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Review 3
Hist 1301
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.How does Sarah Bagley explain her employment in a Lowell mill in the Voice of Industry? | • She is made to work there in order to provide money for her family back home. |
| 2.In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that | • the federal government’s right to regulate interstate commerce |
| 3.What best describes the “individualism” of the market revolution era? | • Americans were sovereign individuals who had the right to privacy. |
| 4.Which was typical of the preaching of Charles Grandison Finney? | • warnings of the torments of hell and a call to repent |
| 5.During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans | • could not, under federal law, obtain public land. |
| 6.The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American? | • Orestes Brownson. |
| 7.What was a voting requirement that all states except Rhode Island had eliminated by 1860? | • Property Requirements |
| 8.What motivated the actions that resulted in the Dorr War? | • A desire to expand Rhode Island's voting laws to include those who didn't own property. |
| 9.Which of the following was used as a justification for excluding women and blacks from voting during the Age of Jackson? | • Both of these types of people lacked the necessary intellectual capacity to be voters |
| 10.The Second Bank of the United States was created | • by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison. |
| 11.Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, | • Prohibits slavery. |
| 12.What was Andrew Jackson’s stance on African-American slaves? | • They should remain slaves or be freed and sent abroad. |
| 13.In the 1820s and 1830s, political party machines | • Primarily in large cities, provided benefits like jobs to loyal constituents and ensured that voters went to the polls on election day. |
| 14.During Andrew Jackson’s presidency, what occurred in the financial realm? | • The national government debt was eliminated. |
| 15.The Force Act of 1833 | • gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs. authorized the president’s use of the army to compel states to comply with federal law. |
| 16.The nullification crisis ended -- | with a compromise tariff. |
| 17. Second Seminole War of 1835–1842? | • 1,500 American soldiers same number of Seminoles. 3,000 Indians and 500 blacks were forced to move to the West. |
| 18. In the decades before the Civil War, the northern states | • Under railroad operates safehouses. |
| 19.Which was the only significantly large city in the Cotton Kingdom in 1860? | • New Orleans |
| 20.In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slave-owning class? | • 10 percent |
| 21.Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political powe | • as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters. |
| 22.Which value was particularly strong in the South in the early nineteenth century? | • personal honor |
| 23.Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence—that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty—was “the most false and dangerous of all political errors”? | • John C. Calhoun. |
| 24.After 1830, the majority of white southerners came to believe | • that freedom for whites rested on the power to command the labor of blacks |
| 25.Which were free blacks in the South legally prohibited from doing? | • from owning dogs, firearms, or liquor, and they could not strike a white person, even in self-defense. They were not allowed to testify in court against whites or serve on juries, and they had to carry at all times a certificate of freedom. |
| 26.Which statement is true about the labor that enslaved people did? | • The large majority of enslaved women and men worked in the fields |
| 27.In which role was a slave most likely to experience the harshest conditions? | • Doing fieldwork on a sugar plantation in southern Louisiana |
| 28.Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true? | • Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches |
| 29.As the sectional conflict over slavery intensified, southern states | • suppressed the expression of antislavery views. |
| 30.Overall, how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women? | • Women needed to be treated as equals. |
| 31.About __________ reform communities, often called utopian communities, were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. | • 100 |
| 32.How did the Catholic viewpoint differ from the Protestant viewpoint in the first half of the nineteenth century? | • Catholics viewed sin as an inescapable part of human society. |
| 33.Which of the following examples from modern life is in opposition to the goals of the American Tract Society? | • bars and restaurants being open on Sundays |
| 34.The North Carolina–born free black whose An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention | • David Walker |
| 35.The new breed of abolitionists that arose in the 1830s | • called for immediate abolition of slavery and equal rights for all African-Americans. |
| 36. How did Frederick Douglass characterize celebrating the Fourth of July? | Hypocritical |
| 37.The House of Representatives’ gag rule of 1836 | prohibiting consideration of abolitionist petitions; opposition, led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in 1844. automatically tabled. |
| 38.The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837 | convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties. |
| 39.Which statement is true regarding women in the abolition movement? | Much of the abolition movement's grassroots strength derived from northern women. |
| 40.The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to | Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction. |