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APUSH Period 4 Multiple Choice

Question 1 of 42

1

The above quotation from McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819, most focuses on which of the following debates that characterized the new republic?

Select one of the following:

  • The extension of slavery into the territories

  • The formation of a national currency

  • Loose versus strict interpretation of the Constitution

  • The application of the Bill of Rights of states

Explanation

Question 2 of 42

1

The above decision, McCulloch v. Maryland, reflected which of the following tendencies of the early Supreme Court?

Select one of the following:

  • To side with big business over labor

  • To favor national over state power

  • To uphold the sanctity of contract

  • To look unfavorably on the institution of slavery

Explanation

Question 3 of 42

1

Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the above decision, McCulloch v. Maryland?

Select one of the following:

  • Western farmers

  • Jacksonian Democrats

  • Know-Nothings

  • Former Federalists

Explanation

Question 4 of 42

1

The above account, Fourth Annual Report of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York, best reflects what growing reform sentiment during the period 1820 to 1848?

Select one of the following:

  • Belief in the perfectibility of man

  • Commitment to egalitarianism

  • Acceptance of transcendental philosophy

  • Commitment to the philosophy of predestination

Explanation

Question 5 of 42

1

Reform movements concerned with all of the following emerged in the same time period, 1820-1848, EXCEPT

Select one of the following:

  • Women's rights

  • Environmental preservation

  • Temperance

  • Public education

Explanation

Question 6 of 42

1

During the period 1800-1848, reform movements were most successful in achieving their goals in which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • The granting of women's suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment

  • Prohibition established through the Eighteenth Amendment

  • State laws focusing on improved public education

  • Establishment of federal standard for minimum wage and maximum hours

Explanation

Question 7 of 42

1

The system that Henry Clay describes above, the American System, was designed to create

Select one of the following:

  • Government ownership of the means of production

  • A foreign trade system that favored Great Britain over France

  • A national market economy

  • Dominance of state government over the national government

Explanation

Question 8 of 42

1

The following were components of the American System that Henry Clay envisioned EXCEPT

Select one of the following:

  • Federally funded internal improvements

  • Government ownership of railroads

  • A second Bank of the United States

  • Tariffs to protect infant industries

Explanation

Question 9 of 42

1

By 1848, which component of the American System was still used to benefit business?

Select one of the following:

  • A third Bank of the United States

  • Providing business with free raw materials from government-owned land

  • A protective tariff

  • The elimination of corporate income taxes

Explanation

Question 10 of 42

1

The above account, Loom and Spindle, 1898, best represents a departure from which of the following beliefs about the role of women in the early nineteenth century?

Select one of the following:

  • Prevalence of the concept of "republican motherhood"

  • Aspirations of women to become "career" women

  • Aspiration of women to become "visible saints"

  • Prevalence of the concept of "the cult of domesticity"

Explanation

Question 11 of 42

1

Early industry began in the Northeast for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Select one of the following:

  • Swift-flowing streams that provided a good source of power

  • A relatively high population density to supply both labor and markets

  • A highly skilled labor force as a result of the apprenticeship system

  • An efficient mean of transportation provided by good natural harbors

Explanation

Question 12 of 42

1

The original mill girls mentioned above, in Loom and Spindle, were subsequently replaced by which of the following groups?

Select one of the following:

  • Immigrant women

  • Native-born children

  • Retired farmers

  • Immigrant children

Explanation

Question 13 of 42

1

What treaty gave the United States Florida?

Select one of the following:

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Webter-Ashburton Treaty

Explanation

Question 14 of 42

1

How are Hartford Convention Nullification Question and some Marshall court cases connected?

Select one of the following:

  • States rights concerns

  • Nativist concerns

  • Slavery concerns

  • Political compromise

Explanation

Question 15 of 42

1

Which of the following glorified women's role as homemakers in the midst of industrialization?

Select one of the following:

  • Republican Motherhood

  • Cult of Domesticity

  • Bloomerism

Explanation

Question 16 of 42

1

Which of the following most strongly advocated sending slaved blacks to Africa as an answer to the problem of slavery?

Select one of the following:

  • Frederick Douglas

  • American Colonization Society

  • William Lloyd Garrison

  • Free-Soil Party

Explanation

Question 17 of 42

1

Which 1840s and 1850s set of immigrant groups arrived in unprecedented numbers resulting in nativist backlash in popular cultire?

Select one of the following:

  • Irish and Germans

  • French and Dutch

  • Italians and Greeks

  • Scots and Welsh

Explanation

Question 18 of 42

1

Which of the following was a famous black abolitionist who wrote an autobiography of his/her former life as a slave?

Select one of the following:

  • Frederick Douglas

  • Sojourner Truth

Explanation

Question 19 of 42

1

Which of the following is NOT a result of antebellum technology innovations such as the textile machinery, steam engine, and the telegraph?

Select one of the following:

  • Expanded size and scope of domestic markets

  • Heightened isolation of rural Americans

  • Increased industrial output and worker productions

  • Revolution in farming and agriculture

Explanation

Question 20 of 42

1

Which best describes the Lowell System?

Select one of the following:

  • It revolutionized production of steal in the US

  • It was so successful that it was eventually adopted throughout the US and England

  • It involved using mill girls from rural areas to work textile factories

  • It relied exclusively on cheap immigrant labor to undercut competitors

Explanation

Question 21 of 42

1

The growth and profitability of Southern cotton did all of the following EXCEPT

Select one of the following:

  • Catapulted wealth of average Southern white above most Northerners

  • Provided raw materials for manufacturing in New England

  • Accelerated internal movement of slaves to the West

  • Promoted national and international economic ties

Explanation

Question 22 of 42

1

Which of the following was least likely influenced by sectional difference?

Select one of the following:

  • White, male suffrage

  • Foreign policy

  • Tarrifs

  • Internal improvement

Explanation

Question 23 of 42

1

In 1837, what did South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun call slavery?

Select one of the following:

  • Positive good

  • Necessary evil

Explanation

Question 24 of 42

1

Which of the following parties championed the "common man"?

Select one of the following:

  • Democrats

  • Whigs

  • Democratic-Republicans

  • Federalists

Explanation

Question 25 of 42

1

Which least strengthened economic ties with North and Midwest during antebellum?

Select one of the following:

  • Growth of canals and railroads

  • Spread of plantation agriculture

  • Federal attempts to create national economy

  • Shift to market production

Explanation

Question 26 of 42

1

Antebellum era reform movements such as abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights had their origins in all of the following EXCEPT

Select one of the following:

  • the Monroe Doctrine

  • the Second Great Awakening

  • Beliefs in human perfectibility

  • Liberal European social ideas

Explanation

Question 27 of 42

1

Majority of Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s settled

Select one of the following:

  • Along the Great Lakes region

  • On farms in the Midwest

  • In cities along the east coast

  • On homesteads on the frontier

Explanation

Question 28 of 42

1

One impact of the widespread cultivation of cotton and other cash crops in the South was the

Select one of the following:

  • Creation of a more economically and socially egalitarian society in the South

  • Increasing economic isolation of the South from the rest of the country

  • Rapid growth of textile mills and other manufacturing throughout the South

  • Increased political power the South was able to wield in Congress

Explanation

Question 29 of 42

1

Opposition to the proposed American System of internal improvements was a result of

Select one of the following:

  • Regional interests overriding national concerns

  • Fears that improved transportation would lead to more western migration

  • Large federal budget deficits undermining the needed funding

  • Supreme Court decisions questioning its constitutionality

Explanation

Question 30 of 42

1

The most divisive issue in regards to western expansion during the antebellum era was

Select one of the following:

  • The removal of Indians

  • The extension of slavery

  • Free homesteads for settlers

  • Property qualifications for voting

Explanation

Question 31 of 42

1

Is the following true or false about Art and Literature in the early 1800s:
-blended European style with American styles
-not appreciated by Europeans
-was not seen as original, creative, or critically well-received

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 42

1

Indians, women, and religious followers had which of the following in common during the antebellum era?
-developed unique cultures that reflected their interests and experiences

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 33 of 42

1

What did the forced relocation of American Indians and the internal slave trade both have in common?

Select one of the following:

  • They were in direct violation of specific Supreme Court rulings

  • Most Northern migrants to the frontier were firmly opposed to each

  • They were driven by efforts to exploit the nation's natural resources

  • Most Whigs strongly supported both, while most Democrats strongly opposed both

Explanation

Question 34 of 42

1

What connected the Atlantic ocean to the Great Lakes?

Select one of the following:

  • Erie Canal

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

  • Hudson River

Explanation

Question 35 of 42

1

Which of the following Supreme Court cases is correctly identified?

Select one of the following:

  • McCulloch v. Maryland - upheld the sanctity of private contracts

  • Worcester v. Georgia - ruled that states cannot tax the federal government

  • Dartmouth v. Woodward - established tribal autonomy on Indian lands

  • Marbury v. Madison - established the principle of judicial review

Explanation

Question 36 of 42

1

Which of the following was NOT an example of Manifest Destiny?

Select one of the following:

  • Negotiations over the Oregon border

  • The annexation of Texas

  • Attempts to purchase California

  • Demilitarizing the Great Lakes

Explanation

Question 37 of 42

1

Which of the following correctly characterizes the War of 1812?

Select one of the following:

  • Broad popular support for the war effort temporarily eased sectional divisions over slavery and economic policy

  • The United States won a decisive victory against the British and gained valuable new land on the frontier as a result

  • Federalists support for the war reinvigorated the party and allowed it to thrive for another 20 years

  • The United States was able to reassert sovereignty over its existing western lands and remove Britain's military presence

Explanation

Question 38 of 42

1

Which of the following best describes the Monroe Doctrine?

Select one of the following:

  • It was an attempt to relocate American Indian tribes on the Great Plains to reservations and begin the process of cultural assimilation

  • It was an American pronouncement to European countries not to interfere with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere

  • It was a treaty with England in which Britain promised to confine all of their future colonization to the Eastern Hemisphere

  • It was an economic policy by President Monroe to revive the American economy by lowering tariffs and promoting manufacturing

Explanation

Question 39 of 42

1

All of the following are true of the Tariff of 1828 EXCEPT it

Select one of the following:

  • was viewed as an "abomination" by many Southerners

  • created a crisis that almost led to a civil war

  • demonstrated the growing differences between the North and South

  • was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

Explanation

Question 40 of 42

1

The Indian Removal Act of 1830

Select one of the following:

  • was upheld in Cherokee v. Georgia

  • paid Indian tribes market rates for their confiscated lands

  • led to the infamous Trail of Tears

  • was passed over President Jackson's angry veto

Explanation

Question 41 of 42

1

Which of the following was NOT true about the 1820 Missouri Compromise?

Select one of the following:

  • It barred slavery north of the 36 degree 30' line in future states from the Louisiana Purchase territory

  • It successfully kept the issue of slavery from becoming a national debate until just a few years before the Civil War

  • It temporarily settled the issue of slavery but was eventually weakened and ultimately overturned

  • It allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state and Missouri to enter as a slave state

Explanation

Question 42 of 42

1

The increase of slavery in the new Southwest during the antebellum era

Select one of the following:

  • a decreased the market value of cotton and slaves in the East

  • was firmly opposed by both major political parties

  • led to the resumption of importing slaves from Africa

  • created new tensions over the spread of slavery

Explanation

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