Period 4

The eighty-five essays written in support of ratification of the Constitution were called:

The Federalist

Which of the following statements related to the Second Great Awakening is FALSE?

The Second Great Awakening popularized Deism

Which of the following helped to increase the visibility and power of the Catholic Church in America in the mid-nineteenth century?

The number of Irish Catholic Immigrants grew dramatically

How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?

The seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery

Who as president encouraged traders to lend money to Indians so that they would accumulate debt and be forced to sell their land to whites?

Thomas Jefferson

Abolitionists were among the first to appreciate the key role of public opinion in a mass democracy, focusing their efforts on awakening the nation to the moral evil of slavery

True

Allowing women a greater role in the public sphere, many female reformers argued, would bring their inborn maternal instincts to bear on public life

True

Although the importation of slaves form Africa was prohibited in the beginning of 1808, the sale and trade of slaves within the United States flourished years later

True

Andrew Jackson was able to portray himself to the American people as a common man

True

By 1860, the South's most populous city was New Orleans

True

By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined

True

Free trade and sailors' rights were the two issues the drew the United Staes into the War of 1812

True

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin gave the abolitionist message a powerful human appeal as it was based on the life of the fugitive slave Josiah Henson

True

It was illegal to teach a slave to read or write by the 1830s

True

John O'Sullivan coined the term "manifest destiny" to describe America's divinely appointed mission to settle all of North America

True

Mob attacks and attempts to limit abolitionists' freedom of speech convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with the democratic liberties of white Americans

True

Most of the public government buildings constructed around 1800 in Washington, D.C., were built by using slave labor.

True

Newspapers and pamphlets were a primary vehicle for political debate in the early republic

True

Steam power helped the proliferation of the penny press

True

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa tried to revive a pan-Indian movement and unite against the white man

True

The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville identified democracy as an essential attribute of American freedom.

True

The Kitchen Cabinet was an informal group of advisors for Andrew Jackson

True

The Second Great Awakening took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses

True

The Trail of Tears refers to the removal of the Indians from Georgia to present day Oklahoma

True

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 proved to Federalist that democracy in the hands of ordinary citizens was dangerous

True

The early industrial revolution in America was largely confined to New England and a few cities outside it.

True

The founder of the Mormon faith was Joseph Smith

True

The market revolution produced a middle class

True

Tocqueville recognized that sovereignty belonged to the mass of ordinary citizens

True

Andrew Jackson's inauguration was:

a large, rowdy event

The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

focus her energies on the home

Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to:

make the United States a major commercial and military power

The employee who managed the large gang of slaves on a plantation was called the:

overseer

Many free blacks in New Orleans and Charleston:

received an education

Squatters:

set up farms on unoccupied land

The Kentucky resolution originally stated that:

states could nullify laws of Congress

What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery

The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:

the spoils system

The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had>

the threat of sale

By the 1830s, the term citizen in America had become synonymous with the right to:

vote

Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

was fundamentally a white society

In the nineteenth century, what product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor?

Cotton

The national political parties of the second American party system were:

Democrats and Whigs

Judith Sargent Murray argued that women's apparent mental inferiority to men simply reflected the fact that women had been denied:

Educational opportunities

Under the cult of domesticity, women were:

Exercising considerable power of family affairs or supposed to value temperance above all else (tbh idk which one is right)

Acre for acre, the Louisiana Purchase was not a bargain.

False

Andrew Jackson's vision of democracy excluded blacks but included Indians

False

Free blacks in the South could testify in court and serve on juries

False

In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement

False

In the Constitution, Native Americans were granted citizenship

False

John C. Calhoun's political theory of nullification was based on the notion that the national government could not exceed the powers listed in the Constitution

False

John Tyler's presidency proved very popular with Whigs

False

New Orleans was not a major exporter of cotton

False

Pocahontas served as Lewis and Clark's interpreter

False

Seeing the events as an extension of their own progress of liberty, white Americans supported the Haitian Revolution and the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804

False

Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufacturers

False

The U.S. military was well prepared for the War of 1812

False

The Underground Railroad used a system of railways to transport escaped slaves

False

The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South

False

The journey from 1804 to 1806 of Lewis and Clark did not produce much valuable information

False

The journey from 1804 to 1806 of Lewis and Clark did not produce much valuable information.

False

When Thomas Jefferson became president, he was not interested in dismantling the policies that the Federalists had established

False

Women and blacks fully enjoyed the fruits of the market revolution

False

Women enjoyed an expansion of democracy for themselves during the 1830s and 1840s, as they were welcomed into the public sphere

False

The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840 and 1860 were from:

Germany and Ireland

What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?

He was executed

What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?

It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports-- an amazing use of federal power, especially by a president supposedly dedicated to a weak central government

Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?

John C. Calhoun

According to the Mormons, who was God's prophet?

Joseph Smith

Which of the following does NOT describe those who attended the Constitutional Convention?

Most had earned their wealth after rising from humble origin

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over the competing Northwest?

New York

In an 1840 letter written from Canada, fugitive slave Joseph Taper asked for divine blessings for:

Queen Victoria

Who believed that freedom was an open-ended process of self-realization by which individuals could remake themselves with their own lives?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What served as the major impetus on the reform movements of the nineteenth century?

Second Great Awakening

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

cotton

What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

canals and steamboats

By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument:

claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress

"Silent sabotage" can be defined as when slaves:

did poor work and broke tools

The Dorr War:

divided Rhode Islanders over expanded voting rights for white men

Samuel Slater:

established America's first factory

As a general rule, slaveowners never allowed their slaves to listen to a white preacher in church

false