11-15 APUSH – Flashcards
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The historian who wrote "The South grew, but did not develop" prior to the Civil War meant
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the South had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy
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Short-staple cotton
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helped to keep the South a predominantly agricultural region
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Between 1840 and 1860, the American Southern slave population
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dramatically shifted into the Southwest
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by the time of the civil war, cotton constituted nearly_____ of the total export trade of the United States
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2/3
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By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South
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most white southerners owned
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no slaves
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In the 1850s, the Southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women
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most "plain folk" of the Old South
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were substinent farmers
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Which of the following statements about he poorest class of white southerners is FALSE**
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They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class
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The "peculiar institution" was a Southern reference to
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slavery
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the slave codes of the American South
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said if you were at all "black" youbwere black
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the name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was
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Underground Railroad
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In the American slave family
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extended kinship networks were strong and important
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature
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B. was that American artists had little to offer Europe.
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the Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of
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natural beauty
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according to the nineteenth-century "science" of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?
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intelligence and character
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in the 1840's, the organized movement in the United States against drunkeness
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prohibition, alcohol linked crime and punishment together
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Shaker societies
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saw women exercise more power than men
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The transcendentalist movement
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Walt Whitman
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C. celebrated the liberation of the individual.
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through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of
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westward expansion
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the Hudson river school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of
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natural beauty
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1. Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT
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C. United States expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada
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the effect of Uncle Toms Cabin on the nation was to
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make people sympathetic to slavery
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in the 1830's and 1840's, abolitionists were divided
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on whether or not they should use violence to achieve their goals
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Frederick Douglass
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C. spent years lecturing in England against slavery.
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The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the criminally ill was
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E. Dorothea Dix.
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Prior to 1860, public education in the United States
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B. gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
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In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto
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D. led to independence for Texas.
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under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States
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paid Mexico millions of dollars
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The Wilmot Proviso
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prohibited slavery in any land acquired from mexico
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The compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California
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along with a strengthened fugitive slave act
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The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
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A. intensified the debate over slavery.
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The 1854 Ostend Manifesto
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C. was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.
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The 1853 Gadsden Purchase
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C. advanced the interests of Southern railroads.
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The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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E. the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,
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E. Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of white free labor.
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southern white, lower class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in
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Within the american south, the institution of slavery
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though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S until the Civil War, the "slave trade,"
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The importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale, was made illegal in
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When emancipation came after the civil war it was often the _______ who were first to leave their former owners
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which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE
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of the following the most common for of resistance to slavery was
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one actual slave revolt in the nineteenth sentry south was led by
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a runaway slave making a successful escape from the american south was
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which of the following is true of american slave families in the antebellum south
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in the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism
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herman melvilles most important literary work was
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the primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to
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Mormonism
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During the nineteenth-century , the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the
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the nineteenth-century practice of placing american Indians on reservations was partially designed to
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In 1840, on catalyst for an american feminist movement was a london convention that dealt with
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which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in there american feminist movement
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in the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted
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