APUSH Chapters 11-15 Test MCQs

During the War of 1812, the New England states

lent more money and sent more food to the British army than to the American army

Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by

the West and South

A crucial foreign policy goal for many “war hawks” in the War of 1812 was

the capture and anexation of Canada

When it came to the major Federalist economic programs, Thomas Jefferson as president

left practically all of them intact

Macon’s Bill No.2

permitted trade with all nations but promised that if either Britain or France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade, the United States would stop trading with the other

As chief justice of the United States, John Marshall helped to ensure that

the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government

Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

an overland trail to the Pacific

John Marshall, as chief justice of the United States, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government by

asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation

Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States because

ALL OF THE ABOVE (suffered misfortunes in Santo Domingo, hoped that the territory would one day help America to thwart the ambitions of the British, did not want to drive America into the arms of the British, yellow fever killed many French troops which was costly to the French cause in the Americas)

Thomas Jefferson’s failed attempt to impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for “high crimes and misdemeanors” meant that

judicial independence and the separation of powers had been preserved

The case of Marbury v. Madison involved the question of who had the right to

declare an act of Congress unconstitutional

Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because

he believed that the purchase was unconstitutional

The British policy of impressment was a kind of

forced enlistment

Upon becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

the excise tax on whiskey

President James Madison made a major foreign policy mistake when he

accepted Napoleon’s promise to recognize America’s rights

Thomas Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800” was remarkable in that it

market the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties

Tecumseh argued that Indians should

not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed

Thomas Jefferson saw navies as less dangerous that armies because

they could not march inland and endanger liberties

Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because

it was too agrarian and would give mroe votes to the Democratic Republicans

John Marshall sanctioned the existence of the Bank of the United States by arguing

that the federal Constitution was supreme and controlled the laws of the states

The Monroe Doctrine became the cornerstone of US foreign policy by deeming any attempt by foreign powers to colonize or intervene in the America’s as a threat to

the peace and safety of the US

When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment in repsonse to Missouri’s request for admission to the Union, the South thought that the amendment

would end slavery in the slave states

One of the major causes of the panic of 1819 was

overspeculation in frontier lands

The British attack on Fort McHenry in Balimore

inspired the writing of the Start Spangled Banner

The War of 1812 was one of the worse-fought wars in United States history because

of widespread disunity

The doctrine of noncolonization in the Monroe Doctrine was

a response to the apparent designs of the Russians in Alaska and Oregon

the resolutions from the Hartford Covention

helped to cause the death of the Federalist party

The Treaty of 1818 with England

called for a ten-year joint occupation of the Oregon country by both American citizens and British subjects

In interpreting the Constitution, John Marshall

favored “loose construction”

The western land boom resulted from all of the following except

the construction of paved froads for the automobile

As a result of the end of the war of 1812, British manufactureres

began dumping their goods in America at extremely low prices

The terms of the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 provided

that the two sides would stop fighting and return to the status quo before the war

The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions taht included a call for

a Constituutional amendment requireing a 2/3 vote in Congress before war was declared

Post War of 1812 nationalism could be seen in all of the following except

the embracing of European art, literature, and architecture

The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history

that aimed to protect American industry

In Gibbons v. Ogden and other cases in his judicial career, Chief Justice Marshall’s rulings limited the extent of

states’ rights

The Battle of New Orleans

unleashed a wave of nationalism and self confidence

President James Madison gives which reasons for going to war with the British

impressment, shipping blockages, and prompting the Indians to fight colonists

the Monroe Doctrine was

an expression fo the deepending American isolationism from world affairs

Andrew Jackson’s military exploits were intrumental in the United States gaining

possession of Florida

When the United States entered teh War of 1812, it was

miliarily unprepared

As a result of the Missouri Compromis

slavery was banned north of 36 30; in the Louisiana Purchase territory

Andrew Jackson’s administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because

whites wanted the Indians’ lands

John Quincy Adamas, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponenets with ahving struck a corrupt bargain when he appointed _____ to become ____

Henry Clay, secretary of state

Presidents Jackson adn Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and annex the new Texas Republic because

antislavery groups in the US opposed the expansion of slavery

The section of the US most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was

the south

Andrew Jackson based hsi veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the US on

the fact taht he found the bill harmful to the nation

Americans moved into Texas

after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin

The person msot responsible for defusing the tariff controversy of 1828 by proposing the Compromise Tariff of 1833 was

Henry Clay

The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

the appointment of mnay corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs

The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when

Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833

Jackson’s veto of the Bank of the United States recharter bill represented

a bold assertion of presidential power on behalf of western farmers and other debtors

The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was

forced removal

John C.Calhoun’s “South Carolina Exposittion” was an argument for

states’ rights

Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges agaisnt the Bank fo the United States except taht

it refulsed to lend money to politicians

The nullification crisis of 1832 - 1833 erupted over

tariff policy

The Pnic of 1837 and subsequent depression were caused by

overspeculation and Jackson’s financial policies

Jackson’s endorsement of Indian removal argues that

the Indians would be safer and more independent if given land in the frontier

The force Bill of 1833 provided taht

the President could use teh army ad navy to collect federal tariff duteis

William Henry Harrison, the Whig party’s presidential candidate in 1840, was

made to look like a poor western farmer

the House of representatived decided the 1824 presidential election when

no candidate recieved a mjority of the vote in the Electoral College

The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed

with textile mills

A major economic result of the transportation and marketing revolutions was

a steady improvement in average wages and standards of living

“Ecological imperialism” can best be describes as

the aggressive explitation of the West’s bounty

The Irsih immigrants to early-nineteenth-century America

were mostly Roman Catholics

As a result of the transporation revolution,

each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity

German immigrants in the nineteenth century tended to

support public schools

The “canal era” of American history began with the construction of the

Erie Canal In New York

Thos who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized

The Order of the Star Spangled Banner

The “cult of domesticity”

glorified teh traditional role of women as homemakers

The “Father of the Factory System” in the United States was

Samuel Slater

The underlying basis for modern mass production was the

use of interchangeable parts

As a result of the developmetn of the cotton gin,

slavery revived and expanded

The new regional “division of labor” created by improved transportation meant taht

the South specialized in cotton, the West in grain and livestock, and the East in manufacturing

The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

nativism

In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of MA ruled taht

labor unions were legal

German immigrants came to the US because

they wanted to escape economic hardships and autocratic government

According to Charles Latrobe, the Irish are useful to the US because they

do the work that no American citizen wants to do

Native born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly becaue these immigrants

were Roman Catholic

Comapred with canals, railroads

could be built almost anywhere

When the Irish flocked to the US in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

were too poor to move west and buy land

In general by 1860, ___ tended to bind the West and South together, while ____ and ____ connected West to East

steamboats, canals, railroads

American painter George Catlin developed the idea for

the preservation of nature as a national policy

native born Americans fearted taht Catholic immigrants to the US would

“establish” the Catholi church at the expense of Protestantism

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

Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickingson

The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s

stemmed from teh hard and monotonous life of many

Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Bejamin Franklin endorsed the conept of

a Supreme being who created teh universe

Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to

the Christian reform of social problems

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

the revivalist movement called teh Second Great Awakening

Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held _____ as part of their founding ideals

cooperative social and economic practices

The key to Oneida’s financial success was

the manufacture of silverware and steel animal traps

By the 1850s, the crusade for women’s rights was eclipsed by

abolitionism

One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief taht

too much learning would injsut women’s brains and ruin their health

Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for

a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor

Emerson and thoreau summed up their beliefs on government as

“that govenrment is best which governs least”

the beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included all of the following except

strictly monogamous marriages

One cause of Women’s subordination in nineteenth-century America was

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

Transcendentalists writers such as emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the ideas of

inner truth and individual self-reliance

The origianal prophet of the Morom religion was

Joseph Smith

The purpose of the Senaca Falls Manifesto was

to secure more rights for women, including the right to vote