Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
US History · Unit 4 · Paper 1

Period 4: 1800–1848 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 43 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Force Bill (1833)

2

Charles Grandison Finney

3

Gag rule (1836–44)

4

Temperance movement

5

Trail of Tears (1838–39)

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Era of Good Feelings

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Internal slave trade

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American System

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Tariff of Abominations (1828)

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Nullification Crisis (1832–33)

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Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

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Panic of 1837

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Second Great Awakening

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Dorothea Dix

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Manifest Destiny

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Erie Canal (1825)

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION 2 (required). Read the source. "[There is a] real and wide difference, in political opinion, between the honorable gentleman [from South Carolina] and myself. On my part, I look upon [internal improvements] as connected with the common good.... [He believes] Ohio and Carolina are different Governments and different countries.... We [in New England] look upon the States, not as separated, but as united. We love to dwell on that Union, and on the mutual happiness which it has so much promoted.... In our contemplation, Carolina and Ohio are parts of the same country; States, united under the same General Government.... We do not impose geographical limits to our patriotic feeling.... I do not desire to enlarge the powers of the Government.... But when it is believed that a power does exist, then it is, in my judgment, to be exercised for the general benefit of the whole." Source: Daniel Webster, senator from Massachusetts, future member of the Whig Party, speech in the United States Senate responding to Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, a member of the Democratic Party, 1830.

A. Briefly describe one purpose of political leaders in promoting ideas such as Webster’s.

B. Briefly explain one development from 1820 to 1848 that contributed to the political ideas debated in the speech.

C. Briefly explain how one political debate between 1848 and 1865 was similar to the debate in the speech.