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- Which of the following is NOT one of the forces of division within the Republican party in the early 1820s?
- Industrialization in New England
- Why did President Jackson veto the bill that would of provided funding for a road in Kentucky?
- He opposed federal funding of internal improvements that were purely local in charter.
- John Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest
- the \"Tariff of Abominations\"
- What was the name of the road that Jackson vetoed funding for in Kentucky?
- Maysville road
- The Force Bill authorized President Jackson to
- Use arms to collect custom duties in South Carolina
- Why was the 1824 presidential election unique?
- John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives.
- Which of the following did NOT contribute to the depression of 1837?
- The creation of the bank of Virginia
- In the late 1830\'s and early 1840\'s, what group believed that the end of the world was imminent?
- Millerites
- Why did Vice President Martin Van Buren lose the presidential election of 1840?
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All of these choices.
(The economic depression, The military record of his opponent, his sluggish campaigning, the refusal of the Whig party to publish a platform) - Which sect believed that Jesus was not divine but merely an exemplary human being?
- Unitarians
- Who won the 1840 presidential election
- William Henry Harrison
- What was one of the major reasons for the changing attitude towards poverty, crime and insanity in the early nineteenth century?
- Americans began to believe that penitentiaries, workhouses, and insane asylums were counterproductive.
- Issac Singer transformed American Society by?
- Patenting a practical sewing machine that allowed for the mass production of textile.
- In 1851 a journal editor wrote that in this become \"the great agent of civilization and progress, the most powerful instrument for good the world has yet reach.\" What was he referring to?
- The locomotive
- Which of the following statements accurately describes railroads in the Unite States in 1860?
- The United States had more tracks than the rest of the world combined.
- How did the McCormick reaper help the North win the Civil War?
- It allowed the North to keep agricultural production high even though many farmers went to fight
- What impact did technological change have on the American worker before the Civil War?
- The purchasing power of the average worker rose
- Which of the following was NOT one of the causes of nationwide epidemics in the United States during the antebellum period?
- The widespread use of laughing gas by young people seriously suppressed their immune systems.
- Which of the following was NOT a popular health or scientific movement in antebellum America?
- Epidemiology-branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases.
- What was one of the changes that transformed American newspaper in the decades before the Civil War?
- They began to print \"human interest\" stories rather just political and commercial.
- During the pre-Civil War decades, what did most Americans prefer to paint?
- Landscapes
- Why did movements for rural cemeteries and urban parks develop during the antebellum period?
- There was a fear that sprawling urban growth was destroying the spiritual healing the nature provided.
- What was one of the purposes of the lyceum lectures
- They were designed to spread and popularize knowledge.
- What happened in New Orleans in 1832 and 1833?
- An epidemic of yellow fever and cholera killer 1/5 of the population.
- Which of the following is a crop not associated with the Lower South?
- Vegetables
- Which of the following statements accurately describes the Upper South and the Lower South?
- After about 1830, both were united in their defense of slavery.
- Who led the 1831 rebellion in Southhampton County, VA that terrified the South for generations?
- Nat Turner
- By 1860 what percentage of white southern families owned slaves?
- 25%
- Which list of states contains only states that were part of the Upper South?
- Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland
- Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that nonslaveholding southerners supported the slave system?
- Some hoped to become slaveholders
- Which of the following statements is true of plantation life?
- Psychological strains compounded economic woes
- Which of the following was one of the hallmarks of the West American cultures from which many American Slaves had originated?
- Broad Kinship ties
- Which of the following is an accurate description of the typical slave diet?
- It was generally unbalanced but there was plenty of food.
- In 1860, about what percent of slave owners owned more than 20 slaves?
- Only about 12%
- Where did over half of all free blacks in the Lower South live?
- In cities
- Why did the growth rate of the free black population in the South slow after 1810?
- Few southern whites were freeing their slaves.
- What did Hinton Helper argue in the Impending Crisis of the South?
- Nonslaveholders should abolish slavery in their own interest
- Which of the following is an accurate statement about slave uprising in the antebellum South?
- There were only three, and only one resulted in white deaths.
- What was an overseer?
- He was a slave owner\'s assistant who managed the discipline and punishment on a plantation.
- According to Fredrick Douglass, when did slaves sing most?
- When they were most unhappy.
- The Battle of the Alamo...
- Provided a rallying point for Texans in their struggles against Mexico.
- Which statement best describes the Germans who came to the United States before 1860?
- They were largely or urban working-class background.
- Which of the following was NOT one of the responses of American workers to the Economic difficulties of the 1830\'s and 1840\'s?
- They bought factories and ran them as communal enterprises.
- A potato blight brought about \"The Great Famine,\" a period of starvation in
- Ireland.
- In the 1820\'s, Mexico attempted to attract American settlers to Texas by?
- Providing generous land grants to recruiting agents.
- Which one of the following is NOT one of the results of the California Gold Rush?
- Slaves, free blacks, Indians, Chinese, and Angelos eagerly joined together in the gold fields.
- Which statement accurately describes travel to Oregon or California on the overland trails during the 1840\'s?
- Emigrant cooperated closely with each other and traveled in huge wagon trains.
- Why was John Tyler\'s ascendancy to the presidency a disaster for the Whig Party?
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All of the choices.
(He was a former Democrat, a states\' rights advocate, vetoed a bill to create a new national bank, and vetoed bills that would postpone reducing the tariff.) - Which of the following was one of the reasons why some antislavery northerns believed there was a Southern conspiracy to extend slavery into the Southwest?
- President Tyler, a states\' right Democrat from Virginia, maneuvered to arrange the annexation of Texas.
- In the 1840\'s which of the following group was NOT likely to support territorial expansion?
- Members of the Whig party
- Empresarios were?
- Land agents who worked for Mexico to recruit American settlers to come to Texas.
- Which of the following was NOT one of the background causes of the Mexican-American War?
- Mexico had failed to pay $2 million in debts owed to to U.S. citizens.
- In the United States, which of the following was NOT a reason for opposition to the Mexican-American War?
- Mexico\'s Army was four times the size of of American forces and would therefore be unbeatable.
- According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
- the United States assumed the claims of American citizens\' against Mexico.
- What military leader in the Mexican-American War became a national hero and eventually president?
- Zachary Taylor
- Who led the Texas army that defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto?
- Sam Houston
- What was the Wilmot Proviso?
- It was a stipulation that slavery was prohibited in any territory acquired in the negotiations with Mexico.
- From the point of view of the Whig party in 1848, why was Zachary Taylor an ideal candidate for president?
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All of the choices.
(He was a Louisiana slaveholder and would therefore appeal to the South. He would have a broad national appeal because he was a Mexican-American War hero. He had no connection to Clay\'s American System, which the party was trying to abandon.) - Which of the following is an accurate statement about San Francisco during the Gold Rush?
- Ethic and racial tensions were high.
- The fate of the Donner party demonstrated...
- How difficult it was for groups of families to successfully cross the great plains.
- In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme court rules that slaves...
- were not citizens therefore they could not sue in federal court.
- Which of the following is NOT true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
- It rendered the terms of the Compromise of 1850 void.
- Which of the following was NOT an option on slavery held by free soil supporters?
- Free-soilers believed the American slavery had natural geographical limits beyond which it would not spread.
- In the 1850s, what did filibusters like William Walker do?
- They organized unofficial military expedition to Cuba and Central America.
- Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
- Fort. Sumter
- Many northern states passes personal-liberty laws in order to...
- minimize the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.
- The Lecompton Constitution...
- Protected the property rights of Kansas slaveholders and provided for a referendum on the admission of more slaves.
- Congressman Preston Brooks...
- beat Charles Sumner with a cane.
- Which statement best describes the Republican party position in the election of 1860?
- There should be no further extension of slavery into the territories.
- Which provision did the Lecompton constitution include?
- A referendum would be held to decide whether to allow more slaves into the state.
- Which statement is an element of the compromise proposed by John Crittenden?
- There should be a constitutional amendment to prohibit federal interference with southern slavery.
- Which of the following statements best captures the attitude of many antebellum American about technology?
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All of these choices.
(They believed technology was democratic and helped everyone, was a force of positive change, was God\'s chosen instrument of progress, and would help make up for a labor shortage. - Romanticism in literature was characterized by...
- emphasis on the author\'s inner feelings and emotions.
- What type of urban housing developed during the early nineteenth century?
- Row houses
- What was one of the results of the rising urban land values in the early nineteenth-century American city?
- Many row houses were subdivided and occupied by many families.
- In his 1837 address \"The American Scholar,\" Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that Americans needed to...
- work for cultural autonomy
- Who argued that technological advances would allow women to make their houses a glorious temple?
- Catherine Beecher
- Why was the Tredegar Iron Works significant?
- It was one of the few, large iron producers in the South.
- Which of the following was one of the hallmarks of the West American cultures from which man American slaves had originated?
- Broad kinship ties
- Which profession was open to free blacks in the Old South?
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All of these choices.
(Carpentry, barrel making, barbering, small trade.)