Period 4 Quiz

The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by

• approving appropriations to help finance colonization efforts

  Answer A: approving appropriations to help finance colonization efforts

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• prohibiting the slave trade in the District of Columbia

• "gagging" or banning discussion of antislavery petitions

• limiting the publication of abolitionist writings to certain publishers

The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of

• encouraging immigration from Ireland and Germany

• encouraging Chinese contract laborers to emigrate to the United States

• settling American Indians on reservations

• transporting African Americans to Africa

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

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

• use of the presidential veto power

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

• 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

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

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

The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in

• Progressive Era urban reform

• mid-nineteenth-century nativism

• republican motherhood

• Mormon theology

In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney’s major contribution to American Technology was his

• introduction of interchangeable parts

• development of the first practical locomotive

• invention of the mechanical reaper

• installation of the first textile mill

The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?

• It severely damaged American manufacturing.

• It enriched many cotton plantation owners.

• It disrupted American shipping.

• It had little economic impact.

Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860 ?

• Increasing economic specialization

• he application of machinery to the mass production of goods

• The beginnings of an organized labor movement

• A greater number of men working at home