HST 202 W10 (Escobar META 31328 31329): Midterm Exam

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Question 1

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The first Women's Rights Convention (1848) was held in

Choose one answer.

	a. Philadelphia.
	b. Seneca Falls.
	c. Boston.
	d. Charleston.
	e. New York City.

Question 2

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Between 1790 and 1820, voting rights

Choose one answer.

	a. increasingly excluded most artisans and laborers.
	b. remained strongly tied to property ownership.
	c. increased in New England but declined in the South.
	d. was never limited to just free white men.
	e. became easier and greatly expanded for white men.

Question 3

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The political party that emerged in the 1830s to oppose Andrew Jackson was the ____ Party.

Choose one answer.

	a. Republican
	b. Federalist
	c. Whig
	d. Know-Nothing
	e. Socialist

Question 4

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Andrew Jackson criticized the Bank because he believed that it

Choose one answer.

	a. benefited northern and foreign investors at the expense of southern and western farmers.
	b. was too liberal with its loan policies.
	c. did not exercise enough centralized control over the monetary system.
	d. charged excessive interest rates.
	e. benefited plantation owners more than small farmers.

Question 5

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White southerners justified the institution of slavery with each of the following religious arguments except

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	a. Jesus never criticized slavery.
	b. slaves were the descendants of Ham and deserved enslavement.
	c. slavery had given African Americans Christianity.
	d. the Epistles of Paul urged slaves to obey their masters.
	e. slavery was a gift to God.

Question 6

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In the "Freeport Doctrine,"

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	a. the Supreme Court ruled that residence in Freeport, Illinois, did not automatically free runaways.
	b. Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there.
	c. Abraham Lincoln agreed that there was no means of preventing the extension of slavery.
	d. Stephen Douglas insisted that slavery was legal in all the free states and territories.
	e. slaves who escaped to the North were declared free.

Question 7

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The abolitionists of the 1830s

Choose one answer.

	a. were all members of the Quaker faith.
	b. advocated a bloody civil war to punish slave owners.
	c. encouraged the admission of the free state of Texas to the union.
	d. persuaded the majority of northern citizens to oppose slavery.
	e. were an active and influential minority within the reform movements of the era.

Question 8

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Andrew Jackson's Indian policy

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	a. protected the sovereign rights of Indian nations within their own territories.
	b. openly violated Supreme Court rulings by allowing state governments to encroach on Indian land.
	c. increased the size of Indian reservations as a reward for tribal support in the War of 1812.
	d. terminated the reservations and assimilated Indians into white society.
	e. was based on the assumption that all Indians would ultimately have to be killed.

Question 9

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Many nineteenth-century northern social reformers believed that criminals, the mentally ill, and poor people

Choose one answer.

	a. were lazy, sinful, devil worshippers.
	b. could not be helped by government policies or institutions.
	c. should either be drafted into the army or employed in federal work camps.
	d. should be deported.
	e. had been mistreated as children and could be rehabilitated as adults.

Question 10

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The Whig party supported all of the following except

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	a. public suspicion and mistrust of the influence of privileged economic groups on federal policies.
	b. moral legislation regulating alcohol consumption.
	c. government-supported internal improvements.
	d. an active government role in encouraging the expansion of the market economy.
	e. public schools.

Question 11

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Which of the following was not a demand of women's rights reformers in the 1840s?

Choose one answer.

	a. better access for women to property
	b. more restrictive divorce laws
	c. wages for their own labor
	d. custody of their children in cases of divorce
	e. the right to vote.

Question 12

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The Democratic Party

Choose one answer.

	a. supported both agrarian democratic principles and the continuation of southern slavery.
	b. favored strict limitations on voting rights.
	c. was similar in policy and constituencies to the Federalist Party.
	d. was almost destroyed by the election of 1828.
	e. was organized to oppose Andrew Jackson.

Question 13

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The Ostend Manifesto was

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	a. a document in which the United States threatened to seize control of Cuba.
	b. the treaty that gave Cuba its independence.
	c. an attempted Spanish invasion of Louisiana.
	d. the antislavery newspaper that published Uncle Tom's Cabin.
	e. the U.S. demand for Texas.

Question 14

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"Popular sovereignty" was the belief that

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	a. the United States was destined to control the entire continent.
	b. the American Indian was the ward of the U.S. government.
	c. settlers to a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.
	d. the federal government had the final authority on slavery in the territories.
	e. citizens should be free to choose their own reading material.

Question 15

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In the south, evangelicals

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	a. challenged the social hierarchy.
	b. held that social roles were made by God.
	c. criticized the patriarchal family.
	d. claimed the social hierarchy was in need of constant change.
	e. all of the above.

Question 16

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The national culture that developed after the 1830s included all of the following elements except

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	a. republicanism.
	b. capitalism.
	c. abolitionism.
	d. Protestantism.
	e. paternalism.

Question 17

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Non-slaveholders in the South were held together by

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	a. kinship.
	b. economic interest.
	c. race.
	d. a belief in white supremacy.
	e. all of the above.

Question 18

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As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,

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	a. the state of Illinois passed legislation making slavery a punishment for crime.
	b. Stephen Douglas was re-elected to the U.S. Senate.
	c. Abraham Lincoln was almost kicked out of the Republican Party.
	d. both Lincoln and Douglas were defeated by Know-Nothing candidate Nathaniel Banks.
	e. the Kansas-Nebraska Act was repealed.

Question 19

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The term manifest destiny refers to the belief that

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	a. Providence had destined the American continent to be dominated by the United States.
	b. war between the United States and Mexico was inevitable.
	c. American Indians were to be driven from the continent.
	d. the U.S. would defeat the British and become the leading world power.
	e. all of the above.

Question 20

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The phrase "the spoils system" referred to

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	a. corrupt politicians who spoiled the public image of national office holders.
	b. the government agency set up to regulate garbage collection and disposal.
	c. Andrew Jackson's use of presidential appointive powers to reward his supporters with government jobs.
	d. Martin Van Buren's efforts to ruin the relationship between Jackson and John C. Calhoun.
	e. the bargain made between Clay and Adams in the election of 1824.

Question 21

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The one issue in the Compromise of 1850 that clearly favored the South was

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	a. resolution of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
	b. the Fugitive Slave Act.
	c. the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
	d. the settlement of Texas war debt.
	e. the admission of California.

Question 22

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Choose one answer.

	a. divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories.
	b. repealed the Missouri Compromise.
	c. represented the interests of the southern faction of the Democratic Party.
	d. was supported by Stephen Douglas.
	e. all of the above.

Question 23

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Choose one answer.

	a. authorized the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico.
	b. fixed the Texas border at the Rio Grande.
	c. ended the United States' war with Mexico.
	d. ceded the Northwestern section of Mexico to the U.S.
	e. all of the above.

Question 24

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The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved a slave who

Choose one answer.

	a. had been taken to live in Kansas.
	b. was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory.
	c. sued for his wife's freedom on the grounds that she had been married to a free black.
	d. had been freed by his master and who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
	e. wished to exercise his right to vote.

Question 25

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Members of the Order which were largely American-born Protestants, which eventually evolved into the Know-Nothings, supported all of the following except

Choose one answer.

	a. temperance.
	b. restricting public office to native born men.
	c. lengthening the naturalization period before immigrants could become citizens.
	d. keeping their Order secret.
	e. tax support for parochial schools.

Using the map below, locate the following places by entering ONLY the correct number in the long answer field.
For example, if the correct location is 5, then put 5 in the box. DO NOT put #5, five, 5. , number 5, or anything else in the box except the number itself.

Question 26

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Mississippi River

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Question 27

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Nueces River

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Question 28

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Rio Grande River

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Question 29

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Trans-Appalachian West

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Using the map below, locate the following places by entering ONLY the correct number in the long answer field.

Question 30

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Which line of latitude was used by James K. Polk and the Democratic Party as a rallying cry for manifest destiny in the election of 1844?

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Question 31

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What area was ceded to the United States by way of a war that ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?

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Question 32

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Which free state was added to the United States as a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

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Question 33

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This slave state was added to the union in 1820, even though it resides entirely north of the 36 degree 30 minute latitude line, an area designated as free territory.

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Question 34

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The United States peacefully decided to end its territorial conflict with Great Britain in 1846 by deciding to compromise at this, the 49th parallel.

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Question 35

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Where was the disputed territory that caused the United States to go to war with Mexico after President Polk claimed that "American blood had been shed on American soil"?

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Using the map below, locate the following places by entering ONLY the correct number in the long answer field.

Question 36

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By terms of the Compromise of 1850, these areas could decided the issue of slavery by using popular sovereignty. Enter the number of ONLY ONE of the two correct areas.

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Question 37

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The proposed railroad (on the map), runs eastward and was to terminate in this state, represented by Stephen Douglas.

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Question 38

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The American Civil War can be said to have started five years before the official start of the war. Pro slave and Free Soil settlers battled with and killed one another here in 1856.

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Question 39

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Which state was responsible for provided the Pro Slavery men who fraudulently influenced the election of a state legislature in Kansas, and who later sacked the Free Soil town of Lawrence? (Two answers will work. Choose only one.)

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Question 40

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The term manifest destiny describes all of the following ideas EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. the idea that Americans had a God-given right to bring the benefits of American democracy to backward peoples.
	b. the concern for the economic future of the United States.
	c. the idea that the American frontier spirit made it inevitable that American culture would dominate the continent.
	d. the Southern idea that there would be a gradual inclusion of more slave states into the union, including the eventual legalization of slavery throughout the country.

Question 41

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The "Trail of Tears" referred to

Choose one answer.

	a. Irish immigrants fleeing starvation in Ireland.
	b. the forced movement of the Cherokee and other tribes to Indian Territory.
	c. the flight of Mormon refugees from the Midwest to Utah.
	d. runaway slaves' capture and return to owners in the South.
	e. the path of the Underground Railroad across the Mason-Dixon Line.

Question 42

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Which one of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

Choose one answer.

	a. California would be admitted as a free state
	b. New Mexico and Utah territories would decide on the slavery question using popular sovereignty.
	c. Texas would be compensated for land ceded to the New Mexico Territory
	d. All existing fugitive slave laws would be repealed
	e. The slave trade, but not slavery, would be abolished in the District of Columbia

Question 43

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Garrisonian abolitionists preached

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	a. immediate abolition gradually accomplished.
	b. gradual abolition gradually accomplished.
	c. immediate abolition immediately accomplished.
	d. gradual abolition with compensation to the slaveowner.
	e. immediate abolition with compensation to the slaveowner.

Question 44

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Most of the immigrants who came to the United States in the decades just before the Civil War were from

Choose one answer.

	a. Ireland and Germany.
	b. England and Scotland.
	c. Italy and Poland.
	d. Africa and West Indies.

Question 45

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A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that

Choose one answer.

	a. slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers.
	b. slave children played with white children.
	c. slaves lived better on southern plantations than the natives in Africa.
	d. slaves lived much longer than whites.
	e. slaves always had the ability to resettle back to Africa with the help of the American Colonization Society.

Question 46

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Both the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision invalidated this agreement.

Choose one answer.

	a. Missouri Compromise
	b. Compromise of 1850
	c. three-fifths compromise
	d. Wilmot Proviso
	e. Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo

Question 47

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In the video, Lucretia Mott's comment to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 'Why Lizzie, thee will make us ridiculous,' is good illustration of the differences among women reformers over

Choose one answer.

	a. demanding the right to vote.
	b. shifting from moral reform to women's rights.
	c. wanting to wear clothing like bloomers.
	d. demanding property, custody, and education rights.
	e. requiring men to share responsibility for household chores.

Question 48

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Which of the following correctly identifies the three patterns of nativism described by John Higham in Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism - 1860-1925?

Choose one answer.

	a. anti-Black, pro-radical, anti-Puritan nativism
	b. anti-Catholic, anti-radical, anti-Anglo-Saxon nativism
	c. anti-radical, anti-Catholic, racial nativism
	d. pro-Anglo-Saxon, anti-racial, anti-religious nativism
	e. anti-immigrant, pro-Anglo-Saxon, and anti-Catholic nativism

Question 49

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Which general statement concerning the comparative development of the North and South prior to the Civil War is the MOST accurate?

Choose one answer.

	a. The South became increasingly unlike the North and increasingly sensitive to threats to its way of life.
	b. The North and the South were never terribly different, but this did not prevent the South from being sensitive to threats to what it perceived to be its distinct way of life.
	c. The North and the South grew increasingly similar, which made it increasingly unnecessary for the South to worry about threats to its way of life.
	d. The South became increasingly unlike the North, in fact, so unlike the North that southerners were unconcerned about what northerners thought of them.
	e. The North grew increasingly like the South, which gave southerners increasing confidence that their way of life was superior.

Question 50

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Concerning American reform movements in the first half of the 19th century, Romanticism

Choose one answer.

	a. A) was consistent with traditional Calvinism.
	b. B) stressed the importance of order and control.
	c. both A and B
	d. neither A nor B

Question 51

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Which statement about southern slaveholding is the MOST accurate?

Choose one answer.

	a. A majority of white males owned slaves.
	b. The planter class was so aristocratic as to be anti-capitalistic.
	c. Those who owned no slaves constituted a minor portion of the southern population.
	d. The planter class exercised power beyond their numbers.
	e. Each statement is accurate.

Question 52

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Which of the following was acquired by the federal government as a result of a United States-led war?

Choose one answer.

	a. Texas
	b. California
	c. Oregon
	d. all of the above
	e. none of the above

Question 53

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According to historian in the video, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the settlement of the Kansas territory or its inhabitants?

Choose one answer.

	a. Problems occurred due to the rapidity of the settlement there.
	b. In the end, perhaps due to location or geography, inhabitants identified themselves as living in a free state.
	c. Although both sides committed acts of violence, the aggressive nature of the pro-slave element has the largest impact.
	d. Popular sovereignty practiced in Kansas, even with its problems, was seen as the national solution to the problem of slavery both in the North and the South.
	e. All of these answers are correct.

Question 54

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The Illinois Senate election of 1858

Choose one answer.

	a. pitted the Republican Douglas against the Democrat Lincoln.
	b. saw the incumbent defeated.
	c. had the Democrat defending popular sovereignty.
	d. saw the Republicans run the better-known candidate.
	e. had the Republican promote the idea of racial equality.

Question 55

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The appearance of the Know-Nothings reflected the growing frustration felt by many Americans over the

Choose one answer.

	a. inadequacies of public education.
	b. growing problems of runaway slaves.
	c. growing political influences of immigrants, especially Irish Catholics.
	d. federal government reserving vast trails of western lands for Indians.
	e. acceptance of the market revolution.

Question 56

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Which is true of the elastic clause of the Constitution of the United States?

Choose one answer.

	a. its use has aided states' rightists throughout the nation's history
	b. its use came to an abrupt end after the Civil War and the triumph of nationalism
	c. it has been a secret weapon of the strict interpreters of the Constitution
	d. it has provided our nation with its historic trend towards loose construction
	e. it has been a countermeasure against any use of implied powers by the federal government

Question 57

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Which one of the following political parties does NOT belong in this list of sectional and/or special interest parties prior to the Civil War?

Choose one answer.

	a. Free-Soil Party
	b. Liberty Party
	c. American (Know Nothing) Party
	d. Democratic Party
	e. Republican Party

Question 58

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Reformers in the 1820's and 1830's generally believed in all of the following EXCEPT

Choose one answer.

	a. the basic goodness of human nature.
	b. tolerance for the diverse cultural habits of Americans.
	c. the usefulness of social control to eliminate unacceptable social behavior.
	d. they were morally certain of what was right.
	e. they could create the perfect community on earth.

Question 59

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Which one of the following describes the correct chronological order of these events? (1) Dred Scott decision (2) Lincoln-Douglas Debates (3) Kansas-Nebraska Act (4) John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid

Choose one answer.

	a. 3,1,2,4
	b. 3,2,1,4
	c. 1,2,4,3
	d. 2,3,1,4

Question 60

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The Dred Scott decision in 1857

Choose one answer.

	a. calmed the fears of abolitionists.
	b. supported the extremist southern argument on the rights of slave owners.
	c. upheld the Missouri Compromise as constitutional.
	d. upheld the Free Soil position on extension of slavery into the newly acquired territories.
	e. was Chief Justice John Marshall's last decision before retirement

Question 61

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Horace Mann believed that education should promote

Choose one answer.

	a. A) democracy.
	b. B) social order.
	c. C) racial equality.
	d. D) economic equality.
	e. both A and B

Question 62

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James K. Polk's belligerent slogan, 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight,' was a reference to U.S. claims to

Choose one answer.

	a. a Texas border at the Rio Grande, not Nueces.
	b. California south to Baja.
	c. Oregon to the Russian-Alaska boundary.
	d. New Mexico/Arizona border deeper into Mexico.
	e. upholding the Missouri Compromise Line of 1820.

Question 63

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Which of the following reform movements of the ante-bellum (pre-Civil War) period is INCORRECTLY paired with one of its leaders?

Choose one answer.

	a. abolition - William Lloyd Garrison
	b. temperance - Frederick Douglass
	c. public education - Horace Mann
	d. humane treatment of the insane - Dorothea Dix
	e. woman's suffrage - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 64

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According to the video, Douglas accused Lincoln of being a 'Black Republican' which implied that Lincoln favored

Choose one answer.

	a. prohibiting slavery.
	b. social equality with blacks.
	c. invasion of the South.
	d. voting for free African Americans.
	e. doing whatever it took to win the support of Black voters.

Question 65

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The Republic of Texas, also known as the Lone Star Republic from 1836-1845, was not immediately annexed by the United States largely because of the

Choose one answer.

	a. fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state.
	b. opposition of Stephen F. Austin.
	c. fear that there were too many outlaws residing in the republic.
	d. isolationist policies of the Democratic Party.
	e. opposition by president John Tyler

Question 66

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In response to the Supreme Court's rulings in the Cherokee cases, Andrew Jackson

Choose one answer.

	a. acquiesced and grudgingly accepted the court's rulings.
	b. persuaded Congress to amend the constitution to allow the Indian removal.
	c. defied the court and allowed troops to force the removal of the Cherokee.
	d. worked to have several justices impeached and replaced with his supporters.
	e. became the first president to be impeached for defying an act of Congress.

Question 67

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According to the video, in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland , the Supreme Court

Choose one answer.

	a. upheld federal power over state power.
	b. established federal judiciary power over that of the states.
	c. created the practice of judicial review.
	d. established the principle that the federal government would control interstate commerce.
	e. ruled in favor of the sanctity of contracts, and that the state of Georgia could not confiscate lands previously sold to private individuals.

Question 68

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Henry Clay's "American System" included all of the following EXCEPT

Choose one answer.

	a. quota restrictions on immigration.
	b. support and expansion of the national bank.
	c. federal funding for internal improvements.
	d. a high protective tariff.

Question 69

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John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry

Choose one answer.

	a. was not the first time that he tried to kill advocates of slavery.
	b. was directed at seizing a large slave plantation.
	c. saw him captured by Confederate troops led by Robert E. Lee.
	d. led to a guilty verdict and life imprisonment.
	e. was financed by the Republican Party

Question 70

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Which one of the following would NOT have been regarded as a northern 'insult' by southerners in 1859?

Choose one answer.

	a. Open protests against the Fugitive Slave Law
	b. rejection of the Lecompton constitution
	c. acceptance of the Dred Scott decision
	d. support of John Brown's raid
	e. the passing of Personal Liberty Laws
	f. Stephen Douglas' Freeport Doctrine

Question 71

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Which of the following court cases did not result in Chief Justice John Marshall ruling on behalf of the federal government having powers greater than those of the states?

Choose one answer.

	a. McCulloch v. Maryland 1819
	b. Fletcher v. Peck 1810
	c. Gibbons v. Ogden 1824
	d. Worcester v. Georgia 1832 (Cherokee cases)
	e. Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857

Question 72

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Which of the following vocabulary words dealing with the Constitutional powers is INCORRECTLY paired with its example and/or definition?

Choose one answer.

	a. delegated power - the federal government has the power to coin money
	b. enumerated power - the federal government has the power to regulate interstate trade and foreign commerce
	c. concurrent power - both federal and state governments have the power to raise a police force
	d. residual power - the state governments have all powers not given to the federal government
	e. implied power - the federal government has all the powers given to it except those in the elastic clause of the Constitution

Question 73

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A federal system of government is one in which

Choose one answer.

	a. all power is concentrated in the national government
	b. powers are divided between the in federal and the state governments
	c. the states are supreme
	d. there is a system of Cabinet responsibility
	e. none of the above

Question 74

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According to the video, in the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Choose one answer.

	a. Douglas revealed that, while he was morally opposed to slavery, he was unwilling to have the federal government do anything about it.
	b. Lincoln endorsed abolitionism.
	c. Douglas was forced to conclude that slavery could be restored to the free states.
	d. Lincoln was forced to admit that he believed in the social equality of the races.
	e. none of the above

Question 75

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The congressional proposal that opposed the extension of slavery into any territory ceded by Mexico, and which was passed by the House of Representatives, but failed in the Senate, was the

Choose one answer.

	a. Ostend Manifesto.
	b. Popular Sovereignty Act.
	c. Crittenden Compromise.
	d. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
	e. Wilmot Proviso.

Question 76

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Read the description on the left. Under the CHOOSE drop down menu on the right, select the correct person that is being described.
(Each of the 8 people on the right has a correct matching description on the left)

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, perhaps the most popular and influential piece of abolitionist propaganda in the United States in 1852
Leader of nineteen rescue missions that freed approximately 300 slaves
Leader of the Mexican forces in the Texas revolt and Mexican-American War
Born into slavery, he escaped to freedom, and founded his own abolitionist newspaper, The North Star
For his 1856 speech, Crime Against Kansas, this Massachusetts Senator was beaten by a disgruntled Southerner
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who delivered the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case
The founder of Mormonism, born in upstate New York in the early nineteenth century
Historian whose definition of nativism, in his book Strangers in the Land, incorporates three important strains that are evident throughout United States History in the 19th Century

Question 77

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According to this graphic on white male suffrage, all of the following statements are true, EXCEPT

Choose one answer.

	a. If you were a freeholder, you chances of vote in more states was greatly increased, regardless of year.
	b. In Virginia, the qualifications necessary to vote were significantly reduced from 1800 to 1830.
	c. The right to vote was more widespread and included more people in 1830 than it had been in 1800.
	d. There were more states in 1830 than in 1800.
	e. No voting rights changes took place in North Carolina during the 30 year period from 1800 to 1830.

Question 78

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According to this graphic, all of the following statements are true, EXCEPT

Choose one answer.

	a. Both parties won electoral votes in each of the three regions of the country, north, south, and west.
	b. Because the Whig candidate had more electoral votes, he was the winner in this election.
	c. William Henry Harrison won with a majority of the popular votes.
	d. It is obvious by the state electoral votes that most of the population of the country lived west of the Appalachian Mountains.
	e. Of the number of states in the Trans-Appalachian West, the Whig Party did better than the Democratic Party.

Question 79

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According to this graphic, all of the following statements are true, EXCEPT

Choose one answer.

	a. In only two states did slaves clearly outnumber whites.
	b. The more north and/or west you go, there percentage of slaves generally declines.
	c. No free blacks lived in slaveholding states.
	d. The percentage of free blacks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Illinois cannot be known by this map.
	e. Delaware had the largest number of free blacks in it's population.

Question 80

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Interpreting this graph correctly, which one of the following claims is correct?

Choose one answer.

	a. Germans outnumbered Irish in a majority of the ten occupations listed on this chart.
	b. All dressmakers in New York were either Irish or German women.
	c. Irish outnumbered Germans in all occupations by a ration of 3 to 1
	d. The more skilled jobs were more likely to be done by Irish, rather than German workers.
	e. If you lived in New York and hired a day laborer in 1855, you were almost guaranteed to be hiring an Irish worker.

Question 81

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To what historical item does this bumper sticker specifically refer?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Declaration of Independence.
	b. The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.
	c. The "peculiar institution".
	d. The Emancipation Proclamation.
	e. American Freedom.

Question 82

Marks: 1

The annual consumption of alcohol, which had reached an all-time high during the 1820s,

Choose one answer.

	a. was no longer perceived as a problem by the 1830s.
	b. remained roughly the same during the 1830s.
	c. doubled during the 1830s.
	d. quadrupled during the 1830s.
	e. dropped by more than one-half during the 1830s.

When reading and answering True or False questions, if ANY PART of the statement is false, the answer is false. In order to be true, every statement or fact must be true.

Question 83

Marks: 1

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted Texas its independence.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 84

Marks: 1

The problem of race in the United States is evident in that although the free-soil and pro-slavery supporters were on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, both groups were also anti-Black.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 85

Marks: 1

After 1808, when the importation of slaves became illegal, the number of Blacks in the United States steadily declined.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 86

Marks: 1

At the time of the Civil War, the majority of all white southerners owned no slaves at all.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 87

Marks: 1

Even in the North, abolitionists were a small, dissenting minority of the total population.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 88

Marks: 1

According to the video and your instructor, the Dred Scott Decision of 1857 was the worst case of extreme prejudice in a court decision and the best example, in all of U.S. history, of the Supreme Court practicing judicial restraint.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 89

Marks: 1

In the 19th century, the Whig Party attracted many evangelical Protestants who believed that government should be an agent of moral reform. They were often at odds with Catholics and non-believers. Those who were atheists or who were least concerned about religion tended to join the Democratic Party.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 90

Marks: 1

In the nineteenth century supposedly scientific theories on racial differences indicated that whites and blacks were actually two separate species. Regardless of these findings being completely inaccurate by today's scientific standards, many Americans believing in the power of science concluded that these scientists were correct and therefore confirmed many prejudicial and discriminatory acts by whites against blacks during that time in history.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 91

Marks: 1

The United States avoided war with Britain concerning the border between their territories in the northwest corner of the continent. Unfortunately for President Polk, his compromise with the British on the Oregon Treaty angered northern, expansionist-minded Whigs in his own party. Moreover, it added to northerners fears of a slave power conspiracy in the federal government.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

Question 92

Marks: 1

Consider the author of this political cartoon about Andrew Jackson after his victory in the 1828 election. You can correctly assume that the author was not a supporter of the president. Moreover, you can also assume that he was probably a long-time member of the Democratic Party.

Choose one answer.

	a. True
	b. False

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