APUSH Final Review

At the time it was completed, the Erie Canal was

• the greatest construction project Americans had ever undertaken.

• already paid for.

• beginning to fill with silt from the Great Lakes.

• already obsolete.

The nativist movement wanted to

• make immigrants feel this was their home.

• return all land to Native Americans.

• increase aid to education so voters would be literate.

• enact more restrictive naturalization laws.

The most profound economic development in mid-nineteenth-century America was the

• development of a national banking system.

• rise of the factory.

• creation of corporations.

• decline of American agriculture.

The South in 1860, in contrast to 1800, had become

• a primarily rural and agricultural region.

• a region where political power rested in the hands of small farmers.

• more urban and more industrialized.

• increasingly unlike the North and increasingly sensitive to criticism.

American utopians

• operated primarily in the South.

• struggled to meet both individual needs and the demands of the communal society.

• attracted thousands of followers during the antebellum period.

• never developed a large following.

The settlement of the western territories

• united the North and South with a common feeling of nationalism.

• facilitated effective compromises over the increasingly divisive issue of slavery.

• eliminated the need for debate over the issue of slavery.

• divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery in the territories.

The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT

• the national government would not pay the Texas debt.

• California would come in as a free state.

• in the rest of the lands acquired from Mexico, territorial governments would be formed without restrictions on slavery.

• the slave trade, but not slavery, would be abolished in the District of Columbia.

Southerners who believed in the "positive-good" theory argued

• slavery should be maintained, even though it was not profitable for whites.

• slavery was good for blacks.

• Northern factory workers were better off than slaves, but they deserved to be because they were white.

• blacks were not biologically inferior, they just needed time to catch up culturally.

The Dred Scott decision

• was a victory for the antislavery movement.

• affirmed the South's argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery.

• declared Scott a free man.

• outlawed the interstate slave trade.

Captain John Smith helped Jamestown survive when he

• imposed work and order on the colony.

• ended raids perpetrated on neighboring Indian villages to steal food and kidnap natives.

• entered into a relationship with Pocahontas.

• brought the the king and queen to Virginia to meet Chief Powhatan.