19th Century US History: Economy, Politics, and Social Movements

Sarah Bagley's employment in Lowell mill

She is made to work there in order to provide money for her family back home.

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that

The federal government's rights to regulate interstate commerce.

What best describes the "individualism" of the market revolution era?

Americans were sovereign individuals who had the right to privacy.

Which was typical of the preaching of Charles Grandison Finney?

Warnings of the torments of hell and a call to repent.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans could not

During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans could not, under federal law, obtain public land.

The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American?

Orestes Brownson’s

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

Property Requirements.

 What motivated the actions that resulted in the Dorr War?

A desire to expand Rhode Island's voting laws to include those who didn't own property.

Which of the following was used as a justification for excluding women and blacks from voting during the Age of Jackson?

Both of these type of people lacked the necessary intellectual capacity to be voters.

The Second Bank of the United States was created by Congress in 1816,

Created by Congress in 1816, aimed to stabilize the national economy and control inflation.

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Prohibits slavery.

What was Andrew Jackson's stance on African-American slaves?

They should remain slaves or be freed and sent abroad.

In the 1820s and 1830s, political party machines,

Primarily in large cities, provided benefits like jobs to loyal constituents and ensured that voters went to the polls on election day.

During Andrew Jackson's presidency, what occurred in the financial realm?

The national government debt was eliminated.

The Force Act of 1833

Gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs.

The Nullification crisis

Ended with a compromise tariff.

Second Seminole War of 1835-1842?

1,500 American soldiers, the same number of Seminoles. 3,000 Indians and 500 blacks were forced to move to the West.

In the decades before the Civil War, the northern states

Under railroad operates safehouses.

Which was the only significantly large city in the Cotton Kingdom in 1860?

New Orleans.

In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slave-owning class?

10%.

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power

Rose to political power as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.

Which value was particularly strong in the South in the early nineteenth century?

Personal honor

Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence-that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty-was "the most false and dangerous of all political errors"?

John. C Calhoun

After 1830, the majority of white southerners came to believe

that freedom for whites rested on the power to command the labor of blacks

Which were free blacks in the South legally prohibited from doing?

prohibited from owning dogs, firearms, or liquor, could not strike a white person, and had to carry a certificate of freedom.

Which statement is true about the labor that enslaved people did?

The large majority of enslaved women and men worked in the fields

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

A slave was most likely to experience the harshest conditions doing fieldwork on a sugar plantation in southern Louisiana.

Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true?

Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches.

As the sectional conflict over slavery intensified,

southern states suppressed the expression of antislavery views.

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

Women needed to be treated as equals.

About___ reform communities, often called utopian communities, were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.

100 

 How did the Catholic viewpoint differ from the Protestant viewpoint in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Catholics viewed sin as an inescapable part of human society.

Which of the following examples from modern life is in opposition to the goals of the American Tract Society?

Bars and restaurants being open on Sundays is in opposition to the goals of the American Tract Society.

 The North Carolina-born free black whose An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was

David Walker

The new breed of abolitionists that arose in the 1830s

called for immediate abolition of slavery and equal rights for all African-Americans.

How did Frederick Douglass characterize celebrating the Fourth of July?

hypocritical

The House of Representatives' gag rule of 1836

Irohibiting consideration of abolitionist petitions; opposition, led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in 1844. automatically tabled.

The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837

convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.

Which statement is true regarding women in the abolition movement?

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

The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to

Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction