APUSH Unit 4 practice exam
0/1 Question 21 Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant? No answer provided a. They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy. b. They repudiated heterosexual sex and sexuality. c. All of these groups exercised great influence over American politics. d. These utopians all criticized capitalism but made tremendous profits through manufacturing.
a
0/1 Question 24 For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the nineteenth century even as other social experiments failed? No answer provided a. Mormon society had strong, hierarchical leadership. b. The Mormon Church successfully monopolized Utah's vast natural mineral wealth. c. The group rejected evangelicalism in favor of natural reproduction. d. Mormon leaders embraced violent tactics to keep followers in line.
a
0/1 Question 25 Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century? No answer provided a. Immigration b. America's relatively high birthrate c. The rapid increase in life expectancy d. The growth of urban culture
a
0/1 Question 27 Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s? No answer provided a. They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism. b. Minstrel shows contributed to the problem of prostitution in the big cities. c. Minstrel shows celebrated the lifestyle of the "b'hoys." d. They were pioneered by P. T. Barnum, who founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
a
0/1 Question 28 Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century? No answer provided a. Minstrel shows b. The Democratic Party c. Prostitution d. Male promiscuity
a
0/1 Question 33 Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison? No answer provided a. He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery. b. Garrison believed violence was an acceptable means for ending American slavery. c. He was motivated by political, not religious, concerns. d. Garrison called for the institution of gradual abolition in all states.
a
0/1 Question 36 In its campaign to end slavery, the American Anti-Slavery Society embraced which of the following tactics? No answer provided a. Sponsoring public lectures and collecting signatures on antislavery petitions b. Smuggling weapons to slaves for use in an eventual uprising c. Purchasing and freeing slaves threatened with a sale that would break up their families d. Mounting civil disobedience actions and mass demonstrations to protest slavery
a
0/1 Question 37 Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s? No answer provided a. Aid to fugitive slaves b. Financial support for free blacks willing to foment rebellion in the South c. Continuous demonstrations against slavery outside the White House d. Lecture tours demanding the end of the international slave trade
a
0/1 Question 38 Which of the following individuals went to jail rather than pay taxes in support of the Mexican War and slavery? No answer provided a. Henry David Thoreau b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Sarah Grimké d. William Lloyd Garrison
a
0/1 Question 45 Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey's Lady's Book and Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following? No answer provided a. Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity b. Promoted less restrictive feminine clothing to protect women's health c. Advocated women's right to vote and hold elected offices d. Promoted the notion that higher education would make women better mothers
a
0/1 Question 46 What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834? No answer provided a. To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their families b. To condemn prostitution and punish young women who participated in urban prostitution c. To create new opportunities for male and female reformers to work together as equals in the same organization d. To create a network of schools to train young, middle-class women in manners and morals
a
0/1 Question 47 Efforts by women reformers to regulate sexual behavior resulted in laws in Massachusetts and New York that did which of the following? No answer provided a. Made seduction of women a crime b. Made solicitation of prostitutes a crime c. Banned the common practice of abortion d. Banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of birth control devices
a
Question 11 Who was a critic for the New York Tribune, an editor of The Dial, and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century? No answer provided a. Margaret Fuller b. Angelina Grimké c. Susan B. Anthony d. Harriet Beecher Stowe
a
Question 12 Which of the following is properly paired? a. Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass b. Henry David Thoreau—Uncle Tom's Cabin c. Nathaniel Hawthorne—The American Scholar d. Herman Melville—The Scarlet Letter
a
Question 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures? No answer provided a. He argued that people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature. b. He rejected traditional Biblical teachings and promoted atheism. c. He suggested that science and technology would lead humankind into a new era of enlightenment. d. He defended traditional Calvinist theology, which had been challenged by the Second Great Awakening.
a
Question 50 During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals? No answer provided a. Strengthening the legal rights of married women b. Challenging the conventional division of labor within the family c. Making it easier for married women to file for divorce d. Educating women about birth control and abortion
a
Question 51 The following questions refer to the following excerpt. "[T]he Western world had typically connected church and state. Now the Americans undertook to experiment with their separation: Religion would be purely voluntary. The results astonished both friends and foes of Christianity. . . . Far from hindering religion, the American model of voluntarism hugely facilitated it, liberating powerful religious energies. Religion, which had played such an important part in the life of the American colonies, was reinvigorated . . . in the life of the American republic. . . . Americans . . . experienced widespread direct democracy through the creation, administration, and financing of churches and other voluntary societies. . . . Women, African Americans, and newly arrived poor immigrants were all participating in religion, often in leadership roles, before they participated in politics." — Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 Which of the following activities from the middle of the nineteenth century most closely resembles the religious voluntarism Howe describes? No answer provided a. The creation of self-help associations by free blacks in Philadelphia b. The articulation of transcendentalism by New Englander Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The construction of fine wood furniture by Shaker communities d. The participation in Roman Catholic churches by Irish immigrants
a
Question 53 The following questions refer to the following excerpt. "[T]he Western world had typically connected church and state. Now the Americans undertook to experiment with their separation: Religion would be purely voluntary. The results astonished both friends and foes of Christianity. . . . Far from hindering religion, the American model of voluntarism hugely facilitated it, liberating powerful religious energies. Religion, which had played such an important part in the life of the American colonies, was reinvigorated . . . in the life of the American republic. . . . Americans . . . experienced widespread direct democracy through the creation, administration, and financing of churches and other voluntary societies. . . . Women, African Americans, and newly arrived poor immigrants were all participating in religion, often in leadership roles, before they participated in politics." — Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 Which of the following types of evidence would most likely support the conclusions Howe offers in the excerpt? No answer provided a. Nineteenth-century newspapers that covered local events and individuals in small towns b. Nineteenth-century records from mainstream churches in immigrant neighborhoods c. Nineteenth-century court records that document criminal activity in American cities and towns d. Maps of nineteenth-century towns and cities that showed locations of church buildings
a
Question 57 Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century? No answer provided a. Population growth through natural reproduction b. The profitability of the international slave trade c. Chesapeake planters' hesitancy to work their slaves too hard d. The rapid contraction of the region's tobacco market
a
Question 7 Which of the following statements about Emerson is correct? No answer provided a. He was a Unitarian minister who eventually rejected organized religion. b. Emerson's influence was briefly intense, but it did not stand the test of time. c. He resigned his pulpit due to his fear of public speaking. d. His view of individualism promoted hard work and indulgent consumption.
a
Which factor led to planters' need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally? No answer provided a. Congressional legislation b. A Supreme Court ruling c. Missouri's application for statehood d. State legislation
a
Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements? a. The Second Great Awakening b. Industrialization c. State government initiatives d. National government initiatives
a
0/1 Question 17 Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers? No answer provided a. Men greatly outnumbered women in Shaker communities. b. They allowed both women and men to govern their communities. c. They believed men were spiritually weaker than women. d. They excluded African Americans in order to maintain racial purity.
b
0/1 Question 20 The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices? No answer provided a. Monogamy b. Complex marriage c. Equality of men and women d. Celibacy
b
0/1 Question 29 In the early 1800s, free blacks in the North were encouraged to "elevate" themselves through which of the following activities? No answer provided a. Political activism b. Temperance c. Forming friendships with whites d. Legal reform
b
0/1 Question 31 Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s? No answer provided a. Rioting erupted in northern cities. b. Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented. c. The rebels won their freedom. d. A national convention of African American activists met in Philadelphia.
b
0/1 Question 35 In their book American Slavery as It Is, Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters No answer provided a. appealed to the economic interests of southerners by arguing that slavery was unprofitable. b. presented testimony from individual southerners about the evils of slavery. c. openly criticized individuals who did not agree with their views on slavery. d. refuted William Lloyd Garrison's position on the necessity of African colonization.
b
0/1 Question 40 Mob violence against abolitionist efforts in the 1830s and 1840s was No answer provided a. responsible for the deaths of hundreds of abolitionists and free blacks during this period. b. often directed against "respectable" black organizations such as churches and against orphanages. c. confined to border and southern cities such as Baltimore, St. Louis, and Nashville. d. directed only at free black communities and the homes of prominent abolitionists.
b
0/1 Question 42 By the early 1840s, Garrison and his supporters in the American Anti-Slavery Society had transformed their agenda in which of the following ways? No answer provided a. The group joined the Tappan brothers and Theodore Weld to form the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. b. They advocated a broad-based reform program, embracing women's rights as well as the rights of American blacks. c. The group decided that working for abolitionism within existing institutions was more effective than creating new ones. d. They softened their rhetoric in an effort to end pro-slavery activists' violent attacks on lecturers.
b
Question 2 What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835? a. Most Americans were uninfluenced by political parties and did not vote by party lines. b. Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family. c. The American people welcomed all types of immigrants, regardless of ethnicity or religion. d. Americans valued and respected differing views on political topics.
b
Question 3 The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following? a. Individualism b. Transcendentalism c. Utopianism d. The cult of domesticity
b
Question 55 Which of the following statements characterizes the cotton planter class in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in the mid-nineteenth century? No answer provided a. Planters lived in elegant mansions. b. The goal of the planter class was to make money. c. Planters refused to do physical labor on plantations. d. Planters embraced the cultured gentility of the Chesapeake region.
b
Question 56 The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following? No answer provided a. The American Colonization Society b. The Indian Removal Act. c. The inland system d. The international slave trade
b
Question 9 Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"? No answer provided a. Stubbornness b. Individuality c. Expressiveness d. Musicality
b
The following questions refer to the following excerpt. "[T]he Western world had typically connected church and state. Now the Americans undertook to experiment with their separation: Religion would be purely voluntary. The results astonished both friends and foes of Christianity. . . . Far from hindering religion, the American model of voluntarism hugely facilitated it, liberating powerful religious energies. Religion, which had played such an important part in the life of the American colonies, was reinvigorated . . . in the life of the American republic. . . . Americans . . . experienced widespread direct democracy through the creation, administration, and financing of churches and other voluntary societies. . . . Women, African Americans, and newly arrived poor immigrants were all participating in religion, often in leadership roles, before they participated in politics." — Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 Which of the following most directly resulted from mid-nineteenth-century religious voluntarism as described in the excerpt? No answer provided a. The establishment of utopian communities b. Women's work for moral reform in urban areas c. The women's rights movement d. The transcendentalist movement
b
Which of the following areas is correctly matched with its primary crop? No answer provided a. Carolina low country—hemp b. Louisiana—sugar c. Kentucky and Tennessee—cotton d. Chesapeake—rice
b
0/1 Question 19 Which of the following was an evangelical movement that believed the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and people could attain complete freedom from sin? No answer provided a. Mormonism b. Fourierism c. Perfectionism d. Transcendentalism
c
0/1 Question 30 In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following? No answer provided a. He urged slaves not to rebel but to seek comfort in their relationships and religious activities instead. b. He appealed to the religious consciences of slaveholders to recognize slavery as being morally wrong. c. He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed. d. He approved of colonization programs to establish an African republic for freed American slaves.
c
0/1 Question 32 As a result of Turner's Rebellion, the Virginia legislature did which of the following in the 1830s? No answer provided a. It adopted a resolution supporting the colonization of all of Virginia's free blacks. b. It called on slave owners to treat their slaves more humanely in order to prevent future slave rebellions. c. It debated but rejected a bill providing for gradual emancipation and colonization. d. It refused to even consider a bill providing for gradual emancipation and colonization.
c
0/1 Question 34 How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century? No answer provided a. Women interested in abolition attended meetings with their husbands but did not actively participate in the societies. b. Women were not active in the abolition movement. c. Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. d. Female abolitionists often discussed issues of slavery among themselves, but they had limited involvement in the movement.
c
0/1 Question 39 Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century? No answer provided a. They did not want the Baptists beliefs held by many slaves to spread to the North. b. The northerners supported slavery only because of the belief of black inferiority. c. Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs. d. They were interested in maintaining the English Protestant society of the North.
c
0/1 Question 43 Who founded the Liberty Party in 1840? No answer provided a. Proslavery advocates in both the North and the South b. Theodore Dwight Weld, who sought to unify the antislavery movement c. Antislavery leaders who had broken with Garrison d. William Lloyd Garrison, after he broke with most of the other abolitionist leaders
c
0/1 Question 44 The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s? No answer provided a. Mormonism b. The Oneida Community c. The Second Great Awakening d. The American Revolution
c
0/1 Question 48 Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s? No answer provided a. Abolition b. Temperance c. Educational reform d. Prison reform
c
0/1 Question 49 Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852? No answer provided a. She wanted more white Northern women to join abolitionist societies. b. She wanted to promote African colonization as the best solution to the evils of slavery. c. Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading to slave women. d. She wanted women to leave any church that did not preach against slavery.
c
Question 10 Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements? No answer provided a. Educational reform b. Prison reform c. Transcendentalism d. Temperance
c
Question 15 In the late 1840s and the 1850s, Emersonians did which of the following? No answer provided a. Created dozens of utopian settlements throughout New England and the Midwest b. Suggested that most workers were incapable of higher learning c. Abandoned their quest to create new social institutions d. Rejected cash donations from wealthy followers, calling such donations "tainted funds"
c
Question 16 The Shakers' name came from which of the following? No answer provided a. The town in which they originated b. The name of their founder c. Their particular form of worship d. Their efforts to transform society
c
Question 6 The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts? No answer provided a. Advocating social nonconformity and civil disobedience b. Encouraging mob violence like the violence that killed Joseph Smith c. Promoting the spread of knowledge through public lectures d. Ending the era of utopian communal experiments
c
Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840? No answer provided a. Planters were building factories to process cotton. b. Planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers. c. It produced and exported over two-thirds of the world's cotton supply. d. Southern society was dominated by free labor.
c
0/1 Question 18 Which of the following describes the Fourierist movement in America? No answer provided a. Mormonism was founded on the principles of Fourierism. b. It created a lasting and uniquely American style of furniture. c. Fourierists inspired Susan B. Anthony and helped launch the women's rights movement. d. It demonstrated the difficulty of creating enduring utopian communities.
d
0/1 Question 23 Which of the following contributed to the harassment and persecution of Mormons at Nauvoo in the early 1840s? No answer provided a. Their widespread ownership of slaves b. Their declaration of war against the Illinois militia c. Mormons' plan to make plural marriage legal in Illinois d. Mormons' power as a voting bloc in local elections
d
0/1 Question 26 Which of these factors contributed to the tremendous increase in commercialized sex in the new cities of the mid-nineteenth century? No answer provided a. Mainstream churches' timidity about addressing sexual issues explicitly b. Cities' refusal to pass legislation banning prostitution and pornography c. An influx of immigrants from southern and eastern European counties d. The subsistence wages and exploitative conditions of women's jobs
d
0/1 Question 41 What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836? No answer provided a. The rule made it a federal crime to distribute abolitionist tracts in any state where slavery was legal. b. It prevented southern politicians from giving proslavery speeches on the floor of the House. c. It suspended the writ of habeas corpus for any abolitionist speaker arrested for violating antiabolitionist laws. d. The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House.
d
Question 13 Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common? No answer provided a. Both celebrated the positive potential of the individual. b. Both warned against the restrictions imposed on individuals by social groups. c. They wrote mostly of the past and ignored current realities in the United States. d. They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism.
d
Question 14 Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s? No answer provided a. Brook Farm's residents pioneered the use of advanced farming techniques. b. Brook Farm's residents consisted mostly of families and single women. c. They practiced nineteenth-century versions of free love and communism. d. They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life.
d
Question 22 Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon, published in 1830? No answer provided a. The book offered a detailed explanation and justification of the Mormons' social philosophy. b. It was a historical account of the Mormons' westward migration to Utah. c. The book was written anonymously by anti-Mormons to discredit Mormon beliefs. d. It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection.
d
Question 5 What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individual's mystical union with God and achievement of self-realization? No answer provided a. Intensive, solitary study b. Sexual intimacy c. Hard physical labor d. Spending time alone in nature
d
Question 8 Which of the following describes the purpose of Henry David Thoreau's book Walden? No answer provided a. It warned of the dangers that could arise from too many efforts to promote and create social reform. b. The book sought to advise farmers on practical matters that would increase the profitability of small farms. c. It was intended to serve as a guidebook for others who wanted to learn how to survive alone in the woods. d. It was written to document Walden's spiritual search for meaning beyond the artificiality of "civilized" life.
d
Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry? No answer provided a. Immigrants formed an important subgroup of southern plantation laborers. b. Native Americans formed an important subgroup of southern plantation laborers. c. African American slaves were unable to escape the labor system due to planter violence. d. African American slaves worked from sunup to sundown all year long.
d
