APUSH 1st semester test
Who had a major impact in communications in the early 19th Century?
Samuel Morse
Who is thought of as the "Father of the American Factory System"?
Samuel Slater
What were the two most prevalent movements that sprouted from the Second Great Awakening?
Abolitionists and Temperance
Gibbons v. Ogden centered on the issue of
Congress being responsible for regulating interstate commerce
Which of the following groups is LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?
Establish merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Established the United States as the dominant economic power in South America.
The French countered British movement into the Ohio River Valley in the early 1750s by building a fort at the confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers; the fort was called
Fort Duquesne
Which of the following was NOT a "spinoff" of the Second Great Awakening?
Immigration
All of the following accurately describe Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France EXCEPT:
It ended the threat of American Indian raids on western settlements.
The Glorious Revolution had what immediate affect on the American Colonies?
It sparked rebellions by Protestant colonists in Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York.
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.
In the 18th century, all of the following were generally true about colonial society in America EXCEPT
It was impossible for individuals to better themselves economically or socially.
In the mid-18th century, all of the following were generally true about slavery in the British colonies EXCEPT
It was strongly opposed in New England.
Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which of the following best explains why Massachusetts Bay officials banished Anne Hutchinson?
She preached the doctrine of predestination.
What was a division within the Know-Nothing Party?
Slavery
A "wildcat" or "pet bank" was
State banks where Jackson deposited funds from the Second National Bank
Which of the following is NOT associated with Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts:
The Dutch retaliated by withdrawing from New Amsterdam and relocating to Quebec
In article "Fire Bell in the Night"
The Grimke sisters showed that even Christian people could be cruel masters
Which of the following best describes the situation of freedmen in the decade following the Civil War?
The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.
Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as
faith in human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will
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 1840 the American Antislavery Society split into factions because
William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members
The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to
achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
In the South, Methodist and Baptist evangelical preachers
adapted their sermons to support the rule of white, slaveholding planters.
Which of the following conditions in England motivated Puritans to migrate to New England in the 1630s? I. Political repression of dissident Protestants II. An economic recession III. Restrictions on Puritan religious practices
all of the above
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there
Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's adminis- tration because it
allowed the United States to use the port of New Orleans
In the early nineteenth century, Noah Webster argued for
an end to American dependence on foreign influences in regard to language.
Marshall's decision on the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia was
both B and C (unconstitutional, and ignored by Jackson)
Which of the following accurately describes a problem faced by Virginia in the last decades of the 17th century?
conflict between large plantation owners and settlers on Virginia's western frontier
Voting requirements during the Age of Jackson
declined
Daniel Webster's address to the Senate in 1830 in reply to Senator Hayne is best remembered for its
defense of the principal of national union
The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
demands for equal compensation for equal work
The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated with
distress over loss of tribunal autonomy
Examples of Economic Nationalism include all of the following except:
encouragement of importation of goods or services
All of the following contributed to the growth of the free African American population in the United States in the early nineteenth century EXCEPT
federal constitutional provisions for emancipation
The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT
federal financing of secondary education
The Virginia Plan differed from the New Jersey Plan in that it
gave the national government the power to overturn state laws.
A major consequence of the French and Indian war of 1754-1763 was the
imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies
Most American manufacturing took place
in homes
The North and South
in theory and in practice adopted different forms of republicanism.
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for
increased rights for women
The Constitution offered to the states for ratification in 1787 achieved all of the following except
investing Congress with full and immediate power to regulate immigration.
Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
ireland
Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions EXCEPT the
obligation to protect Native Americans
The government under the Articles of Confederation consisted of
only a unicameral legislature
Which of the following is typical of the role that colonial women played during the Townshend crisis?
organizing spinning bees and creating homespun clothing because they refused to buy English-made clothing
Population increases in New England affected parental control over marriage because
parents had less to give children in marriage portions
In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with
protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves
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
The Battle of Tippecanoe
resulted in a defeat for Native Americans in Indiana
"I have come to this country to introduce an entire new state of society; to change it from an ignorant, selfish system to an enlightened social system which shall gradually unite all interests into one and remove all causes for contest between individuals." The statement above was made by which nineteenth-century Utopian reformer?
robert owen
The Americans' victory at the Battle of Saratoga was crucial to their ultimate victory over the British for all of the following reasons except
state governments took advantage of increased American morale in order to raise taxes and supply the Continental army with much-needed cash.
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the union
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of
temperance
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
William Penn's "Holy Experiment" included all of the following ideas EXCEPT
the Bible as religious authority for all
A postwar crisis developed for all of the following reasons except
the British threatened to invade America from Canada.
The British decided on their "southern strategy" because
the French presence made them wary of overcommitting their troops throughout the colonies and leaving their colonies in the West Indies vulnerable to French machinations.
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
the abolition of slavery throughout the United States
The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT
the establishment of teacher-training schools
One consequence of industrialization was
the formation of Labor Unions
Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT
the right of nullification
Which of the following was NOT a reason for increased democratization during the Jacksonian era?
the rise of trade union influence
The South Atlantic System included all of the following EXCEPT
the system revolved around European cravings for tobacco
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
The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of
transporting African Americans to Africa
President Monroe articulated the Monroe Doctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to
warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere
Early Unions were
weak, social, and local
The Alien and Sedition Acts were designed to
weaken and deflect Republican criticism of the Federalists
After the Revolution, the concept of the "republican mother" suggested that
women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their sons, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of English colonial families in mid-18c America?:
women, while subservient to their husbands, set the moral standards by which children were raised and decided how the children would be educated and trained.
