APUSH Unit 4 Test
One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the
Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian.
Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?
Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans, including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother
The "canal era" of American history began with the construction of the
Erie Canal in New York.
The first major transportation project in the United States, which ran sixty-two miles and was completed in the 1790s, that proved to be a stimulus for western economic developments was the
Lancaster Turnpike.
Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was the
Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time.
Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of
San Jacinto.
The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of
Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann
One adverse result for the United States of the outcome of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 was
a British naval blockade of the American coast.
Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was
a major expansion of presidential power.
The outcome of the War of 1812 was a
a stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
a stronger religious influence in many areas of American life including abolitionism and benevolent and charitable organizations
Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program in Oregon, Texas, and the Southwest were the
abolitionists.
Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through
an inner light.
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to
attract the vote of the states' righters.
The two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s
became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved
by a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border
Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
cotton gin.
As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South
developed a theory of biological racial superiority to justify slavery.
For free blacks living in the North
discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common.
In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson
dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification.
Life on the frontier was
downright grim for most pioneer families
The Spanish Franciscan missionaries treated the Indian inhabitants of California
extremely harshly, as Indian inhabitants of California were required to toil endlessly as poor farmers and herders and often came down with serious deadly diseases.
In interpreting the Constitution, John Marshall
favored the doctrine of loose construction
In his quest for California, President James K. Polk
first advocated buying the area from Mexico
The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved
forced removal from their traditional lands.
Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as
generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.
The cult of domesticity
glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers
The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was
hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress.
The resolutions enacted by the delegates at the Hartford Convention
helped to cause the death of the Federalist party.
The profitable southern slave system
hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole
When the war with Mexico began, President James K. Polk
hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California
Most slaves were raised
in stable two-parent households
At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was
incapable of being effectively enforced by the US armed forces.
Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because
its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.
One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United States was
its function as a source of credit and stability, promoting the nation's expanding economy.
When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was
more interested in practical gadgets than scientific research
The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it
more reliant on women as members and social reformers
The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
nativism.
By the 1840s voter participation in the presidential election reached
nearly 80 percent.
Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the
newly won ascendancy of the masses.
The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when
no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College.
The War of 1812 was notable in the history of American warfare because
of the nation's apathy and national disunity.
America's military campaigns against Canada in the War of 1812 were
poorly conceived strategically and successfully repelled by the British and Canadians.
John Quincy Adams could be described as
possessing almost none of the arts of the politician.
Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States gaining
possession of Florida from the Spanish.
One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was
rape was more severely punished in the United States.
Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the
rich soil of the Willamette River Valley
As a result of the development of the cotton gin
slavery revived and expanded
As a result of the Missouri Compromise
slavery was banned north of the 36 30' in the Louisiana Purchase territory
As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
slavery was reinvigorated in the south.
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States
Slaves fought the system of slavery by
slowing down the pace of their labor, conducting periodic slave rebellions, and running away from their masters.
In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings limited the extent of
states' rights.
Most white southerners were
subsistence farmers.
The American workforce in the early nineteenth century was characterized by
substantial employment of women and children in factories.
The British government desired a political and military alliance with the independent Republic of Texas because
such an alliance would limit the ability of the United States to achieve political and economic dominance over Latin America
The Wilmot Proviso
symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over
tariff policy.
Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin endorsed the belief
that a Supreme Being endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior
A primary reason that the British government decided to compromise with the United States on the Oregon Country border was
the British government's belief that the Oregon Country was neither politically nor economically critical to British foreign policy interests.
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.
The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was
the rebellion against British rule and potato famine.
Ecological imperialism, as exemplified during the American historical period of 1790-1860, can best be described as
the wanton, heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade.
One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that
too much learning would injure women's brains, ruin their health, and make them unfit for marriage
For Native Americans, the War of 1812 meant
treaties in which they reluctantly relinquished lands north of the Ohio River.
The Era of Good Feelings
was a misnomer, because the period was a troubled one.
Despite early resistance, the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was
wealthy and politically powerful Americans feared that if the government failed to provide free public education, poor families and immigrants would utilize their free vote to elect candidates and political parties opposed by these political and economic elites
Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery
were creating disorder and havoc in America that threatened the nation's constitutional fabric.
Both the Democratic party and the Whig party
were mass-based political parties
As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the
whip as a motivator.
