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DCUH FINAL EXAM 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following describes the experience of the "mill girls"? | They were required to live in closely supervised boarding houses. |
| What "holy cult" did the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville identify in America in the 1830s? | "the holy cult of freedom" |
| How did the ideals represented by the cult of domesticity differ from feminine ideals of the eighteenth century? | They represented a shift into a purely private world, dominated by the family and emotion. |
| What modern example fulfills the goals of the Workingmen's Parties? | Congress raising the federal minimum wage. |
| During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans | could not, under federal law, obtain public land. |
| What was the most common means of acquiring slaves to work on newly established cotton plantations in the Lower South? | purchasing them at auction in cities such as Mobile, Natchez, and New Orleans |
| How did Mormonism challenge societal norms? | The Mormons came to endorse the doctrine of polygamy. |
| The Second Great Awakening | promoted the belief that individuals were free to shape their own spiritual destinies. |
| What best describes the "individualism" of the market revolution era? | Americans were sovereign individuals who had the right to privacy. |
| Which of the following describes the role of cotton in the U.S. market revolution? | Slavery expanded dramatically in the South. |
| What is true about the Lowell "mill girls"? | Many valued the opportunity to earn money independently. |
| "Manifest destiny" refers to the idea first advanced by journalist John L. O'Sullivan that | it was the divine mission of the United States to take over the continent in order to extend freedom. |
| Which of the following characterizes the practice of politics in America during the Age of Jackson? | a mass spectacle that served as a kind of public entertainment |
| The Monroe Doctrine | declared the Americas off-limits to further European colonization. |
| Which of the following statements about Martin Van Buren is true? | He wanted to see competition between political parties. |
| The U.S. Supreme Court's 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision | supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity. |
| What is true about race in the mid-nineteenth-century United States? | Race replaced class as the boundary between men who enjoyed political freedom and those who did not. |
| In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that | Indians were wards of the federal government |
| What were Spain's only remaining American colonies in 1825? | Puerto Rico and Cuba |
| Which statement is true about Indian removal in the 1820s and 1830s? | The increasing profitability of cotton motivated the United States to intensify efforts to seize Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw lands in order to expand cotton cultivation. |
| As part of the Missouri Compromise, what free state was admitted to the Union? | Maine |
| Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821 | revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union. |
| Which is true of the political positions of younger Republicans, such as Henry Clay, in the years immediately following the War of 1812? | They embraced the idea that the nation's economic independence required a manufacturing sector. |
| As president, John Tyler | vetoed a bill to create a new national bank, thus angering Whigs. |
| Which was a cause of the Panic of 1819? | a decline in the European market for American farm products |
| Frederick Douglass argued that | in desiring freedom, slaves were truer to the nation's founding than were most white Americans. |
| Which were free blacks in the South legally prohibited from doing? | striking a white person in self-defense |
| Which statement is true about Harriet Tubman? | Tubman rescued about seventy-five people from slavery. |
| John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh | agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good. |
| Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true? | Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches. |
| Free blacks in the United States | sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves. |
| The proslavery argument that slavery made economic independence among whites possible | was widely accepted by southern whites. |
| Southern farmers in the backcountry | generally worked the land using family labor. |
| Which is true of plantation owners in the nineteenth century? | They insisted that slavery was required in order for whites to be truly free. |
| Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Lower South? | The Upper South did not initially join the Lower South in seceding from the Union. |
| Most white southern farmers were | self-sufficient |
| Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power | as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters. |
| In his speech about the Fourth of July, how did Frederick Douglass critique the founding of the United States? | The American Revolution was a good starting point for principles of freedom. |
| Which is true of the efforts of the Colonization Society? | They were scorned and opposed by most free African-Americans. |
| The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 | established equal rights as the basis of the early women's rights movement. |
| Advocates for building asylums, prisons, poorhouses, and orphanages | believed that social ills once considered incurable could in fact be eliminated. |
| According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans? | voluntary associations |
| The new breed of abolitionists that arose in the 1830s | called for immediate abolition of slavery and equal rights for all African-Americans. |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimké | critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women. |
| Which of the following did Horace Mann NOT propose as a goal of public schools? | create racial equality |
| How did the Second Great Awakening influence American society? | It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as alcoholism. |
| Which statement is true of the temperance movement? | The American Temperance Society hoped to stop Americans from consuming alcohol altogether. |
| The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837 | convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatiable with white American's liberties |
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