APUSH Midterm
In the excerpt, Crevecoeur's description of America has the most in common with which of the following?
Thomas Jefferson's vision of a nation of independent farmers
Which provision of the Constitution best exemplifies Hall's argument in the excerpt?
Three-Fifiths Compromise
The image of Washington's reception en route to his inauguration best serves as evidence of which of the following?
Washington's election to the presidency was based on his military leadership in the American Revolution
The image suggests that which of the following contributed most directly to consolidation of public support for the new American government
Washington's personal prestige
One direct effect of the treaty Pinckney negotiated with Spain was that
Western farmers could ship their goods down the Mississippi River to world markets instead of transporting them across mountains
These provisions of the 1860 republican party platform would most likely have appealed to members of which political party?
Whig
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support Corwin's argument against Manifest Destiny?
Whigs
John Calhoun was most likely responding to criticism by which of the following figures?
William Loyd Garrison
The image best serves as evidence of which of the following?
Women replaced absent skilled male workers during the Civil War
the image depicts the tarring and feathering, a ritual of public humiliation, of which one of the following?
a Loyalist tax collector
The map most directly reflects which of the following?
by 1830, there was more of a transportation network in the south than in the northeast
According to the excerpt, how did the northern states most directly fail to fulfill their constitutional obligations?
by refusing to return fugitive slaves to their owners
The steam engine did not provide steam power for which of the following?
clipper ships
According to Calhoun, how is slavery a "positive good" for slaves?
compared to free-wage laborers, slaves are taken care of for life
Calhoun justified slavery by pointing to which of the following nineteenth century developments?
conflicts between laborers and capitalists
which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in the mid-19th century shown in the image above?
controversy over allowing or forbidding slavery in the newly acquired territories
Thomas Corwin refers in the excerpt to Bunker Hills, Saratogas, and Yorktowns in order to do which of the following
convey that the US was carrying the torch of liberty to the Southwest by listing the key battles of the American Revolution
Great Britain and the US settled their dispute over the Oregon Territory by which of the following?
dividing it at the 49th parallel
The split in opinion over Hamilton's economic policies most directly led to the
emergence of two political parties, the federalists and the Democratic Reublicans
The cartoon was intended to...
express colonial resentment of British imperial attempts to reassert control over its colonies
Which of the following groups was not entirely excluded from voting during the 1820s in the US?
free black men
One direct effect of the publication of Uncle Toms Cabin was that it
galvanized Northern public opinion against slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the bestselling novel Uncle Tom's Cabin prompted by which of the following?
her outrage at the Fugitive Slave Act
Which of the following would most directly prompt Abigail Adams' husband to disregard his wife's plea for full citizenship rights?
his belief that women, like children, slaves, and non-propertied men, lacked the independence required of republican citizens
Opposition to the federal prohibition of ocean-borne commerce conducted by Americans during the years 1807-1809 was centered
in New England
Marshall's opinion in Marbury v Madison would most directly lead to
increased power of the judicial branch because of judicial review
The farmer above argued that slavery...
is the condition many Americans live in under the current system of British taxation
Which of the following was the most direct effect of the Erie Canal?
it greatly reduced the cost and time needed to transport people and goods between the east and the midwest
A significant effects of the steam engine on transportation was that
it increased speed in traveling and decreased travel time
The Republican Party was considered a sectional party for which of the following reasons?
its presidential candidate won without a single electoral vote from a slave state
According to the map, which of the following was west of the Proclamation Line of 1763?
land reserved for the tribes that had supported the British in the French and Indian War
One significant result of the value of cotton exports was that it
led to the rapid development of cotton growing areas such as Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi
which of the following contributes most directly to "Oregon Fever"?
letters from Protestant missionaries who praised the land's beauty and fertility
According to the excerpt, the construction of the Erie Canal would accomplish which of the following?
link the Hudson River to the Great Lakes and give farmers and manufacturers a way to ship goods to distant markets
Which of the following US denominations grew the most as a result of the revival movement?
methodists and baptists
The compromise made in the Kansas Nebraska Act served to increase sectional tensions by
repealing the Missouri compromise
the eighteenth-century political cartoon most directly reflects which of the following?
several forms of colonists resistance to British taxes
Provision 8 of he party platform reflects the Republican position that
slavery should not be allowed to extend into new territories
Redeemers in the South sought to do which of the following?
terrorize white republican political leaders and all blacks
Nile's opinion of the Erie Canal most directly reflects which of the following beliefs, common in the 19th century?
that technological innovation in infrastructure was improving the economy of the US
One direct long-term effect of the Proclamation Line's prohibition of colonial settlement west of the Appalachians was
the American Revolution because land-hungry colonists resented the king's ban
The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments?
the American Revolution created an increased awareness of inequalities in society among some women
Which of the following promoted the national government's funding of roads and canals?
the American System
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was one of the most significant accomplishments of which of the following?
the Articles of Confederation Congress
Within the context of Jackson's presidency, the many-headed monster most likely represents
the Bank of the US
According to the excerpt which of the following most directly supported the establishment of the national bank?
the Constitution's necessary and proper clause
Provision 7 of the party platform was most likely in response to which event?
the Dred Scott decision
which of the following was NOT one of the causes of the War of 1812?
the Federalists' commercial hostility towards Great Britain
which of the following contributed most directly to the battle between free-soilers and pro-slavery people in Kansas?
the Kansas Nebraska act's principle of popular sovereignty
The image of the Northwest Territory most directly reflects which of the following development in the eighteenth century?
the Northwest Ordinance's orderly procedure for the creation of new states
This justification of the emotioal tenor of revivalism is most clearly an example of which of the following nineteenth-century developments?
the Second Great Awakening
The excerpt from Pinckney's Treaty most directly reflects which of the following?
the Spanish agreement to open up the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans to US commerce
The Cherokee Indians' memorial most directly reflects which of the following?
the Supreme Court's decision Worcester v Georgia that Cherokees must vacate their ancestral lands
which of the following most directly precipitated the crisis that led to the Missouri Compromise?
the Tallmadge Amendment
The background scene of Boston colonists dumping material off of a ship suggests that they were reacting to
the Tea Act of 1773
The 14th amendment changed which part of the Constitution?
the Three Fifths Clause
Which of the following contributed most directly to the Treaty of Greenville?
the US Army's victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
One direct effect of the Mexican-American War was
the US acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles of land in the Southwest
Which of the following contributed most directly to the Union victory?
the Union's greater industrial output
According to Crevecoeur, which of the following factors most directly contributed to American's freedom?
the absence of a rigid social class system
Which of the following developments in the nineteenth century represented a continuatio of the ideas expressed in the painting?
the annexation of Texas
The map of the Missouri Compromise Line most directly reflects which of the following?
the balance that was maintained between the number of free states and slave states
Which of the following most directly reflects the reason for the effectiveness of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
the book transformed an abstract political issue into a personal tragedy of family separation
One significant result of the Treaty of Greenville was
the ceding of most of the ancestral Indian land in the Northwest to white settlement
The description of the Boston Massacre best serves as evidence of which of the following?
the colonists' view that the British military had fired unfairly upon an unarmed crowd
the feelings expressed by Thoreau in this letter illustrate the belief of many that
the country had initiated a war of expansion against the wishes of the North
One direct effect of the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord was
the creation of a Continental Army to fight the American revolution
Crevecoeur's portrayal of Americans is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the eighteenth century?
the creation of a multi ethnic national identity
which of the following was a direct effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
the creation of the Republican party
Great Britain's increasing taxation on the colonists, like the farmer above, was a response to
the debts they had incurred during and after the Seven Years War
Which of the following was the most direct effect on women of the new nation's need for an informed citizenry?
the development of the ideology of republican motherhood
Which of the following was another significant result of the treaty with Spain?
the expansion of the southern and western boundaries of the US
the excerpt most directly reflects which of the following?
the experience of settlers who came west on the Oregon Trail
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided
the first national limitation upon the expansion of slavery
The point of contention illustrated in the political cartoon above centered on the shifting ideological views of the political parties of the Jefferson period on
the growth and use of federal power
The creator of the illustration would most likely have supported which of the following?
the ideal of "republican motherhood"
Which of the following contributed most directly to the rapid growth of US cotton production?
the invention of the cotton gin that sped up the removal of seeds
in the 1840s, Manifest Destiny was considered by expansionists to be
the natural fulfillment of progress by the US
The political cartoon most directly reflects which of the following?
the possible extension of slavery though the Kansas Nebraska Act
Which of the following best reflects historian Gene Dattel's thesis?
the profitable production of cotton made slave labor more essential and slave-owners more determined to defend slavery
The excerpt from Morse is most clearly an example of which of the following nineteenth-century developments?
the protestant revival of religious fervor in the US
Which of the following contributed most directly to the Boston Massacre?
the stationing of British troops in Boston to assert Parliament's authority
One direct effect of the war of 1812 was
the stimulus of domestic manufacturing and increased American self sufficiency
Marshall's opinion in McCulloch v Maryland serves as evidence of
the supreme court's belief in loose construction of the Constitution
According to the excerpt the danger of eliminating property-holding qualifications for voting is which of the following?
the tendency of the landless majority to infringe on the minority's property rights
The Nast political cartoon most directly depicts which of the following?
the terror and violence used by groups such as the KKK to restore white rule in the South
One direct effect of President Jackson's Indian policy was
the trail of tears
The list of superstitions by Ralph Waldo Emerson most directly reflects which of the following?
the transformation of nineteenth century America by steam-powered technology
Which of the following most directly reflects Morse's concern about Catholic immigrants?
their obedience to church hierarchy will subvert their independent participation in a democracy
which of the following was the most significant new role for women during the Civil War?
their work as nurses
the excerpt most clearly reflects which of the following motives for Joseph Warren's account?
to gain British inhabitant's sympathy and understanding of the colonists' plight
which of the following groups would most likely support the views expressed in the excerpt?
Abolitionists
The ideas expressed in the cartoon most directly led to
An independence movement based on arguments over the rights of British subjects
One significant result of the event described in the excerpt was that the
Boston Massacre became a crucial element of anti-British propaganda in the colonies
Nile's point of view would have led him toward which political idea in the early 19th century?
Clay's American System
The illustration most directly reflects which of the following?
Contact between Native Americans and the US Army in the Northwest led to the Treaty of Greenville
The excerpt was written in response to the
Decision of Dred Scott V Sanford and the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act
Which of the following did the 14th amendment overrule?
Dred Scott v Sanford
which of the following contributed most directly to the convening of the Hartford Convention in 1814?
Federalists' objections to the War of 1812, which devastated New England shipping
Which of the following most directly contributed to the battles described in the excerpt?
General Gage's sending of troops to seize the weapons stored by colonists at Concord
The larger controversy between Secretary of Treasury Hamilton and Secretary of State Jefferson concerned which of the following?
Hamilton's vision of an urban commercial nation versus Jefferson's vision of a nation of independent farmers
which of the following political figures was most directly involved in crafting the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
which of the following was President Jackson's response to the Cherokee's assimilation efforts?
Indian Removal Act
which of the following best describes the artist's point of view as expressed through the image?
Jackson was a war hero and defender of the common man against the elite
which of the following groups would be most likely to support the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
Know Nothing Party
The election of Lincoln to the presidency precipitated secession for whch of the following reasons?
Lincoln's goal to prohibit the institution of slavery in the territories
Which of the following groups would have most likely challenged the views of the cartoonist?
Loyalists
The excerpt most directly relates to which of the following continuous political issues during the first half of the nineteenth century?
Maintaining the balance of free and slave states
According to Calhoun, which period of time being described is classified as a dangerous concept?
Manifest Destiny
The unanimous election of Washington to the presidency most directly reflects which of the following?
Most of the founders of the nation opposed the idea of political parties
According to Calhoun, what was the problem with democracy?
Most people don't have the capacity to successfully participaye
Which of the following events most directly contributed to the establishment of the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Pontiac's Rebellion
which of the following was not a contributing factor to the nation's weariness with federal intervention in the South?
President Grant's refusal to use military troops in the South
The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following?
President Jackson's warning that no state could nullify federal law and the US government would use force to assert its authority
which of the following figures was disappointed and angered by the 15th amendment?
Sojourner Truth