HIST1301 Final Exam

Which of the following ideas did the Shaker's support?

All of the Above

Which of the following American authors was influenced by the Transcendentalist movement?

Herman Melvile

Who is referred to as the Father of the American Transcendentalism Movement?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abraham Lincoln's ambition propelled him into politics after having been raised by a family best described as:

An illiterate yeoman farming family

In 1854, the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act created another regional crisis referred to as

Bleeding Kansas

The political party that was dominant in the South and favored state sovereign rights was the _____ party

Democratic

The Civil War began when Confederate forces under the command of General P. G. T. Beauregard bombarded the Union installation of ______, located on an island in the harbor at Charleston, SC.

Ft. Sumter

The man who was appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac in 1862, but whom Lincoln dismissed because he lacked the stomach to commit his forces to heavy casualties, was General ___

George McClellan

The ___ Act gave 160 acres of public lands to settlers after give years of residence and improvement

Homestead Act

Prominent transcendentalists rejected all of the following except:

Individual communion with nature

The president who single-mindedly pursued his ambition of acquiring Texas, New Mexico, and California for the United States even at the risk of war was ___

James K. Polk

The Presidential election of 1860 was hotly contested and debated with an outcome leaving many American, and a newly elected president uneasy. Why?

Lincoln failed to win one Southern state in the election

One reason Kentucky stayed in the Union was that:

Lincoln sent troops into Kentucky right away to put down secessionist sentiment

The belief in American cultural and racial superiority that lay behind the desire to make the entire continent a part American democracy was called

Manifest Destiny

Regarding male military service during the Civil War, which of the following statements is accurate?

Men who found a substitute could avoid military service

Victory was secured in the War with Mexico (1846-1848) when American forced completed the invasion of Mexico in 1847 and marched 260 miles to capture

Mexico City

Joseph Smith was founder of what religious sect in the 1830's?

Mormons

What community practiced polygamy and escaped to Mexican Territory (present day Utah) in the 1840's to escape the U.S. authorities?

Mormons

Regarding the abolitionist movement in American, all of the following statements are true with the exception of

Northerners and Southerners equally participated in the abolition movement

Regarding Jefferson Davis, in what role did he serve during the Civil War?

President of the Confederacy

. During the Civil War, the capitol city of the Confederacy was located in

Richmond, Virginia

The driving force behind Lincoln's decision making and his policy in the early days of the Civil War was ___

Saving the Union

Abraham Lincoln sought professional training and education from ___

Self-taught through borrowed law books

The earliest Women's Movement began in 1840 in what American city?

Seneca Falls, New York

Which of the following communal settlements advocated celibacy, eliminated marriage, and avoided politics, alcohol and tobacco?

Shakers

Following Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, secessionist fever spread through he South with which state seceding first?

South Carolina

All of the following are contrasts between the North and South that lead to Civil War with the exception of?

South relies on Europe for imported goods

All of the following reasons fed America's appetite for Western expansion in the nineteenth century except?

Spread of Women's Suffrage

The new political party that Abraham Lincoln helped to create as a result of a fractured Whig Party was called _____

The Republican Party

The compromise of 1850 was necessary because ___

The battle over free soil vs. slave state raged again

Regarding the early Women's movement in America, which of the following statements are correct?

The women's movement sprung out of the Abolition Movement

All of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 are correct with the exception of?

Two capitals would be created in Texas

Following Mexico's defeat in the War with Mexico, which of the following outcomes is correct?

U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for present day California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, half of Texas and Colorado

Henry David Thoreau's most famous book dealt with a life of self reliance and return to nature. His book is entitled

Walden

The Mormon practice of polygamy:

Was opposed by some within their church as well as non-Mormon Christians outside it

Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraged listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality because he wanted them to:

celebrate individualism and energize the American spirit