American History Chapter 10 Quiz

The cost of moving the Cherokee Indians, which totaled $6 million, was deducted from the $9 million awarded the tribe for their eastern lands, and of the 15,000 who set out, perhaps a quarter died.

True

Whether secular or religious, the utopian communities of the antebellum era failed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT the

stress on the individualistic impulses of human nature.

During the 1830s, the Cherokee Indians

suffered hardships and death in a forced removal to Oklahoma.

During the depression of the late 1830s, the

wages of workers fell by 30 to 50 percent within two years.

Which of the following groups of social outcasts did colonial families and communities take care of?

All of these answers are correct

In 1829 a northern free black man named Nat Turner published a pamphlet that called for slave rebellion.

False

In 1850 at its annual meeting, the American Antislavery party split into opposing factions.

False

The __________ , founded in 1834, was the first attempt at a national labor organization in the United States.

National Trades Union

Sylvester Graham argued that __________ should be eaten to preserve health.

crackers

In the election of 1840, the Whigs

featured new flamboyant electioneering styles and techniques.