History 17A final – Flashcards
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Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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b. canals and steamboats
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Which statement about the western settlements is false?
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c. The government discouraged western settlement at every turn.
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How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans?
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c. Gathered in factories, they faced constant supervision and the breakdown of craftsmanship into specialized tasks.
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Which of the following statements related to the Second Great Awakening is false?
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c. The Second Great Awakening popularized Deism.
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The cult of domesticity...
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d. led to a decline in birthrates
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In his essay "The Laboring Classes," Orestes Brownson argued that...
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a. wealth and labor were at war.
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The growth in the number of Irish immigrants led to increased anti-Catholicism in the United States. (T or F)
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a. true
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As the Market Revolution took on steam, some critics described wage labor as the very essence of slavery. (T or F)
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a. true
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The Dorr War...
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d. divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men.
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Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820...
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a. the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
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The Monroe Doctrine...
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c. declared the Americas off- limits for further European colonization.
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The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called...
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b. the spoils system
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During Jackson's presidency, most Democrats did all of the following except...
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e. speak out against presidential use of the veto
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Whigs wanted the government involved in all of the following except...
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d. restricting corporations
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Supporters of nullification claimed that the federal government was overstepping its rights and infringing on states' rights. (T or F)
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a. true
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Women enjoyed an expansion of democracy for themselves during the 1830s and 1840s, as they were welcomed into the public sphere.(T or F)
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b. false
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In the nineteenth century, which product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor?
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d. cotton
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The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from...
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a. older states like Virginia to the Lower South.
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Free blacks in the South were allowed to...
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a. own property.
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Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true?
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d. Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion.
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What did the Reverend Charles C. Jones of Georgia not do?
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c. urge an end to slavery
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By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument...
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d. claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.
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Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufacturers.(T or F)
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b. false
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Although the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited beginning in 1808, the sale and trade of slaves within the United States flourished in later years.(T or F)
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a. true
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William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:
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c. blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society
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What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?
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a. the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery
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The gag rule...
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b. prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions
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Which of the following was not a reform movement in which women played a prominent role during the early to mid- nineteenth century?
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c. the anti-Mexican-War movement
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William Lloyd Garrison...
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d. suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery
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The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa...
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e. prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans
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The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the South.
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b. false
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To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture, reform became a badge of respectability.
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a. true
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"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of...
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b. Oregon
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following except...
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d. U.S. control of all of the Oregon Country.
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In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to...
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a. prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
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The Free Soil Party...
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a. demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
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Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
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a. boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
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What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
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e. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
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By 1856, the Republican Party included individuals who had been, until rather recently, members of each of the following political groups except...
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e. Federalists.
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The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the return of runaway slaves to their owners.(T or F)
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a. true
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Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was...
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b. its large size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer
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During the early days of the war, the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky that...
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d. affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery.
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Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglass urge northern blacks to do?
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a. enlist in the Union army
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With regard to civil liberties during the Civil War, President Lincoln...
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b. suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
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Which of the following is not true of the New York City riots of 1863?
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e. They convinced Lincoln to delay issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
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"King Cotton diplomacy" led Great Britain to...
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a. find new supplies of cotton outside the South.
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The Thirteenth Amendment...
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a. abolished slavery throughout the United States.
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In the early days of the war, northern military commanders returned fugitive slaves to their owners. (T or F)
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a. true
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Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?
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c. Blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior.
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During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community...
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d. was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches.
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For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant...
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c. land ownership.
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How did the Civil War affect planter families?
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a. For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor.
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In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the __________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.
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e. Reconstruction Act
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The Fifteenth Amendment...
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a. sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
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By and large, white voters in the South returned prominent Confederates and members of the old elite to power during Presidential Reconstruction.(T or F)
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a. true
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With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, all people born in the United States were automatically citizens.(T or F)
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a. true
