History Test – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Jacob Patel
As slave society consolidated in the Chesapeake region what happened to free blacks?
They lost many of their rights
Why was slavery less prevalent in the northern colonies?
The Small farms of the northern colonies did not need slaves
“Republicanism” in the 18th century Anglo-American political world emphasized the importance of ______ as the essence of liberty.
Active participation in public life by property-owning citizens
“Salutatory neglect” meant:
British governments left the colonies largely alone to govern themselves
How did John Locke reconcile his belief in natural rights and his support for slavery?
He believed that the free individual in liberty thought was the propertied white man
What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?
The seven years’ war
The stamp act created such a stir in the colonies because:
It was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the colonies
The expulsion of the journalist John Wilkes from his seat in parliament:
Symbolized the threat to liberty for many in both Britain and America.
What did Lord Dunmore do that horrified many Southerners?
He promised freedom to slaves who joined the British cause.
During the Revolutionary war, tensions between backcountry farmers and wealthy planters:
Gave the British hope that they might be able to enlist the support of the Southern Loyalist.
Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?
If more people owned land, it would be less likely that fixed and unequal social classes would emerge.
Which of the following contributed to the success of free-trade advocates during the Revolutionary war?
The publication of Adam Smith’s “the wealth of Nations”
What role did Native Americans play in the Revolutionary war?
They were divided in their alliances just as white Americans were
Virtually every founding father owned at least one slave at some point in his life. Who was the notable exception?
John Adams
Republican motherhood was an ideology that held:
Women played an indispensable overall a new nation by training future citizens
With regard to slavery, the Northwest ordinance of 1787:
Banned slavery in the area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
Shays rebellion was significant because it demonstrated:
To some influential Americans the need for a stronger central government.
What qualifications did the 1787 federal Constitution ratified in terms of voting?
None it left voting rules to the states
The 3/5 clause in the US Constitution
Gave the white south greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted
Hector St. John Crevecoeur’s “letters from an American Farmer”:
Popularized the idea of United States as a melting pot of ethnicities.
The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in
Transportation and communication
Women who worked at the Lowell Mills
Live closely supervised boarding houses
The transcendentalist movement
Emphasized individual judgment not tradition.
The cult of domesticity
Led to a decline in birthrates
In his essay “the laboring classes” Orestes Brownson argued that
Wealth and labor were at war
The second bank of the United States was created
By Congress in 1816 with the support of President Madison
The independence movements in Latin America between 1810 and 1822
Paralleled in some ways to the independence movement that created the United States
The Monroe doctrine
Declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization
The US Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester versus Georgia decision
Supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity
“Hard money” in the 1830s referred to
Gold and silver also called “specie”
The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War
Set out to recognize society in a cooperative basis
Burned-over Districts were:
In New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred
By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:
Encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol
The colonization of freed US slaves to Africa
Prompted the adament opposition of most free African-Americans
What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?
The hypocrisy of a nation that proclaim liberty but sanction slavery
Pres. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren both rejected adding Texas to the United States because
The presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to
Prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
What attracted voters to the know nothing party?
It’s denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
The Republican Party founded in 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ______ had begin advocating in 1846
David Wilmont
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek massacre in Kansas and let the raid on the federal arsenal at Happers ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
John Brown
Who was offered a command in the Union Army, but declined because of his devotion to his native state
Robert E Lee
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he
Did not want to lose the support of the slaveholding border states within the union
During the Civil War northern white women
Began obtaining jobs as government clerks
The Unions Manpower advantage over the Confederacy
Proved to be essential for the success of Grants war of attrition strategy.
Gen. Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea in order to
Demoralize the south’s civilian population
During Reconstruction, Southern cities
Enjoyed new founded prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the north
Radical Republicans
Fully embrace the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War
The 15th amendment
Sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race
Enforcement acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to
Stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
The bargain of 1877
Led to the appointment of a Southerner as a postmaster general
