HY 120 Final CHAPTER 9, HY 120 Final CHAPTER 8, History Chapter 10, Chapter 11 review quiz, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, History Chapter 15
Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?
100,000
The Constitution was amended to require states to allow women to vote in
1920
(Q013) Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was
5.5 million
Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by
African-American slaves.
The author of Democracy in America was
Alexis de Tocqueville, from France
Democracy in America was written by
Alexis de Tocqueville.
Click or tap to identify the coastal area that became known as "Sherman land"—land set aside by General Sherman's Special Field Order 15, in January 1865, for the resettlement of black families after the Civil War.
Along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia
According to the video, why was Frederick Douglass's perspective on the question, "Who is an American?" considered radical for the time?
Anybody and everybody should be allowed citizenship
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.
Andrew Jackson was the standard-bearer for which political party?
Democrats
How do the two maps of the Barrow plantation, roughly twenty years apart, illustrate the effects of emancipation on rural life in the South?
Former slaves had their own church, and their children went to school. Slaves that formerly lived in communal quarters now lived in separate homes and worked the land as sharecroppers.
In 1876, Winslow Homer painted this imaginary scene between a former slave and a slaveowner. What does he suggest about the relationship among freedmen and former slaveowners in his painting?
Freed blacks and former slaveowners still interacted frequently after emancipation. Freed blacks no longer had to show reverence to their former owners.
In the XYZ affair of 1797,
French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.
Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries?
Germany and Ireland
In Johnson v. M'Intosh, the Supreme Court proclaimed that
Indian's were not in fact owners of their land, but merely had a "right of occupancy"
Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?
Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
(Q004) Which of the following groups was a major target of the New York City draft riots?
Irish immigrants
Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?
Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.
Which was not true of Brook Farm?
It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century.
Which was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
It permanently settled the question of the expansion of slavery.
The man responsible for negotiating a treaty for the United States to acquire Florida from Spain, aid in an agreement with Great Britain to fix the Canadian-American border at the 49th parallel, and wrote a majority of the Monroe Doctrine is
John Quincy Adams
What arguments did the black petitioners make when urging President Johnson to allocate land to them?
Land ownership was a vital element of citizenship. The freedmen had worked the lands and therefore deserved ownership.
Why did northern Republican support for Reconstruction diminish in the 1870s?
Many of the Radical Republicans who had established the Reconstruction plan had died. Many northerners believed that the South should be able to solve its own problems. Many believed that the federal government had created the conditions of freedom, and success was now up to blacks.
The case that established judicial review was
Marbury v. Madison.
Which is not an element of Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
Marshall found that contracts between states and private citizens could not be abridged.
The portion of President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress that asserted that the United States would oppose further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas, that the United States would stay out of European wars, and that European powers were not to interfere with the newly independent Latin American states is called the
Monroe Doctrine
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
What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?
Old Hickory
Which of the following statements accurately reflects Fries's Rebellion of 1799?
President John Adams dispatched federal troops to the area.
By the eve of the civil war free blacks in the south allowed to own
Property
By 1825, Spain's once vast American empire had been reduced to Cuba and
Puerto Rico
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.
The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the
Republicans and Federalists
On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter
Sacajawea.
Which of the following are valid statements about the election of 1876?
Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate, won the popular vote. The disputed electoral votes were in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.
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
McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that
The Bank of the United States was constitutionally legal
Which of the following was not a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?
The Democrats held a stronghold on upstate New York; the Whigs held more isolated rural communities
John Tyler was given numerous nicknames upon assuming the office of the presidency, including the title
The Executive Ass
Given the information in the map, how would the results of the 1876 presidential election best be summarized?
The hair's-breadth result showed how divided the nation was.
(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.
How did the Black Codes attempt to regulate the lives of former slaves?
They prohibited blacks from serving on juries. They denied blacks the right to serve in state militias. They did not allow blacks to vote. They denied blacks the right to testify in court against whites.
"Perfectionism" is the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could now be eradicated.
True
The region of the United States that came to be known as the "burned-over district" as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was:
Upstate New York and northern Ohio.
(Q030) During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place in
Virginia and Maryland
Click or tap to identify the former Confederate states that could not participate in the 1868 presidential election, due to Reconstruction.
Virginia, Texas, Mississippi
Analyze the cartoon "Practical Illustration of the Virginia Constitution" (ca. 1870), and complete the following statement.
Whites feared that Reconstruction would result in integrated schools and blacks having representation in the court system, including sitting on juries.
The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by:
William Lloyd Garrison.
Click or tap to identify the western territory that in 1869 extended to women the right to vote.
Wyoming
Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?
a conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by "moral suasion," then violent measures would become necessary
Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?
a transcendentalist
The Liberty Bell took on its name—previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell—after:
abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause for abolishing slavery.
The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated
an end to fighting between France and the United States.
Identify the groups the Ku Klux Klan targeted.
blacks who became landowners white Republicans African-American political leaders
Pet banks were created when
both houses of Congress approved the president's appointment for a new pet bank, which handled more gold and silver than paper money.
What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?
cotton gin
Identify the statements that describe the Civil Rights Bill of 1866.
defined all persons born in the United States as citizens ensured all citizens enjoyed a set of basic rights
William Henry Harrison's presidency ended as he
died from pneumonia a month after taking office
(Q020) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
established the principal of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined.
(Q039) The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against slavery.
false
(Q049) During the Civil War, the North instituted a draft, but the South never did.
false
As working-class whites gained equal rights in the political arena, they grew increasingly critical of racial inequality.
false
While Whigs considered individual morality a private matter, not a public concern, Democrats insisted that liberty and power reinforced each other.
false
"Slave patrols" were
farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.
(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.
The government-sponsored construction of roads and canals in the early 1800s later deemed unconstitutional was called
internal improvements
"Impressment" as practiced by the British was
kidnapping sailors.
Nat Turner
led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.
(Q016) The Second Confiscation Act
liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped to Union lines.
(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
In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Americans tended to view Canadians as
monarchial and lacking in an understanding of liberty.
The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about:
one hundred.
Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and '40s?
political party conventions
The 1836 "gag rule":
prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
By 1860, most states had eliminated ____________ from their voting requirements.
property requirements
(Q013) When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution
protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.
The Alien Act of 1798 reflected fear of immigrants possessing
radical political views.
The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to
slavery
In 1860 the largest economic investment in the United States was in
slaves
"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that:
social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
(Q017) Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed
some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control
What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?
stimulated its growth
The objective of Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 was to
take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.
Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
tariff reform
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:
the Declaration of Independence.
Identify the provisions of the Radical plan for Reconstruction.
the Fourteenth Amendment temporary division of the South into military districts state guarantees of black men's right to vote creation of new state governments
(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.
Identify the factors that contributed to the weakening of northern support for Reconstruction.
the Supreme Court's failure to fully uphold the rights of blacks the economic depression of the early 1870s the growth of Democratic power in Congress northern journalists' depictions of the failure of southern black leadership
(Q015) The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of
the discovery of gold
(Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because
the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.
(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.
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
The Panic of 1819 was caused by
the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.
The "Revolution of 1800" was
the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.
With the Louisiana Purchase,
the size of the nation was doubled.
The second middle passage was
the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.
(Q019) In the Compromise of 1850,
the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called
the spoils system
The Era of Good Feelings was so-called because
they were years of one-party government
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.
(Q021) The Homestead Act
took effect on January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.
(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China
tripled
(Q042) In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.
true
(Q045) Over the course of the war, Confederate troops were better supplied than Union troops.
true
President Jackson's critics called him "King Andrew."
true
The 1828 "tariff of abominations" led to the nullification crisis.
true
The 1836 Specie Circular declared that the federal government would accept only specie (gold and silver) in payment for public land.
true
(Q028) In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates
walked out of the convention
(Q023) The Republican Party, founded in 1854,
was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers.
Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society:
wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.
Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of
women and children.
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.
How much of the adult white male population in the United States could vote by 1840?
Approximately 90%
What two southern cities witnessed relatively prosperous free black communities develop in the 1800s
Charleston and New Orleans
The competing visions of Reconstruction between President Johnson and the Radical Republicans brought forth the nation's first impeachment charges. Place the following events in chronological order. Note that not all options must be used.
Congress authorized the Tenure of Office Act in March 1867. Johnson removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The House of Representatives initiated impeachment charges.
(Q001) Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war
Copperheads
Southern planters felt a community of interest with
Cuban and British slave owners
Which was not an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?
Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.
A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that
European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
(Q053) Government involvement in the economy decreased during the Civil War.
False
A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
False
Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.
False
According to Frederick Douglass, the heritage of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to offer blacks.
False
All of the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen made property ownership a requirement of voting, at least for a time.
False
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.
False
As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.
False
As they were committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.
False
Brook Farm was a vibrant, successful, and active community for more than a century.
False
By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.
False
Dancing was forbidden in Shaker settlements.
False
Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.
False
First and foremost, Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.
False
Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area.
False
Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.
False
In the lower south, fugitive slaves tended to head for rural plantations to hide in plain sight
False
Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.
False
More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.
False
Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).
False
Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.
False
Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.
False
The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by Lucretia Mott.
False
The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves.
False
The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.
False
The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.
False
The nineteenth century "cult of domesticity applied to slave women as well as white women
False
William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
False
Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?
Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them, demands for equality in other areas seemed trivial by comparison.
While Jackson claimed to be the "common man," his vision of democracy often differed from many Americans. 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.
Analyze the map, and identify each of the regions below as having either a high or a low concentration of sharecropping activity around the year 1880.
High Concentration: far northern Alabama inland South Carolina inland Georgia
Which of the following is not true regarding the Bank War?
Jackson finally relented to Biddle's continued pressure and signed the bill to extend the bank for another twenty years.
Fill in the blanks to complete the statement describing the different political offices black men filled during Reconstruction.
More than 2,000 African-American men held public office during Reconstruction. They were elected into positions at all levels of government, including the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as governor of Louisiana. This represented a fundamental shift in power in the South.
Why did southern planters and merchants oppose Reconstruction and the new state governments?
Reconstruction governments were corrupt. Southern whites could not accept the idea of blacks' equality. Poor southern whites did not experience the improvement to their economic situation as they had hoped.
(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.
Compared to Brazil and the West Indies involving hundreds of even thousands of slaves revolts in the United States were
Smaller and less frequent
(Q001) In the early decades of the 1800s, the population living in Texas who were non-Indian and of Spanish origin were called
Tejanos
Click or tap to identify the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, during Reconstruction.
Tennessee
Click or tap to identify the last four former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union, as Reconstruction came to a close.
Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia
This person refused to sign the Pennsylvania constitutional conversion document because it had a provision limiting suffrage to only whites and later became a leader in the drive for equal rights for African-Americans after the Civil War.
Thaddeus Stevens
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
In what ways does the contract limit the freedom of the laborers?
The freedmen are contractually obligated to "obey" the landowner. The freedmen are required to compensate the landowner if they miss work for a day.
(Q027) Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?
The leading southern commander, General Robert E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate army throughout the entire war.
The presidential election of 1876 saw some regions of the country leaning Republican and others leaning Democrat. Which statements correctly describe the geographic voting patterns?
The new states out west were Republican territory. The East Coast was mostly Democrat territory. Southern states voted Democrat.
Which was not an element in the 1841 Dorr War?
The war's bloodshed led to the deaths of more than 246 people, and to Dorr's execution.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to
The westward expansion of slavery
Which was not a chief endeavor of black abolitionists?
They called for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, '30s, and '40s?
They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.
Why did slaves owners in the 1850s begin to sell their city slaves to the countryside
They thought their slaves had too much independence l, which negatively influenced the relation between master and slave
List the following events of Reconstruction in chronological order.
Thirteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan established, Enforcement Acts
"Shakers" got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services.
True
(Q039) More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.
True
(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.
True
A small number of African American owned slaves in the old south
True
Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female orators in the country during her time.
True
Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.
True
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
True
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.
True
By 1860, economic investment in the United States in slaves exceeded the total economic investment in the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.
True
Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.
True
During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.
True
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
Horace Mann believed that freedom could derive only from self-discipline and self-control.
True
In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in response to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.
True
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.
True
The Barbary Wars were the United States' first contact with the Islamic World.
True
The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth-century American Revolutionaries, but instead, from nineteenth-century abolitionists.
True
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
The election of 1824 injured Henry Clay's political career.
True
The founders of Brook Farm envisioned a harmonious blend of physical labor, intellectual work, and leisure.
True
The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the south from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth
True
The same American leaders of democracy who hailed the French Revolution as a step in the universal progress of liberty reacted in horror against the Haitian Revolution.
True
The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners, including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.
True
Though women could not vote in the early-nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.
True
Which of the following is part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey
Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites
The American Colonization Society called for:
a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.
The Second Great Awakening was
a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.
Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?
a spirit of courage and defiance in the face of broad, often violent hostility
(Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,
abolished slavery throughout the Union.
The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called:
abolitionism.
The Hartford Convention
affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.
(Q021) The Fugitive Slave Act
allowed special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial or testimony by the accused individual
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
announcement of American System program; "Tariff of Abominations"; veto of Second Bank recharter
New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s?
anti-immigrant riots
At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." "Complex marriage" at Oneida meant:
any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.
Identify some of the ways in which blacks demonstrated their freedom following the end of the Civil War.
by attending mass meetings and religious services by traveling by locating and reuniting with loved ones from whom they had been separated under slavery
The Tariff of 1816 protected goods produced in the United States, especially
cheap cotton textiles
(Q012) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848
ended the Mexican War.
(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 Sates Army
Identify the statements that describe the objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau.
establish schools for blacks secure equal treatment for blacks before the courts settle disputes between blacks and whites provide aid to the poor and aged reorganize abandoned and confiscated land in the South into forty-acre plots to allocate to former slaves
Andrew Jackson and his supporters publicly argued that the presidential election of 1824 had been determined in his favor by a "corrupt bargain" between some of the participants.
false
Andrew Jackson appealed to the changing voting pool because he represented those that came from generations of wealth and supported a strong federal government-controlled nation.
false
Because of their written language and constitution, the Blackfoot were considered by many white Americans to be a "civilized tribe."
false
Both John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson believed in states' rights to nullify federal law.
false
Despite his reputation for stubbornness, President Jackson proved timid and conciliatory during the nullification crisis and the Bank War.
false
Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800.
false
In Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice Marshall described Indians as "wards" of the federal government, deserving paternal protection.
false
In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.
false
President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a solemn, elite dinner.
false
The Democrats nominated William Henry Harrison without a platform, instead promoting him as the "log cabin" candidate, or a champion of the common man.
false
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was renounced by President Jackson.
false
The charter for the Bank of the United States was renewed in 1811.
false
The election of 1824 resulted in Andrew Jackson being elected president that year.
false
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization
Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:
more humane treatment of the insane.
In the mid 1800s, this had replaced class as the boundary between those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom and those who were not.
race
(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?
radios
Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to
railroads
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s:
raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted all of the following views except that:
schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.
Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?
settlement houses in cities
What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the crime of Celia
she was sentenced to death
The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth-century United States included all of the following except societies to:
shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
The War of 1812 was ended by what treaty?
the Treaty of Ghent
The "Second War of Independence" was
the War of 1812.
"Manifest destiny" was
the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.
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.
Paternalism meant
the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care and attention in their sicknesses.
(Q038) What was General Grant's strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate Union victory?
to base his troops in Canada for a final assault against Lee's army in Virginia
(Q047) By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.
true
(Q051) By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center.
true
(Q053) Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day, including opposing Illinois blacks the right to vote or serve on juries.
true
Although denied the ballot, women found a voice in the public sphere during the 1820s and 1830s.
true
Among his other plans, John Quincy Adams wanted the United States to adopt the metric system of weights and measures.
true
Andrew Jackson believed slanderous comments during his election bid contributed to his wife's early death shortly after the election.
true
As a boy, Andrew Jackson had almost been killed when, during the War for Independence, a British officer struck him with his sword after the boy refused to polish the soldier's boots.
true
Between Democrats and Whigs, the Democrats found greater support among subsistence farmers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and urban workers; the Whigs found greater support among wealthy landowners and well-connected businessmen.
true
Culturally speaking, in the United States the right to vote is tantamount to being a citizen.
true
During Jackson's presidency, Democrats reduced expenditures, lowered the tariff, killed the national bank, and refused pleas for federal aid to internal improvements.
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During the market revolution, the emergence of organized political parties spurred newspaper publication.
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John Tyler's presidency could best be summed up as devoid of accomplishment.
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Martin Van Buren's presidency, to a large degree, was occupied in dealing with issues arising from the Panic of 1837.
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The Dorr War revolved around the issue of whether propertyless white men should have the right to vote.
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The Indian Sequoia developed an alphabet from the Cherokee language.
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The Panic of 1819 left many Americans uneasy about the market revolution.
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The Second Bank of the United States held all the funds of the federal government and accumulated a large amount of paper money issued by local banks.
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The proper chronological order for presidents from 1817 forward is: Monroe, J.Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison.
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White Americans enjoyed a much less stratified system of society than did Europeans.
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