APUSH chapter 15-17 college board questions
Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the excerpt's depiction of reactions to slave rebellions?
Additional restrictions were placed on enslaved and free African Americans.
The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in
Africa by free Black persons and former slaves
Which of the following evidence did the American Temperance Society in the excerpt use to support its argument about the need for the temperance movement?
Alcohol consumption damaged people's physical and emotional well-being.
The ideas expressed by John C. Calhoun and others who shared his views on slavery had which of the following effects on emerging abolitionist movements in the years leading up to the Civil War?
As many people came to see slavery as part of the Southern way of life, attitudes on both sides of the slavery argument hardened so that political compromise became difficult.
The language and themes of the excerpt were most directly inspired by the
Declaration of Independence
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 American Temperance Society used which of the following evidence in the excerpt to explain why it believed the temperance movement would be successful?
Its supporters held the moral and religious high ground.
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Most White families owned slaves.
The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
Most southern families held slaves.
The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments?
Popular support for the idea of Manifest Destiny
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 theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which of the following most contributed to slaveholders such as Calhoun arguing in the 1830s and 1840s that slavery should be viewed as part of the Southern way of life?
Slave rebellions in Haiti, South Carolina, and Virginia had made many leaders in the South fear that enslaved African Americans could harm them.
Based on their arguments in the excerpts, Giddings would likely agree with and Whitman would likely disagree with which of the following claims about the causes of the Mexican-American War?
The United States desired to expand slavery to Mexican territory.
Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?
The belief in White cultural and political superiority
Which of the following most directly contributed to the request expressed in the excerpt?
The desire for international trade and access to global markets
Emerson's remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century?
The emergence of a national culture
The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations in the early 1800s?
The emergence of a new and distinctive American culture
The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?
The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good
Which of the following statements would an abolitionist claim supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
The immorality of slavery had a widespread corrupting effect on Southern culture.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the activists who attended the Seneca Falls Convention?
They called for expanded women's rights.
Which of the following comparisons best describes Whitman's and Giddings' arguments about the Mexican-American War?
Whitman argued that the war was intended to deter bad behavior, while Giddings argued that the war represented aggression by the United States.
"Let Southern oppressors tremble .... I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement .... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice." The author of the statement above was
William L. Garrison
The call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of
William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator
Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?
abolitionism
In the decades following the Civil War, the woman's rights movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on
achieving the right to vote
The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
demands for equal compensation for equal work
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
In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had
fewer European immigrants
Members of the Hudson River School were best known for their paintings of
landscapes
In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?
manifest destiny
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
The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of
transporting African Americans to Africa
During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was
working slowly and breaking tools
