exam 2 review quiz questions

(Q013) Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was

5.5 million.

(Q032) Which of the following statements is true regarding the Trail of Tears?

At least one-quarter of the Indians perished during the winter of 1838-1839.

(Q033) Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries?

Germany and Ireland

(Q008) 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

MANIFEST DESTINY

(Q014) The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was one of these advances?

RAILROADS

T/F(Q037) The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.

T

T/F(Q039) More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.

T

T/F(Q042) In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.

T

(Q030) During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place in

VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND

(Q018) The idea of "perfectionism" was the view that

both individuals and society at large can be capable of indefinite improvement.

(Q030) Nat Turner

led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.

(Q001) The "peculiar institution" of the South was

the issue of slavery.

(Q004) Which of the following groups was a major target of the New York City draft riots?

CONSCRIPTION OFFICERS

(Q001) Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war

COPPERHEADS

(Q035) What two southern cities witnessed relatively prosperous free black communities develop in the 1800s?

Charleston and New Orleans

T/F(Q066) In the Lower South, fugitive slaves tended to head for rural plantations to hide in plain sight.

F

(Q046)T/F The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.

False

(Q036) This religion started after its leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing, which he translated and later published.

Mormonism

(Q015) Which of the following was a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?

Owen promoted communitarianism as a way of making sure workers received the full value of their labor.

(Q012) By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own

PROPERTY

(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China

TRIPLED

(Q007) Which of the following was a difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?

The Whigs favored public measures and other policies to regulate personal morality; the Democrats did not.

(Q027) Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

The southern commander, General Lee, was a skilled tactician who hoped that a series of defeats would weaken the North's resolve.

(Q036) What was the meaning of the Civil War for poet Bret Harte?

The war led to the sacrifice of individual soldiers.

(Q005) A major hindrance during the outbreak of war included this railroad situation.

There was no national railroad gauge so trains built for one line could not run on another.

(Q032) Why did slave owners in the 1850s begin to sell their city slaves to the countryside?

They thought their slaves had too much independence, which negatively influenced the relation between master and slave.

(Q002) The American Colonization Society called for

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

(Q022) The Second Great Awakening was

a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

(Q025) Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

a transcendentalist

(Q030) The largest effort at educational institution building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish

common schools.

(Q008) Robert Owen's utopian society promoted this idea to allow workers to receive the full value of their labor.

communitarianism

(Q012) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848

ended the Mexican War.

(Q020) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

established the principal of popular sovereignty to decide the status of slavery.

(Q027) Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of

more humane treatment of the insane.

(Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because

of the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.

(Q021) The Homestead Act

offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

(Q013) When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution

protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.

(Q007) Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were

smaller and less frequent.

(Q017) Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.

(Q017) The Panic of 1819 was caused by

the land bubble burst and fallen prices.

(Q008) Paternalism meant

the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care.

(Q021) In the mid-1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves

worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers.

(Q014) Which is true of Martin Van Buren's campaign for president?

Rather than being dangerous and divisive, he believed political parties were a necessary and desirable element of political life.

(Q021) The Fugitive Slave Act

allowed federal commissioners to determine the fate of fugitives without the benefit of a trial or testimony by the accused individual.

(Q038) Free blacks were regularly excluded from

steamships.

(Q020) "Manifest destiny" was

the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.

(Q015) The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of

the discovery of gold.

(Q018) The Free Soil Party's platform called for

the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.

(Q008) Which of the following was a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

(Q029) Between 1800 and 1860, around 1 million slaves moved from older slave states to the Deep South, traveling

to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.

(Q011) This first martyr of the antislavery movement was killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press.

Elijah P. Lovejoy

(Q005) The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated

the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

t/f(Q053) Government involvement in the economy decreased during the Civil War.

f

T/F(Q039) The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against slavery.

F

T/F(Q049) During the Civil War, the North instituted a draft, but the South never did.

F

T/F(Q065) The nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" applied to slave women as well as white women.

F

(Q031) In Johnson v. M'Intosh, the Supreme Court proclaimed that

Indians were not in fact owners of their land, but merely had a "right of occupancy."

(Q025) How did the Panic of 1819 shape American views of banks?

It fostered a major backlash of anti-bank sentiment.

(Q004) Which of the following was a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?

Selling candidates and their images was as important as the positions for which they stood.

(Q015) "Slave patrols" were

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

(Q016) What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

stimulated its growth

(Q026) Democracy in America was written by

Alexis de Tocqueville.

(Q002) A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that

European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

T/F(Q043) Horace Mann argued that it was not a school's responsibility to reinforce social stability by rescuing students from the influence of parents who failed to instill the proper discipline in their children.

F

T/F(Q045) Over the course of the war, Confederate troops were better supplied than Union troops.

F

T/F(Q051) A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South.

T

(Q049) During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

True

(Q037) New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s?

anti-immigrant riots

(Q031) What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?

enlist in the United States Army

t/f(Q053) Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800.

false

(Q016) In 1853-1854, President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry to

force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States.

t/f(Q041) Although denied the ballot, women found a voice in the public sphere during the 1820s and 1830s.

true

t/f(Q059) The 1836 Specie Circular declared that the federal government would accept only specie (gold and silver) in payment for public land.

true

(Q031) Southern planters felt a community of interest with

Cuban and British slaveowners.

(Q056) The 1828 "tariff of abominations" led to the nullification crisis.

true

T/F(Q041) The American Temperance Society, founded in 1826, directed its efforts to redeeming habitual drunkards, not the occasional social drinker.

F

(Q010) What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia?

She was sentenced to death.

(Q024) The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was

THE MEXICAN WAR

(Q035) Free blacks drew upon what political office to justify "birthright citizenship"?

THE PRESIDENT

(Q033) According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," women must

go to work outside the home.

(Q029) The government-sponsored construction of roads and canals in the early 1800s later deemed unconstitutional was called

internal improvements.

(Q007) Which of the following was an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?

public meetings

t/f(Q053) Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area.

False

(Q004) Stretching from Maine to Kentucky, this was the most successful of the religious communities in the mid-1800s.

SHAKERS

(Q014) In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in

SLAVES

(Q011) As Lincoln withdrew forces in the West to protect areas in the East, tensions flared between the Indians and settlers, leading to

Sioux Indians killing hundreds of white farmers.

(Q020) Which of the following was part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of 36°30'.

(Q011) Which of the following was an element in the 1841 Dorr War?

Supporters of democratic reform organized a People's Convention, which drafted a new constitution for the state of Rhode Island.

t/f(Q057) Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

True

(Q012) What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

cotton gin

(Q010) "Gentlemen of property and standing" were

merchants with close commercial ties to the South.

(Q010) In the mid-1800s, this concept had replaced class as the boundary between those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom and those who were not.

race

(Q019) The Era of Good Feelings was so-called because

they were years of one-party government.

(Q038) What was General Grant's strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate Union victory?

to use as many Union troops on the battlefield as possible in a war of attrition

t/f(Q063) During the market revolution, the emergence of organized political parties spurred newspaper publication.

true

(Q018) Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children.

T/F(Q046) By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.

T

T/F(Q046) In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs.

T

T/F(Q051) By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center.

T

T/F(Q053) Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day, including opposing Illinois blacks the right to vote or serve on juries.

T

T/F(Q054) Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female abolitionist orators in the country during her time.

T

(Q014) Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to

railroads.

T/F(Q042) Lincoln was initially not concerned with the issue of slavery as his paramount concerns were to keep the border slave states in the Union and to build the broadest base of support in the North for the war effort.

T

(Q040) The Alien Act of 1798 reflected fear of immigrants possessing

radical political views.

(Q009) The Second Middle Passage was

the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.

(Q017) John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered this idea "the most false and dangerous of all political errors."

that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty

(Q019) In the Compromise of 1850,

the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

(Q019) America's first black newspaper was called

Freedom's Journal.

(Q015) Which of the following is a true statement about Jackson's political beliefs?

He felt African-Americans should either remain as slaves or be freed and sent abroad.

(Q032) In her 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, this writer sought to apply to women the transcendentalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.

Margaret Fuller

T/F(Q047) By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.

T

T/F(Q056) Many Americans saw the reform impulse as an attack on their own freedom, particularly the temperance movement.

T

(Q001) In the early decades of the 1800s, the population living in Texas who were non-Indian and of Spanish origin were called

TEJANOS

t/f(Q059) The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.

True

(Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

(Q016) The Second Confiscation Act

liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped to Union lines.

(Q016) President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as

the American System.

(Q023) The Republican Party, founded in 1854,

was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers.

(Q029) Which of the following is part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?

Vesey had purchased his freedom after winning the lottery.

(Q028) In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates

walked out of the convention, causing it to recess in confusion.