US HISTORY I HONORS UNIT 2 TEST (21-22)
Charles Grandison Finney
helped launch the Second Great Awakening
In promoting his policy of Indian removal, President Andrew Jackson
hoped to split the Cherokees apart from their allies such as the Creeks and Seminoles
The Sedition Act allowed the national government to jail people for
making negative statements about the government
The Shawnee Chief Tecumseh attempted to
organize a confederacy of Native American tribes
Andrew Jackson's "pet banks" contributed to the Panic of 1837 by
printing paper money that was not backed up by gold and silver
Dorthea Dix
reformer focused on the mentally ill
Raplh Waldo Emerson
represented a philosophical movement that emphasized self-reliance, truth in nature, and personal imagination
The United States Supreme court ruling in the Amistad case offered the Abolitionist movement a legal justification to prevent an increase in the number of slaves in America by
ruling free individuals have the right to be protected from being forced into slavery
Besides admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, the Missouri Compromise provided that
slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri (36' 30"), except Missouri itself
The XYZ Affair resulted in
strong anti-French feelings in the US
In the case McCulloch v Maryland, Chief Justice Marshall held that
the Federal Bank of the United States was constitutional, and no state had a right to tax it
One of the biggest effects of the Fugitive Slave Law contained within the Compromise of 1850 was?
a sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling
Jefferson's Embargo Act provided that
America would prohibit all foreign trade
"Manifest Destiny" represented the widespread American belief that
God had destined the United States to expand across the whole North American continent
Fredrick Douglass
former slave who published the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star
Sojourner Truth
former slave, who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women's rights
gag rule
Prevented Congress from hearing abolitionist petitions to end slavery
Which view best summarizes Lincoln's position on slavery during the election of 1860?
Slavery should not spread because it is morally and politically wrong, but he would not interfere with where it already existed
In the Dred Scott decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled all the following EXCEPT
The Constitution does not provide the court with the right to hear the case
Which two nations negotiated to settle the border between northwest United States and present-day Canada?
United States and Britain
In the 1870s, a Federalist would likely have supported
a national bank
What was one effect of John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry?
an increase in tensions between the North and the South
David Walker
free black person advised African Americans to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery
The factory system of the early 1800s was dependent on all of the following except
craftsmen
The development of different economies in the North, West and the South cased the federal government to try to tie the economies together (American System). What was NOT part of that plan?
creating a strong army and navy
The outcome of the Whiskey Rebellion helped to establish the power of the federal government to
enforce federal laws within states
The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for
equal rights including the right to vote
Commonwealth v Hunt
established the right of workers to strike
Within the United States, conflicts over what delayed the annexation of Texas?
the balance of free and slave states
The Monroe Doctrine was largely a response to
the interest of European nations in creating colonies in North and South America
The Supreme Court's ruling in Marbury v Madison affirmed that
the powers of the Supreme Court are set by the Constitution
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
this person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first women's right convention at Seneca Falls, New York
What was Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the Compromise of 1850?
to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
Washington's established a presidential cabinet for which of the following reasons
to provide a variety of opinions in order to make good decisions about government
