US History Sixth Exam Study Guide – Flashcards
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Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?
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The Second Great Awakening
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?
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Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family
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The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?
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Transcendentalism
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Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?
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Transcendentalism
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Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?
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They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life
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Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?
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They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.
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The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?
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Complex marriage
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Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?
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They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.
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For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the nineteenth century even as other social experiments failed?
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Mormon society had strong, hierarchical leadership.
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Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?
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They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism.
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Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Minstrel shows
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In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?
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He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed.
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Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?
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Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.
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Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?
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He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.
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Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?
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Aid to fugitive slaves
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Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?
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Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.
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The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?
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The Second Great Awakening
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Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey's Lady's Book and Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?
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Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity
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Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?
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Educational reform
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During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?
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Strengthening the legal rights of married women
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What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?
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The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.
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By the 1830s, which of the following was the dominant Indian tribe on the central and northern Plains?
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Lakota
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How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?
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Idea of expansion into Oregon split both the wig and the Democratic Party's
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Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?
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Expansion of slavery
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The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked
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The Mexican War
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James K. Polk's declaration that American blood had been shed "upon American soil" was his call for
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War with Mexico
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What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?
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Prohibit slavery in any territory the US acquired from Mexico
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Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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The treaty purchased more than 1/3 of Mexico territory for a mere 15 million
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Why did radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison criticize the free-soil movement bitterly in the late 1840s?
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He founded its emphasis on freehold farming resist and insufficiently radicle
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Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?
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Passage of a new fugitive slave act
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Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?
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Whether congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories
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What happened in Christiana, Pennsylvania, in 1851?
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20 African American fought a gun battle with slavery catchers killing 2, a jury subsequently acquitted 1 and the government dropped the charges against the rest
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Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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It sparked a unprecedented discussion about races and slavery in the US and abroad
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The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring
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Personal liberty laws
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During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?
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Cuba
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The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?
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The Missouri compromise of 1820 was repealed
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The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?
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The discussion persuaded many republicans that the supreme and president Buchannan were part of the slave power conspiracy
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The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the
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Kansas- Nebraska act
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In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln
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Warned the nation that they could not endure as a house against its self
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Which of the following individuals expressed public support for John Brown's attempt to ignite a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1859?
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Henry David Thoreau
