EXAM 3

1) because of Shay's Rebellion, many leaders began to believe in the need for

-a stronger role for the national government

2) part of western New York came to be known as the Burned-Over District because of the

-religious enthusiasm that blazed through the canal region

3) According to the Whig ideology, the best defense against corruption and tyranny rested in the?

-eternal vigilance of the people

4) the first national government of the United States of American was created by

-articles of confederation

5) the majority of white Southerns in antebellum America owned

-no slaves at all

6) what was the major significance of the election of 1800?

-the smooth and peaceful transfer of power from one political group to another

8) under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government was granted a relative lack of power because

-leaders of the new states were suspicious of strong governments

10) the articles of confederation deliberately created a national government with limited powers because of

-State's experience as British colonies

13) by 1786, political and economic turmoil convinced many Americans of the

-inadequacies of the articles of confederation

14) the concept of limited liability

-protected investors by limiting the amount of money they could be held liable for if a business collapsed

-helped solve some of the problems that restrained economic growth in the 18th century

-encouraged investment in new technologies and new business ventures (all of the above)

15) what was the antifederalists' attitude about the new constitution once it was ratified?

-a cautious willingness to give it a try

16) the second great awakening proved especially empowering for

-women

17) a particularly cruel aspect of the internal slave trade was that it:

-separated slaves from their families

18) The persistence of the expansion of slavery in the United States was driven, above all, by

-cotton

19) the republican ideology, government power

-threatened liberty

20) the most decisive rejection of slavery on the part of the slaves was

-the decision to run away

21) the new state constitutions gave the right to vote to a majority of adult white men

-true

22) what was the basic shift in the economy between 1800 & 1860

-away from reliance on agriculture toward development of a more diversified economy based on industrial manufacturing

25) the second great awakening was geographically centered in

-the region around the Erie Canal

26) the Whiskey Rebellion was motivated by

-opposition to Hamilton's excise tax

31) one radical feature of the new state constitution was the fact that they

-were written down in the first place

34) Alexander Hamilton viewed the Whiskey Rebellion as

-a test of the administration's ability to govern

35) anti-federalists argued that the constitution would

-create a repressive federal government

-undermine the rights of individuals (both A and D)

41) Madison promised that a Bill of Rights would be the first item of business for the new congress because

-the anti-federalists refused to ratify the constitution unless specific guarantees of personal liberties were included

50) according the Alexander Hamilton, the proper role of the new national government under the constitution was to

-promote economic growth

according to the new cult of demsticity

-the home should be a female dominated private zone

Slaves who converted to Christianity discovered:

-a powerful message of equality that deemed slavery to be immoral.

Animal trickster tales had special appeal to subjugated slaves because in them,

-weaker animals eluded or overcame the stronger ones

the sedition act can be seen as a violation of

-constitutional protection of free speech

the most influential abolitionists who was also a former slave was

-fredrick douglass

the northwest ordinance established the new states would be admitted with _ existing states

-equal status to

concerning the issue of how a state's slave population was to be counted, the Constitutional Convention's delegates settled on the

-three-fifths clause

When the international slave trade was ended, the domestic U.S. slave trade

-intensified

which of the following were characteristics of Cherokee society in 1820s?

-many Cherokees practiced Christian religions

-many Cherokees spoke English (both b and d)

by the 1820s, the American policy regarding American Indians favored

-forcibly removing Indians from their lands

Most whites in the antebellum South:

-regarded slaveholding as a path to upward economic mobility

new inventions such as the steam engine, telegraph, and railroads

-were technological solutions to problems restraining economic growth

leaders of Protestant reform movements often denounced Catholicism because they believed that the Catholic Church was

-dominating its followers instead of allowing them to take charge of their lives

-teaching false doctrine that was leading its followers astray

-a threat to the nation and the freedom it represented (all of the above except C)

in the 1800s, employers changed the production system by deskilling jobs, which meant that they

-assigned specific parts of a trade to specific people

What was the cult of domesticity?

-an idealized depiction of the home as the tranquil domain of a nurturing mother

the majority of slaves were engaged in

-mining operations

For southern white women, Mary Boykin Chestnut regarded "the sorest spot" of slavery as the

-double standard of plantation sexuality

which statement accurately describes the Industrial revolution?

-it is difficult to determine with any accuracy exactly when it started and eded

-it was a difficult process of social and economic changes rather than a single event

-it consisted of many developments in many parts of society that all had to occur at about the same time (all of the above)

following the constitutional doctrine of "implied powers", the national government possesses the authority to

-enact laws necessary and proper for exercising powers

for president Jackson, Indian removal

-a national security priority that required immediate attention

prior to 1830, Southerners generally defended slavery as

-a necessary evil

by the 1830's, abolitionists were calling for immediate emancipating of all slaves, with

-no compensation to slave owners

by 1860 Protestant Christianity had

-become the dominant religion among African Americans

-become the faith of nearly 90% of African Americans (either b or c)

the most valued slaves were male field hands and:

-female of child-bearing age used as a means of increasing the slave population