Ch. 11 & 12 APUSH Test
Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry?
African American slaves worked from sunup to sundown all year long.
What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?
Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family.
Which of the following is properly paired? A. Henry David Thoreau -- The Scarlet Letter B. Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass C. Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Moby Dick D. Herman Melville -- Walden
B. Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass
How did planters attempt to resolve a labor crisis in the cotton South in the early nineteenth century?
By buying domestic slaves from the Chesapeake region
Which of the following were core institutions for African American society in the mid-nineteenth-century South?
Church and family
Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?
Educational reform.
In the cotton-growing regions of the South, which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?
Gang-labor depended upon the work of white overseers and black drivers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?
He argued that people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature.
Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?
He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.
In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?
He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed.
Which of the following individuals went to jail rather than pay taxes in support of the Mexican War and slavery?
Henry David Thoreau
Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon, published in 1830?
It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection.
As a result of Turner's Rebellion, the Virginia legislature did which of the following in the 1830s?
It debated but rejected a bill providing for gradual emancipation and colonization.
Which of the following describes the Fourierist movement in America?
It demonstrated the difficulty of creating enduring utopian communities.
Which of the following describes the purpose of Henry David Thoreau's book Walden?
It was written to document Walden's spiritual search for meaning beyond the artificiality of "civilized" life.
Who was a critic for the New York Tribune, an editor of The Dial, and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century?
Margaret Fuller
Which of the following contributed to the harassment and persecution of Mormons at Nauvoo in the early 1840s?
Mormons' power as a voting bloc in local elections
Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States?
Most held low-wage jobs as farm workers, day laborers, or laundresses.
Smallholding planters in the nineteenth-century South owned about how many slaves, on average?
One to five
Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?
Population growth through natural reproduction.
Why did the United States decline to annex Texas in 1837?
President Van Buren feared that annexation would spark an American civil war over the issue of slavery.
The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts?
Promoting the spread of knowledge through public lectures.
Which of the following statements characterizes African American marriage customs in the slave South?
Slave couples often followed the African custom of "jumping the broom" to signify their union.
The notion of slavery as a "necessary evil" and a "positive good" was supported by which idea?
Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks.
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852?
Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading to slave women.
During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?
Strengthening the legal rights of married women.
The most prominent political operative who acquired political skills and joined the women's rights movement; scared a New York granting women the right to control their own wages...
Susan B. Anthony
Which of these groups accounted for the largest percentage of the white population in the mid-nineteenth-century Cotton South?
Tenant farmers and day laborers
The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following?
The Indian Removal Act
Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?
The Second Great Awakening
What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?
The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House.
Which of these factors contributed to the tremendous increase in commercialized sex in the new cities of the mid-nineteenth century?
The subsistence wages and exploitative conditions of women's jobs.
Which of the following statements describes the relationship between the economies of the North and the South in the mid-nineteenth century?
The wealth of the industrializing Northeast was increasing more quickly than that of the South.
Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?
They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.
Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?
They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.
Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?
They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism.
Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s
They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism.
Which of the following statements describes the class of propertyless whites living in the South in the mid-nineteenth century?
They worked hard physical jobs as day laborers and enjoyed little respect from other whites.
What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?
To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their families.
Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?
Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.
The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?
Transcendentalism
The aim of creating the perfect society...
Utopianism
Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?
Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.
The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?
complex marriage
How did slaves resist slavery in the 1820s?
large-scale uprising
In their book American Slavery as It Is, Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters...
presented testimony from individual southerners about the evils of slavery.
