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APUSH - Take Home Test #5 1836 to 1850 DUE - 12/2/2012

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1. The first and second Great Awakenings were similar in that both
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2. The Irish…
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3. The term “manifest destiny,” used in 1846 by newspaper editor John L. O’Sullivan, could be described as a policy that would
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4. The mechanical reaper, invented by Cyrus McCormick in the 1830s, was most significant because it
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5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville, representative of the American Renaissance of the 1840s, is significant in that it

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6. The acquisition of territory from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War was most significant in that it
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7. The temperance movement of the 19th century
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8. The Know Nothing Party focused its efforts almost exclusively on the issue of
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9. Which of the following states the principal of Manifest Destiny?
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10. Between 1820 and 1854, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States were from


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11. By the first decade of the 19th century, American manufacturing had been revolutionized by the advent of


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12. “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members…The virtue is most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.”

The passage above was written by


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13. Reform movements during the first half of the 19th century attempted to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT
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14. Alexis de Tocqueville attributed American social mobility to

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15. Which of the following changes in westward migration occurred in 1848
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16. By what means did the United States take possession of the Oregon Territory?
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17. Which of the following is most closely associated with the presidency of James K. Polk?
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18. Which of the following best explains why President Andrew Jackson resisted annexing Texas during

his administration?

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19. During the first half of the 19th century, the expansion of suffrage increased popular interest in presidential elections. Partisan politics often shifted the voters’ attention from issues to images. The “log cabin, hard cider” campaign helped which candidate win the election?
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20. Which of the following statements about the Whig Party is true?
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21. In the mid 19th century, the growth of cities was caused in part by the
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22. Which of the following was an incident of the Mexican War?
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23. In the 1820s, Robert Owen’s community at New Harmony
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24. The dramatic increase in the South’s slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to
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25. The goal of the American Colonization Society was to
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26. Four of the following correctly match a reformer to the area of reform. Which is incorrectly matched?
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27. Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity?
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28. The Mexican War of 1846 was fought primarily to
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29 . In 1853, the Gasden Purchanse by Congress expanded the size of the United States by purchasing land in which area?
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30. The establishment of Brook Farm and the Oneida Community in the antebellum United States reflected

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RH APUSH TakeHomeTest2 (1783-1815)