Period 4 APUSH Review 2023

The development of the Erie Canal would most directly lead to

• increased food farming in the Northeast, lessening the region’s ties to the South and Midwest
• increased trade between the Northeast and Midwest, further isolating the South economically
• increased trade between the Northeast and South, further isolating the Midwest economically
• decreased food farming the Midwest, increasing the region’s ties to the Northeast

The map above most clearly demonstrate which of the following antebellum ( pre-Civil War) processes?

• The acceleration of a national and international market economy
• The free and forced migration of peoples across the continent
• The rise of abolitionist and other voluntary reform organizations
• The attempts of the United States to dominate the North American continent

What  contributed  most to  the  process  illustrated  in  the  map above?

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The outlawing of the international slave trade

• New Inventions and the spread of cotton cultivation

• The rise in the number of free African Americans in the South

Which of the following was the most immediate result of the above excerpt?

• Female factory workers’ wages increased and working hours shortened.
• Equal treatment of factory workers in regards to gender
• An increasing number of women were recruited by factory operators to produce goods for distant markets
• A smooth transition from a domestic lifestyle to the nature of factory work.

Which of the following can be inferred by this excerpt?

• Migrants from Europe increased the population in both the East and the Midwest
• Employers heavily favored male factory workers opposed to female factory workers
• The Lowell system created a reliance on subsistence agriculture
• Lowell rapidly transformed from a small factory village into an important manufacturing center in the US

Which of the following most directly made possible the ideas described in the excerpt?

• The emergence of monopolies that dominated entire businesses
• The significant influence of organized labor unions
• Farmers’ creation of local, regional, and national organizations that resisted corporate power
• Innovations including textile machinery, steam engines, and interchangeable parts

The ideas described in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?

• A decline in the internal slave trade
• Large-scale European immigration to the South
• More Americans producing goods for national markets
• Business leaders consolidating corporations into trusts and holding companies

This painting of Mount Holyoke, from the Hudson River School, most directly reflects which of the following early nineteenth century beliefs?

• Westward Movement
• Transcendentalism
• Puritanism
• Mormonism

This painting is an example of

• artists and writers’ increasing focus on New England landscapes.
• artists and writers’ increasing focus on environmental damage
• artists and writers’ support of Western expansion and the U.S. conquest of western lands
• artists and writers’ support of the American Indian people

The map shows the United States immediately following the

• passage of the Northwest Ordinance
• negotiation of the Adams-Onis Treaty
• passage of the Missouri Compromise
• settlement of the Mexican War