History Test #3 Quiz Questions

A. a national bank B. tariffs on imported manufactured goods C. federally sponsored "internal improvements" D. all of the above

A significant element of the American System was

B. European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that

B. the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers.

According to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act:

A. raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.

American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s:

C. Democrats

Andrew Jackson was the standard bearer for which political party?

B. 25 percent.

In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately:

B. non-slave labor that is paid

In the quotation, "Exalting the superiority of northern society based on 'free labor,'" define "free labor":

C. the battle of Antietam.

Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following:

B. Copperheads

Northerners opposed to the Union cause were known as:

B. Stephen Douglas

One of the leading figures of the Democratic party in the 1850s was:

A. field laborers B. house servants C. skilled artisans D. All of the Above

Slaves made up a significant portion of the Old South's:

C. a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.

The American Colonization Society called for:

C. Robert E. Lee

The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was:

B. Manifest Destiny

The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called:

C. confining slavery to the states in which it already existed.

The newly created Republican Party of the 1850s was dedicated to:

D. Whigs

What political party was organized to oppose President Jackson?

B. The number of southerners killed in the war far exceeded the number of northerners killed.

Which is not true of the death toll in the Civil War?

C. Between 1800 and 1860 the material conditions of free blacks steadily improved, while those of slaves steadily deteriorated.

Which of the following does not apply to the comparative experience of slaves and free blacks in the Old South?

A. Irish immigrants

Which of the following groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots?

D. They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.

Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, '30s, and '40s?

A. Should women have the right to vote?

Which of the following questions was not a key focus of political controversy during the Jackson years?

B. Announcement of American System program; Missouri controversy; "Tariff of Abominations"; veto of Second Bank recharter

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

C. outbreak of Mexican War; Compromise of 1850; "Bleeding Kansas"

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

D. Second Confiscation Act; enlistment of blacks as Union soldiers; congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

a. founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

B. present-day Arizona

Which of the following territories did not come to the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War?

B. There is no place for fixed social hierarchies in a democratic republic.

Which of the following was not a central theme of planter ideology?

A. A system of slavery was tolerable, so long as it remained confined to the South and West.

Which of the following was not a conviction embraced by the newly formed Republican party of the mid-1850s?

D. a conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by "moral suasion," then violent measures would become necessary

Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?

B. a notable indifference to gender roles

Which of the following was not a feature of slave culture?

B. Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them, demands for equality in other areas seemed trivial by comparison.

Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?

D. a high-level conspiracy to take over the federal government through a military coup

Which of the following was not a feature of the rise of southern nationalism during the late 1850s?

A. deadly assaults on slaveholders

Which of the following was not a frequent mode of slave resistance?

C. The Democrats were united in opposition to paper money; the Whigs were united in support of it.

Which of the following was not a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?

C. protection of labor's right to organize

Which of the following was not a major thrust of expanded federal activity during the war?

C. Although suspicious of creditors and paper money, he was a leading defender of the Bank of the United States

Which of the following was not a paradoxical feature of Andrew Jackson's public career?

C. Slave labor in the southern cotton belt undermined cotton production in the North.

Which of the following was not a part of slavery's impact on the northern economy?

B. President Van Buren shifted vast amounts of federal funds to state banks.

Which of the following was not a significant development during the decade following Jackson's presidency?

A. a growing conviction on the part of Confederate soldiers that slavery was wrong

Which of the following was not a significant factor behind the Union's defeat of the Confederacy?

D. In the absence of a stable legal system, local settlers frequently took the law into their own hands.

Which of the following was not a significant feature of Gold Rush California?

D. The Mexican military was likely to overpower American forces; it was foolhardy to challenge Mexico.

Which of the following was not a significant theme of public protest against America's war on Mexico?

D. The harder things went for the Confederacy, the more unified its citizens became.

Which of the following was not a significant wartime development?

B. the recruitment of slaves to serve as Confederate army officers

Which of the following was not a source of growing disaffection among whites on the Confederate homefront?

D. Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.

Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?

C. political party conventions

Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and '40s?

B. Virtually no traces of racial prejudice found their way into the movement.

Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?

A. Like slaves, they had few civil or political rights.

Which of the following was not true of the plain white folk of the Old South?

B. tariff reform

Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?

C. Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.

Which was not an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?

A. The Alamo was a U.S. fortress (or mission compound) on U.S. soil.

Which was not true of the Alamo?