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WorksheetsAll Things Antebellum America APUSH Exam
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After President John Tyler's veto of a bill establishing a new Bank of the United States,
he was expelled from the Whig party.
all but one member of his cabinet resigned.
an attempt was made in the House of Representatives to impeach him.
Tyler also vetoed a Whig-sponsored high-tariff bill.
all of the above.
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to
have him instead of President William Henry Harrison actually run the executive branch.
win northern votes.
attract the vote of the states' rightists.
reward him for his strong support of the Whig party platform.
respond to the Democrats' expansionist appeal.
The Aroostook War was the result of
a short-lived insurrection in British Canada.
the Caroline incident.
the offer of asylum to the crew of the Creole.
a dispute over the northern boundary of Maine.
a fishing dispute between Britain and the U. S.
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, (D) Aroostook War.
A, B, D, C
B, D, C, A
D, B, A, C
C, A, B, D
A, D, C, B
One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
could involve the country in a series of ruinous wars in America and Europe.
might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
was not supported by the people of Texas.
offered little of political or economic value to America.
would lead to tensions and possible war with the British.
Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of
Senate approval of the Treaty of Annexation.
President Tyler's desire to help his troubled administration.
a presidential order by Andrew Jackson.
the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
a compromise to admit free-state Iowa at the same time.
Arrange in chronological order the United States' acquisition of (A) Oregon, (B) Texas, (C) California.
A, B, C
C, B, A
B, A, C
B, C, A
A, C, B
The nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats' 1844 presidential candidate was secured by
southern expansionists.
anti-Texas southerners.
Henry Clay.
eastern business interests.
proslavery forces.
The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between
the forty-second parallel and the Columbia River.
the Cascade Mountains, the Columbia River, and Puget Sound.
the 36º 30' line and the Columbia River.
the forty-ninth parallel and the 54º 40' line.
the Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
continentalism.
isolationism.
anglophobia.
Divine Mandate.
Manifest Destiny.
In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of
42º.
52º 40'.
54º 40'.
36º 30'.
49º.
In his quest for California, President James K. Polk
advocated war with Mexico from the beginning.
argued strongly for annexation, because Americans were the most numerous people in the area.
was motivated by his knowledge of gold deposits there.
sought British help to persuade Mexico to sell the area to the United States.
first advocated buying the area from Mexico.
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) Bear Flag revolt, (B) Slidell mission rejected, (C) declaration of war on Mexico, (D) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley.
B, D, C, A
A, C, B, D
D, B, A, C
C, A, D, B
A, D, C, B
In 1846 the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except
the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
the deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexicans.
the desire to gain payment for damage claims against the Mexican government.
the impulse to satisfy those asking for “spot” resolutions.
Polk's desire to acquire California.
President Polk's claim that “American blood [had been shed] on the American soil” referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near
San Francisco.
the Nueces River.
Santa Fe.
the Rio Grande.
San Antonio.
During the Mexican War, the Polk administration was called on several times to respond to “spot” resolutions indicating where American blood had been shed to provoke the war. The resolutions were frequently introduced by
Abraham Lincoln.
Henry Clay.
Robert Walker.
David Wilmot.
Lewis Cass.
Match each American officer below with his theater of command in the Mexican War.
A. Stephen W. Kearny 1. northern Mexico
B. Zachary Taylor 2. California
C. Winfield Scott 3. Santa Fe
D. John C. Frémont 4. Mexico City
A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4
A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included
a guarantee of the rights of Mexicans living in New Mexico.
United States annexation of all the territory south of the Rio Grande.
the banning of slavery from all territory ceded to the United States.
a requirement that Mexico pay $3.25 million in damages to the United States.
United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico.
Those people most opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program were the
western Democrats.
antislavery forces.
Senate Democrats.
supporters of Nicholas P. Trist.
proslavery Whigs.
The Wilmot Proviso
symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories.
gained House and Senate approval in 1846.
settled once and for all the issue of slavery in California.
allowed slavery in the territory taken from Mexico in 1848.
left open the issue of slavery in New Mexico and Utah.
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
Mexican territory would not be annexed to the United States.
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.
the United States should annex all of Mexico.
the United States should have to pay Mexico a financial indemnity for having provoked the war.
slavery in the territories would be determined by popular sovereignty.
The largest single addition to American territory was
the Louisiana Purchase.
the Mexican Cession.
the Oregon Country.
the Old Northwest.
Alaska.
John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
thought that it was the easiest way to become president.
could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson.
was forced to resign from the Senate.
believed in its pro-bank, pro-protective tariff, and pro-internal improvements position.
believed it better represented Virginia's interests.
All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it
resulted in the conversion of countless souls.
encouraged a variety of humanitarian reforms.
strengthened democratic denominations like the Baptists and Methodists.
was a reaction against the growing liberalism in religion.
was not as large as the First Great Awakening.
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
little increase in church membership.
a strong religious influence in many areas of American life.
surprisingly few humanitarian reforms.
greater attention to church history and doctrine.
all of the above.
As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated
opposition to slavery.
a perfect Christian kingdom on earth.
opposition to alcohol.
public prayer by women.
all of the above.
The Mormon religion originated in
Utah.
New England.
Nauvoo, Illinois.
Ireland.
the Burned-Over District of New York.
The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the
Roman Catholics and Episcopalians.
Unitarians and Adventists.
Methodists and Baptists.
Congregationalists and Presbyterians
Lutherans and Mennonites.
The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Brigham Young.
Charles G. Finney.
the angel Moroni.
Joseph Smith.
Tax-supported public education
existed mainly for the wealthy.
eliminated private and parochial education in the U.S.
began in the South as early as 1800.
provided little opportunity for the poor.
was deemed essential for social stability and democracy.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were
chiefly available to educate the children of the poor.
most in evidence in the South.
continuously opposed by wealthy, conservative whites.
open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do.
more academically demanding than private academies.
Noah Webster's dictionary
had little impact until the twentieth century.
helped to standardize the American language.
was used to educate nineteenth-century slaves.
came to the United States from Britain in the 1800s.
gave legitimacy to American slang.
One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that
they would gain political and economic power through education.
women were inherently conservative and opposed to social reform.
children should grow up without the influence of educated women.
the Constitution prohibited women from attending colleges.
too much learning would injure women's brains and ruin their health.
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
prison and asylum reform.
the peace movement.
the temperance movement.
abolitionism
women's education.
Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for
the abolition of capital punishment.
a ban on war.
a ban on polygamy.
woman suffrage.
a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor.
By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by
the temperance movement.
the “Lucy Stoners.”
abolitionism.
prison reform advocates.
evangelical revivalism.
Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held _________________________ as one of their founding ideals.
rugged individualism
pacifism
capitalism
opposition to communism
cooperative social and economic practices
“Civil Disobedience,” an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist
Louisa May Alcott.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Margaret Fuller.
Henry David Thoreau.
As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin,
fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
short-staple cotton lost popularity.
slavery was reinvigorated.
Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
the African slave trade was legalized.
Members of the planter aristocracy
produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the North.
dominated society and politics in the South.
provided democratic rule in the South.
promoted tax-supported public education.
kept up with developments in modern thought.
All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that
it relied on a one-crop economy.
it repelled a large-scale European immigration.
it stimulated racism among poor whites.
it created an aristocratic political elite.
its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.
German and Irish immigration to the South was discouraged by
competition with slave labor.
southern anti-Catholicism.
Irish antislavery groups.
immigration barriers enacted by southern states.
their inability to tolerate the hot climate.
The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because
they opposed slavery.
they could not afford the purchase price.
their urban location did not require them.
their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
they feared the possibility of slave revolts.
Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of
the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 1807.
purchase by northern abolitionists.
fleeing to mountain hideaways.
purchasing their way out of slavery.
the objection to slaveholding by some white women.
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to
the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808.
larger imports of slaves from the West Indies.
natural reproduction.
re-enslavement of free blacks.
the deliberate “breeding” of slaves by plantation owners.
For free blacks living in the North,
living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites.
voting rights were widespread.
good jobs were plentiful.
education opened the door to economic opportunity.
discrimination was common.
Slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by
slowing down the work pace.
refusing to get an education.
sabotaging expensive equipment.
pilfering goods that their labor had produced.
running away when possible.
As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South
formed alliances with white imperialists in Africa.
adopted British attitudes toward the “peculiar institution.”
emancipated many slaves.
shed its image as a reactionary backwater.
developed a theory of biological racial superiority.
In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was
feigned laziness.
sabotage of plantation equipment.
running away.
armed insurrection.
stealing food and other goods.
Which one of the following has least in common with the other four?
Nat Turner
David Walker
John Quincy Adams
Denmark Vesey
Gabriel Prosser
Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great Awakening because
evangelical religion emphasized their spiritual dignity and religious social reform legitimized their activity outside the home
they refused to accept the idea that there was a special female role in society.
they were looking to obtain as much power as possible.
many of the leading preachers and evangelists were women.
they saw the churches as the first institutions that needed to be reformed.
Plantation agriculture
led to a slow return on investments.
remained diverse until the Civil War.
was economically unstable and wasteful.
discouraged immigration to the West.
encouraged southern democracy.
All told, only about _____ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family
1/4
1/3
1/2
2/3
3/4
__________ said the following quote, “I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.”
Jefferson Davis
John C. Calhoun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Match each abolitionist below with his publication.
A. William Lloyd Garrison
B. Theodore Dwight Weld
C. Frederick Douglass
D. David Walker
1. Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
2. The Liberator
3. Narration of the Life of…
4. American Slavery as It Is
A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2
A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3
Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the presidential candidate of the
Free Soil party.
Republican party.
Know-Nothing party.
Liberty party.
Anti-Mason party.
All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America except
the push west in search of cheap land.
government regulation of all major economic industry.
a vast number of European immigrants settling in the cities.
newly invented machinery.
better roads, faster steamboats, further-reaching canals, and tentacle-stretching railroads.
“Ecological imperialism” can best be described as
the efforts of white settlers to take land from Native Americans.
the aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty.
a desire for the United States to acquire California.
the spread of technology and industry.
none of the above.
Ireland's great export in the 1840s was
people.
potatoes.
whiskey.
music.
wool.
The Irish immigrants to early nineteenth-century America
were mostly Roman Catholics and hated the British.
tended to settle on western farmlands.
were warmly welcomed by American workers.
identified and sympathized with American free blacks.
were often members of the Irish Republican Army.
When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they
preferred urban life.
were offered high-paying jobs.
were welcomed by the people living there.
were too poor to move west and buy land.
had experience in urban politics.
German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to
settle in eastern industrial cities.
assimilated themselves well into American culture .
become slave-owners.
join the temperance movement.
settle in the Middle West, notably Wisconsin, where they mostly farmed.
Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants
were poor.
were thought to love alcohol.
were Roman Catholic.
frequently became police officers.
were slow to learn English.
The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
the cult of domesticity.
nativism.
Unitarianism.
rugged individualism.
patriotism
Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860
depressed the economy due to their poverty.
found themselves involved in few cultural conflicts.
had little impact on society until after the Civil War.
settled mostly in the South.
helped to fuel economic expansion.
The influx of immigrants to the United States tripled, then quadrupled, in the
1810s and 1820s.
1820s and 1830s.
1830s and 1840s.
1840s and 1850s.
1860s and 1870s.
The “Father of the Factory System” in the United States was
Robert Fulton.
Samuel F. B. Morse.
Eli Whitney.
Thomas Edison.
Samuel Slater.
Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
steamboat.
cotton gin.
railroad locomotive.
telegraph.
repeating revolver.
The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
on southern plantations.
with textile mills.
in rapidly growing Chicago.
with shipbuilding.
in coal-mining regions.
As a result of the development of the cotton gin,
slavery revived and expanded.
American industry bought more southern cotton than did British manufacturers.
a nationwide depression ensued.
the South diversified its economy.
the textile industry moved to the South.
The early factory system distributed its benefits
mostly to the owners.
evenly to all.
primarily in the South.
to workers represented by unions.
to overseas investors.
Match each individual below with the correct invention.
A. Samuel Morse 1. telegraph
B. Cyrus McCormick 2. mower-reaper
C. Elias Howe 3. steamboat
D. Robert Fulton 4. sewing machine
A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3
A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
The American work force in the early nineteenth century was characterized by
substantial employment of women and children in factories.
strikes by workers that were few in number but usually effective.
a general lengthening of the workday from ten to fourteen hours.
extensive political activity among workers.
reliance on the system of apprentices and masters.
The “cult of domesticity”
gave women more opportunity to seek employment outside the home.
resulted in more pregnancies for women.
restricted women's moral influence on the family.
glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers.
was especially strong among rural women.
The “canal era” of American history began with the construction of the
Mainline Canal in Pennsylvania.
James River and Kanasha Canal from Virginia to Ohio.
Wabash Canal in Indiana.
Suez Canal in Illinois.
Erie Canal in New York.
The market revolution can best be described as:
the transformation from a national network of industry and commerce into a subsistence economy.
the change from blue collar labor to white collar professionals.
the transformation from a subsistence economy into a national network of industry and commerce.
the era of government regulation and labor unions.
the rise of local markets and trade.
Most early railroads in the United States were built in the
North.
Old South.
lower Mississippi Valley.
Far West.
Appalachian Mountains.
In the new continental economy, each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the South _________ for export; the West grew grains and livestock to feed _________; and the East _________ for the other two regions.
raised grain, southern slaves, processed meat
grew cotton, southern slaves, made machines and textiles
grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made machines and textiles
raised grain, eastern factory workers, made furniture and tools
processed meat, southern slaves, raised grain
As a result of the transportation revolution,
division of labor became a thing of the past.
New Orleans became an even more important port.
each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity.
self-sufficiency became easier to achieve for American families.
the Midwest became the first industrialized region.
Which of the following most directly led to the increase shown in the chart?
The banning of the slave trade in 1808
The invention of the cotton gin in 1793
The decreasing competition in worldwide cotton production
The use of slavery in Midwestern food farming
The trend indicated in the chart would most directly lead to
increasing sectional or regional differences
increasing industry in the south
increasing westward migration
increasing industry in the north
Which of the following groups most directly challenged the depiction of women in the image?
The Lowell girls
Pioneer women
Plantation-owners’ wives
Temperance supporters
“The making of the New York canals did not really cost the people of the state the value of one cent, except so far as foreign materials may have been employed in the construction of them,…On the contrary, they gave a large and wholesome circulation to money, and enriched many individuals; and the increased value of property, and of profit, resulting from them, must be supposed by counting up hundreds of millions of dollars, if indeed, the benefits of them be within supposition at all!”
-Hezekiah Niles, “Great National Interests,” 1826
Niles’ opinion of the Erie Canal most directly reflects which of the following beliefs, common in the nineteenth century?
That infrastructure funding was the sole responsibility of the federal government.
That infrastructure did not affect existing economic activities.
That technological innovation in infrastructure was improving the economy of the U.S.
That the canal would be of great use in North-South trade
“The making of the New York canals did not really cost the people of the state the value of one cent, except so far as foreign materials may have been employed in the construction of them,…On the contrary, they gave a large and wholesome circulation to money, and enriched many individuals; and the increased value of property, and of profit, resulting from them, must be supposed by counting up hundreds of millions of dollars, if indeed, the benefits of them be within supposition at all!”
-Hezekiah Niles, “Great National Interests,” 1826
Niles’ point of view would have led him toward which political idea in the early nineteenth century?
Jacksonian democracy
Clay’s American System
Polk’s westward expansion
The Know-Nothings’ nativism
“Much has been written and spoken in woman’s behalf, especially in America; and yet a large class of females are, and have been, destined to a state of servitude as degrading as unceasing toil can make it. I refer to the female operatives of New England--the free states of our union--the states where no colored slave can breathe the balmy air, and exist as such;--but yet there are those, a host of them, too, who are in fact nothing more nor less than slaves in every sense of the word! Slaves to a system of labor which requires them to toil from five until seven o’clock, with only one hour to attend to the wants of nature…”
Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker (1845)
The conditions described in the above account were a direct result of the
market revolution
urban political machines
British Navigation Acts
slave system
