Unit 4 & 5 Exam
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written by John C. Calhoun, bore a similarity to the argument made by which of the following people?
a. Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Who was the English immigrant who secretly brought the design of the most advanced British machinery for spinning cotton to America in 1789?
b. Samuel Slater
Which of the following took place in response to the Jefferson administration's purchase of Louisiana?
b. Some New England Federalists devised a plan to secede from the Union and establish a northern confederacy.
Why did Thomas Jefferson decide to attempt to purchase New Orleans in 1801?
b. Spain refused to allow American farmers to ship their products through the port, in violation of the Pinckney Treaty.
By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery?
b. Steam engines
Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s?
b. Tariffs on imported goods
Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America?
b. Temperance
Which of the following events was the Federalists' response to the Republicans' criticism of their policies in the 1790s?
b. The Alien and Sedition Acts
Which of the following developments spurred the Panic of 1837?
b. The Bank of England curtailed British investment in the United States.
What was the outcome of President John Quincy Adams' support of the Creeks in their treaty negotiations with the state of Georgia?
c. Georgia's governor attacked him as a "public enemy" and "ally of the savages."
Which of the following describes German immigrants who settled in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?
c. Germans were the second largest immigrant group and many settled in the midwestern states.
Which of the following cases is properly paired with its corresponding decision?
c. Gibbons v. Ogden—national government controls interstate commerce
Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?
c. He thought it interfered with the rights of states and the liberties of the people.
Emma Willard was the first American to advocate for which of the following reforms?
c. Higher education for women
The spread of the cultural attitude known as sentimentalism in early nineteenth-century America had which of the following social and cultural consequences?
c. Increased emphasis on the importance of love in marriage
Which of the following statements characterizes federal land price policies in the Northwest Territory during 1790-1820?
c. Jeffersonian Republicans passed laws that made it easier for farm families to buy land.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers' main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following?
c. More natural resources
In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), John Marshall and the Court majority issued a decision that
c. upheld Indian nations' political authority in their communities.
Why was the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 significant?
d. It restored national pride and made Andrew Jackson an American hero.
The South's political clout, which ensured that the national government would continue to protect slavery, rested on which of the following?
d. Its domination of the presidency and Senate
Which of the following statements characterizes Andrew Jackson's intentions toward Native Americans during his presidency?
d. Jackson meant to remove all Native Americans east of the Mississippi, even those who had adapted to white society.
Which of the following statements describes workers' approach to alcohol consumption in the 1820s?
d. Many workers used alcohol as an escape from the routine of work but also drank in their workplaces.
In which of the following ways was Chief Justice Roger Taney different from his predecessor, John Marshall?
d. Marshall was nationally oriented while Taney favored states' rights.
Who is considered the first real politician, partly because he created the first statewide political machine?
d. Martin Van Buren
Which of the following characterizes the impact of companionate marriage on divorce in the early nineteenth century?
d. Most divorce petitions in the early nineteenth century cited emotional complaints.
Which of the following statements characterizes the relationship between church and state in postrevolutionary America?
d. Most states continued to support churches indirectly by not taxing their property or ministers' incomes.
The southern migrants who moved along the coastal plain toward the Gulf of Mexico between 1790 and 1820 originated in which of the following areas?
d. North and South Carolina
Which of the following describes the political developments taking place in America during the first two decades of the nineteenth century?
d. Ordinary white men's rising political status was accompanied by a decline in the political rights of women and free blacks.
In the early republic, Benjamin Rush and other leaders argued that women should be educated so they could do which of the following?
d. Oversee the instruction of their sons in the principles of liberty and government
The power of elected officials to grant government jobs to party members in return for their loyalty is known as which of the following systems?
d. Patronage
Washington's Secretary of War, Henry Knox, favored which of the following approaches to Native Americans?
Assimilation
Jefferson's administration demonstrated its disagreement with Hamilton's philosophy by
c. ending the excise tax.
Who led the conservative Senecas, who condemned assimilation and demanded a return to ancestral customs?
Chief Red Jacket
What killed thousands of poor immigrants in St. Louis and New York City in the summer of 1849?
Cholera
In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "It is a constant fact that at the present day the ablest men in the United States are rarely placed at the head of affairs." To what did he attribute this phenomenon?
Democracy
The growth of the textile industry in New England in the early nineteenth century negatively affected which of the following occupations?
Fishing
In the election of 1840, Whigs boosted their electoral hopes by appealing to which of the following groups?
WomenThis
In the early 1800s, British textile manufacturers had which of the following advantages over their American competitors?
a. A large pool of cheap labor
Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century?
a. American businesses soon dominated in many European markets.
The Panic of 1819 caused which of the following outcomes?
a. American cotton and wheat prices plummeted over 50 percent.
Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?
a. American ingenuity
The excerpt best reflects which of the following trends in the history of the United States?
a. Americans' westward migration in pursuit of land
In which of the following lists is the emergence of American financial institutions placed in the correct chronological order?
a. Bank of North America, Second Bank of the United States, land banks
Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. Better transportation networks
How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. By passing protective tariffs
The point of view illustrated by the excerpt was most likely a reaction to which of the following developments occurring in the United States at that time?
a. Cherokees' adoption of whites' economic and political practices and beliefs
In 1834, the Working Men's Party persuaded the Pennsylvania legislature to do which of the following?
a. Create a free, tax-supported public school system
Why did a national market emerge in the United States between the 1780s and about 1820?
a. Entrepreneurs mobilized the large rural workforce to manufacture and distribute goods throughout the United States.
Which of the following factors contributed to the sharp decline in the American birthrate from 1790 to 1820?
a. Fathers' desire for fewer children in order to ensure the adequacy of their inheritances
How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina's claimed right of nullification in 1832?
a. He asked Congress for a Force Bill authorizing him to use the military to suppress any act of nullification.
Why was Toussaint L'Ouverture a significant figure in the 1790s?
a. He led black Haitians in their fight to seize control of Saint-Domingue.
Which of the following describe John Tyler and his presidency?
a. He so angered Whigs that he was kicked out of the party while president.
The Trail of Tears was the direct consequence of which of the following government actions?
a. Indian Removal Act of 1830
The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?
a. It increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost.
Why was the decision in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803) of great importance in American history?
a. It marked the first occasion on which the Supreme Court declared that it had the power to rule national laws unconstitutional.
Which of the following arguments did President Jackson offer as a justification for destroying the Second Bank of the United States?
a. It was a monopoly that benefited only a few owners, some of whom were foreigners.
Which of the following statements characterizes the Second Bank of the United States in the 1830s?
a. Its cautious monetary policy pleased bankers, creditors, and East Coast entrepreneurs, who funded economic development.
Which of the following best characterizes the Native American response to whites' assimilation efforts in the Midwest in the late eighteenth century?
a. Many Native Americans repudiated white missionaries and forced Christian converts to participate in native rituals.
For which of the following reasons did New York's state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817?
a. New Yorkers sought to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes.
Which of the following nineteenth-century groups would have been most likely to oppose the ideas described in the excerpt?
a. Northern evangelical Protestants
Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?
a. Railroads
Which of the following spurred the Panic of 1819 in the United States?
a. Reckless practices pursued by shady state-chartered banks
Politicians from modest backgrounds tended to support which of the following reforms in the 1810s?
a. Restrictions on imprisonment for debt
Which of the following was an outcome of the division of labor in early American shoe factories?
a. Shoe production increased.
Which of the following stipulations was included in the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819?
a. Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
The ideas described in this excerpt differ most significantly from those held by which of the following groups from earlier periods in American history?
a. Spanish settlers in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the commonwealth system was consistent with republican ideology?
a. State support for private businesses contributed to the overall public good.
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which were set forth in 1798, supported which of the following positions?
a. States' right to judge the legitimacy of national laws
In which of the following actions did President James Madison contradict the traditional philosophy of Republicans?
a. Supporting the creation of the Second Bank of the United States
Which of the following was the major cause of the developments described in the excerpt?
a. The Market Revolution
The construction of the Erie Canal had which of the following negative consequences?
a. The construction of the canal and its heavy use altered the ecology of the entire region.
Why did Thomas Jefferson call his election to the presidency the "Revolution of 1800"?
a. The government changed peacefully despite bitter partisan conflict and foreign crisis.
Charles Grandison Finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820s by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons?
a. The importance of personal conversion
Why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states during and after the Revolution?
a. The northern states gave priority to slaveholders' property rights so that emancipation often was spaced out over several slave generations.
Which of the following statements characterizes the American party system by the early 1840s?
a. The practice of Americans voting for a particular party along ethnic and religious lines began to emerge.
The developments described in the excerpt were most directly associated with which of the following occurring in the United States at that time?
a. The rise of the middle class
Which of the following was linked to the changes described in the excerpt?
a. The spread of the republican motherhood idea
Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?
a. The steel plow
Why did a group of prominent citizens found the American Colonization Society in 1817?
a. They aimed to encourage Southern planters to emancipate their slaves for resettlement in Africa.
Which of the following statements describes migrants who left New England during the 1790s?
a. They moved in family or community groups.
Why did several eastern states expand suffrage in the 1810s?
a. They wanted to discourage westward migration.
Society's notion of women as republican wives and mothers was based on which of the following ideas about women?
a. They were uniquely qualified to educate and nurture the spirit.
What occurred during the Bad Axe Massacre of 1832?
a. U.S. troops pursued Black Hawk's followers into Wisconsin and killed 850 of his warriors.
What aspect of early nineteenth-century American government had the founders condemned as contrary to republican ideals?
b. Political parties
As a result of the Embargo Act of 1807, the American economy
a. fell into a slump and the American gross national product dropped by 5 percent.
Which of the following phrases describes the federal judiciary at the time Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801?
b. Packed with hostile Federalists
What was the Second Great Awakening that took place in the United States in the nineteenth century?
b. A long-lasting religious revival that made the United States a genuinely religious society
On whom did President Jackson rely for political advice?
b. An informal group called the Kitchen Cabinet
To which of the following causes did Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune contribute in the early nineteenth century?
b. Assisting widows and orphans
Which of the following statements describes the extent to which parents exercised control over their children's marriages in the United States in 1800?
b. Because landholdings shrank, parents lost leverage over their children's choices of marital partners.
Which of the following statements describes the impact of the Jacksonian-era constitutional revolution on the states?
b. Between 1830 and 1860, twenty states revised their charters and enhanced democracy.
How did evangelical Christians spread religious revival during the Second Great Awakening?
b. By holding large camp meetings
Which of the following was a result of the Second Great Awakening?
b. Different denominations cooperated with one another.
Which statement was true of George Washington's 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality?
b. Earnings from shipping rose spectacularly as a result of it.
In which of the following ways did the growth of rural manufacturing affect New Englanders in the early eighteenth century?
b. Farm families became more dependent on market forces beyond their control.
Which of the following was an outcome of the postwar election of 1818?
b. Federalists were soundly beaten, with the Republicans winning margins of approximately five to one in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
In what way was the United States more democratic than anywhere else in the world during the first half of the nineteenth century?
b. Franchise qualifications
Which concept promoted by the Second Great Awakening reinforced its push for societal reform?
b. Free moral agency
How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the development of American manufacturing by the 1820s?
b. He praised industrialization and expressed pride in American progress in manufacturing.
Which of these statesmen played a critical role in creating and passing the 1820 Missouri Compromise?
b. Henry Clay
Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?
b. It brought workers together under one roof in a factory.
Which of the following describes Jay's Treaty of 1795?
b. It required the British to withdraw their troops from forts in the Northwest Territory.
Which of the following objections to the system of state-sponsored mercantilism emerged in the United States by 1820?
b. It violated the equal rights of citizens and lessened the power of government.
Which of the following statements describes Jackson's veto of the bill rechartering the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?
b. It was a popular move, blending constitutional arguments, an appeal to patriotism, and class rhetoric.
Which of the following took place after the Bank of the United States' charter expired in 1811?
b. It was not renewed, but a Second Bank of the United States was chartered five years later.
Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?
b. Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories.
How did President Andrew Jackson change the federal system of office holding?
b. Jackson introduced the principle of rotation in office to discourage long tenure.
Correctly match the candidate in the 1824 presidential election with his description.
b. Jackson—popular War of 1812 hero
Which of the following is true of the U.S. election of 1796?
b. John Adams won the vote and continued a pro-British foreign policy.
Which inventor is properly matched with the item he invented?
b. John Deere—the steel plow
The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following?
b. Machine tools
Which of the following statements characterizes the American reaction to the French Revolution?
b. Many Americans praised the egalitarianism of the French republicans and began to address one another as "citizen."
Which of the following characterizes patterns of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?
b. Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants.
Which of the following characterizes the impact of republican ideology on child rearing in America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
b. Most parents began to treat their more children permissively and respectfully.
What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specify should be done in an election like the election of 1824, in which no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes?
b. The House of Representatives decides the outcome.
Which of the following laws required the Treasury department to accept only gold and silver in payment for purchases of federal land?
b. The Specie Circular
Which of the following statements characterizes the presidential campaign of 1840?
b. The Whigs' campaign was a carnival of speeches, parades, and mass meetings to demonstrate the man-of-the-people qualities of their presidential candidate.
Working Men's Parties of the late 1820s and 1830s called for which of the following reforms?
b. The abolition of debtors' prisons
Which of the following statements characterizes the operations of the Bank of the United States in the twenty years after its 1791 chartering?
b. The bank had branches in eight major cities to respond to demands for commercial credit, and its profits averaged 8 percent annually.
Which of the following describes the textile industry that was emerging in New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the 1780s?
b. The industry relied on an outwork system that combined mills and household labor.
Which of the following was the primary function of the Second Bank of the United States?
b. To stabilize the nation's money supply by forcing state banks to convert their paper money periodically into gold and silver coin
Which of the following statements describes transportation in the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century?
b. Water transport was the quickest and cheapest way to get goods to market.
In the early 1800s, which group would have endorsed Thomas Jefferson's and Benjamin Rush's proposals for comprehensive public education?
b. Wealthy New England merchants
Which of the following individuals would have been unlikely to gravitate toward the Republicans in the late 1790s?
b. Wealthy New York banker
In theory, companionate marriage gave wives equality of rank and fortune but did not solve the issue of
b. domestic tyranny.
In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court's decision
b. overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City.
In the aftermath of the nullification crisis, President Jackson responded to southern concerns about the tariff by
b. persuading Congress to pass a new tariff that gradually reduced duties.
The Second Great Awakening deeply influenced American culture and society by
b. promoting the ideas of human reason and free will.
In 1801, Jefferson responded to the Barbary States; threats against American shipping by
b. refusing tribute payments, retaliating against renewed Barbary attacks, then working out a diplomatic solution involving much lower tribute payments.
John C. Calhoun challenged the northern Whig economic ideology by arguing
b. that advanced civilizations always had antagonism between workers and capitalists.
The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as
b. the labor theory of value.
John Marshall's decisions upheld the principle of
b. the supremacy of national laws over state laws.
President Martin Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 by
c. adopting a hands-off, limited-government stance.
Which of the following describes the publication Letters from an American Farmer?
c. A book written by a French essayist in 1782 that praised American egalitarianism and condemned European aristocracy
As president, John Quincy Adams supported which of the following policies?
c. A national bank to promote a uniform currency and to control credit.
Sequoyah developed which of the following to assimilate members of the Cherokee tribe into American life?
c. A perfected system of writing for the Cherokee language
Which of the following describes the relationship between social status and wealth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history
c. Americans respected those who raised their status through talent and hard work.
Which of the following served as a catalyst for the 1794 domestic insurgency known as the Whiskey Rebellion?
c. An excise tax
Which were the two fastest-growing American church denominations during the early nineteenth century?
c. Baptists and Methodists
Which of the following describes the state of Southern society in the early nineteenth century?
c. Because hard work was associated with slaves, white men resented doing physical labor.
Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following ways?
c. Casual day laborers bore the brunt of unemployment during business depressions.
By the 1830s, most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?
c. Crowded boardinghouses and tiny apartments
John Jacob Astor, a prominent New York merchant of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, made his fortune in which trade?
c. Fur
Which of the following developments ended the debate over emancipation in the South in the early nineteenth century?
c. Gabriel Prosser's slave uprising
Which of the following statements describes the Federalists' response to the War of 1812?
c. Most Federalists strongly opposed the war and some in Massachusetts met to consider amending the Constitution to prevent future such wars.
Which of the following was true of New Englanders' westward migration during the 1790s and 1800s?
c. Much of the land in the areas where the settlers arrived had already fallen into the hands of politically well-connected speculators.
Which of the following statements characterizes the American political system directly after the American Revolution?
c. Notables managed local elections through their personal connections.
Which of the following were the three key elements of Clay's American system?
c. Protective tariff, subsidized internal improvements, and the national bank
Roman Catholic immigration into the United States in the 1840s had which of the following effects?
c. Protestants' rejection of their new Catholic coworkers undercut trade unionism.
Most of the new state constitutions written between 1830 and 1860 did which of the following?
c. Reapportioned state legislatures on the basis of population
The excerpt best reflects which of the following elements of American society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
c. Republicanism
The 1832 Ordinance of Nullification was based on which of the following beliefs?
c. States had the right to determine which congressional laws they would enforce.
The prophet Tenskwatawa was historically significant for which of the following activities?
c. Tenskwatawa urged Indian peoples to work together and to shun the ways of Americans.
Which of the following developments most directly resulted from the changes Watson details in the excerpt?
c. The Benevolent Empire
Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s?
c. The Protestant work ethic
Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes U.S. relations with France during the late 1790s?
c. The United States cut off trade with France and authorized Americans to seize French ships.
Which of the following factors made the critical contribution to the Federalist Party's downfall?
c. The adoption of many of their policies by Republicans
How did the appearance of canals and steamboats in the United States affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s?
c. The canals and steamboats cut in half most travel and communication time.
Which of the following was the most direct effect of the developments described in the excerpt?
c. The emergence of secessionist schemes in the United States
Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?
c. The fabrication of metal products
The proposed 1819 Tallmadge Amendment articulated which of the following plans?
c. The gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri
The developments described in the excerpt most strongly suggest which of the following about that period of American history?
c. The growth of the United States complicated the construction of an American identity.
Which of the following describes Jefferson's approach to the opportunity to purchase Louisiana in 1802?
c. The opportunity led Jefferson to revise his view of the presidential powers granted by the Constitution.
Which of the following was the message of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, published in full in 1818?
c. The suggestion that an industrious man could become wealthy
Why was Pinckney's Treaty of 1795 significant?
c. The treaty opened the Mississippi River and New Orleans to American trade.
Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans?
c. Their role in transportation networks
Which of the following was one of the ways that wageworkers strove to resist their bosses' efforts to control their nonwork lives in the early to mid-nineteenth century?
c. They built a robust workers' culture that preserved their autonomy outside work.
What did bankers, land speculators, and entrepreneurs in the 1820s to the 1840s have in common?
c. They demanded government assistance for their business enterprises.
Which of the following describes the Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820?
c. This piece of legislation set a precedent for future states' admission to the Union.
Which slaves became free as a result of the Virginia legislature's passage of a manumission act in 1782?
c. Those whose masters chose to free them
Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?
c. To link midwestern settlers to the seaboard states
Indians ceded much of Ohio and acknowledged American political sovereignty in which of the following treaties?
c. Treaty of Greenville
Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States?
c. Using British textile machinery as their model, American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and ultimately improved on British technology.
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in which of the following regions of the Louisiana Purchase?
d. All the lands north of latitude 36°30¢ except for the state of Missouri
About how many African Americans were still living in slavery in the northern states in 1810?
d. Approximately 30,000
How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans?
d. As machines changed the nature of their work, shoemakers, hatters, printers, furniture makers, and weavers faced declining income, job insecurity, and loss of status.
How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America?
d. By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically
Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?
d. Conspicuous displays of their wealth through clothing and housing
In 1832, a South Carolina state convention committed which of the following actions?
d. Declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state
In the landmark case of Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. (1837), Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and the U.S. Supreme Court did which of the following?
d. Encouraged competitive enterprise, opening the way for legislatures to charter railroad companies
African Americans who converted to Christianity during the Second Great Awakening embraced which of the following teachings?
d. God as the liberator of the Jews
What was the immediate cause of the illegal duel in which Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in 1804?
d. Hamilton's accusation that Burr was aiding a plot to destroy the Union
Why did Thomas Jefferson dispatch the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?
d. He wanted a report on the physical features and the plant and animal life of the Louisiana Territory.
Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?
d. Irish immigrants
Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?
d. Irish immigrants
The Naturalization, Alien, and Sedition Acts had which of the following outcomes in the United States in the 1790s?
d. It became illegal to publish insults or malicious attacks against Congress or the president.
The increasing importance of women in the Protestant denominations in New England during the Second Great Awakening led to which of the following outcomes?
d. Premarital sex among churchgoing youth decreased significantly.
Noah Webster influenced American society in the late eighteenth century through which of the following means?
d. Publishing dictionaries and spelling books to make American spelling and grammar more uniform
On which issue was the Whig philosophy of the 1830s critically different from that of the Federalists in the 1790s?
d. Rule by an elite based on talent
Which of the following elements defined the Democrats under Andrew Jackson?
d. Support for average Americans
The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?
d. The Market Revolution
Which of the following statements describes events surrounding the election of 1824?
d. The Republican candidate William Crawford died from a stroke in the midst of the campaign.
Which of the following describes the ruling by the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court in Mayor of New York v. Miln?
d. The Taney Court ruled that New York State could inspect the health of arriving immigrants.
The development described in the excerpt is most strongly connected to which of the following?
d. The controversy over women's political rights
The 1783 Treaty of Paris addressed Native Americans living in the Old Northwest in which of the following ways?
d. The treaty did nothing to protect Indian lands or independence.
Which of the following was true of the "Era of Good Feeling"?
d. There was apparent political harmony.
In which of the following ways did evangelical religions in the South evolve during the first decades of the nineteenth century?
d. They began by preaching spiritual equality but gradually adopted a message that justified white patriarchal authority.
Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s?
d. They were able to save their wages for later use or to help out their families.
Which region of the Union was known for its support of the declaration of war on England in 1812?
d. Western and southern states
Thomas Jefferson's vision for the future of the United States included which of the following ideas?
d. Western territories populated by independent yeomen farm families
How did yeomen and tenant farmers who were influenced by the Second Great Awakening in the nineteenth century treat their children?
d. With strict rules and harsh discipline
Which of the following was an outcome of the rural outwork system of manufacturing in the 1820s and 1830s?
d. Workers' wages decreased.
What was the net effect of republican marriage patterns on the institution of marriage in early nineteenth-century America?
d. Young wives could no longer rely on their parents for emotional or financial support and became more dependent on their husbands.
Andrew Jackson and his supporters won the election in 1828 in part by
d. calling themselves Democrats to portray a more egalitarian image.
During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for
d. providing community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants.
American ministers such as Thomas Bernard argued in the early nineteenth century that women should exercise their power in society through
d. their influence on the male citizens of the coming generations.
