Unit 3 Ch 12-15 APUSH TEST
Henry Clay's "American System" called for all of the following EXCEPT
sale of federal lands to finance higher education
In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were
young unmarried women from rural New England
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, describing events earlier in the nineteenth century Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the excerpt's depiction of reactions to slave rebellions?
Additional restrictions were placed on enslaved and free African Americans.
Which of the following evidence did the American Temperance Society in the excerpt use to support its argument about the need for the temperance movement?
Alcohol consumption damaged people's physical and emotional well-being.
The Missouri Compromise did which of the following?
Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state.
Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837. 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?
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.
Which of the following factors best explains the increase in White male suffrage in the early nineteenth century?
Changes to property ownership requirements
Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 Which of the following was an interpretation of the speech by opponents of the goals Clay expressed in the excerpt?
Clay's manufacturing plan would benefit one section of the country more than others.
The Monroe Doctrine maintained that
European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas
Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 Which of the following most directly made possible the ideas described in the excerpt?
Innovations including textile machinery, steam engines, and interchangeable parts
Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?
It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's.
The Second Great Awakening did which of the following?
It encouraged conversion to evangelical Christianity.
Which of the following statements about the "American System" is correct?
It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency.
Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837. 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?
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 is based on the idea of states' rights?
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 Which of the following describes an interpretation of Clay's economic principles at the time as expressed in the excerpt?
The United States should increase domestic manufacturing to promote prosperity.
Which of the following most directly contributed to the change over time depicted on the two maps?
The building of canals and roads
President Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832 Which of the following factors best supports the argument in the excerpt?
The debates over the federal government's proper role had intensified during the early nineteenth century.
The change depicted on the maps most directly contributed to which of the following?
The drawing of a boundary line to discourage settlers from moving west of the Appalachians
Which of the following best explains the expansion of participatory democracy in the early nineteenth century?
The extension of suffrage rights to most adult White men
— Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 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 economy in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following?
The improvement of transportation and availability of goods
Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824 The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?
The political debates over economic development
Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?
The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, describing events earlier in the nineteenth century 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 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.
Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank
They believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the activists who attended the Seneca Falls Convention?
They called for expanded women's rights.
What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?
To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man
Most young women who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills during the 1830s experienced all of the following EXCEPT
continued employment after marriage
Daniel Webster's address to the Senate in 1830 in reply to Senator Hayne is best remembered for its
defense of the principle of national union
A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was
develop a national economy by improving transportation
An important consequence of the "tariff of abominations" (1828) is that it led to the
enunciation of the doctrine of nullification
President Jackson resisted the admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because he
feared that debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery
In the 1850s, which of the following groups would have been most likely to benefit from the changes depicted on the maps?
immigrants from western Europe
The map above shows the United States immediately following the
passage of the Missouri Compromise
Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that
political participation by the common man should be increased
The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of
protective tariffs
William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which of the following issues?
Abolition of slavery
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (Seneca Falls Convention), 1848 Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?
Abolitionism
Which of the following best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?
Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government
The language and themes of the excerpt were most directly inspired by the
Declaration of Independence
Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 The ideas described in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?
More Americans producing goods for national markets
The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
Most Southern families held slaves
A vertical bar graph titled "Slaveholders in 1860
Most southern families held slaves.
Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837. 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?
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 the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?
The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency, increased.
President Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832 Which of the following of Jackson's policies undermined his position as described in the excerpt?
Using federal power to forcibly relocate American Indian groups.
The call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of
William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator
In the antebellum period, free African Americans were
able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for
advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation.
The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by
banning discussion of antislavery petitions
The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it
closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832 The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the
relationship between the federal government and the states
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in
urban areas of the North
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?
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.
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
Irish immigrants
Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?
Northern abolitionists
President Andrew Jackson's creation of a monetary system based on state-chartered banks most likely contributed to which of the following?
The Panic of 1837
Richard Lyman Bushman, historian, Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder, 2005 The developments described in the excerpt best illustrate which of the following?
The Second Great Awakening
President Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832 People who shared the views expressed in the excerpt most likely opposed which of the following?
The use of federal government funding for internal improvements
"Let Southern oppressors tremble .... I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement .... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."
William L.Garrison
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at Seneca Falls, New York, called for
increased rights for women
Most Progressives sought all of the following EXCEPT the
legislative creation of socialist commonwealth
The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned
no slaves
Those who supported the War of 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions EXCEPT the
obligation to protect Native Americans
The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to
prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832 The excerpt most directly expresses an economic perspective that
prioritized regional interests
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
The most important factor in Andrew Jackson's successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his
reputation as a hero of the War of 1812
Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007 One major change in United States politics from the 1820s to the mid-1850s was the
rise of political parties defined largely by regional interests
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it
strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT
the right of nullification
One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was
the separation of economic production from the home and family life
The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of
transporting African Americans to Africa
President Monroe articulate the Monroe Doctrine in his 1823 address to Congress primarily in order to
warn European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere
