APUSH - Period 4 Quizzes
Asserted American independent in the realm of foreign policy.
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Africa by free Black persons and former slaves
The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in
fewer European immigrants
In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had
able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
In the antebellum period, free African Americans were
young unmarried women from rural New England
In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were
urban areas of the North
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in
continued employment after marriage
Most young women who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills during the 1830s experienced all of the following EXCEPT
the separation of economic production from the home and family life
One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was
European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas
The Monroe Doctrine maintained that
promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest
The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory
The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to
accepting women as intellectual equals of men
The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of "separate spheres" for the sexes encouraged all of the following EXCEPT
The creation of the Monroe Doctrine (The excerpt reflects the establishment of policies meant to ensure United States interests in the Mediterranean, much like the Monroe Doctrine claimed the right of the United States to protect its interests in the Western Hemisphere.)
The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?
The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good
The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?
The improvement of transportation and availability of goods
The expansion of a market economy in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following?
strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it
Women were the moral and spiritual strength of the family.
The picture above best expresses which of the following middle-class views about women in the mid-nineteenth century?
The emergence of a larger middle class in the North
The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?
obligation to protect Native Americans
Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions EXCEPT the
It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's.
Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?
The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.
Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?
Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government
Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?
Changes to property ownership requirements
Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?
Slave rebellions in Haiti, South Carolina, and Virginia had made many leaders in the South fear that enslaved African Americans could harm them.
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?
Innovations including textile machinery, steam engines, and interchangeable parts
Which of the following most directly made possible the ideas described in the excerpt?
Data showing changes in the number of textile mills
Which of the following pieces of historical evidence from the United States census could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?
It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.
Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?
The Monroe Doctrine
an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers
More Americans producing goods for national markets
The ideas described in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
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Did most southern families hold slaves?
working slowly and breaking tools
During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was
establishing trade routes (As the actions of the Barbary pirates threatened United States trade in the Mediterranean, the orders outlined in the excerpt indicate Jefferson's goal to secure and extend those trade routes.)
President Jefferson sought the protections described in the excerpt most likely for the purpose of
warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere
President Monroe articulated the Monroe Doctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to
Irish immigrants
Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by
the natural population increase of American-born slaves
The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to
Europe
The economic growth of the South relied primarily on the export of goods to which of the following?
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 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?
The greater separation of home and workplace during the first decades of the nineteenth century
The ideas in the excerpt about women's roles in society have the most in common with ideas associated with which of the following?
relied on the use of power-driven machinery
The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that
The extension of suffrage rights to most adult White men
Which of the following best explains the expansion of participatory democracy in the early nineteenth century?
The slave system gave poor White citizens the feeling of social superiority over free and enslaved African Americans in a culture where African Americans held little power. (The excerpt discusses how poor White citizens showed an eagerness to exploit their superiority over African Americans (both free and enslaved), even though they themselves were near the bottom of the social ladder and often did not share in the spoils of the planter class.)
Which of the following claims best aligns with the evidence in the excerpt about the relationship between enslaved African Americans and White Southern citizens?
The emergence of new ideas about the proper roles of husbands and wives
Which of the following cultural and social shifts resulted most directly from the trends described in the excerpt?
A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities
Which of the following describes "the Lowell system" in early nineteenth-century New England?
As home and the workplace became separated, women were increasingly expected to be responsible for housework and childcare while men took jobs outside the home.
Which of the following explains how the growth of a market-based economy in the United States in the early 1800s most directly influenced changes in gender roles?
Additional restrictions were placed on enslaved and free African Americans. (The excerpt references how the aftermath of Nat Turner's Rebellion affected the people, both free and enslaved. Legal restrictions were enacted forbidding enslaved people from socializing with each other, and laws were passed to strip free African Americans of specific legal rights.)
Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the excerpt's depiction of reactions to slave rebellions?
Slaveholders became more insistent that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.
Which of the following resulted from arguments made by Southern politicians, such as the one in the excerpt, in the years prior to the Civil War?
It stressed that Europe and the Western Hemisphere had essentially different political systems.
Which of the following statements about the Monroe Doctrine is accurate?
The immorality of slavery had a widespread corrupting effect on Southern culture.
Which of the following statements would an abolitionist claim supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
A greater number of men working at home
Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860 ?
