APUSH Final Test: Chapters 9-11
Horace Mann and Catherine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?
Education reform
How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina's claimed right of nullification in 1832?
He asked Congress for a force authorizing him to use the military to suppress any act of nullifcation
Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?
He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery
IN his 1829 pamphlet, "An Appeal... to the Coloured Citizens of the World", David Walker did which of the following?
He justified slave rebellion and warned white americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed
Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?
He though it interfered with the rights of states and the liberties of the people
During the antebellum era, which of the following groups shared the most similar experience to that described in the excerpt above?
American Indians
Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?
American ingenuity
The author's sentiments in the excerpt above (Thomas Dew, President of the College of William and Mary, 1832) can best be understood as
An expression of Southern pride in the institution of slavery
Which of the following best explains why many state governments in the North continued to restrict African American citizenship during the antebellum era?
Anti-black sentiments persisted in popular and culture
In 1832, a South Carolina state convention committed which of the following actions?
Declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state
The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?
It increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost
For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons secede and thrive in the 19th Century even as other social experiments failed?
Mormon society had strong hierarchical leadership
What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specify should be done in an election like the election of 1824, in which no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes?
The House of Representatives decides the outcome
Which person or group most strongly advocated sending enslaved blacks to Africa as an answer to the slavery problem?
The American Colonization Society
Which of the following movements, glorifying women's role as homemakers, resulted in part form the increasing separation between home and the workplace brought on by industrialization?
The Cult of Domesticity
As shown in the map above, the national system of roads and canals most closely linked which regions' economies together?
The East and the Midwest
The expansion of the U.S. transportation network by 1837, as shown in the map above (U.S. Roads and Canals, 1837), benefitted MOST from which of the following technological advances?
The steam engine
Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?
The steel plow
In the U.S. Supreme Court Case of "Worcester v. Georgia (1832)", John MArshall and the court majority issued a decision that
Upheld Indian nations' political authority in their communities
By the eve of the Civil war, sentiments such as those expressed in the excerpt above most clearly formed the basis for
the Southern defense of slavery as a positive good
President Martin Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 by
Adopting a hands-off limited-government stance
In which of the following areas did regional interests and perspectives have the LEAST impact on national policy?
American Indian Policy
The Trail of Tears was the direct consequence of which of the following government actions?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
The arguments in the excerpt above (David Walker, "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" 1829) are best understood in the context of
The emergence of African American abolitionist movements
Which of the following antebellum-era historical developments was least likely to have spurred efforts such as those described in the excerpt above (Dorothea Dix, "Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts" 1843)?
The progress toward a unified new national culture
Charles Grandison Finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820s by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons?
The importance of personal conversion
What contributed most to the process illustrated in the maps above (Map of Slave Populations in 1820 and 1860)?
The over-cultivation of arable land in the southeast
Andrew Jackson and his supporters won the election in 1828 in part by
calling themselves Democrats to portray a more egalitarian image
The sentiments expressed in the petition above (Virginia Agricultural Society, Petition to the House of Representatives, 1820) can be understood in the context of...
Debates over the federal government's role in the economy
The efforts described in the excerpt above can best be understood in the context of
Attempts described to match democratic political ideals with social realities
How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?
By passing protective tariffs
The Oneida Community, founded in 1839, By John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices
Complex marriage
The increase of slavery in the new southwest during the antebellum era...
Create new tensions over the spread of slavery
The sentiments expressed in the excerpt above (South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832), most closely parallel those expressed in the political debates
During the first national administrations in the 1790s
The opening of canals and new roads in the United States, as depicted in the map above, had the LEAST impact on which of the following?
European immigration to the United States
Who was the famous black abolitionist who wrote an autobiography of his/her former life as a slave?
Frederick Douglass
Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?
Railroads
Which of the following developments LEAST contributed to the grievances articulated in the petition above?
Increased agricultural production resulting from technological inventions
Which of the following resulted from the sentiments expressed in the excerpts above?
Increasingly bitter national debates over the institution of slavery
Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?
Irish immigrants
Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?
Irish immigrants
Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?
Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories
Which of the following were the three key elements of Clay's American System?
Protective tariff, subsidized internal improvements, and the national bank
The excerpt above best exemplifies which of the following historical developments or processes in the first half of American history?
Resistance from state governments in the North and the South at different times to federal attempts to assert authority over them
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individual's mystic union with God and achievement of self realization
Spending time alone in nature
By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly use which of the following to run machinery?
Steam Engines
The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?
The Market Revolution
The public movement for Women's Rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?
The Second Great Awakening
Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?
The Second Great Awakening
Which of the following laws required the Treasury Department to accept only gold and silver in payment for purchases of federal land?
The Specie Circular
The excerpt above was most likely a response to which of the following?
The abolitionist criticism of the treatment of slaves in the South
How did the appearance of canals and steamboats in the united States affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s?
The canals and steamboats cut in half most travel and communication time
The maps above most clearly demonstrate which of the following antebellum-era historical processes?
The free and forced migration of peoples across the continent
What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?
The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House
Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?
To link midwestern settlers to the seaboard states
What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?
To provide moral guidance for young working women who were living away from their families
The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?
Transcendentalism
