UAB HY 120 Final CH 8-11

"The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Frances Scott Key, commemorates what event in the War of 1812?

Fort McHenry withstood British bombardment

A result of the expanding factions within the new government, more citizens attended political meetings and the country experienced rapid growth of the American press.

True

After Washington's inauguration, he proclaimed liberty and the republican model of government was dependent on the success of America's experiment in

self-government.

By 1798, the United States and what country were engaged in a "quasi-war" at sea?

France

In the XYZ affair of 1797

French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.

Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by

slaves.

On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter

Sacajawea.

President Thomas Jefferson refused to purchase the Louisiana Territory because it was an affront to his strict constructionist view of the Constitution, but Congress overrode his veto.

False

The "Revolution of 1800" was

the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.

The "Second War of Independence" was

the War of 1812.

The Constitution makes no mention of political parties.

True

The Haitian Revolution renewed fears of a slave rebellion in the United States.

True

The Hartford Convention

affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions condemned stateless against seditious speech.

False

The War of 1812 was ended by what treaty?

in December 1814 by the Treaty of Ghent.

The case that established judicial review was

Marbury vs. Madison

The first U.S. coin to feature a real person was the image of

Abraham Lincoln.

The only time in American history that the president has actually commanded an army in the field was during

the Whiskey Rebellion.

The same American leaders of democracy who hailed the French Revolution as a step in the universal progress of liberty reacted in horror against the Haitian Revolution.

True

The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the

Republicans and Federalists.

The word "male" did not appear in the Constitution until after the Civil War.

True

Thomas Jefferson brokered an agreement to assuage southerners to accept Alexander Hamilton's economic plans in exchange for

the new, permanent capital would be built in the South.

When Chief Justice John Jay was sent to Britain to stop impressment of American citizens,

he brokered a treaty that canceled the American-French alliance and recognized British supremacy.

Who killed the first U.S. secretary of the Treasury in a duel?

Aaron Burr

With the Louisiana Purchase,

the size of the nation was doubled.

"Manifest destiny" was

the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.

American industrialization first took off in

New England.

Between 1800 and 1860, around 1 million slaves moved from older slave states to the Deep South. Most traveled

as a result of being sold at auction to work in the cotton fields.

Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to

railroads.

Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children.

Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area.

False

For the expanding middle class, it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.

True

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

True

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the Following?

a transcendentalist

The "American system of manufactures"

was the mass production of interchangeable parts into rapidly built, standardized products.

The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected

the Great Lakes with New York City.

The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 negotiated

the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

The Second Great Awakening was

a popular religious revival that swept the country in the earl 1800s.

The court case in which it was held that workers' unions are not illegal was

Commonwealth vs. Hunt.

The device invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s that send messages over electrical wires was called the

telegraph.

The linchpin of southern development and most important export was

cotton.

This religious leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing, which he translated and later published, starting which religion?

Mormonism

What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

cotton gin

When the Marquis de Lafayette toured America in the early 1800s, he stated he would not have helped America in the battle for independence had he known he aided in the founding of a land of slavery.

true

Which city was known as "Porkopolis" after its slaughterhouse district?

Cincinnati

Which of the following is a correct pairing of inventor and invention?

steel plow and John Deere

Which of the following was NOT a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

Which of the following was NOT an innate characteristic of women, according to the "cult of domesticity"?

analytical insight

Which was NOT an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?

telephones

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

stimulated its growth

A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that

European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

Among his other plans, John Quincy Adams wants the United States to adopt the metric system of weights and measures.

True

Andrew Jackson appealed to the changing voting pool because he represented those that came from generations of wealth and supported a strong federal government-controlled nation.

False

Andrew Jackson believed slanderous comments during his election bid contributed to his wife's early death shortly after the election.

True

Despite his reputation for stubbornness, President Jackson proved timid and conciliatory during the nullification crisis and the Bank War.

False

Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800.

False

Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called

the spoils system.

In Johnson vs. M'Intosh, the Supreme Court proclaimed that

Indians were not in fact owners of their land, but merely had a "right of occupancy."

In Worcester vs. Georgia, Chief Justice Marshall described Indians as "wards" of the federal government, deserving paternal protection.

False

In the mid 1800s, this had replaced class as the boundary between those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom and those who were not.

race

John Tyler was given numerous nicknames upon assuming the office of the presidency, including the title

The Executive Ass.

McCulloch vs. Maryland ruled that

the Bank of the United States was constitutionally legal.

President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a solemn, elite dinner.

False

President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as

the American System.

The 1836 Specie Circular declared that the federal government would accept only specie (gold and silver) in payment for public land.

True

The Democrats nominate William Henry Harrison without a platform, instead promoting his as the "log cabin" candidate, or a champion of the common man.

False

The Dorr War revolved around the issue of whether propertyless white men should have the right to vote.

True

The Era of Good Feelings was so-called because

they were years of one-party government.

The Panic of 1819 was caused by

the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.

What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?

Old Hickory

When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to

the westward expansion of slavery.

Which is NOT an element of Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)?

Marshall found that contracts between states and private citizens could not be abridged.

Which of the following statements is true regarding the Trail of Tears?

At least one-quarter of the Indians perished during the winter of 1838-1839

Which was NOT part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

It permanently settled the question of the expansion of slavery.

William Henry Harrison's presidency ended as he

died from pneumonia a month after taking office.

"Slave patrols" were

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

a small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South.

True

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, North and South, henceforth and forever more.

False

By 1860, more than half of the United States' exports were in

cotton.

By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own

property.

By the mid-nineteenth century, all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense.

True

Following the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.

True

Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery by

shipping himself in a crate from Georgia to the North.

In 1839, fifty-three slaves took control of this ship in an attempt to reroute to Africa.

Amistad

In 1860, three of four white families owned no slaves.

True

In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts?

marriage

In the mid 1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves

worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers.

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered "the most false and dangerous of all political errors"

that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty.

Paternalism meant

the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care and attention in their sicknesses.

Perhaps the most powerful disciplinary weapon slaveholders possessed was

the threat of sale.

The "peculiar institution" of the South was

the issue of slavery.

The Second Middle Passage was

the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.

The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.

false

The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.

False

The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was

Fredrick Douglass.

The southern state with the highest population of free blacks was

Virginia.

What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?

They were given refuge in the British Caribbean.

What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia?

she was sentenced to death.

Which is NOT part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?

Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites.

Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman