AP Unit 4 Review

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

• Indian removal

• the right of nullification

• the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States

• annexation of new territory

• use of the presidential veto power

“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”

The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?

• Evangelicalism

• Transcendentalism

• Abolitionism

• Mormon theology

The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?

• The emergence of a larger middle class in the North

• A decline in economic inequality in urban areas

• An increased demand for agricultural workers in the Midwest

• The improvement of working conditions in factories

A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the

• increasing readership of newspapers

• lack of enthusiasm for religious reform

• embrace of an aristocratic hierarchy

• creation of original forms of art and architecture

• dislike of voluntary associations

A key purpose of Henry Clay’s American System was to

• expand slavery into new territories to preserve its economic viability

• improve diplomatic relations with European nations by allowing free immigration

• develop a national economy by improving transportation

• create more interest in politics by eliminating voting restrictions

• remove American Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River to prevent further conflicts

An important consequence of the “tariff of abominations” (1828) is that it led to the

• taxation of consumer items

• reelection of Andrew Jackson

• enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

• alliance of Southern planters and Western farmers

• expansion of the New England textile industry

Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

• concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

• gave too many loans to assist unstable state and local banks

• was secretly funding the abolitionist movement

• was overly subsidized by state tax monies

• planned to create new paper money unsupported by gold or silver

During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

• rebelling openly, using weapons, and planning confrontations

• organizing petitions and demonstrations against slavery

• escaping to Canada via the Underground Railroad

• working slowly and breaking tools

• cooperating with the abolitionist movement to advocate laws to end slavery

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the “burned-over district” because

• of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening

• terrible fires had followed the clear-cut logging by pioneers in that part of the state

• the area had not recovered from the devastation of the War of 1812

• American Indian settlements had been completely destroyed as settlers moved in and took over the land

• the region’s economy had never revived after the hardships that followed the Whiskey Rebellion

Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?

• The claims to land by American Indian groups prevented the migration of White settlers westward.

• The system of indentured servitude allowed Europeans living in poverty to immigrate to North America.

• The increased importance of Southern cotton coincided with substantial immigration from abroad to the region.

• The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.