DCUSH Test 3 Chapters 10-12

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The Panic of 1837

was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.

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Why was Henry Clay charged with orchestrating a "corrupt bargain" during the 1824 election?

He cast his vote for Adams in the presidential election in return for a cabinet post

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3

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820,

the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.

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What was the primary reason Andrew Jackson opposed the Bank of the United States?

He believed that no institution should possess such concentrated power and economic privilege, unaccountable to the people.

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5

Which is true of paper money in America in the early nineteenth century?

It represented a promise to pay the bearer, on demand, a specific amount of gold or silver.

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6

What was a voting requirement that all states except Rhode Island had eliminated by 1860?

owning property

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Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin?

William Henry Harrison

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The Dorr War

divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men.

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9

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

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10

Which was the last tribe to put up resistance on the battlefield in the Old Northwest?

Sauk

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11

The slave rebellion aboard the Amistad

led to a Supreme Court decision freeing the slaves.

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12

In which role was a slave most likely to experience the harshest conditions?

doing fieldwork on a sugar plantation in southern Louisiana

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13

Which is true of plantation owners in the nineteenth century?

They insisted that slavery was required in order for whites to be truly free.

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14

Why was slavery called a "peculiar institution" of the South?

It set the South apart from the North

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15

What was the biggest fear of a slave of any age?

a family member being sold

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16

How did conditions for slaves in the United States compare to those in the Caribbean by the mid-nineteenth century?

Slaves were typically better fed in the United States than they were in the Caribbean.

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17

Which of the following would be an example of "silent sabotage"?

A slave on a large plantation slowed the work pace.

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18

Seeing themselves as a chosen people, blacks viewed which biblical story as playing a central role in their version of Christianity?

Moses and the exodus from Egypt

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19

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.

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20

Which event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders?

the closing of the African slave trade

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21

Overall, how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women?

Women needed to be treated as equals.

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22

The House of Representatives' gag rule of 1836

convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with the democratic liberties of white Americans.

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23

What colonial-era approach did institutions such as orphanages and poorhouses replace?

community- and family-based care for those in need

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24

How did the crusade against slavery affect American understandings of citizenship?

It promoted the idea of birthright citizenship.

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25

Which of the following did Horace Mann NOT propose as a goal of public schools?

create racial equality

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26

Which is typical of slave religion in the first half of the nineteenth century?

It included both African traditions and Christian beliefs.

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When considering slavery's geographic extent, the numbers held in bondage, and the institution's economic importance, what was the largest and most powerful slave society the modern world has known?

the U.S. South

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Which of the following is true of the paternalist ethos in southern slavery?

Slave owners felt responsible for their slaves and believed they could not take care of themselves.

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Free blacks in the United States

sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves.

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Enslaved people's efforts to escape from slavery

undermined proslavery propaganda about contented slaves.

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31

Who founded the Shakers?

Ann Lee

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32

Advocates for building asylums, prisons, poorhouses, and orphanages

believed that social ills once considered incurable could in fact be eliminated.

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Members of which one of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?

Catholics

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34

William Lloyd Garrison

suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.

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35

The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over

a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work.

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36

Reform movements of the 1820s and 1830s

often drew inspiration from the Second Great Awakening's perfectionism outlook.

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37

In regard to utopian communities, how do spiritually oriented groups compare to societies with a worldly orientation?

Spiritual groups usually lasted for longer time periods.

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38

Which statement is true regarding women in the abolition movement?

Much of the abolition movement's grassroots strength derived from northern women.

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39

Common schools

existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.

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How did Frederick Douglass characterize celebrating the Fourth of July?

hypocritical

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