APUSH 13-15

Between 1830 and 1860, nearly ____ million Irish arrived in America.

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One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the

Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian.

All of the following influenced transcendental thought except

Catholicism and the papacy.

Identify the following statement that is false.

Even though capital was lacking, raw materials were widely developed and discovered in America from colonial times through the 1840s.

"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist

Henry David Thoreau.

Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was the

Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time.

The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was

Samuel Slater.

The religious zeal of the Second Great Awakening led to the founding of many small, denominational, liberal arts colleges, chiefly in the

South and West.

The Poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America, was

Walt Whitman.

Which of the following interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828?

Wool and textile manufacturers from New England

America's artistic achievements in the first half of the nineteenth century

borrowed heavily from existing European styles in painting and architecture.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were

chiefly available to educate the children of the poor and European immigrants.

Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held ____ as one of their founding ideals.

cooperative social and economic practices

The initial waves of Irish immigrants typically worked in all of the following occupations except

coopers

With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West

farmers quickly faced mounting indebtedness.

Noah Webster's dictionary

helped to standardize the American language

Whether they were propertied or landless, immigrants were often enticed to leave their homelands by

letters from family or friends in the U.S., bragging about easy opportunities for wealth

The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it

more reliant on women as members and social reformers.

By the 1840s, voter participation in the presidential election reached

nearly 80 percent.

The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for

neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers.

Western road building in the early 1800s faced all of the following problems except

rigorous economic competition from steamboat traffic, which undermined the argument for improved and more connecting western roads.

The American workforce in the early nineteenth century was characterized by

substantial employment of women and children in factories.

The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except

taking the country off the gold standard.

Those nativists who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized in 1849

the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner.

One reason that the condition of a significant segment of adult wage earners improved was

the enfranchisement of the laboring man.

Andrew Jackson based his veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States on

the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation as well as unconstitutional.

On the forced march from their Georgia homeland to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees experienced all of the following except

the rampant sexual abuse of wives and daughters by U.S. soldiers.

According to John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the utopian Oneida Community, the key to happiness is

the suppression of selfishness.

The underlying basis for modern mass production was

the use of interchangeable parts.

The Second Great Awakening tended to

unite southern Baptists and southern Methodists against slavery.

The Oneida colony declined due to

widespread criticism from neighbors of its licentious "free love" sexual practices, which undermined the community's integral complex marriage system.

Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?

​Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother