Unit 4 MCQ
Which of the following most likely contributed to the emergence of the Second Great Awakening?
The cultural responses to the Enlightenment
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
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
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
Under Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court decisions tended to
promote business enterprise
Henry Clay's "American System" called for all of the following EXCEPT
sale of federal lands to finance higher education
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it
strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions
Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860 ?
A greater number of men working at home
William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which of the following issues?
Abolition of slavery
The excerpt best reflects which of the following?
Conflicts over how the Constitution should be implemented and interpreted
The national identity described in the excerpt most strongly reflects the influence of which of the following?
European precedents along with an American national culture
The development of the Second Great Awakening can best be linked to which of the following historical situations?
Increased geographical mobility aided travel to new regions and the sharing of ideas.
Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?
Individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience.
All of the following accurately describe Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France EXCEPT:
It ended the threat of American Indian raids on western settlements.
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Most White families owned slaves
The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
Most southern families held slaves.
The Supreme Court established which of the following by its ruling in Marbury v. Madison ?
The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts.
Which of the following most directly contributed to the change over time depicted on the two maps?
The building of canals and roads
The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations in the early 1800s?
The emergence of a new and distinctive American culture
Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution?
The emergence of new forms of transportation
Which of the following resulted from the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?
The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency, increased.
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 most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?
The transformation of the United States into an industrial society
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
The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it
closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was to
develop a national economy by improving transportation
The drawing above has been cited as evidence of the nineteenth-century middle-class view of the
home as a refuge from the world rather than as a productive unit
The map above shows the United States immediately following the
passage of the Missouri Compromise
The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to
prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory
The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of his
previous support for a strict interpretation of the Constitution
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
The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in
Africa by free Black persons and former slaves
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.
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.
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Asserted American independent in the realm of foreign policy.
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?
Northern abolitionists
Which of the following evidence was used by the American Temperance Society in the excerpt to explain why people would join the temperance movement?
The use of specific studies would convince people to believe the movement's goals.
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
The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?
Transcendentalism
The election of 1800 has been referred to as constituting "another revolution" because
the party in power stepped down after losing the election
When Thomas Jefferson said in 1801, "We are all republicans - we are all federalists," he meant that
the principles of American government were above party politics
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
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
In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were
young unmarried women from rural New England