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1. Which of the following Supreme Court cases is correctly identified?
Correct Answer: Marbury v. Madison—established the principle of judicial review
2. The majority of Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s
Correct Answer: in cities along the east coast.
3. Which of the following was NOT an example of Manifest Destiny?
Correct Answer: Demilitarizing the Great Lakes
4. The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Correct Answer: led to the infamous Trail of Tears.
5. All the following are true of the Tariff of 1828 EXCEPT it
Correct Answer: was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
6. The increase of slavery in the new Southwest during the antebellum era
Correct Answer: created new tensions over the spread of slavery.
7. Which of the following was NOT true about the 1820 Missouri Compromise?
Correct Answer: It successfully kept the issue of slavery from becoming a national debate until just a few years before the Civil War.
8. The most divisive issue in regards to western expansion during the antebellum era was
Correct Answer: the extension of slavery.
9. Which of the following was NOT a result of antebellum technological innovations such as textile machinery, the steam engine, the telegraph, and the use of interchangeable parts?
Correct Answer: The heightened isolation of rural Americans
10. In a famous 1837 speech, South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun defended slavery as a
Correct Answer: “positive good.”
11. In which of the following areas were political debates LEAST affected by regional and sectional differences in the first half of the 19th century?
Correct Answer: The expansion of white male suffrage
12. American Indians, women, and religious followers had which of the following in common during the antebellum era?
Correct Answer: They developed unique cultures reflecting their interests and experiences.
13. Which of the following movements, glorifying women’s role as homemakers, resulted in part from the increasing separation between home and the workplace brought on by industrialization?
Correct Answer: The Cult of Domesticity
14. During the 1840s and 1850s, which set of immigrant groups arrived in unprecedented numbers, resulting in a nativist backlash in popular culture?
Correct Answer: Irish and Germans
15. Opposition to the proposed American System of internal improvements was a result of
Correct Answer: regional interests overriding national concerns.
16. Which of the following statements best describes the Lowell system?
Correct Answer: It involved using mill girls from rural areas to work in textile factories.
17. Which statement best describes the state of American art and literature in the early 1800s?
Correct Answer: It blended European styles with regional American tastes.
18. One impact of the widespread cultivation of cotton and other cash crops in the South was the
Correct Answer: increased political power the South was able to wield in Congress.
19. Which person or group most strongly advocated sending enslaved blacks to Africa as an answer to the problem of slavery?
Correct Answer: The American Colonization Society
20. Which of the following best describes the Monroe Doctrine?
Correct Answer: It was an American pronouncement to European countries not to interfere with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
21. What did the forced relocation of American Indians and the internal slave trade both have in common?
Correct Answer: They were driven by efforts to exploit the nation’s natural resources.
22. Which of the following connected the Great Lakes to the East Coast and fueled the economic rise of New York City?
Correct Answer: The Erie Canal
23. Which of the following early American political parties most vocally championed the “common man,” welcomed immigrants, and benefitted from the expansion of voting rights to most white males?
Correct Answer: The Democrats
24. Who was the famous black abolitionist who wrote an autobiography of his/her former life as a slave?
Correct Answer: Frederick Douglass
25. What did the Hartford Convention, the nullification crisis, and some Marshall Court decisions all have in common?
Correct Answer: They illustrated attempts by the federal government to assert greater control over the states and the resistance those attempts created.
26. Antebellum era reform movements such as abolitionism, temperance, and women’s rights had their origins in all of the following EXCEPT
Correct Answer: the Monroe Doctrine.
27. The growth and profitability of Southern cotton did all of the following EXCEPT
Correct Answer: catapult the wealth of the average Southern white above most Northerners.
28. Which of the following correctly characterizes the War of 1812?
Correct Answer: The United States was able to reassert sovereignty over its existing western lands and remove Britain’s military presence.
29. Which of the following developments LEAST strengthened the increasing economic linkage of the North and the Midwest during the antebellum era?
Correct Answer: The spread of plantation agriculture
30. Which of the following treaties is correctly matched with its description?
Correct Answer: Adams-Onis Treaty—acquired Florida from Spain