Antebellum Quiz

What was the point of the ideology of the "separate sphere" promoted in the mid-nineteenth century by men like the evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?

Women and men in reform movements should hold separate meetings. b. Women should be housed separately from men in prisons and institutions for the mentally ill. c. Women should focus on domestic life, not public life. d. Whites and blacks belonged in separate spheres of society. C.

Which statement characterizes the gang-labor system of slave labor in the Lower South?

a. Assigning random jobs to slaves and allowing them to work at their own pace b. Close supervision by the planter class of field work c. Large work crews supervised by a black driver and a white overseer d. The avoidance of whipping of black slaves as an incentive to work harder C.

Why did President Jackson veto the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States?

a. He wanted to promote his "pet banks" at the state level. b. He thought it illegal to recharter the bank before its original charter had expired. c. He believed the bank to be unconstitutional. d. He believed the bank was financially reckless and unstable. C.

As president, John Quincy Adams's support of Henry Clay's American System meant backing which action?

a. Lowering protective tariffs to allow for cheap imports b. A national bank to stabilize currency and promote economic growth c. Indian removal from lands desired by white settlers d. Funding of roads and canal construction by private industry B.

Why did expansion of the franchise to vote advance the development of political parties?

a. Major issues were too complicated for voters to understand without explanations from politicians. b. Politicians had to organize their appeal to newly enfranchised voters. c. Voter apathy required politicians to try to increase the public's interest in issues. d. Newly enfranchised women voters were eager to join social organizations. B.

Which statement reflects part of Andrew Jackson's legacy?

a. Making the political system more democratic b. Supporting the Marshall Court in its defense of federal power and property rights c. Weakening the Union and advancing states' rights d. Limiting the power of the presidency A.

Why did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution end up determining the election of 1824?

a. The election included more than two candidates. b. The vice presidential candidate to Andrew Jackson did not gain enough electoral votes. c. No one candidate received an absolute majority of electoral votes. d.John Quincy Adams's vice presidential candidate received more electoral votes than Adams had. C.

Why did the Texas war party succeed with its call for a rebellion in 1835?

a. The new Mexican president nullified the Texans' exemption from the ban on slavery. b. Mexico had declared war on the United States. c. The Mexican revolution made life in that nation unbearable. d. General Santa Anna had captured and imprisoned rebel leader Sam Houston. A.

Why did the Mormons move their communities several times?

a. Their farming practices exhausted the soil. b. They chose places to settle poorly. c. They were persecuted by other groups. d. They splintered into different subgroups more than once. C.

Why did many African American slaves choose not to run away?

a. They felt affection for their masters. b. They feared that the North would be just as bad as the South. c. They were not able to imagine a life of freedom. d. They did not want to leave family and kin. D.

Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based?

a. Thousands of British immigrants to the United States b. Native American and Asian American interactions in cities c. Upper-class professionals who attempted to extend elite culture to the white working class d. Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure D.

Why did President Andrew Jackson insist on getting Congress to pass the Force Bill to threaten South Carolina even while he was willing to reduce the tariff that southerners objected to?

a. To demonstrate his power over Congress b. To assert federal authority and preserve the Union c. To have the opportunity to lead troops in battle once again d. To express his sense of betrayal by Vice President John C. Calhoun B.