WorksheetsAPUSH Topic Questions Unit 4
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 25mins
“The creation of a home market is not only necessary to procure for our agriculture a just reward of its labors, but it is indispensable to obtain a supply of our necessary wants. . . . Suppose no actual abandonment of farming, but, what is most likely, a gradual and imperceptible employment of population in the business of manufacturing, instead of being compelled to resort to agriculture. . . . Is any part of our common country likely to be injured by a transfer of the theatre of [manufacturing] for our own consumption from Europe to America?"
“. . . Suppose it were even true that Great Britain had abolished all restrictions upon trade, and allowed the freest introduction of the [products] of foreign labor, would that prove it unwise for us to adopt the protecting system? The object of protection is the establishment and perfection of the [manufacturing] arts. In England it, has accomplished its purpose, fulfilled its end. . . . The adoption of the restrictive system, on the part of the United States, by excluding the [products] of foreign labor, would extend the [purchasing] of American [products], unable, in the infancy and unprotected state of the arts, to sustain a competition with foreign fabrics. Let our arts breathe under the shade of protection; let them be perfected as they are in England, and [then] we shall be ready . . . to put aside protection, and enter upon the freest exchanges.”
Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824
Which of the following was an interpretation of the speech by opponents of the goals Clay expressed in the excerpt?
Clay was seeking to discourage factory production to protect traditional artisans
Clay's proposal would require the expansion of slavery to supply factory workers
Clay's manufacturing plan would benefit one section of the country more than others
Clay was seeking to encourage an increase in imports of British manufactured goods
“To the Commanders of armed vessels belonging to the United States:
“WHEREAS it is declared by the act entitled ‘An act for the protection of the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Tripolitan cruisers,’ That it shall be lawful fully to equip, officer, man, and employ such of the armed vessels of the United States, as may be judged requisite by the President of the United States, for protecting effectually the commerce and seamen thereof, on the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas: and also, that it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to instruct the commanders of the respective public vessels, to subdue, seize, and make prize, of all vessels, goods, and effects, belonging to the Bey [Sultan] of Tripoli [in North Africa], or to his subjects."
“THEREFORE, And in pursuance of the said statute, you are hereby authorized and directed to subdue, seize, and make prize, of all vessels, goods, and effects, belonging to the Bey of Tripoli, or to his subjects, and to bring or send the same into port, to be proceeded against and distributed according to law.
“By command of the President of the United States of America.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1802
The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?
The creation of the Monroe Doctrine
The approval of the Louisiana Purchase
The abolition of the international slave trade
The passage of the Missouri Compromise
“Louisiana as ceded by France is made part of the United States. Congress may make part of the United States other adjacent territories which shall be justly acquired.
“Congress may sever from the United States territory not heretofore within the United States, with consent of a majority of the free males above 21 years, inhabiting such territory.”
James Madison, secretary of state, proposed constitutional amendment [not passed], 1803
Which of the following best describes a major purpose of the proposed amendment?
To strengthen the United States alliance with France
To give individual states the legal right to secede from the Union
To give Congress additional constitutional powers
To give the president more control over negotiating treaties
“Louisiana as ceded by France is made part of the United States. Congress may make part of the United States other adjacent territories which shall be justly acquired.
“Congress may sever from the United States territory not heretofore within the United States, with consent of a majority of the free males above 21 years, inhabiting such territory.”
James Madison, secretary of state, proposed constitutional amendment [not passed], 1803
Which of the following groups would most likely have supported this proposed amendment?
Proponents of the supremacy of the federal laws over state laws
Proponents of the expansion of the executive branch powers under the Consititution
Advocates of the power of the Supreme Court to review federal laws
Advocates of limiting federal powers to those specifically written into the Consititution
“The creation of a home market is not only necessary to procure for our agriculture a just reward of its labors, but it is indispensable to obtain a supply of our necessary wants. . . . Suppose no actual abandonment of farming, but, what is most likely, a gradual and imperceptible employment of population in the business of manufacturing, instead of being compelled to resort to agriculture. . . . Is any part of our common country likely to be injured by a transfer of the theatre of [manufacturing] for our own consumption from Europe to America?"
“. . . Suppose it were even true that Great Britain had abolished all restrictions upon trade, and allowed the freest introduction of the [products] of foreign labor, would that prove it unwise for us to adopt the protecting system? The object of protection is the establishment and perfection of the [manufacturing] arts. In England it, has accomplished its purpose, fulfilled its end. . . . The adoption of the restrictive system, on the part of the United States, by excluding the [products] of foreign labor, would extend the [purchasing] of American [products], unable, in the infancy and unprotected state of the arts, to sustain a competition with foreign fabrics. Let our arts breathe under the shade of protection; let them be perfected as they are in England, and [then] we shall be ready . . . to put aside protection, and enter upon the freest exchanges.”
Henry Clay, speaker of the House of Representatives, speech in Congress, 1824
The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?
The political debates over economic development
The lives of women working in new factories
The effects of new technologies on commerce
The value of British manufactured goods
