1. Which event best reflects Andrew Jackson as a man?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
the Eaton affair
the Maysville Road bill veto
the second bank of the United States
the Force Bill
defying Worcester v. Georgia
2. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty established all of the
following EXCEPT
A) conflicting claims on the Canada-Maine border
were settled
B) the British apologized for the destruction of the
Caroline
C) the British promised to avoid “officious
interference” in freeing slaves
D) both countries agreed to patrol the African coast to
prevent slave smuggling
E) conflicting claims on the Oregon territory were
settled
3. The importance of the Seneca Falls Convention is that it
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
forced the legalization of women’s suffrage
began the modern feminist movement
propelled female candidates into office
was a precursor to abolition
began the use of birth control
4. What important invention was pioneered by Robert
Fulton in 1807?
A) Schooner
C) Steamboat
E) Plow
B) Bicycle
D) Carriage
5. The 1834 invention which allowed farmers to harvest at
a significantly faster rate was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
John Deere’s steel plow
McCormick’s mechanical reaper
Jerome Case’s thrashing machine
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
Charles Goodyear’s vulcanization process
6. What field did the industrial revolution in the 1830s
center on?
A) Cotton
C) Mining
E) Railroad
B) Textiles
D) Refining
7. Which American, known as “The Pathfinder,” mapped
the Oregon Trail and created interest in the Oregon and
California territories?
A) Meriwether Lewis
C) Zebulon Pike
E) Davy Crockett
B) John Fremont
D) Daniel Boone
8. Some southern Democrats opposed the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo because
A) the Mexican cession would not be open for slavery
B) they wanted the United States to take all of
Mexico
C) they wanted the ore located in Vera Cruz
D) they didn’t believe that the United States should
pay 15 million for the territory
E) they thought Northern senators had changed the
treaty to hurt cotton farming in the territory
9. The antebellum reform movement had the LEAST effect
on
A) art and literature
C) public education
E) transcendentalism
B) the South
D) the incarcerated
Base your answer to questions 10 and 11 on the cartoon
below and your knowledge of U.S. history.
13. Daniel Webster’s statement “Liberty and Union, now
and for ever, one and inseparable” demonstrates
Webster’s belief that
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
the Union is sovereign over the states
the states retain the right to nullify certain laws
the executive is sovereign over the legislature
absolute freedom of speech is necessary
the slaves must be freed
14. “Pet banks” were
A) banks to which fraudulent money was sent during
the Whiskey Ring scandal
B) banks to which Andrew Jackson sent money
from the National Bank
C) banks which remained open during the bank
holidays set by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D) banks which were insured by the FDIC during the
1930s
E) banks to which the World Bank distributed funds
10. Advocates of which political party would have
supported the message that this cartoon suggests?
A) Tories
C) Dixiecrats
E) Federalists
B) Progressives
D) Whigs
11. What is the symbolism of Andrew Jackson being
dressed as a king in this cartoon?
A) Jackson’s adoption of a spoils system to promote
the wealthiest classes.
B) His handling of the national bank of the United
States.
C) His desire to increase the power of the
presidency by often disregarding the
Constitution.
D) His policy of severe taxation to finance the
construction of a new white house.
E) Andrew Jackson’s imperialistic foreign policy.
12. The Transcendentalists did all of the following
EXCEPT
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
reject religious spirituality
support a distinct American culture
approve of slavery
find trouble with the law
promote self-reliance and anti-materialism
15. The Trail of Tears was
A) a reaction to the Panic of 1819
B) the Whig reaction to Andrew Jackson’s election
C) a path taken by Southerners after their Civil War
loss
D) a march of the Cherokee from Georgia to
Oklahoma
E) the reaction of South Carolina residents after
nullification was rejected
16. What is one reason anti-Catholic sentiment
strengthened during the Second Great Awakening?
A) Americans had a sense of renewed hostility
towards the traditional religion of Great Britain.
B) Catholicism was not rigid enough for Americans
who wanted to return to traditional values.
C) Catholicism was the religion of many new
immigrants from Ireland.
D) Preachers endorsed the penalty of death, which
was opposed by Catholicism.
E) Catholicism was a religion popular only with the
aristocracy in America.
17. What Transcendentalist and author of Walden used civil 23. The construction of the National Road and the Erie
disobedience to stand up against unjust laws?
Canal facilitated which development?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Longfellow
18. The spoils system was
A) the method by which John Quincy Adams
captured the election of 1824
B) dispensing government jobs in return for
loyalty
C) policies enacted by the Second National Bank
under Nicolas Biddle
D) the system of labor laws in place in the antebellum
era
E) a policy connected to slavery
19. During the first half of the 19 th century, most businesses
were
A) proprietorships
C) corporations
E) companies
B) partnerships
D) franchises
20. James K. Polk’s more clear position going into the
election of 1844 was his
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
support of slavery
support of expansion
opposition to internal improvements
opposition to high tariffs
support of war with Britain
21. “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” represented the claim for
A)
B)
C)
D)
South Korean expansion in the Korean War
South Vietnamese territory in the Vietnamese War
Texas territory in the Mexican War
Oregon territory in negotiations with the
British
E) U.S. possession of Cuba after the
Spanish-American War
22. A major reason that the Whig Party died out is
A) a split on Henry Clay’s American System
B) argument over the Mexican-American War
C) lack of leadership after the death of Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster
D) Zachary Taylor’s failure as President
E) James K Polk’s success in annexing territory
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Failure of steamships
Traveling on North-South roads
Northeastern prosperity
The growth of railroads
The development of southern manufacturing
24. One key objective of the Utopians at communities such
as Oneida was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
unity with nature
free love and open marriage
security and order
obtaining salvation through their own efforts
avoiding predestination
25. What did the Supreme Court find in Commonwealth v.
Hunt?
A) The Federal government had the right to rescind a
private contract.
B) Peaceful unions had the right to negotiate
contracts with employers.
C) State governments do not have to respect the
rights granted by the federal government.
D) Federal laws supercede state laws in the same
area.
E) The Federal government has the right to legislate
over interstate commerce.
26. What was a major goal for labor unions in the 1820s
and 1830s?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
The abolition of child labor
The 10-hour work day
Safe practices in the workplace
Workman’s compensation
Pension programs for workers
27. The statement which correctly describes the paintings
of the Hudson River School is
A) scenes displaying the awe of the American
frontier
B) scenes of revolutionary war locales
C) scenes displayed the gruesome and vicious nature
of the civil war
D) scenes of problems in America painted in efforts
to reform
E) scenes of gunfights and cowboys in the American
West
28. A central belief of the Transcendentalists was that
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
people can rise above reason
morals are relative
salvation can be found in good works
peoples’ fates are predestined
people can earn their way into heaven
29. Before running for President, Zachary Taylor was most
famous for being a
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Southern Senator
Popular sovereignty Congressman
Mexican War General
Anti-slavery speaker
Writer and reformer
30. What was the cause of the Panic of 1837?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
A bad cotton crop
High tariffs
Opposition to Martin Van Buren’s Presidency
Nullification
The failure to renew the charter of the National
Bank
31. What was Andrew Jackson’s group of close personal
advisors called?
A) brain trust
C) west wing
E) counselors
B) kitchen cabinet
D) common men
32. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren held off on
annexing Texas into the U.S. because
A) the territory was too big for the United States to
effectively govern yet
B) the territory did not have enough people to apply
for statehood under the Northwest Ordinance
C) Britain had a rival claim on the land and they did
not want to provoke war with Britain
D) northerners objected to the expansion of
slavery
E) both presidents believed in a theory of small
government which would not give them the power
to annex Texas until Texas was fully free from
Mexico
33. The central issue Martin Van Buren dealt with during
his presidency was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Indian removal
replacing the National Bank
the Supreme Court
opposition in legislature by the Whigs
slavery
34. Who of the following was not a member of the Whig
Party?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
James K. Polk
William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
35. The Charles River Bridge case in 1836 is a reversal of
the principle at work in which John Marshall case?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
36. Joseph Smith is the founder of which religious sect?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Methodism
Baptism
Christian Science
Mormonism
Seventh-Day Adventism
37. Brook Farm and New Harmony are examples of what
type of community?
A) Utopian
C) Catholic
E) Prison
B) Mormon
D) Integrated
38. The Know-Nothing party operated around the idea that
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
slavery should not be extended to the territories
free-masons had too much power
immigration should be ended
protestants should not be allowed to vote
employees had a right to bargain with employers
39. What writer wrote tales of the sea in such novels as
Typee and Billy Budd?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Dean Howell
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
40. Which did John C. Calhoun’s South Carolina
Exposition and Protest oppose?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Internal improvements
The election of John Quincy Adams
The Tariff of 1828
The Creek Native Americans’ land cession to the
state of Georgia
E) The specie circular
41. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and the Trail of Tears
demonstrated that
A) all branches of the American government were
working to remove Native Americans
B) the Americans constantly broke treaties they
signed with Native Americans
C) the Supreme Court’s decisions lack power if
they are not enforced
D) Andrew Jackson attempted to prevent the Indians
from being moved
E) Native Americans moved voluntarily rather than
suffer annihilation
42. What was the Webster-Hayne Debate about?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
The right to nullification
The continuation of the slave trade
The acceptance of Texas into the union
The right of states to secede from the union
The National Bank
43. The Lowell System was
A) a system of labor inducement employed by
textile mills
B) the system by which federal employees were hired
in the early 19th century
C) a system of planting and harvesting employed by
cotton plantations
D) a system of building roads employed in the west
E) a system of voting which was used before white
males were granted universal suffrage
44. The “cult of domesticity” in the first half of the 19 th
century could be best described as
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
more women working outside of the home
more men working outside the home
more men working as farmers
more men working as small craftsmen
more children being born into the home
45. Andrew Jackson’s specie circular, his policy only
accepting hard currency for land, faced problems
because
A) hard currency was controlled by the railroad
owners
B) without the National Bank, there was nowhere to
put hard currency
C) hard currency was hard to find and put
farmers looking to buy land at the mercy of
speculators
D) the government controlled all of the hard currency
E) there was very little open land and the government
ran low on specie
46. The American Colonization Society promoted a
movement to
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
free slaves
colonize Latin America
expand westward
send African-Americans to Africa
restart the slave trade
47. One foreign policy success of John Tyler’s presidency
was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
victory in the Mexican-American War
the movement to annex Texas into the Union
the acquisition of the Oregon territory
the annexation of California into the Union
the acquisition of the Gadsden purchase
48. Which of the following statements is true about the
liberalization of voting restrictions in the early 19 th
century?
A) Eastern states were quicker to grant universal male
suffrage than Western states.
B) Northern states were quicker to grant universal
male suffrage than Southern states.
C) Free blacks were typically allowed voting rights in
Northern but not Southern states.
D) Women were allowed voting rights in some
Western states but not Eastern states.
E) Property restrictions were rescinded in Southern
but not Eastern states.
49. Celibacy, sexual equality and social discipline are
values most closely associated with which early 19th
century group?
A) Transcendentalists
C) Mormons
E) Utopians
B) Shakers
D) Baptists
50. Why did Andrew Jackson oppose the Maysville Road
bill?
A) He opposed internal improvements.
B) He did not believe federal funds should go
towards projects existing in single states.
C) The bill was unpopular within the Midwestern
states which gave Jackson much of his support.
D) He thought the road would not hold together and
would become overgrown very soon.
E) He believed the steamship was the transportation
of the future and that funds should concentrate on
water projects.
51. Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Vera Cruz
52. Irish immigrants in the 1840s were discriminated
against primarily because they
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
were of a Catholic background
were aristocratic in nature
had a paler skin than most Americans
were potato farmers
came from a land which could not achieve
independence from England
53. The American author who wrote stories of ghosts and
terror in the antebellum period was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
James Russell Lowell
James Fenimore Cooper
54. Andrew Jackson’s frequent use of the veto resulted in
which of the following?
A) The majority of Americans opposed Jackson and
did not vote for his chosen candidate in the next
election.
B) The office of the presidency became stronger
relative to the legislature.
C) The Maysville Road bill was defeated.
D) Congress changed the number of votes needed to
override a president’s veto.
E) People felt that the executive branch was
becoming too submissive.
55. Where did most of the fighting in the Mexican War take
place?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
In Texas
In Mexican territory
In Missouri and Arkansas
In California
Above the Rio Grande
56. The statement “Cotton is King” demonstrates that
A) most Southern farmers grew cotton
B) the American South was the only place in which
cotton could be grown
C) the South was more well-off than the North due to
cotton
D) tobacco was no longer a crop of value in the south
E) cotton dominated US exports
57. Which New York reverend preached that conversion
was up to the individual?
A) Cotton Mather
C) Timothy Dwight
E) Joseph Smith
B) George Fitzhugh
D) Charles Finney
58. The opening of Oberlin College, Troy Female
Seminary, and the Perkins School for the Blind in the
1830s and 1840s demonstrated
A) new trends of discrimination in education
B) a new American movement for higher
education for new groups
C) that higher education was only prevalent in the
Northeast
D) that the only good higher education available was
for men
E) that higher education could be used as a tool to
fight slavery
59. Which of the following traits of the Second Great
Awakening was not shared by the First Great
Awakening?
A)
B)
C)
D)
It caused divisions between old and new churches.
It favored emotional appeal over rationalism.
It affected all sections of the country.
It produced more social reform in the North
than in the South.
E) It was fueled by the powerful sermons of
numerous preachers.
60. The American poet who wrote the epic Evangeline and
Hiawatha was
A) Emily Dickenson
B) Robert Frost
C) Henry Longfellow D) Walt Whitman
E) Edgar Allen Poe
61. The most important cause of the increased output in
cotton by the south during the early 19 th century was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
a new infusion of slaves from Africa
a high birth rate among slaves
Eli Whitey’s invention of the cotton gin
American territorial expansion
better weather conditions
62. The focus of the Second Great Awakening was on the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
role of the individual
helplessness of the individual
predestination
religious toleration in America
sin of society
63. An important improvement Dorthea Dix worked
towards was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
women’s right to vote
higher education for women
reform for the mentally ill
ending the sale of alcohol
the beginning of widespread public school
education
64. The phrase manifest destiny reflects the belief that the
United States had a right to
A) kill species of animals if it helped them
economically
B) expand across the North American continent
C) possession of islands in the Pacific and Caribbean
D) spread slavery across the nation
E) take over Canada and Mexico
65. One position taken by James K. Polk was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
to raise tariffs
to restart the National Bank
to hold off on expansionism
to support running a debt
to restart an independent treasury
66. What change in the presidential nomination system
came about during the Jackson Era?
A) Parties allowed universal suffrage in their
primaries.
B) Candidates were nominated at mass
conventions.
C) Conventions were held in cities controlled by
mayors of the party.
D) Rival factions within each party competed for
nominations.
E) Presidential candidates were of common origin
rather than aristocratic.
67. Which statement best describes the monetary
requirements of Western settlement in the 1840s and
1850s?
A) Mostly the poor moved west to find a better life.
B) Moving West was done mostly by rich adventures
for the thrill of it.
C) The poor could not afford the trip west, and
settlement was done mostly by the middle class.
D) Only the very rich could afford the trip west, so
middle-class and poor people had to be sponsored
by the rich.
E) Government increased land prices during that time
to lower the number of people moving west.
68. Which group opposed the Mexican War?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Northern Democrats
Southern Democrats
Northern Whigs
Southern Whigs
Know-nothings
69. What was a major theme of Transcendentalism?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
redeeming one’s self from sin
attaining unity with nature
recovering the rationality of the enlightenment
rediscovering classical Greek and Latin
searching for the American frontier
70. German immigrants generally achieved greater success
than other immigrants because they
A) faced less prejudice against their Catholic faith
B) came to the south where it was easier to make
money
C) were rich in their native Germany
D) were already familiar with much of the technology
E) came to the United States with more money
71. Nicolas Biddle is best known as
A) the head of the Second Bank of the United
States
B) the captain of the Lusitania
C) the leader of the Bonus Army
D) the head of the union during the Homestead Strike
E) a Civil War General for the Confederacy
72. Who of the following was an important figure in school
reform?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Dorthea Dix
Horace Mann
Henry David Thoreau
Joseph Smith
Charles Finney
73. Why did John Tyler work to secure the annexation of
Texas?
A) He wanted to even the balance between slave
states and free states.
B) He wanted to increase the cotton revenue of the
United States.
C) He was worried about the growing influence of
the British in Texas.
D) He wanted the oil which was located in Texas.
E) He needed to secure the Democratic nomination in
1844.
74. The two social movements most closely linked in the
1840’s were
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
prison reform and temperance
higher education and reform for the mentally ill
evangelism and urbanization
feminism and abolition
prison reform and evangelism
75. Which is not true about the election of 1824?
A) John Quincy Adams was elected President by
Congress.
B) A majority of states allowed voters to choose their
Presidential electors directly.
C) John Quincy Adams won the most electoral
votes.
D) Andrew Jackson won the most popular votes.
E) Henry Clay became Secretary of State.
Answer Key
Unit 5 Exam
1.
A
37.
A
73.
C
2.
E
38.
C
74.
D
3.
B
39.
A
75.
C
4.
C
40.
C
5.
B
41.
C
6.
B
42.
A
7.
B
43.
A
8.
B
44.
B
9.
B
45.
C
10.
D
46.
D
11.
C
47.
B
12.
C
48.
B
13.
A
49.
B
14.
B
50.
B
15.
D
51.
A
16.
C
52.
A
17.
D
53.
A
18.
B
54.
B
19.
C
55.
B
20.
B
56.
E
21.
D
57.
D
22.
C
58.
B
23.
C
59.
D
24.
B
60.
C
25.
B
61.
C
26.
B
62.
A
27.
A
63.
C
28.
A
64.
B
29.
C
65.
E
30.
E
66.
B
31.
B
67.
C
32.
D
68.
C
33.
B
69.
B
34.
A
70.
E
35.
E
71.
A
36.
D
72.
B