The phrase 'black belt' refers to this in the South: the areas of greatest slave population * the fertile soil of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi law codes that restricted free blacks domestic slave markets after the international ban While Eli Whitney's role in developing the cotton gin is well known, he was also a pioneer in steamboat construction. the putting-out system. * interchangeable parts. mass-produced watches. Most of the immigrants who came to the United States before the Civil War were from * Ireland and Germany. England and Scotland. Italy and Poland. Africa and West Indies. Which one of the following was NOT part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? California and New Mexico ceded to the U.S. U.S. paid Mexico $15 million * Tejanos granted political rights Rio Grande established as Texas border Douglas accused Lincoln of being a 'Black Republican' which implied that Lincoln favored prohibiting slavery. * social equality with blacks. invasion of the South. voting for free African Americans. Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons the South closed ranks on defending slavery in the 1830s? Garrison began publishing an antislavery newspaper West Indian slaves were freed by the British * U.S. extended participation in the international slave trade Nat Turner's revolt The Lowell Factory manufactured: guns * textiles food stuffs mechanical equipment 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 * demanding the right to vote. shifting from moral reform to women's rights. wanting to wear clothing like bloomers. demanding property, custody, and education rights. Although defeated, the essence of the 1846 Wilmot Proviso was that in any territory acquired from Mexico, there must be an even number of slave and free states created. adequate compensation to Mexico's citizens. popular sovereignty applied to slavery. * no extension of slavery. Both the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision invalidated this agreement. * Missouri Compromise Compromise of 1850 three-fifths compromise Wilmot Proviso A poor white in the south referred to families that * were landless tenant farmers. owned no slaves. worked for plantation owners. had occupations other than agriculture. Which one of the following was NOT one of the ways middle class couples were likely to use to limit family size? * condoms abstinence rhythm method coitus interruptus When young men 'took the pledge', they vowed to: become priests and ministers * stop drinking join the army become American citizens Henry David Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' was written as a response to: the Gold Rush the American Civil War Bleeding Kansas * the Mexican American War Which one of the following would NOT have been regarded as a northern 'insult' by southerners in 1859? armed protests against the Fugitive Slave Law rejection of the Lecompton constitution * acceptance of the Dred Scott decision support of John Brown's raid The Missouri Crisis of 1819-1820 alarmed many southerners because they were finding evidence of slaves planning revolts. losing many slaves escaping to the north. * shocked by widespread antislavery feeling in the north. still reeling from the laws ending international slave trade. James K. Polk's belligerent slogan, 'Fifty-four Forty or Fight,' was a reference to U.S. claims to a Texas border at the Rio Grande, not Nueces. California south to Baja. * Oregon to the Russian Alaska boundary. New Mexico/Arizona border deeper into Mexico. Which one of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850? California would be a free state * New Mexico would be a slave state Texas would cede land to New Mexico Territory a stronger fugitive slave law What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Kansas-Nebraska Territories? More of it was granted to Indian reservation areas. * They were open to slavery via popular sovereignty. Much of their southern territory was added to Texas. The Missouri Compromise line was extended through them. 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 * 3,1,2,4 3,1,4,2 1,2,4,3 2,3,1,4 Among the consequences of introduction of the putting-out system were all of the following EXCEPT standard wages. workers' loss of independence. a cash economy. * higher consumer prices. Irish immigrants who settled in Boston in the 1850s entered a community where they saw all of the following EXCEPT Catholic schools with Irish nuns and priests. Irish social clubs and mutual aid societies. Irish Democrats holding public office. * signs recruiting and welcoming Irish laborers. The term "manifest destiny" describes all of the following ideas EXCEPT: the idea that Americans had a God-given right to bring the benefits of American democracy to backward peoples. the concern for the economic future of the United States. the idea that the American frontier spirit made it inevitable that American culture would dominate the continent. * 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. Had the Ostend Manifesto achieved its goal, the United States would have incorporated all of Mexico into its borders. the fugitive slave law would have been permanently subverted. * the United States would have expanded into Cuba. Nicaragua would have become a colonization site for freed slaves. Which one of the following was NOT an effect of the Market Revolution? spread of the cash economy * closer connections between worker and factory owner higher worker turnover more wage dependent workers According to the video Stephen Douglas' action in introducing the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854 proved to be * a great political miscalculation. a step closer to the presidency for him. a brilliant political move. an insignificant political act. The chief subject of discussion at the convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 was revolutions abroad and their effect on the United States. prison reform. educational reform. * women's rights. Reformers in the 1820's and 1830's generally believed in all of the following EXCEPT the inadequacy of small-scale local responses to social problems. * tolerance for the diverse cultural habits of Americans. the basic goodness of human nature. the usefulness of social control to eliminate unacceptable social behavior. The appearance of the Know Nothing Party in the presidential election of 1856 reflected Americans' tolerance for diversity. * nativist leanings. acceptance of the Market Revolution. political apathy. The Dred Scott decision in 1857 calmed the fears of abolitionists. * supported the extremist southern argument on the rights of slave owners. upheld the Missouri Compromise as constitutional. upheld the Free Soil position on extension of slavery into the newly acquired territories. To justify their position on slavery, Free Soilers argued all of the following EXCEPT free labor in the West could not compete with slave labor. northern values of freedom and individualism could not survive if slavery spread. banning slavery from the territories meant keeping out blacks in general. * the African foreign slave trade reduced the opportunity for fair competition. Which one of the following candidates and positions in the 1860 election is incorrectly paired? Breckinridge/extension of slavery to the territories * Lincoln/abolition of slavery Douglas/popular sovereignty Bell/compromise on slavery in the territories Perhaps the most popular and influential piece of abolitionist propaganda in the United States, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was Twelve Years a Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl American Slavery As It Is * Uncle Tom's Cabin Which general statement concerning the comparative development of the North and South prior to the Civil War is the MOST accurate? * The South became increasingly unlike the North and increasingly sensitive to threats to its way of life. 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. 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. The South became increasingly unlike the North, in fact, so unlike the North that southerners were unconcerned about what northerners thought of them. The North grew increasingly like the South, which gave southerners increasing confidence that their way of life was superior. American romanticism A) was consistent with traditional Calvinism. B) stressed the importance of order and control. both a and b * neither a nor b Which statement about southern slaveholding is the MOST accurate? A majority of white males owned slaves. The planter class was so aristocratic as to be anti-capitalistic. Those who owned slaves constituted a significant proportion of the slaveholding population. * The planter class exercised power beyond their numbers. Each statement is accurate. Horace Mann believed that education should promote A) democracy. B) social order. C) racial equality. D) economic equality. * both a and b Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the 19th Century Market Revolution? advances in transportation and the infrastructure of the nation commercialization and the system of wages the industrial revolution * remarkable discoveries of gold and silver in California and Nevada According to the video, the Lowell system was the very first mass-production system. * included the use of dormitories for workers. traded a lower wage scale for other benefits. defined work according to task, not according to hours. refers to women who worked at home. Garrisonian abolitionists preached immediate abolition gradually accomplished. gradual abolition gradually accomplished. * immediate abolition immediately accomplished. gradual abolition with compensation to the slaveowner. Which of the following was acquired by the United States government by a war? Texas * California Oregon all of the above none of the above 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? anti-Black, pro-radical, & anti-Puritan nativism anti-Catholic, anti-radical, & anti-Anglo-Saxon nativism * anti-radical, anti-Catholic, & racial nativism pro-Anglo-Saxon, anti-racial, anti-religious nativism anti-immigrant, pro-Anglo-Saxon, and anti-Catholic nativism According to the video, the two senators who were MOST instrumental in securing passage of the Compromise of 1850 were Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Calhoun and Daniel Webster. Webster and Stephen Douglas. * Douglas and Clay. Clay and Webster. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates Douglas revealed that, while he was morally opposed to slavery, he was unwilling to have the federal government do anything about it. Lincoln endorsed abolitionism. Douglas was forced to conclude that slavery could be restored to the free states. Lincoln was forced to admit that he believed in the social equality of the races. * none of the above Which of the following vocabulary words dealing with the Constitutional powers is INCORRECTLY paired with its example and/or definition? delegated power - the federal government has the power to levy and collect taxes enumerated power - the federal government has the power to regulate interstate & foreign commerce concurrent power - both federal and state governments have the power to raise a police force * residual power - the state governments have all powers not given to the federal government implied power - the federal government has all the powers given to it by the 10th Amendment 58. Which is true of the elastic clause of the Constitution of the United States? its use has aided states' rightists throughout the nation's history its use came to an abrupt end after the Civil War and the triumph of nationalism it has been a "secret weapon" of the strict interpreters of the Constitution * it has provided our nation with its historic trend towards "loose construction" it has been a countermeasure against any use of implied powers by the federal government A federal system of government is one in which all power is concentrated in the national government * powers are divided between the in federal and the state governments the states are supreme there is a system of Cabinet responsibility none of the above What was the cause of the increasingly tense relations between the Mexican government and the American residents in Texas after 1830? the American population in Texas was twice that of the Mexican population the instability of Mexican politics attempts by the Mexican government to prohibit importation of slaves increasing American immigration * all of the above Which of the following reform movements of the ante-bellum period is INCORRECTLY paired with one of its leaders? abolition - William Lloyd Garrison * temperance - Frederick Douglass public education - Horace Mann desire for a utopian society - Brigham Young woman's suffrage - Elizabeth Cady Stanton According to the video, Nat Turner's revolt was the only "successful" (actual), large-scale, and violent slave revolt in all of the pre-Civil War South. actually led to the death of a number of white people. ended with more dead blacks than whites. led to an increase in the number of slave codes and the severity of their enforcement. * all of the above. John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry * was not the first time that he tried to kill advocates of slavery. was directed at seizing a large slave plantation. saw him captured by Confederate troops led by Robert E. Lee. led to a guilty verdict and life imprisonment. was financed by the Republican Party Illinois senate election of 1858 pitted the Republican Douglas against the Democrat Lincoln. saw the incumbent defeated. * had the Democrat defending popular sovereignty. saw the Republicans run the better-known candidate. had the Republican promote the idea of racial equality. The election of 1860 saw which party divide? Republican Party Whig Party * Democratic Party Constitutional Union Party The event that sparked the process of secession for the majority of southern states was John Brown's raid anti-union riots in Baltimore the bombardment of Ft. Sumter * the election of Lincoln to the presidency Buchanon's policies against slavery Which one of the following political parties does NOT belong in this list of sectional/special interest parties prior to the Civil War? Free-Soil Party Libery Party American (Know Nothing) Party * Democratic Party Republican Party According to the video, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the settlement of the Kansas territory or its inhabitants? Problems occurred due to the rapidity of the settlement there. In the end, perhaps due to location or geography, inhabitants identified themselves as living in a free state. Although both sides committed acts of violence, the aggressive nature of the pro-slave element has the largest impact. * 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. All of these answers are correct.