Give Me Liberty CH 9-12 APUSH Test – Flashcards
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Which is NOT true about the Whigs?
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The Whigs' strongest support came from the lower Northwest and the southern backcountry.
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The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
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the spoils system
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Which of the following did NOT happen during the election of 1828
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Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the "corrupt bargain" of 1824.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
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supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
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Hard money" in the 1830s referred to
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gold and silver, also called "specie."
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What was President Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal government's relationship to banking
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He proposed that federal funds be controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.
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In the presidential election of 1840
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the Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats.
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Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin and liked to drink hard cider?
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William Henry Harrison
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The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest
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New York
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America's first commercial railroad was the:
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century
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stimulated the coal mining industry
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Which of the following is NOT an example of the significance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin
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The completion of the Erie Canal allowed the transportation of thousands of pounds of cotton per day.
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Which of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South?
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The South had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east.
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Which of the following was responsible for the first large-scale American factory, which was built in Massachusetts?
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the cutoff of British imports because of the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812
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For which of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s?
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increased Protestantism
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In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
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New York could not grant a monopoly on steamboat navigation between New York and New Jersey.
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In an 1837 case involving the Charles River in Massachusetts, Chief Justice Roger Taney
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declared the community had a legitimate interest in promoting transportation and prosperity.
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Jacob Astor, who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man
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became wealthy trading goods between the United States and China.
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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
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He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship.
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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
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He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship.
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans
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could not, under federal law, obtain public land.
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In 1829, Lydia Maria Child wrote a popular book called
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The American Frugal Housewife.
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The Second Bank of the United States was created:
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by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison
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The Panic of 1819
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prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors
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Which of the following statements about Martin Van Buren is FALSE?
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A graduate of Harvard, he was known for his sterling intellectual accomplishments.
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first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:
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textiles
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What problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin
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Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.
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According to the Mormons, who was God's prophet?
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Joseph Smith
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By the 1830s, the term "citizen" in America had become synonymous with the right to:
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vote
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By 1860, free black men could vote on the same basis as whites only in:
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five new england states
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John Quincy Adams's vision included all of the following EXCEPT:
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nationalism
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The nullification crisis ended:
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with a compromise tariff.
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Who argued in a famous debate with South Carolina's Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the Constitution?
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Daniel Webster
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Which later president's vision for America most resembled Alexander Hamilton's plans?
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John Quincy Adams
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What was the biggest fear of a slave of any age?
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a family member being sold
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The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn, compared their condition to that of:
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slaves
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What was the purpose of the bloomer?
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It was functional clothing that made work less restrictive
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Abby Keller
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demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements.
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Who founded the Shakers
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Ann Lee
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The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from:
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heaven
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The North-Carolina-born free black whose Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was
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David Walker
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Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located
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New Harmony: Indiana
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How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?
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They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.
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Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:
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construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane.
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The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments
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condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.
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____________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.
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Liberty Party
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The term "Lords of the Loom" refers to:
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early New England factory owners.
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John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:
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agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good.
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Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and Deep South?
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Several Upper South states did not join the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War.
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From 1840 to 1860, the price of a "prime field hand":
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rose about 80 percent, which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class.
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By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument:
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claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.
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Whigs wanted the government involved in all the following except:
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restrict corporations
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The nullification crisis:
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Involve the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.
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What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?
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Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.
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Which of the following would be an example of "silent sabotage"?
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A slave on a large plantation slowed down the work pace
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The end of slavery in most Latin American nations
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involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owners' legal rights to slave property
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Celia was:
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a slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault.
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Free blacks in the United States:
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Free blacks in the United States: sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves
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Slave religion
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combined African traditions and Christian beliefs
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Fugitive slaves
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generally understood that the North Star led to freedom
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Which of the following was NOT true of the South and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860?
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The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles.
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Which of the following supports the idea that the fatal issue for the United States in the early nineteenth century was the westward expansion of slavery?
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the Missouri Compromise
