UAB HY 120 Final CH 12-14

According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," women must

go to work outside the home.

According to the Shakers, God had a "dual" personality, encompassing both male and female sexes.

True

America's first black newspaper was called

Freedom's Journal.

As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.

False

At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." "Complex marriage" at Oneida meant

any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Lady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on

the Declaration of Independence.

By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.

False

Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.

True

Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of

more humane treatment of the insane.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.

False

In lecturing the public, Sojourner Truth exclaimed "and aren't I a woman" to reinforce the traditional roles of women.

False

In the decades before the Civil War, several thousand black Americans did emigrate to Liberia with the aid of the American Colonization Society.

True

John Humphrey Noyes felt his followers had become so perfect that they had actually achieved a state of complete "purity of heart," or sinlessness.

True

Shakers were so named because they engaged in frenzied dancing.

True

The American Tract Society, the American Bible Society, and other groups flooded these areas with copies of the gospel and pamphlets promoting religious virtue.

eastern cities and the western frontier

The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by

William Lloyd Garrison.

The Liberty Bell took on its name-previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell-after

abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause for abolishing slavery.

The greatest evil in American society at first appeared to attract the least attention from the reformers-

Slavery.

The largest effort at educational institution building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish

common schools.

The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called

abolitionism.

Which of the following was NOT an area of pubic activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?

political party conventions

Which was NOT a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?

Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.

Which was NOT a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?

tariff reform

Which was NOT true of Brook Farm?

It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century.

Why did Abby Kelly leave her infant?

She felt black mothers could not be with their babies as long as slavery was in practice, so she worked toward the goal of abolitionism for her child to be brought up in a "free" country.

According to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act,

the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers.

Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China

tripled.

By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center.

True

During the early 1800s, the territory between the Nieces River and the Rio Grande was claimed by both Texas and Mexico but was actually controlled by

Comanche Indians.

For almost a decade, from the mid-1830s to 1845, the Republic of Texas was neither a part of the United States nor part of Mexico.

True

In 1853-1854, President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry in an effort to

force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States.

In his 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln called for the immediate abolition of slavery.

False.

In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates

walked out of the convention.

In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution. These were

the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes.

In the compromise of 1850,

the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

In the famous brawl on the floor of Congress, Senator Charles Sumner was beat unconscious by Congressman Preston S. Brooks over the issue of railroad development.

False

In their initial pronouncements, Confederate leaders stressed the preservation of white supremacy and slavery.

True

John Brown and his followers murdered five supporters of slavery at Pottawatomie Creek in May of 1856.

True

The Free Soil Party's platform called for

the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who want to homestead there.

The Fugitive Slave Act

allowed special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial or testimony by the accused individual.

The Kansa-Nebraska Act of 1854

established the principal of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848

ended the Mexican War.

The expansionist spirit of the nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called

manifest destiny.

The first American conflict to the fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupies a foreign capital was

the Mexican War.

The first state to secede the Union was also the state with the highest percentage of slaves in its population-

South Carolina.

The initial fighting of the Civil War began when

Jefferson Davis ordered batteries to fire on Fort Sumter.

The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of

the discovery of gold.

When California became a state in 1850,

it entered the Union as a free state.

When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution

protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.

When the Mormons settled in Salt Lake City, Utah was part of Mexico.

True

A Sanitary Fair is

a grand bazaar raised money for the care of Union soldiers.

A major hindrance during the outbreak of war included this railroad situation.

There was no national railroad gauge so trains built for one line could not run on another.

As the Civil War progressed, millions of northerners who had not been abolitionists became convinced that preserving the Union as an embodiment of liberty required the destruction of slavery.

True

At Vicksburg in July 1863,

the Union, under Ulysses S. Grant's leadership, was victorious.

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862,

northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war.

Compared to Lincoln, Jefferson Davis was much more politically flexible and had acquired a common touch among the people.

False.

During the Civil War, the Confederate Congress authorized military officers to seized farm goods to supply the army, paying with increasingly worthless Confederate money.

True

During the Civil War, the North instituted the draft, but the South never did.

False

During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" was used to refer to

camps of fugitive slaves.

During the course of the Civil War, more men died in battle than by wounds, infections, or disease.

False

General Grant surrendered the Civil War to General Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.

False.

General William T. Sherman moved his forces from Tennessee into this state, seizing the main railroad center in 1864.

Georgia

Georgie E. Pickett's crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at

Gettysburg.

In 1860, Union forces destroyed the orchards and sheep of this tribe and forced 8,000 of their people to move to a new reservation, which is called

Navajo's Long Walk.

In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?

Gettysburg Address

More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.

True

Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war

Copperheads.

Over the course of the war, the Union troops had stronger morale, but the Confederate troops were better supplied.

False

The Emancipation Proclamation immediately freed all enslaved persons in the United States.

False

The Homestead Act

took effect of January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

What military action started the American Civil War?

the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

This was the bloodiest battle of the war.

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

The leading southern commander, General Robert. E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate army throughout the entire war.

Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?

the need for national reunion