APUSH Midterm Review
Which of the following political changes most likely influenced the Second Great Awakening?
A participatory democracy expanded belief in the importance of the individual
Thomas Jefferson believed all of the following EXCEPT:
A strong national army is essential to keep order in the United States
By 1775, the ___ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America.
Africans
Lincoln's actions as commander in chief during the Civil War were most like the philosophy of
Alexander Hamilton
The Missouri Compromise did which of the following?
Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state
Of the following, which was the principal issue on which the Unites States sought settlement with Great Britain at the outset of the War of 1812?
An end to impressment
What was a factor in the nation's acquisition of Florida from Spain?
Andrew Jackson led an army to invade Florida, subsequently killing British agents
Which of the following was most responsible for encouraging the growth of domestic markets in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Better transportation networks
The Sons of Liberty initiated the Boston Tea Party in direct response to
British efforts to protect the East India Company from bankruptcy
Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?
Changes to property ownership requirements
Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?
Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government
Which of the following is a commonality among tobacco, rice, and cotton production?
Each drove the expansion of the slave trade for a time
Which system employed by the Spanish advanced the goals of both converting American Indians to Christianity and exploiting their labor?
Encomienda
Which European country had the least significant presence in the Western Hemisphere during the 15th and 16th centuries?
England
The economic growth of the South relied primarily on the export of goods to which of the following?
Europe
In 1787-1789, which of the following groups was most likely to oppose ratification of the Constitution?
Farmers in isolated areas
Which of the following contributed the LEAST to the growing colonial sentiment toward independence in the 1770s?
Frustration over the British government's refusal to send troops to protect the colonies from Indian attacks
Thomas Jefferson opposed some of Alexander Hamilton's programs because Jefferson believed that
Hamilton's programs favored wealthy financial interests
Which of the following was Robert Fulton's major contribution to U.S. history?
His work in designing steamboats made upstream commerce possible
How did John Locke influence the attitudes of colonial slaveholders?
His writings were used to defend slavery as a natural right of property
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
Which of the following is true of the case of Marbury v. Madison?
It affirmed the principle of judicial review
The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?
It disrupted American shipping
Which of the following was an outcome of the American Revolution?
It inspired a number of other independence movements
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Most White families owned slaves
The argument between Great Britain and its American colonies during the 1760's and 1770's over "virtual representation" concerned
Parliament's ability to represent colonial interests
The Jefferson administration advocated which of the following changes as a means of restoring republican ideals?
Reducing the scope of activities of the federal government
Which of the following was not a native crop from the Americas that stimulated trade and/or population in Europe?
Rice
The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in
South Carolina
Which of the following set of historical events is in the correct chronological order?
Stamp Act, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
Which Old World crop introduced by the Spanish most dramatically increased demand for African slaves in the Caribbean?
Sugar
At the outset of the war, which of the following was the greatest advantage possessed by the Confederacy?
Superior military leadership
Which of the following groups of colonial settlers largely avoided intermarriage or cross-racial sexual unions with native populations?
The English
What became the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Which of the following is NOT correctly identified?
The Stamp Act —placed an indirect tax on imported paper products
Which of the following correctly characterizes the War of 1812?
The United States was able to reassert sovereignty over its existing western lands and remove Britain's military presence
Which of the following most likely contributed to the emergence of the Second GreatAwakening?
The cultural responses to the Enlightenment
The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?
The emergence of a larger middle class in the North than in the South
President Jackson's Native American policy resulted in which of the following?
The removal of the Cherokee from the Southeast to settlements across the Mississippi
Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of seventeenth-century Puritans toward religious liberty?
They tolerated no one whose expressed religious views varied from their own views
What was the primary intention of the Adams administration in enforcing the Sedition Act?
To intimidate and silence critics of the Adams' administration
Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?
Turnpikes and canals
Which British North American colony violently confronted the Powhatan Indians and justified their actions by their strong belief in their racial and cultural superiority?
Virginia
France's support for the United States during the American Revolutionary War was motivated primarily by
a desire to weaken its rival, Great Britain
Which of the following describes "the Lowell system" in early nineteenth-century New England?
a plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities
All of the following conditions influenced the development of American agriculture during the first half of the nineteenth century EXCEPT
a widespread interest in conserving soil and natural resources
In the antebellum period, free African Americans were
able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
As a result of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852,
abolitionism gained ground in the North
Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's administration because it
allowed the United States to use the port of New Orleans
The ultimate consequence of the sharecropping system for the South was
an increase in poverty for both blacks and whites
The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by
banning discussion of antislavery petitions
The concept of republican motherhood includes the idea that women should
be educated to raise their children to be good citizens
The Wilmot Proviso
called for American annexation of lands conquered from Mexico as free territory
In order to keep the Border States to remain in the Union, President Lincoln
declared martial law where needed
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT
determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
In terms of politics, the 1850s were noteworthy because they witnessed the
dissolution of national political parties over sectional concerns
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
During the War for Independence, the principal reason the American government sought diplomatic recognition from foreign powers was to
facilitate the purchase of arms and borrowing of money from other nations
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
The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by
forcing the election into the House of Representatives
With regard to the Oregon Territory, in 1846, the United States
hammered out a compromise agreement with the British Empire
A major reason why Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing Louisiana from France was that he
hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available to future generations
The major purpose of England's mercantilist policy was to
increase England's prosperity
The Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 were notable accomplishments because they
initiated a territorial policy that provided for the orderly creation of new states
The Battle of Vicksburg was an important victory for the Union because
it gave the Union virtual control of the Mississippi River
In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that
labor unions were not illegal conspiracies
The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to
place limits on the socio-economic opportunities open to Black people
Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that
political participation by the common man should be increased
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Alexander Hamilton's economic plan primarily because he feared that it would
promote urban mercantile interests at the expense of agricultural interests
While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,
racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system
In the decade following the ratification of the Constitution, divisions emerged between Hamilton's political party, the Federalists, and their rivals, the Democratic-Republicans, over all of the following issues EXCEPT the
relationship between religion and the federal government
The American or "Know-Nothing" Party of the 1850s
sought to limit the rights of immigrants
The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of
states' rights
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it
strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
Both Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellions were
tax revolts
British colonists in North America objected to the Stamp Act primarily because it
taxed them without their consent
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of
temperance
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions took the position that
the authority of state governments included the power to decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional
Which of the following constituted an American advantage at the outset of the Revolutionary War?
the fact that they were fighting a defensive war
In the 19th century, Southerners used all of the following arguments to justify slavery EXCEPT
the international slave trade was highly profitable for all regions of the country
In the eighteenth century, British colonists wishing to settle west of the Appalachians were principally motivated by
the low price and easy availability of land
The election of 1800 has been referred to as a constituting "another revolution" because
the party in power stepped down after losing the election
By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in
the people
The Republican Party campaign platform of 1860 called for
the restriction of slavery from the territories
Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT
the right of nullification
The purpose behind the spoils system was
to reward political supporters with public office
American interests and priorities with regard to Asia in the 1840s and 1850s primarily centered around
trade and commerce
President Andrew Johnson was impeached as a result of his
violation of the Tenure of Office Act
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
were not distributed evenly among whites
Many of the slaves who reached North America
were originally captured by African coastal tribes
During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was
working slowly and breaking tools
