APUSH Jackson Exam Study Guide

Which of the following resulted from arguments made by Southern politicians, such as the one in the excerpt [John C. Calhoun, 1837], in the years prior to the Civil War?

Slaveholders became more insistent that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.

Which of the following developments most directly led to the activities described in the excerpt [James H. Carson, 1848]?

The acquisition of significant territory following the Mexican-American War

The development of the canals depicted on the map most directly resulted from which of the following?

The market revolution

Which of the following most directly contributed to the development described in the excerpt [M. W. Philips / Cotton Economy]?

A belief by southern businessmen that the southern economy should focus on the export of select agricultural products

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from

the United States Supreme Court

The excerpt [Henry Clay, 1824] could best be used by historians studying which of the following in the early 1800s?

The political debates over economic development

Which of the following was an interpretation of the speech by opponents of the goals Clay expressed in the excerpt?

Clay's manufacturing plan would benefit one section of the country more than others

Which of the following describes an interpretation of Clay's economic principles at the time as expressed in the excerpt?

The United States should increase domestic manufacturing to promote prosperity

Which of the following pieces of evidence would best refute Jackson's claim about his predecessors' policies toward American Indians, as described in the first paragraph of the excerpt?

President George Washington enforced treaties guaranteeing American Indians in New York rights to their land

Which of the following claims is supported by the author's main argument in the excerpt [Sean Wilentz, 2005]?

White settler demand for land was the principal cause of Indian removal policies

Which of the following describes a context that most influenced the implementation of the government policy discussed in the excerpt [Jackson's Indian Removal]?

Many Americans desired the United States to expand its western land claims.

Which of the following pieces of evidence would help modify an argument in the excerpt about President Jackson's intentions toward American Indians?

Some of Jackson's agents encouraged American Indians from Ohio and Florida to leave their homelands as well.

Which of the following pieces of evidence could be used to help modify Furstenberg's argument in the passage [on the founding of the US and slavery]?

Some northern states passed laws to gradually end slavery in the 1780s and 1790s.

The goals of the Mormons, as described in the excerpt, were most like the goals of which of the following colonial groups?

Puritans in New England

Based on the excerpt, the westward migration by the Mormons in the 1830s and 1840s was most likely motivated by the

need to take refuge from persecution

Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?

The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.

President Jackson resisted the admission of Texas into the Union in 1836 primarily because he

feared that debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery

The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was

an expansion of credit and speculation

President Andrew Jackson's creation of a monetary system based on state-chartered banks most likely contributed to which of the following?

The Panic of 1837

Which of the following evidence was used by the American Temperance Society in the excerpt to explain why people would join the temperance movement?

The use of specific studies would convince people to believe the movement's goals.