriotic, lost respect in the eyes of the public, Federalists Party soon died out, Republican Party and War Hawks were strong -- favored trade, westward expansion, energetic development of the economy, a strong army and navy -- people realized these things helped America WIN the war