APUSH CH. 15 & 16 Multiple Choice Packet Q's

The tendency toward rationalism and indifference in religion was reversed about 1800 by...

(A) the rise of Deism and Unitarianism

(B) the rise of new groups like the Mormons and Christian Scientists

(C) the revivalist movement called the Second Awakening

(D) the influx pf religiously traditional immigrants

C

Two denominations that especially gained adherents among the common people of the West and South were...

(A) Episcopalians and Unitarians

(B) Congregationalists and Mormons

(C) Transcendentalists and Adventists

(D) Methodists and Baptists

D

The Second Great Awakening derived its religious strength especially from...

(A) intensely organized "prayer groups" of lay believers

(B) the efficient institutional organization of the major American churches

(C) the popular preaching of evangelical revivalists in both the West and eastern cities

(D) the frontier interest in religious pilgrimages and religious art.

C

Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to...

(A) the construction of large church buildings throughout the Midwest

(B) the expansion of American political power across the continent

(C) the Christian reform of social problems

(D) the organization of economic development and industrialization

C

The term "Burned-Over District" refers to

(A) Parts of the West where fire were used to clear the land for farming

(B) areas that were fiercely contested by both Baptist and Methodist revivalists

(C) the region of Western New York State that experienced especially frequent and intense revivals

(D) the area of Illinois where the Mormon settlements were attacked and destroyed

C

the major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was...

(A) a major missionary effort directed at converted African American slaves.

(B)the organization of the churches to lobby for the abolition of slavery

(C) an agreement to keep political issues out of the religious area

(D) the split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate Northern and southern churches.

D

Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormons aroused hostility from many Americans because of...

(A) their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism

(B) their efforts to convert members of other denominations to Mormonism

(C) their populous settlement in Utah, which posed a threat of a breakaway republic in the West

(D) their practice pf baptizing in the name of dead ancestors

A

The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of public education for all American children was...

(A) Joseph Smith

(B) Horace Mann

(C) Noah Webster

(D) Susan B. Anthony

B

Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of

(A) women's right to higher education and voting

(B) international peace

(C) better treatment of the mentally ill

(D) temperance

C

One cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was...

(A) the sharp division of labor that separated women at home from men in the workplace

(B) women's attention to causes other than women's rights

(C) the higher ratio of females to males in many communities

(D) the prohibition against women's participation in religious activities

A

the Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for...

(A) equal pay for equal work

(B) an equal rights amendment to the Constitution

(C) equal rights, including the right to vote

(D) access to public education for women

C

Many of the American Utopian experiments of the early nineteenth century focused on...

(A) communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements

(B) temperance and diet reforms

(C) advanced scientific and technological ways of producing and consuming

(D) free-enterprise economics and trade

B

Two leading female imaginative writers who added to New England's literary prominence were...

(A) Sarah Orne Jewett and Kate Chopin

(B) Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson

(C) Sarah Grimke and Susan B. Anthony

(D) Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abigail Adams

B

the Knickerbocker Group of American writers included...

(A) Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson, and Susan B. Anthony

(B) George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville

(C) Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant

(D) Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe

C

the transcendentalist writers such a Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the ideas of...

(A) inner truth and individual self-reliance

(B) political community and economic progress

(C) personal guilt and fear of death

(D) love of chivalry and return to the medieval past

A

the primary market for southern cotton production was...

(A) the North

(B) France

(C) Latin American

(D) Britain

D

the invention that transformed the southern cotton economy was...

(A) the sewing machine

(B) the mechanical cotton-picker

(C) the cotton gin

(D) the steamboat

C

the large portion of the profits from cotton growing went to...

(A) northern traders and European manufacturers

(B) southern and northern slaves traders

(C) southern textile industrialists

(D) Midwestern farmers and cattlemen

A

Among the economic consequences of the South's cotton economy was...

(A) increasing immigration of laborers from Europe

(B) a dependence in the North for trade and manufacturing

(C) a stable system of credit and finance

(D) a relatively equal distribution of property and wealth

B

Most southern slaveowners held...

(A) over a hundered slaves

(B) over fifty slaves

(C) fewer that ten slaves

(D) only one slave

C

Even though they owned no slaves, most southern whites supported the slave system because...

(A) they were bribed by the planter class

(B) they enjoyed the economics benefits of slavery

(C) they felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves

(D) they disliked the northern abolitionists

C

the only group of white southerners who strongly opposed slavery and the slave owners were...

(A) poor southern whites

(B) urban merchants and manufactures

(C) religious leaders

(D) Appalachian mountain whites

C

the condition of the 500,000 or so free black was...

(A) considerably better in the North than in the South

(B) notably improving in the decades before the Civil War

(C) as bad pr worse in the North than in the South

(D) politically threatened but economically secure

C

Most of the growth in the African-American slave population before 1860 came from...

(A) the illegal importation of slaves from Africa

(B) the re-enslavement of formerly free blacks

(C) natural reproduction

(D) the incorporation int the United States of new slave territories

C

most slavesowners treated their slaves as...

(A) objects to be beaten and brutalized as often as possible

(B) economically profitable investments

(C) members of their extended family

(D) potential converts to evangelical Christianity

B

the African American family under slavery was...

(A) generally stable and mutually supportive

(B) almost nonexistent

(C) largely female-dominated

(D) seldom able to raise children to adulthood

A

Most of the early abolitionists were motivated by

(A) a desire to create an independent black republic of Africa

(B) anger at the negative economic consequences of slavery

(C) religious feeling against the :Sin" pf slavery

(D) a philosophical commitment to racial integration

C

Frederick Douglas and some other abolitionists sought to end slavery by...

(A) encouraging slave rebellions in the South

(B) calling on the North to secede from the Union and invade the South

(C) appealing to the moral consequences of both Northern and Southern slaveowners

(D) promoting antislavery political movements like the Free Soil and Republican parties

D

After 1830, most southerners came to look on slavery as...

(A) a curse of their religion

(B) a necessary evil

(C) a positive good

(D) a threat to their social ideals

B

By the 1850s, most northerners could be described as...

(A) opposed to slavery but also hostile to immediate abolitionists

(B) fervently in favor of immediate abolition

(C) Sympathetic to white southern arguments in defense of slavery

(D) eager to let the slave holding South break apart the Union

A