Period 4: 1800–1848
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"The ground that I wish to take is that of earnest remonstrance against the interference of the European powers by force with South America, but to disclaim all interference on our part with Europe; to make an American cause and adhere inflexibly to that. . . . It would be more candid, as well as more dignified, to avow our principles explicitly to Great Britain and Russia, than to come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war."
— John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, Memoirs, November 1823
Which of the following goals of United States foreign policy in the early 1820s is most directly reflected in the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
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"If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action."
— Chief Justice John Marshall, majority opinion in *McCulloch v. Maryland* (1819)
Which of the following principles of federalism is most directly supported by the excerpt above?
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"It is not the elected magistrate, but the majority itself, which operates through the medium of the magistrate. In the United States, the people elect the law-maker and the executor of the law... The people reign in the American political world as the Deity reigns over the universe."
—Alexis de Tocqueville, *Democracy in America*, 1835
Which of the following developments in the early nineteenth century most directly contributed to the political environment described in the excerpt?
"If the power of the federal government to select its own means is unlimited... the state governments are at the mercy of the federal power. The Constitution, under this construction, is no longer a federal compact of sovereign states, but an instrument of consolidated empire, in which the rights of the states are completely swallowed up."
—Spencer Roane, writing under the pseudonym "Hampden" in the *Richmond Enquirer*, 1819
Which of the following developments in the early nineteenth century most directly prompted the criticisms expressed in the excerpt?
Source: Reverend Charles Colcock Jones, *The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States*, 1842:
"The religious instruction of the negroes... will promote our own security and quietness... by teaching them the duties which they owe to us, as their masters, and by instilling into their minds those principles of peace, and patience, and submission, which the Gospel of Christ inculcates... It will also tend to remove the prejudices of many at the North and elsewhere against the institution of slavery itself, by showing that we are not unmindful of the spiritual welfare of our servants."
Which of the following developments in the South during the 1830s and 1840s is most directly reflected in the excerpt?
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. . . . Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control."
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, 1820
Which of the following developments in the early 1800s best explains the concerns expressed by Jefferson in the passage?
“In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal, or even superior, to that of the other sex. . . . [W]oman is to win everything by peace and love; by making herself so much respected, esteemed, and loved, that to yield to her opinions and to gratify her wishes, will be the free-will offering of the heart.”
— Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841
Which of the following historical developments in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly contributed to the social ideals expressed in the excerpt?
"The Cherokee Nation, then, is a distinct community, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties, and with the acts of Congress. The whole intercourse between the United States and this nation, is, by our Constitution and laws, vested in the government of the United States."
—Chief Justice John Marshall, Worcester v. Georgia, 1832
The Supreme Court decision excerpted above most directly reflected which of the following principles of the Marshall Court?
Source: Judge Thomas Ruffin, *State v. Mann*, North Carolina Supreme Court, 1829.
"The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect. I most freely confess my sense of the harshness of this proposition... But it is inherent in the relation of master and slave. That relation indeed must be established, to make the slave's labor of any value... The end is the profit of the master, his security and the public safety; the subject, one doomed in his own person, and his posterity, to live without knowledge, and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may reap the fruits."
The legal arguments presented in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the following aspects of Southern society in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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"The right of suffrage is the fundamental right of our government... Our citizens are all of the same class; we have no privileged orders... The right of suffrage should be extended to all who contribute to the public support, or who are ready to defend their country."
— Nathan Sanford, speech at the New York State Constitutional Convention, 1821
The perspective expressed in the excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the early nineteenth century?
"The business of national reform must be conducted by voluntary associations... They can create a public opinion which will check the progress of vice, and strengthen the hands of the civil magistrate. A nation can be reformed only by the voluntary action of the individuals who compose it. A state or city may be governed by law, but a nation can be reformed only by public opinion. These associations are the only means by which the virtue and intelligence of the nation can be concentrated, and brought to bear upon the public mind."
— Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian minister, *Six Sermons on Intemperance*, 1826
Which of the following developments in the period 1800 to 1848 most directly reflects the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
“O, ye daughters of Africa, awake! awake! arise! no longer sleep nor slumber, but distinguish yourselves. Show forth to the world that ye are endowed with noble and exalted faculties... How long shall the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds and talents beneath a load of iron pots and kettles? ... As daughters of Africa, let us promote and encourage the education of our children, and let us try to buy or build a schoolhouse.”
— Maria W. Stewart, public address in Boston, 1832
The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the following developments in the United States during the early nineteenth century?
“We have recently witnessed a painful division in our ranks. . . . The insistence of some that the cause of the slave must be joined with the advocacy of female public representation, and the rejection of all political action under our government, has threatened to alienate the moderate citizens of our nation. By attempting to force these foreign doctrines upon the society, they have split the great movement. We must now organize anew, dedicating ourselves to the overthrow of slavery through moral influence and the proper exercise of the elective franchise, separate from other exciting and irrelevant topics.”
—Circular of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1840
The debate described in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following developments in the antebellum era?
"The inhabitants of the Western States are no longer isolated from the Atlantic seaboard. The completion of the great Northern canal and the rapid extension of the iron pathways have turned the flow of commerce. The wheat of Ohio and the flour of Michigan now find their way to the markets of New York and New England, while the manufactured wares of the East are carried back in return. The cost of carriage has been reduced to a fraction of its former rate, and the time of transit is counted in days instead of weeks."
—Report on Internal Improvements, 1836
Which of the following was a direct consequence of the developments described in the excerpt?
Average Travel Times from New York City, 1800 and 1830:
| Destination | 1800 (Days) | 1830 (Days) |
|---|---|---|
| Detroit | 28 | 8 |
| Cincinnati | 44 | 14 |
| New Orleans | 38 | 15 |
Which of the following developments was the most direct cause of the changes in travel time illustrated in the table?
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"Office is considered as a species of property, and government rather as a means of promoting individual interests than as an instrument created solely for the service of the people. ... In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. ... No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal."
—President Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress, 1829
Which of the following political practices of the Jacksonian era is best supported by the ideas in the excerpt?
President James Monroe, message to Congress, 1823:
'The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers... We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.'
Which of the following best describes the primary goal of the policy outlined in the excerpt?
Source: James Henry Hammond, letter to Thomas Clarkson, 1845.
"I go further, and maintain that, as [slavery] exists with us, it is a society containing the fewest elements of conflict, and the most of stability and order, of any that the world has ever seen... We are not only undisturbed by those threats of social revolution which are beginning to make the foundations of European and Northern society totter, but we are absolutely exempt from those minor domestic agitations which are so constantly occurring there."
Which of the following historical developments during the first half of the nineteenth century best explains the "domestic agitations" in Northern society referenced by Hammond in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt below from the first official platform of the Democratic Party:
"Resolved, That the federal government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the constitution... and that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers.
Resolved, That the constitution does not confer upon the general government the power to commence and carry on a general system of internal improvements...
Resolved, That congress has no power to charter a United States Bank; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country..."
— Democratic National Platform, 1840
Which of the following debates during the Second Party System was most directly driven by the political philosophy expressed in the excerpt?
President James Madison's War Message to Congress, June 1, 1812:
"British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right... but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects."
Which of the following problems described in the excerpt was a primary cause of the United States' decision to declare war against Great Britain in 1812?