APUSH MC FINAL #1
9. The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s *
e. celebrated the power of the individual spirit to improve the human condition
18. Which of the following was an outcome of the Columbian Exchange? *
b. The diets of Europeans improved.
27. A person who read William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator would most likely have advocated *
b. immediate emancipation of enslaved people
21. The westward migration by the Mormons in the 1830s and 1840s was most likely motivated by the *
b. need to take refuge from persecution
16. The Declaration of Independence did all of the following EXCEPT *
b. offer the British one last chance at reconciliation.
22. One of the most important accomplishments of Congress under the Articles of Confederation was its *
b. passage of ordinances organizing the Northwest Territory.
7. The Proclamation of 1763 sought to *
b. prevent conflicts between Colonists and American Indians on the colonial frontier
20. The Irish and German immigration waves of the 1830s-1860s most directly resulted in *
c. the formation of a political party that promoted nativism
13. Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following? *
d. The king of England and the principle of monarchy
10. The invention in the 1790s that permitted the great expansion of cotton cultivation was the *
d. cotton gin.
10. The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to *
d. natural reproduction.
8. Through Supreme Court cases like McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden, chief justice John Marshall helped to ensure that *
d. political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.
3. The main purpose of the Stamp Act was to *
d. raise revenue to support British troops and officers stationed in America
1. The Nullification Crisis emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the *
d. relationship between the federal government and the states
#3. Which of the following events happened first (chronologically)? *
E.Jamestown is founded by the Virginia Company
#15. Identify the statement that is FALSE. *
E.The Powhatans were immune to European-borne diseases, unlike their other Indian counterparts.
#17. One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the *
E.growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain.
#5. Early colonists in the Chesapeake struggled with all of the following EXCEPT *
E.land that was difficult to farm.
26. The majority of African slaves coming to the New World *
E.were delivered to South America and the West Indies.
#25. Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by *
E.young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land.
25. Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860? *
a. A greater number of men working at home
10. During the War of 1812 *
a. Andrew Jackson successfully defended New Orleans from the British after a treaty had been signed officially bringing an end to the war
25. Which of the following was a reason the United States government believed it necessary to negotiate a treaty with Great Britain (Jay's Treaty) following the American Revolution? *
a. British activities and landholdings in North America were an impediment to western settlement and peace along the frontier.
14. Which of the following was a significant cause of the Irish and German immigration wave of the 1830s-1860s? *
a. Economic and political difficulties in Germany and Ireland
7. The economic growth of the South relied primarily on the export of goods to which of the following? *
a. Europe
11. Which of the following contributed most to the American victory in the Revolution? *
a. French military and financial assistance
13. The Great Awakening contributed most directly to which of the following trends? *
a. Greater independence and diversity of thought
14. Which of the following most directly made possible the improvements proposed in Henry Clay's "American System"? *
a. Innovations including textile machinery, steam engines, and interchangeable parts
#11. Join, or Die
a. It sought to emphasize the importance of the Albany Plan of Union which Franklin had offered at the Albany Congress
11. Whig Party members would most likely agree with which of the following statements? *
a. Jackson's political actions were unconstitutional.
3. The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the *
a. Midwest and Northeast
9. The town meeting with its direct democracy of open discussion and open voting was typical of which region of the colonies? *
a. New England
9. The Revolutionary War began with fighting in ____; then in 1777-1778, fighting was concentrated in ____; and the fighting concluded in ____. *
a. New England, the middle colonies, the South
9. Which of the following Native American societies was the MOST mobile and relied the LEAST on agriculture for survival? *
a. Prairie/Great Plains
5. The typical patriotic woman contributed to the American Revolution by engaging in which of the following activities during the conflict? *
a. Producing goods for the Patriot cause
27. Which of the following was an important consequence of the debate over the Jay Treaty? *
a. Strong disagreements over policy promoted the development of political parties.
19. Which of these did NOT play a major role in stimulating U.S. economic growth and its connections to the broader world in the first half of the 19th century? *
a. The Pony Express
8. Which of the following was a major difference in economic development between the Northeast and the South in the first half of the 1800s? *
a. The South relied much less on wage labor than the Northeast.
6. The writings of the Transcendentalists most directly reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century? *
a. The emergence of a national culture
22. Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution? *
a. The emergence of new forms of transportation
11. Which of the following most directly contributed to the development of the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts? *
a. The expansion and increased organization of industrial production
3. The ideas about government expressed by Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence are most consistent with which of the following? *
a. The ideas of the Enlightenment
6. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in antebellum America? *
a. They supported the American Colonization Society's approach to ending slavery.
19. All of the following were results of the "Columbian Exchange" EXCEPT *
a. Through trade, Native Americans acquired gold and silver from Europe.
24. Shays's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for *
a. a stronger central government.
3. According to the cult of domesticity, a woman's proper role was *
a. acting as moral leader and educator of the family
12. French aid to the colonies did all of the following EXCEPT *
a. allowed American forces to focus only on the southern theater.
5. As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for *
a. an electoral college
4. The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable scheme for *
a. apportioning congressional representation.
8. Which of the following is true of American transcendentalists? *
a. argued for the importance of human intuition and individual self-sufficiency
11. The Federalist Papers *
a. attempted to calm the anxieties many had about the powers granted to the central government under the Constitution and urge ratification
21. Alexander Hamilton's proposed bank of the United States was *
a. based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," clause in the Constitution.
19. Alexander Hamilton's financial program was most favorable to *
a. eastern merchants
1. The event that precipitated the first real exchange of shots between the British army and American colonists was the *
b. British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord.
1. What political party dominated American politics during the "Era of Good Feelings" *
b. Democratic-Republicans
24. Which of the following was the most IMMEDIATE (short term) effect of the decline in Native American populations following the deadly epidemics introduced by the Columbian Exchange? *
b. European settlers were able to gain control over Native American lands
12. The original prophet and founder of the Mormon religion was *
b. Joseph Smith.
13. Which of the following were NOT among the many utopian communities that sprang up during the 2nd Great Awakening in the early to mid nineteenth century? *
b. Puritans
14. Which of the following best describes the conquistadors? *
b. Spanish noblemen who led private armies to conquer land and people in the Americas.
7. The appointment of John Marshall enabled the Federalists to retain power in which area of government? *
b. Supreme Court
1. Which statement is true of the United States Constitution? *
b. The Constitution's checks and balances helped establish a stable government.
26. Which of the following was a major contrast between the New England colonies and the colonies of France? *
b. The New England colonies were based on both agriculture and commerce.
10. The rapid growth of the Mormon church in the first half of the nineteenth century best illustrates which of the following? *
b. The Second Great Awakening
9. Which of the following most directly addressed reservations Anti-Federalists had about ratification of the Constitution? *
b. The addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution
13. The building of canals, roads and railroads in the first half of the nineteenth century contributed to which of the following? *
b. The creation of more interconnected and efficient market for consumer goods
2. What was the "pull factor" that made it possible for large numbers of Irish and German immigrants to settle in the United States in the 1830s-1860s? *
b. The emergence of an industrialized economy
12. The preaching style that became popular during the First Great Awakening serves as an example of which of the following developments in the 1700s? *
b. The expansion of Protestant evangelism
18. The expansion of a market revolution in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following? *
b. The improvement of transportation and availability of goods
25. French exploration of North America most directly contributed to which of the following? *
b. The ongoing shift from feudalism to capitalism in western Europe
4. Women contributed to the revolutionary war in all of the following ways EXCEPT *
b. Thousands of women formed guerrilla military units, attacking British officers from the cover of their homes.
21. Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830? *
b. Turnpikes and canals
4. The New England family can best be described as *
b. a very stable institution.
8. In 1779, following the defeat at Saratoga, Britain revised their military strategy and shifted their focus to *
d. a military campaign in the American South.
8. For subsistence, native tribes of the High Plains relied in large part on *
e. bison herds.
6. The Battle of Saratoga was a key victory for the Americans because it *
e. brought the colonists much-needed aid and a formal alliance with France.
13. All of the following were examples of colonial protest against the Stamp Act EXCEPT *
e. dumping tea from the East India Company into Boston Harbor.
9. A major reason why Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing Louisiana from France was that he *
e. hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available to future generations
2. The French and Indian War was a pivotal point in America's relationship to Great Britain because it led Great Britain to *
e. impose revenue taxes on the colonies
2. In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted *
e. in New England.
20. To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizen of a republic was a(n) *
e. independent small farmers.
9. All of the following were true of the slave plantation system in the South EXCEPT that *
e. its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.
7. The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting *
e. landscapes.
13. By the mid-nineteenth century *
e. most slaves lived on large plantations.
8. The direct appointment to a government job in exchange for helping a politician's campaign for office is called the "spoils system," or *
e. patronage.
3. Through Supreme Court cases like McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden, chief justice John Marshall helped to ensure that *
e. political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.
17. New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of *
e. prison and asylum reform.
13. After his first voyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had *
e. sailed to the outskirts of eastern Asia.
26. Historians have evaluated abolitionism as *
e. successfully bringing slavery to the forefront of the American consciousness.
13. Which of the following groups would be a supporter of Jackson's Democratic Party? *
e. supporters of the expansion of slavery
28. In their relations with the Native Americans, the French and the Dutch *
e. tended to cultivate good relations because of the Native Americans' knowledge of fur trapping
21. Which of the following statements about the Articles of Confederation is FALSE? *
e. that it gave too much power to a central government
10. American victory at Yorktown was complete only after *
e. the French naval fleet arrived before the British could rescue Cornwallis's army.
10. The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was *
e. the South.
11. The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to *
e. the natural population increase of American-born slaves
5. John Marshall's Supreme Court decision in the case of Marbury v. Madison established *
e. the principle of judicial review
3. During its first quarter-century as a nation, one of the major problems facing America was *
e. the rivalry and warfare between France and Britain.
10. The "Great Awakening" refers to the *
e. wave of religious revivals that swept the colonies in the 1740's
#2. The first three years of Jamestown's history witnessed *
B. terrible hardship and suffering
20. Most early railroads in the United States were built in the *
d. North.
16. The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following EXCEPT *
16. The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following EXCEPT *
24. John Jay's 1794 treaty with Britain *
24. John Jay's 1794 treaty with Britain *
#24. The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governor who failed to protect them against American Indian raids led to *
A.Bacon's Rebellion
#20. The Navigation Acts most directly reflected which of the following goals for England's North American colonies? *
A.Integrating them into a coherent imperial structure based on mercantilism
#29. The slave codes *
A.allowed masters to punish slaves as they saw fit and required that slaves have written permission to leave plantations.
#6. The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of *
A.giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
#9. Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were PRIMARILY seeking to *
A.profit economically
3. Which of the following Native American societies built over a dozen multi-story apartment buildings into Chaco Canyon? *
Aztec
4. Which Native American society developed a complex urban society in central Mexico and built cities that accommodated as many as 200,000 people? *
Aztec
#7. Englishmen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called *
B. indentured servants.
#14. The middle colonies - New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania - all had which of the following traits in common? *
B.Rich, fertile soil that enabled the region to produce and export vast quantities of grain
#1. The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by *
B.a joint-stock company.
#18. Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following EXCEPT *
B.become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible.
#13. The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____, whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse. *
B.the Middle Colonies, New England
#22. Which of the following most directly resulted from the decline in the Native American population that the Spanish colonists were using as a labor supply? *
C. The Spanish imported Africans as a new source of labor.
#16. King Philip's War could be best described as *
C. a conflict between Native Americans and New England settlers
#23. Indentured servants... *
C. made up at least 70 percent of migrants to the Chesapeake during the colonial period.
#10. The trials of Anne Hutchinson best represent which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s? *
C.Growing challenges by dissenters to civil authorities
#8. The introduction of tobacco during the early 1600s in the Virginia colony led to the *
C.use of indentured servants, and later enslaved Africans, for agricultural labor
#19. The laws passed by England to strictly regulate colonial trade according to mercantilist philosophy were called *
D.Navigation Acts
#12. Which of the following actions would most likely cause a Puritan to be banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony? *
D.challenging religious authority.
#27. The difference in slave populations between the Northern and Southern English colonial regions most directly resulted from differences in *
D.climate and geographic conditions for cash crop agriculture
#4. Compared to New England, Chesapeake society *
D.possessed fewer families
#28. By the late 1600s, slavery in North America became institutionalized in part because of the *
D.problems associated with indentured servitude
#21. The FIRST use of African slaves in the Americas (North America, South America, Central America, Caribbean) was for the production of *
D.sugar.
#11. The principal motivation shaping the earliest settlements in New England (Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay) was *
D.the desire for religious freedom
#30. A significant long-term result of the slave trade was *
D.the development of a strict racial system in British colonial societies
10. The Federalist papers were written in order to *
a. encourage ratification of the Constitution
1. Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded *
a. geographical knowledge of the previously unknown region.
25. The American Colonization Society worked to *
a. help freed slaves leave the United States and return to Africa.
18. The main focus of the temperance movement was to *
a. limit the consumption of alcohol
18. One significant issue about slavery and race relations during the American Revolution was... *
a. many slaves enlisted in loyalist [British] regiments in exchange for their freedom.
2. Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the *
a. newly won ascendancy of the common man.
23. In their colonization of the Americas, the Spanish used the encomienda system to *
a. organize and regulate Native American labor
12. By 1860 a vast majority of white Southerners *
a. owned no slaves
23. By the 1790s the ideas of the Anti-Federalists contributed most directly to the *
a. resistance of western farmers to federal oversight
28. The United States acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River, the rights of deposit at New Orleans, and the large disputed territory north of Florida in *
a. the Pinckney Treaty.
21. European contact with Native Americans led to *
a. the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases.
6. The most important change in the prehistoric era in the Americas was *
a. the expansion of agriculture and establishment of sedentary communities.
19. Some Native Americans nations joined the British during the Revolutionary War because *
a. they believed that a British victory would restrain American expansion into the West.
32. Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 *
a. warned against the dangers of permanent foreign alliances.
5. When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they *
a. were too poor to move west and buy land.
4. Which of the following groups would have been most likely to be a supporter of Andrew Jackson? *
a. western farmers who opposed the national bank
6. Which of the following was NOT taken up by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention? *
b. Albany Plan
5. The year 1763 was a watershed year because of all of the following EXCEPT: *
b. brought to an end the bickering and tensions of the Native Americans and colonist
7. The Pueblo people of the Southwest *
b. constructed multistoried buildings in canyons and river valleys.
12. One direct long-term effect of the Navigation Acts was that they *
b. contributed to the rise of opposition that ultimately fostered the independence movement
11. The Iroquois Confederacy was formed in part for the purpose of *
b. defending themselves against attacks from other tribes in the northeast region.
2. The effect of the Embargo Act was *
b. economic mayhem in the United States.
Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following EXCEPT
b. engage in significant ocean voyages of discovery
23. Shays's Rebellion was provoked by *
b. foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers.
29. The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was *
b. fur trapping.
8. British colonial expansion into the interior most directly contributed to which of the following tensions in the 1700s? *
b. growth of social tensions between backcountry settlers and coastal elites
4. Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because *
b. he believed that a strict interpretation of the Constitution did not give the President power to buy new territory.
6. The Proclamation of 1763 *
b. prohibited colonists from settling beyond the Appalachians.
16. Among the fears that fed the anti-foreign or nativist movement of the period 1840-1850s was which of the following? *
b. rapid growth of the Catholic population
19. The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the *
b. restriction of the rights of immigrants
5. As a result of the Missouri Compromise *
b. slavery was banned north of 36° 30'' in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
23. As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin *
b. slavery was reinvigorated.
17. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it *
b. strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
9. England passed the Intolerable/Coercive Acts in response to *
b. the Boston Tea Party.
10. Cahokia, a large Indian city in what is now Illinois, was built by *
b. the Mississippians
22. Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt *
b. was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success.
17. Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants *
b. were Roman Catholic.
14. In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following EXCEPT *
b. willingly turned over their land to white southerners
5. The ideas expressed in the Seneca Falls Declaration most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that *
b. women should focus on the home and domestic sphere
17. In which of the following ways did slavery change in the late 1700s? *
c. The ideals of the American Revolution prompted some individuals and groups to call for the abolition of slavery.
12. Probably the most alarming characteristic of the new Constitution to those who opposed it was the *
c. absence of a bill of rights.
19. Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support? *
c. Abolitionism
26. Which of these statements was NOT true of Jay's Treaty? *
c. Britain agreed to stop impressing American sailors.
14. What historical document emerged in January of 1776 as a call to arms for the colonials? *
c. Common Sense
3. Under the Constitution, the president of the United States was to be elected by a majority vote of the *
c. Electoral College.
16. The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of *
c. Horace Mann.
30. Which of the following was true of the Democratic-Republican Party? *
c. It supported France over Britain whenever the opportunity arose.
3. Which of the following groups would have been most likely to oppose the "American System" proposed by Henry Clay? *
c. Members of the Democratic Party
5. In which of the following regions was the production of wheat so important to the local economy that the area became known as the "bread colonies?" *
c. Middle Colonies
33. "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is...to have with them as little political connection as possible...It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." The quotation above is part of which of the following documents? *
c. President Washington's Farewell Address
17. Which of the following European monarchs was most responsible for helping to launch the earliest phase of the "Age of Exploration?" *
c. Prince Henry of Portugal
14. Which of the following is the most likely reason why many historians date the beginning of the American Revolution to the 1760s, immediately after the French & Indian War ended? *
c. Renewed efforts by Great Britain to consolidate imperial control over the colonies
2. The appointment of John Marshall enabled the Federalists to retain power in which area of government? *
c. Supreme Court
22. The type of views expressed by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison emerged most directly from which of the following trends? *
c. The Second Great Awakening
20. The criticisms of centralized power, monarchies and strong executives that was unleashed by the American Revolution best accounts for which of the following features of the United States during and immediately after the American Revolution? *
c. The creation of new state constitutions that placed most power in the hands of the legislative branch
15. Which of these reasons did NOT drive the European exploration that led to the "discovery" of the New World? *
c. The desire to make contact and learn from the Native American civilizations
4. Which of the following cultural and social shifts resulted most directly from the Market Revolution? *
c. The emergence of new ideas about the proper roles of husbands and wives
12. The War of 1812 had all of the following consequences in the United States EXCEPT *
c. acquisition of new land
6. John Marshall, as chief justice of the United States, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government by *
c. asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation.
31. The concerns expressed by Washington in his Farewell Address were a response to the *
c. controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France
5. The crop that became the staple of life in most North American Native American societies was *
c. corn.
7. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT *
c. determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
27. The French most differed from the Spanish in relations with American Indians in that the French *
c. developed stronger alliances with American Indians
1. The cult of domesticity *
c. glorified women who made the home a sanctuary for their laboring husbands.
12. All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America EXCEPT *
c. government regulation of all major economic activity.
12. The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was *
c. hatred of Andrew Jackson.
20. The export of New World crops to the Old World transformed European society mostly by *
c. improving diets and thereby stimulating population growth
6. A major criticism of the national bank was that *
c. it concentrated too much power in the hands of the wealthy
34. Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it *
c. marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties.
30. English colonization patterns in North America differed most from Spanish colonization in that the English *
c. more often settled as families and rarely intermarried with Native Americans
11. Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their position EXCEPT the *
c. obligation to protect the Native Americans
17. By the 1830s, which of the following groups obtained widespread suffrage? *
c. poor white males
4. Henry Clay's idea of an "American System" included all of the following EXCEPT *
c. removal of Native American tribes from the West.
16. All of the following were Portugal's contributions to the Age of Exploration, EXCEPT *
c. sponsoring Christopher Columbus's voyages.
4. How did the British government react to the colonial Stamp Act protests? *
c. the British repealed the Stamp Act
4. The immigrants who arrived from the mid-1800s onward tended to avoid what area? *
c. the South
15. The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was *
c. the potato famine.
12. Which of the following statements about Native American societies in the Northwest is MOST accurate? *
c. they supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and in some areas developed settled communities supported by the vast resources of the ocean
3. In New England, elementary education *
c. was required by Massachusetts law to be offered in every town for religious purposes.
16. Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because *
c. whites wanted the Indians' lands.
24. Abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison found the most support among which of the following groups? *
d. Advocates for women's rights
18. Which of the following was a direct effect of the German and Irish immigration wave of the 1830s-1860s? *
d. An upsurge in nativist sentiment
2. Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence were both written in response to *
d. British government's attempt to assert greater control over the North American colonies
16. The canal era of American history began with the construction of the *
d. Erie Canal in New York.
17. What was the most fundamental difference between the Federalist party and the Jeffersonian Democrats? *
d. Federalists advocated for a strong central government; Jeffersonians promoted states rights.
9. Which of the following statements accurately describes the Monroe Doctrine? *
d. It declared U.S. opposition to European intervention in the affairs of independent countries of the Western Hemisphere.
6. What did the Missouri Compromise seek to accomplish? *
d. Maintaining the balance between free and slave states
15. What happened to the established churches in the new republic after the American Revolution? *
d. Many were disestablished, as more state constitutions allowed for separation of church and state.
26. Which of the following groups would have been most likely to oppose the "American System" proposed by Henry Clay? *
d. Members of the Democratic Party
2. Which of the following statements about Native American civilizations is FALSE? *
d. Native Americans left North and South America as an untouched virgin landscape before the arrival of the Europeans.
11. Which of these statements is NOT an accurate reflection of the Second Great Awakening? *
d. Preachers revived religious ideas, like predestination, advocated by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening
23. Which of the following events energized the radical phase of the abolition movement? *
d. Second Great Awakening
9. An important effect of the tariff of abominations of 1828 was *
d. South Carolina's adoption of the theory of nullification
18. Which of the following was NOT a Hamiltonian idea? *
d. State governments would pay down their own debts, and avoid creating a common shared national debt.
24. The development of the textile mills at Lowell, Massachusetts most directly reflect which of the following changes in the first half of the 1800s? *
d. The sharp increase in the number of workers making goods for distant markets
29. The Alien & Sedition Acts were passed in response to which of the following challenges? *
d. The threat posed by foreign alliances and entanglements.
14. Alexander Hamilton's financial plan for strengthening the economy and bolstering national credit proposed all of the following EXCEPT *
d. abolishing tariffs.
8. The long-range purpose of the Albany Plan in 1754 was to *
d. achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
7. Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank *
d. concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people
15. "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other power vested by this Constitution." Alexander Hamilton used the clause above to *
d. convince the federal government to create the First National Bank of the United States
7. In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped restore confidence in America's military by *
d. defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton.
7. The New England economy depended heavily on *
d. fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
20. The Seneca Falls Convention was significant because it *
d. issued a historic declaration of women's rights
5. Jacksonian Democrats favored all of the following EXCEPT *
d. keeping federal tax deposits in a national bank
1. Early colonists in the Chesapeake struggled with all of the following EXCEPT *
d. land that was difficult to farm.
6. By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ____, and the southern colonies relied on ____. *
d. shipbuilding and small farming, tobacco, rice and indigo
1. As a result of the development of the cotton gin *
d. slavery revived and expanded.
15. The first factories in Lowell, Massachusetts that blossomed in the early phase of the American industrial revolution mainly produced *
d. textiles.
2. As the new continental market economy grew *
d. the home came to be viewed as a refuge from the workday world for laboring men.
28. William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to *
d. the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.
11. The "Great Awakening" religious movement that spread through British North American colonies in the 1700s was most directly shaped by *
d. trans-Atlantic exchanges
15. The reform impulse that swept through America in the first half of the nineteenth century sought improvements in all of the following areas EXCEPT *
d. working conditions
10. Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Stamp Act, (B) Townshend Acts, (C) Tea Party, and (D) Intolerable Acts. *
e. A,B,C,D
13. Which national laws tended to limit personal liberties (like freedom of speech and freedom of press) during the 1790s? *
e. Alien and Sedition Acts
14. Which one of the following individuals was NOT a major figure in the early nineteenth-century reform movements? *
e. George Whitefield
2. Under the original 1787 Constitution, the one branch of the government elected directly by the people is the *
e. House of Representatives.
8. The foreign policy initiative calling for an end to all European colonization efforts in the Western Hemisphere was known as the *
e. Monroe Doctrine.
1. Which of the following statements about the French & Indian War is FALSE? *
e. The French gained a great deal of territory at the 1763 Peace of Paris negotiations
15. All of the following are characteristics of Andrew Jackson as President EXCEPT *
e. a desire to assimilate Native Americans into white society
8. The three-fifths rule concerned the issue of *
slavery
22. European explorers introduced ____ into the New World. *
smallpox
