US HISTORY I HONORS UNIT 2 TEST (21-22)

Charles Grandison Finney

helped launch the Second Great Awakening

In promoting his policy of Indian removal, President Andrew Jackson

hoped to split the Cherokees apart from their allies such as the Creeks and Seminoles

The Sedition Act allowed the national government to jail people for

making negative statements about the government

The Shawnee Chief Tecumseh attempted to

organize a confederacy of Native American tribes

Andrew Jackson's "pet banks" contributed to the Panic of 1837 by

printing paper money that was not backed up by gold and silver

Dorthea Dix

reformer focused on the mentally ill

Raplh Waldo Emerson

represented a philosophical movement that emphasized self-reliance, truth in nature, and personal imagination

The United States Supreme court ruling in the Amistad case offered the Abolitionist movement a legal justification to prevent an increase in the number of slaves in America by

ruling free individuals have the right to be protected from being forced into slavery

Besides admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, the Missouri Compromise provided that

slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri (36' 30"), except Missouri itself

The XYZ Affair resulted in

strong anti-French feelings in the US

In the case McCulloch v Maryland, Chief Justice Marshall held that

the Federal Bank of the United States was constitutional, and no state had a right to tax it

One of the biggest effects of the Fugitive Slave Law contained within the Compromise of 1850 was?

a sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling

Jefferson's Embargo Act provided that

America would prohibit all foreign trade

"Manifest Destiny" represented the widespread American belief that

God had destined the United States to expand across the whole North American continent

Fredrick Douglass

former slave who published the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star

Sojourner Truth

former slave, who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women's rights

gag rule

Prevented Congress from hearing abolitionist petitions to end slavery

Which view best summarizes Lincoln's position on slavery during the election of 1860?

Slavery should not spread because it is morally and politically wrong, but he would not interfere with where it already existed

In the Dred Scott decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled all the following EXCEPT

The Constitution does not provide the court with the right to hear the case

Which two nations negotiated to settle the border between northwest United States and present-day Canada?

United States and Britain

In the 1870s, a Federalist would likely have supported

a national bank

What was one effect of John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry?

an increase in tensions between the North and the South

David Walker

free black person advised African Americans to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery

The factory system of the early 1800s was dependent on all of the following except

craftsmen

The development of different economies in the North, West and the South cased the federal government to try to tie the economies together (American System). What was NOT part of that plan?

creating a strong army and navy

The outcome of the Whiskey Rebellion helped to establish the power of the federal government to

enforce federal laws within states

The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for

equal rights including the right to vote

Commonwealth v Hunt

established the right of workers to strike

Within the United States, conflicts over what delayed the annexation of Texas?

the balance of free and slave states

The Monroe Doctrine was largely a response to

the interest of European nations in creating colonies in North and South America

The Supreme Court's ruling in Marbury v Madison affirmed that

the powers of the Supreme Court are set by the Constitution

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

this person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first women's right convention at Seneca Falls, New York

What was Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the Compromise of 1850?

to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery

Washington's established a presidential cabinet for which of the following reasons

to provide a variety of opinions in order to make good decisions about government