APUSH Unit 3
John Marshall's Supreme Court decision in the case of Marbury v. Madison established
the principle of judicial review
The cult of domesticity
glorified women who made the home a sanctuary for their laboring husbands.
The excerpt was likely to have found the most support among which of the following groups?
Advocates for women's rights
Which of the following events could best be interpreted as reflecting the exercise of power depicted in the image
American Indian removal despite the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia
Antebellum Immigration Chart Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in immigration after 1845 shown on the graph?
An upsurge in nativist sentiment
Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in immigration after 1845 shown on the graph?
An upsurge in nativist sentiment
During the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson successfully defended New Orleans from the British after a treaty had been signed officially bringing an end to the war
Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by the 1870s?
Supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment
What political party dominated American politics during the "Era of Good Feelings"
Democratic-Republicans
Which of the following was a significant cause of the trend from 1843 to 1854 shown in the graph?
Economic and political difficulties in Germany and Ireland
The canal era of American history began with the construction of the
Erie Canal in New York.
Which one of the following individuals was NOT a major figure in the early nineteenth-century reform movements?
George Whitefield
The appointment of John Marshall enabled the Federalists to retain power in which area of government?
Supreme Court
The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of
Horace Mann
The creator of the image would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
Jackson's political actions were unconstitutional.
The creator of the image would most likely agree with which of the following statements? (picture of Jackson standing on Constitution)
Jackson's political actions were unconstitutional.
The original prophet and founder of the Mormon religion was
Joseph Smith
Which of these was the LEAST COMMON form of slave resistance?
Killing their masters
Which of the following most directly undermines Calhoun's assertions?
Many slaves engaged in forms of resistance to slavery
The foreign policy initiative calling for an end to all European colonization efforts in the Western Hemisphere was known as the
Monroe Doctrine.
Most early railroads in the United States were built in the
North.
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?
Northern abolitionists
Which of the following contributed most directly to the change depicted in the map?
Overcultivation of depleted arable land in the Southeast caused slaveholders to relocate their plantations to more fertile lands west of the Appalachians
Which of these statements is NOT an accurate reflection of the Second Great Awakening?
Preachers revived religious ideas, like predestination, advocated by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening
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?
Puritans
Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support Calhoun's views expressed in the excerpt?
Southern landowners
One major effect of the trends seen in the map was
Southerners began to argue that slavery was a positive good and a part of the Southern way of life
The migrants represented by the graph most typically settled in which of the following regions of the United States?
The Northeast
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?
The Pony Express
The language used in both excerpts most directly reflects the influence of which of the following?
The Second Great Awakening
The type of views expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from which of the following trends?
The Second Great Awakening
In 1824, Jackson and his supporters referred to which of the following as a "corrupt bargain"?
The alleged deal between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay that gave Adams the presidency
The main trend shown in the graph was most directly associated with which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time?
The emergence of an industrialized economy
Which of the following developments in the second half of the nineteenth century best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?
The formation of voluntary organizations and reform efforts
The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?
The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good
The expansion of a market revolution in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following?
The improvement of transportation and availability of goods
Which of the following contributed most directly to the change in the number of Africans transported to the New World after 1800?
The outlawing of the international slave trade by Great Britain and the United States
The pattern depicted on the graph from 1450 to 1800 best serves as evidence of which of the following?
The replacement of indigenous labor and indentured servitude by enslaved Africans in New World colonies
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in antebellum America?
They supported the American Colonization Society's approach to ending slavery.
All of the following are characteristics of Andrew Jackson as President EXCEPT
a desire to assimilate Native Americans into white society
The Underground Railroad was
a network of people who maintained safe houses, hid runaway slaves, and helped them escape to freedom
Which of the following is true of American transcendentalists?
argued for the importance of human intuition and individual self-sufficiency
Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded
geographical knowledge of the previously unknown region.
Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank
concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people
The invention in the 1790s that permitted the great expansion of cotton cultivation was the
cotton gin.
The effect of the Embargo Act was
economic mayhem in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because
he believed that a strict interpretation of the Constitution did not give the President power to buy new territory.
The American Colonization Society worked to
help freed slaves leave the United States and return to Africa
The resolutions from the Hartford Convention
helped to cause the death of the Federalist party.
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
A person who agreed with Garrison's views expressed in the excerpt would most likely have advocated
immediate emancipation of enslaved people
In the 1840s and 1850s, the views expressed by Calhoun most directly contributed to
increased sectional divisions between the North and the South
The Seneca Falls Convention was significant because it
issued a historic declaration of women's rights
A major criticism of the national bank was that
it concentrated too much power in the hands of the wealthy
The main focus of the temperance movement was to
limit the consumption of alcohol
Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their position EXCEPT the
obligation to protect the Native Americans
By 1860 a vast majority of white Southerners
owned no slaves
The map above shows the United States immediately following the
passage of the Missouri Compromise
The direct appointment to a government job in exchange for helping a politician's campaign for office is called the "spoils system," or
patronage
Through Supreme Court cases like McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden, chief justice John Marshall helped to ensure that
political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.
By the 1830s, which of the following groups obtained widespread suffrage?
poor white males
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
prison and asylum reform
Among the fears that fed the anti-foreign or nativist movement of the period 1840-1850s was which of the following?
rapid growth of the Catholic population
Which of the following documents or sources would be MOST useful for analyzing the effects of the Embargo of 1807 on the U.S. economy?
records of shipbuilding activity in a New England state from 1805 to 1810
Henry Clay's idea of an "American System" included all of the following EXCEPT
removal of Native American tribes from the West.
The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the
restriction of the rights of immigrants
As a result of the development of the cotton gin
slavery revived and expanded.
Opponents of Garrison's ideas expressed in the excerpt would most likely have argued that
slavery was a positive social institution and should not be changed
"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep...The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and he has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right." The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South tha
slaves lived better than northern factory workers
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it
strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
Which of the following groups would be a supporter of Jackson's Democratic Party?
supporters of the expansion of slavery
The first factories in Lowell, Massachusetts that blossomed in the early phase of the American industrial revolution mainly produced
textiles.
Which of these was NOT offered as a defense of slavery?
that slavery provided blacks with an education in reading and writing.
In the election of 1824, when none of the four presidential candidates commanded a majority of electoral votes, the election was decided by
the House of Representatives.
The immigrants who arrived from the mid-1800s onward tended to avoid what area?
the South
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.
During its first quarter-century as a nation, one of the major problems facing America was
the rivalry and warfare between France and Britain.
All of the following groups would have been likely to agree with the image's depiction of Andrew Jackson EXCEPT
western farmers who opposed the national bank
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because
whites wanted the Indians' lands.
In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society, the Cherokees did all of the following EXCEPT
willingly turned over their land to white southerners
The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that
women should focus on the home and domestic sphere
The reform impulse that swept through America in the first half of the nineteenth century sought improvements in all of the following areas EXCEPT
working conditions