Exam 3 HIST 2211
In the case of Dred Scott v Sandford, the US Supreme Court ruled:
African Americans did not have citizenship rights due to perceived racial inferiority
In the 1830s, the Mexican government banned American migration into the Tejas Territory because:
American settlers organized an illegal territorial government and were ignoring Mexican law
After the battle at the Alamo:
Americans outside of the Tejas Territory increased support for Texas independence
Between 1820 and 1860, immigration significantly increased from:
Ireland and Germany
Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?
Congress extended the line dividing free and slave states to the Pacific ocean
As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:
Congress removed restriction on slavery that had been set with Missouri Compromise
Which of the following best explains why the market revolution started in the 1810s?
Construction of canals connected interior towns and cities with coastal towns and cities
In 1848, the United States gained millions of acres of land from Mexico through:
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The textile factory established in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1823 stood out primarily because:
The textile factory established in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1823 stood out primarily because:
During the market revolution, "separate spheres" referred to:
a clear division of work and home, defined by gender
Before the Civil War, the Market Revolution resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
a national workers' movement that drew attention to poor wages and working conditions
As a result of the California Rush
all of the above
As a result of the Market Revolution:
all of the above
Before the Civil War, white southerners who were not slaveowners supported the institution of slavery because:
all of the above
Between 1790 and 1830, southern farmers increased production of cotton because:
all of the above
In the 1830s, William Lloyd Garrison and his followers argued for:
an immediate end to slavery in the United States
Revolts among enslaved people were rare in the South for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
enslaved people agreed with the institution of slavery
In the 1820s, David Walker, a free Black man living in Boston, wrote The Appeal where he argued:
enslaved people must claim the right of self-defense and murder slaveowners who harm their families
During the Market Revolution:
more American workers moved into jobs that required limited skills to perform one task all day
In the 1820s, the American Colonization Society:
proposed to transport emancipated African Americans to a new colony in Africa
Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in 1837 because he:
published and distributed a newspaper that called for an end to slavery
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850:
required residents of free states to report fugitive slave living in their communities
As a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
slavery banned in the area north of Missouri's southern border, except in Missouri
In 1846, US Congressman David Wilmot and members of the Free Soil Party argued in favor of:
stopping the spread of slavery into western territories
In the 1840s, "manifest destiny" referred to:
the belief that God intended the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean
Which of the following contributed most to the expansion of slavery in the early 1800s?
the cotton gin
Between 1820 and 1860, the interstate trade of enslaved people resulted in:
the destruction of enslaved communities in the tobacco regions of Maryland and Virigina
In the 1820s-1840s, moral reformers argued:
to end prostitution, communities needed services to reform prostitutes and punish men who paid prostitutes
During the Second Great Awakening, Charles Finney and other preachers called on followers:
to reform the United States by organizing "moral societies"
During the Market Revolution, the "cult of domesticity" was the idea that:
women were naturally suited to create homes that preserved values of family, morality, and virtue
