Apush 41-80 midterm exam

58) Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity?

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

60) The call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of

William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator

66) In the antebellum period, free African Americans werea

able to accumulate property inspirit of discrimination

68) The Wilmot Proviso caused controversy because

attempting to ban slavery in territory won during mexican war

57) Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?

being in communion with nature puts you in communion with God

46) In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney's major contribution to American technology was his

came up with interchangeable parts

71) The Kansas-Nebraska Act aroused tremendous controversy in 1854 because

created divisions within the democratic party

65) During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

day to day resistance; breaking tools, faking illness, slow working, sabotage

74) Which of the following conclusions about the map above is correct? (pg438-440)

democrats were dominant in the south republicans had control over northeast, mid west, and far west

61) The main idea of the "Declaration of Sentiments" adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was

described womens grieveness and demands (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

59) Utopian movements attempted to achieve human perfection by

different models of government, marriage, larbor and wealth

45) The Second Great Awakening did what?

empowered women to start reform movements

69) The Compromise of 1850

enacted strict fugitive slave laws

48) The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it

gave western states direct access to atlantic ocean without ships going down mississippi

52) The most important factor in Andrew Jackson's successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his

he became symbol of the common man

54) Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank..

incompatible with justice and the constitution

67) Which of the following is most closely associated with the presidency of James K. Polk

manifest destiny

43) The above map shows the United States immediately following the (pg 268-267 for map)

missouri compromise

63) Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT

most white families owned slaves

73) Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

national legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories

62) The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

natural population increase of American born slaves

42) The Southern economy before the Civil War

plantation economy with cotton

50) Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

political participation by common man should be increased

47) Which of the following describes the "Lowell system" in early nineteenth-century New England?

production of young adult women instead of males

78) The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

restrict african americans freedom forcing them to work in labor economy due to debt or low wages

51) A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was to

set up national bank, add protective tariffs, create new transportation systems

72) The Republican Party of the 1850's took which of the following positions on slavery?

slavery could not remain where it existed but should not be extended into teritorries or new states

44) The goal of the American Colonization Society was to

slaves had to be freed and resettled

80) Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

the compromise of 1877 that resulted in troops being pulled

41) Which of the following is a correct statement about women in United States society in the years 1790-1820?

the had very few rights

53) The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of

the high tariffs outraged the south especially south carolina

77) Which of the following best describes the situation of freedmen in the decade following the Civil War?

the majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former master of other nearby planters

76) Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?

the political legal status of the former confederate states

70) Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty"?

the settlers in given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery would be permited

64) Presidents Jackson and Van Buren resisted the admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because they

they feared the debate over admission of Texas would ignite controversy over slavery

75) Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?

they were paid less than the white soldiers of equal rank

55) What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above? (pg 338-339 picture)

to portray henry clay as the common man

56) The picture above is representative of which movement in American art?( ch 11 slide 2, 4-5)

transcendentalist movement

49) The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the

wanted to condemn immigration and assert the superiority of protestant values

79) After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over

women weren't granted any rights after the war