AP US History Unit 4 Exam

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2 1. Perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812, because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possible dissolution, was the Battle of A) Mackinac. B) Plattsburgh. C) the Thames. D) Horseshoe Bend. E) Fallen Timbers. 2. The British attack on Fort McHenry A) resulted in another British victory. D) produced the Bladensburg Races. B) made possible the British invasion of Washington, D.C. E) resulted in the destruction of many British shops. C) inspired the writing of The Star-Spangled Banner. 3. The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of A) New Orleans. B) Horseshoe Bend. C) Tippecanoe. D) the Thames. E) Fallen Timbers. 4. The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions that included a call for A) a Constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war was declared. B) New England's secession from the Union. C) a separate peace treaty between New England and the British. D) the dissolution of the Federalist party. E) war with England. 5. The outcome of the War of 1812 was A) a decisive victory for the United States. D) a heavy blow to American manufacturing. B) a stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States. E) a decisive victory for the British. C) an embarrassment for American diplomacy. 6. The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history A) to be enacted without the consent of Congress. D) to impose taxes on American goods. B) intended to raise revenue. E) designed to protect Southern agriculture. C) that aimed to protect American industry. 7. Henry Clay's call for federally funded roads and canals received whole-hearted endorsement from A) President Madison. B) New England. C) the West. D) Jeffersonian Republicans. E) the South. 8. As a result of the Missouri Compromise A) there were more slave than free states in the Union. B) slavery was outlawed in all states north of the forty-second parallel. C) slavery was banned north of in the Louisiana Purchase territory. D) Missouri was required to free its slaves when they reached full adulthood. E) there were more free states than slave states in the Union. 9. In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings limited the extent of A) states' rights. B) judicial review. C) federalism. D) constitutionalism. E) federal authority. 10. Spain sold Florida to the United States because it A) wanted to help America to become a rival to Britain. D) was pulling out of the Western Hemisphere. B) could not defend the area and would lose it in any case. E) decided to concentrate its efforts in Mexico. C) received America's promise to give up claims to Oregon. 11. At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was A) incapable of being enforced by the United States. B) greeted with enthusiasm and gratitude in South America. C) universally acclaimed in Britain as a great act of statesmanship. D) welcomed with relief by European powers who feared British power in the Western Hemisphere. E) opposed by both the Whigs and the Democratic-Republicans. 12. The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 fixed the southernmost limits of Russian occupation of North America at A) B) C) the forty-second parallel. D) the forty-ninth parallel. E) the fifty-first parallel. 13. The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when A) no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College. B) William Crawford suffered a stroke and was forced to drop out of the race. C) the House was forced to do so by King Caucus. D) Henry Clay, as Speaker of the House, made the request. E) widespread voter fraud was discovered.

3 14. John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a corrupt bargain when he appointed to become. A) John C. Calhoun, vice president D) Daniel Webster, secretary of state B) William Crawford, chief justice of the United States E) John Eaton, secretary of the navy C) Henry Clay, secretary of state 15. The purpose behind the spoils system was A) to press those with experience into governmental service. B) to make politics a sideline and not a full-time business. C) to reward political supporters with public office. D) to reverse the trend of rotation in office. E) the widespread encouragement of a bureaucratic office-holding class. 16. The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was A) New England. B) the West. C) the Southwest. D) the South. E) the middle states. 17. In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson A) hanged several of the nullifiers. D) said nothing about nullification. B) dispatched military forces to South Carolina. E) sought help from the Supreme Court. C) asked Henry Clay for help. 18. Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because A) the Indians assimilated too easily into white society. B) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this policy. C) whites wanted the Indians' lands. D) Georgia and Florida tried to protect the Indians and their lands. E) they continued their attacks on white settlements. 19. The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to A) the supporters of Andrew Jackson. B) American suspicions of secret societies. C) those who wished to keep the government from meddling in social and economic life. D) people opposed to the growing political power of evangelical Protestants. E) supporters of the American System. 20. Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States for all of the following reasons except it A) minted gold and silver coins but issued no paper money. D) foreclosed on many western farms. B) controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. E) put public service first, not profits. C) was a private institution. 21. Americans moved into Texas A) when invited by the Spanish government. B) after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin. C) on Sam Houston's defeat of General Santa Anna. D) to spread Protestantism. E) after the Battle of San Jacinto. 22. Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because A) they believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to civilize the territory. B) they believed that the militarily powerful Austin would otherwise have taken the land by force. C) Spanish control of the territory was a subject of dispute between Spain and the United States. D) Spain planned to sell the land to the United States. E) he paid them a sizeable sum of money. 23. The Tippecanoe in the Whigs' 1840 campaign slogan was A) Daniel Webster. B) Martin Van Buren. C) William Harrison. D) Nicholas Biddle. E) Henry Clay. 24. The Irish immigrants to early nineteenth-century America A) were mostly Roman Catholics and hated the British. D) identified and sympathized with American free blacks. B) tended to settle on western farmlands. E) were often members of the Irish Republican Army. C) were warmly welcomed by American workers.

4 25. When German immigrants came to the United States, they A) often became Baptist or Methodists. D) prospered with astonishing ease. B) mixed well with other Americans. E) dropped most of their German customs. C) remained mostly in the Northeast. 26. Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized A) the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. D) the Ancient Order of Hibernians. B) the Molly Maguires. E) the Ku Klux Klan. C) Tammany Hall. 27. The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called A) the cult of domesticity. B) nativism. C) Unitarianism. D) rugged individualism. E) patriotism. 28. The Father of the Factory System in the United States was A) Robert Fulton. B) Samuel F. B. Morse. C) Eli Whitney. D) Samuel Slater. E) Thomas Edison. 29. Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the A) steamboat. B) cotton gin. C) railroad locomotive. D) telegraph. E) repeating revolver. 30. As a result of the development of the cotton gin, A) slavery revived and expanded. B) American industry bought more southern cotton than did British manufacturers. C) a nationwide depression ensued. D) the South diversified its economy. E) the textile industry moved to the South. 31. The underlying basis for modern mass production was the A) cotton gin. D) principle of limited liability. B) musket. E) passing of protective tariffs. C) use of interchangeable parts. 32. The cult of domesticity A) gave women more opportunity to seek employment outside the home. B) resulted in more pregnancies for women. C) restricted women's moral influence on the family. D) glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers. E) was especially strong among rural women. 33. The canal era of American history began with the construction of the A) Mainline Canal in Pennsylvania. D) Suez Canal in Illinois. B) James River and Kanasha Canal from Virginia to Ohio. E) Erie Canal in New York. C) Wabash Canal in Indiana. 34. Most early railroads in the United States were built in the A) North. B) Old South. C) lower Mississippi Valley. D) Far West. E) Appalachian Mountains. 35. Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of A) revelation. D) a Supreme Being who created the universe. B) original sin. E) the imminent end of the world. C) the deity of Christ. 36. Unitarians endorsed the concept of A) the deity of Christ. D) predestination. B) original sin. E) the Bible as the norm of doctrine. C) salvation through good works. 37. As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated A) opposition to slavery. D) public prayer by women. B) a perfect Christian kingdom on earth. E) all of the above. C) opposition to alcohol. 38. The Mormon religion originated in A) Utah. B) New England. C) Nauvoo, Illinois. D) Ireland. E) the Burned-Over District of New York.

5 39. The original prophet of the Mormon religion was A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Brigham Young. C) Charles G. Finney. D) the angel Moroni. E) Joseph Smith. 40. Tax-supported public education A) existed mainly for the wealthy. D) provided little opportunity for the poor. B) eliminated private and parochial education in the U.S. E) was deemed essential for social stability and democracy. C) began in the South as early as In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were A) chiefly available to educate the children of the poor. D) open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do. B) most in evidence in the South. E) more academically demanding than private academies. C) continuously opposed by wealthy, conservative whites. 42. Noah Webster's dictionary A) had little impact until the twentieth century. D) came to the United States from Britain in the 1800s. B) helped to standardize the American language. E) gave legitimacy to American slang. C) was used to educate nineteenth-century slaves. 43. New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of A) prison and asylum reform. D) abolitionism. B) the peace movement. E) women's education. C) the temperance movement. 44. Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for A) the abolition of capital punishment. D) woman suffrage. B) a ban on war. E) a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor. C) a ban on polygamy. 45. By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by A) the temperance movement. D) prison reform advocates. B) the Lucy Stoners. E) evangelical revivalism. C) abolitionism. 46. The key to Oneida's financial success was A) its move from Vermont to New York. D) its tax-exempt religious status. B) the establishment of Bible communism. E) its linkage of religion to free-market capitalism. C) the manufacture of steel animal traps and silverware. 47. Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held as one of their founding ideals. A) rugged individualism D) opposition to communism B) pacifism E) cooperative social and economic practices C) capitalism 48. The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting A) portraits. B) classical Frescos. C) still life. D) daguerreotypes. E) landscapes. 49. Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through A) the writings of John Locke. B) the senses. C) observation. D) inherent rational capacity. E) an inner light. 50. Civil Disobedience, an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist A) Louisa May Alcott. D) Margaret Fuller. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. E) Henry David Thoreau. C) James Fenimore Cooper.