History Final
(Q002) A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that
European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
(Q039) The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against slavery.
False
(Q071) The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves.
False
(Q018) In the XYZ affair of 1797,
French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.
(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.
(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.
(Q026) On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter
Sacajawea.
(Q010) What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia?
She was sentenced to death.
(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'.
(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.
(Q042) In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.
True
(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.
(Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,
abolished slavery throughout the Union.
(Q005) The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated
an end to fighting between France and the United States.
(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) What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?
cotton gin
(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.
(Q015) "Slave patrols" were
farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.
(Q030) Nat Turner
led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.
(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.
(Q027) Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of
more humane treatment of the insane.
(Q014) Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to
railroads
(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.
(Q016) What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?
stimulated its growth
(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
(Q001) The "peculiar institution" of the South was
the issue of slavery.
(Q017) The Panic of 1819 was caused by
the land bubble burst and fallen prices.
(Q025) With the Louisiana Purchase,
the size of the nation was doubled.
(Q009) The Second Middle Passage was
the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.
(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
(Q018) Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of
women and children.
(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.
(Q044) The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.
False
(Q065) The nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" applied to slave women as well as white women.
False
(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.
(Q024) The case that established judicial review was
Marbury v. Madison.
(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.
(Q028) The objective of Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 was to
take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.
(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.
(Q020) "Manifest destiny" was
the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.
(Q004) Thomas Jefferson brokered an agreement to assuage southerners to accept Alexander Hamilton's economic plans in exchange for
the building of a new and permanent national capital in the South.
(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