USHC #2 – Flashcard

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In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westwards because
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of the availability of farmland.
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Of these land acquisitions, which one doubled the size of the United States?
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Louisiana Purchase
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Manifest Destiny advanced the belief that
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God was on the side of American expansion.
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The Louisiana Purchase of 1803
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almost doubled the area of the U.S. and gave it control of the Mississippi River.
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Which of these is associated with the presidency of Andrew Jackson?
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the creation of the Spoils System
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The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around
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southern opposition to tariffs.
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All of these were prominent names were figures in WHICH social movement
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abolition
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Cattle ranching and mining were instrumental in the nineteenth century in getting more people to settle
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the American west.
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Which is an example of the concept of Manifest Destiny in action?
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the annexation of Mexican territory
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a national meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848. The primary purpose of this convention was to organize the
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women's suffrage movement.
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Which of these BEST describes the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison?
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urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke were sisters from South Carolina and are MOST notable as being 19th century
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abolitionists.
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The Monroe Doctrine can be viewed as a moral opposition to
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colonialism.
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During the Antebellum period, religion was used by many Americans to
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justify the existence of slavery.
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"Jacksonian Democracy" is associated with which of these characteristics?
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voting rights extended to all adult, white males
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How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?
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It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.
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The efforts of Nat Turner in 1831 caused
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southern states to take harsher measures to prevent slave uprisings.
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"Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it cannot be supposed, that the inspired Apostles...would have tolerated it, for a moment, in the Christian Church. If they had done so on a principle of accommodation, in cases where the masters remained heathen, to avoid offences and civil commotion; yet, surely, where both master and servant were Christian, as in the case before us, they would have enforced the law of Christ, and required, that the master should liberate his slave in the first instance." Reverend Richard Furman, 1823 This passage is MOST likely written from the point of view of
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a states rights supporter.
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The Government of the United States has been desirous by this friendly proceeding of manifesting the great value which they have invariably attached to the friendship of the Emperor (of Russia) and their solicitude to cultivate the best understanding with his Government. In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...." This excerpt from a speech in 1823 was made by U.S. President
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James Monroe.
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The main idea behind the settling of western lands by Americans in the early-1800s was known as
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Manifest Destiny.
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This painting BEST relates what social philosophy?
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Manifest Destiny
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Two of the MOST important effects of the American victory in the War with Mexico were
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the acquisition of California and New Mexico.
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Two of the ten commandments deal death to slavery. "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL," or, "Thou shalt not take from another what belongs to him." All a man's powers are God's gift to HIM. Each is a part of himself. All else that belongs to man is acquired by the use of these powers [God-granted rights]. The interest belongs to him, because the principal does; the product is his, because he is the producer. Ownership of anything is ownership of its use. The right to use according to will is itself ownership. The eighth commandment presupposes the right of every man to his powers [bodily and mental abilities], and their product. Slavery robs of both. Rev. Theodore D. Weld, 1837.
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the Abolitionist Movement
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"I consider the tariff act as the occasion, rather than the real cause of the present unhappy state of things. The truth can no longer be disguised, that the peculiar domestic institution of the Southern States and the consequent direction which that and her soil have given to her industry, has placed them in regard to taxation and appropriations in opposite relation to the majority of the Union, against the danger of which, if there be no protective power in the reserved rights of the states they must in the end be forced to rebel, or, submit to have their paramount interests sacrificed, their domestic institutions subordinated by Colonization and other schemes, and themselves and children reduced to wretchedness." --John C. Calhoun, 1830 Calhoun's opinions regarding the Tariff of 1828 reflect the political philosophy behind the ___ movement.
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Nullification
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Who was the most vocal opponent of the Tariff of 1828 and advocated "State's Rights" and "Nullification" in the growing sectional conflicts between North and South?
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John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
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Which segment of the American population would have been MOST supportive of the Tariff of 1828?
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Northerners who would experience increased industrial growth because of a decrease in British imports.
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Which event is the BEST example of a conflict over states' rights?
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Nullification Crisis
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Accounting for almost 60% of American exports by the beginning of the Civil War, which statement regarding the impact of cotton is TRUE
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The Southern states developed the plantation system and rigid social classes.
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The relative absence of enterprises engaged in manufacturing and finance prior to the Civil War in the Southern states is MOST LIKELY due to
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the dependence on cotton farming in the South.
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The cotton gin, new farmlands in the west, and the demand for cotton in northern and European textile factories led to
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an increase in demand for slaves in the years leading up to the Civil War.
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·In 1790 there were six slave states; in 1860 there were 15. ·From 1790 until Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa in 1808, Southerners imported 80,000 Africans. ·By 1860 approximately one in three Southerners was a slave. Which event played the GREATEST role in creating these conditions in the South during the Antebellum era?
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the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793
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Which of these conclusions can be drawn for information in the chart?
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The South had a proportionally higher concentration of white slave owners.
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