History 201- Unit 3 Review Quizzes

Which of the following statements accurately describes James Monroe as president?

He established an important principle of American foreign policy.

Which is true of Jackson during his presidency?

He gave federal positions to friends and supporters.

Which of the following actions did Jackson take in regards to Native American rights?

He refused to enforce a Supreme Court decision in Native Americans' favor.

In the 1816 vote on the Bank of the United States,

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun supported it, but Daniel Webster opposed it.

The election of 1824 was decided when

Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Missouri Compromise?

It admitted Maine to the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Mary Boykin Chesnut described slavery as "monstrous" because

it involved planters impregnating enslaved women.

The vice president during Andrew Jackson's first term as president was

John C. Calhoun.

The first organized meeting for women's rights occurred at

Seneca Falls, New York.

Which of the following is true of the temperance movement in America?

Some supporters advocated absolutism in outlawing liquor, while others proposed personal moderation in consumption.

The number of newspapers expanded in the antebellum period primarily because of

advances in printing technology.

The Eaton affair involved

the marriage of a senator to a woman with a scandalous reputation.

Which of the following statements accurately describes Andrew Jackson?

He actively campaigned among the people, unlike many candidates before him.

Which of the following is true of Robert Y. Hayne during the Webster-Hayne debate?

He believed that only the states had the right to nullify federal laws they disliked.

In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall did which of the following?

He denied that the states could tax a federal institution.

In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, the Supreme Court did which of the following?

It expanded the definition of contracts and put them beyond state control.

The statement "Cotton is King" was made by

James H. Hammond.

In 1828, the idea that a state could nullify an act of Congress was proposed by

John C. Calhoun.

By 1860, the Protestant denomination that had the greatest number of churches and had a significant number of African American followers were the

Methodists.

The Era of Good Feelings was brought to an end by the

Panic of 1819.

Belief in the benevolence of God, the inherent goodness of mankind, and the primacy of reason and rationalism characterized

Unitarianism.

The "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign was in support of

William Henry Harrison.

Who was the African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and gave thousands of speeches calling for an end to slavery and equality for both blacks and women?

William Wells Brown

Horace Mann was a leader in promoting

public schools.

Emigration to the Southwest in the early nineteenth century occurred because of

soil exhaustion.

Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" in reaction to

the U.S. declaration of war against Mexico.

Before the Civil War, white southerners often attempted to defend slavery on all of the following grounds EXCEPT

the idea that slaves willingly agreed to become enslaved and had sought out slavery.

The United States was able to acquire Florida easily because of

the lack of Spanish control over the area.

The Era of Good Feelings describes

the peaceful beginnings of James Monroe's administration.

All of the following factors made the South distinctive EXCEPT

the presence of many European immigrants.

The inventor of the detective story was

Edgar Allan Poe.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Mormons during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Brigham Young led them to settle in Utah.

The increase in Southern cotton production in the nineteenth century was mostly generated by

British demand for cotton fiber.

The Whig party tended to attract members of all of the following groups EXCEPT

Catholic immigrants.

The largest slave insurrection in American history was that of

Charles Deslondes in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1811.

Who was the most successful evangelist in the burned-over district who attracted more-prosperous audiences?

Charles G. Finney

What was a result of Henry Clay's compromise in 1833?

South Carolina rescinded its nullification of the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.

Which of the following statements is true of free blacks between 1800 and 1860?

They had a vulnerable social status and were often mulattoes.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Whigs?

They supported economic nationalism.

By 1860, which of the following was true of most Protestant churches in the South?

They typically declared that slavery was a divinely ordained social system.

Causes of the Panic of 1837 included

a financial crisis in England.

Following the War of 1812, President James Madison embraced a program of economic nationalism that consisted of

a national bank, a protective tariff, and a larger army and navy.

The closing of the African slave trade in 1808 caused

a rise in the price of slaves.

The organized movement for women's rights had its origins in

a split in the anti-slavery movement.

To keep the government financially sound after the Panic of 1837, Van Buren proposed

an independent treasury.

Dorothea Lynde Dix was a leader in reforming the condition of

asylums for the mentally ill.

Jackson helped to bring an early end to the Bank of the United States by

beginning to deposit government funds in state banks rather than in the Bank of the United States.

Along with cotton, staple crops in the South included all the following EXCEPT

coffee

By 1860, freed African Americans were

concentrated in coastal cities if they lived in the South.

The MOST common form of resistance to slavery by the slaves themselves was

cultural practices, such as secret social gatherings and the singing of favorite spirituals.

Southern slave states sought to protect their national political interests by

ensuring an equal number of slave states and free states.

The "firebell in the night" that created the greatest political debate of the nineteenth century and filled Jefferson with terror was the

issue of slavery.

John C. Calhoun believed funding internal improvements, such as a network of roads and canals in the West, would

open trading relationships between the South and West.

To be considered a planter, one had to

own at least twenty slaves and a large amount of land.

The moral code of white southern males in the Old South emphasized

personal honor.

Small-scale southern farmers were often

poorly educated.

The percentage of Americans who could vote increased between 1790 and 1820 because

states abolished many property and taxpaying requirements.

Jackson's veto of the Maysville Road Bill

struck at both Calhoun and Clay.

Before 1830, public opponents of slavery such as James Madison and Daniel Webster advocated for

the "repatriation" of freed blacks to Africa through the American Colonization Society.

Which of the following Native American groups did the U.S. government force to walk 800 miles west on the Trail of Tears?

the Cherokee