Chapters 12-18 Practice

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from

the United States Supreme Court

William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for

advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation

William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which of the following issues?

Abolition of slavery

The ideology that supported the trend depicted in the map is most similar to the ideology that supported which of the following?

Involvement in the Spanish-American War

In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?

Manifest Destiny

Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?

The belief in White cultural and political superiority

In the early 1830’s, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were

young unmarried women from rural New England

The expansion of a market economy in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following?

The improvement of transportation and availability of goods

One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

the separation of economic production from the home and family life

The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?

Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.

“The normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom. That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national \[western\] territory, ordained that ‘no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law,’ it becomes our duty by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.”

Republican Party platform, 1860

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Republicans asserted that political leaders could not “give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States” in order to express opposition against the

idea of popular sovereignty exemplified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act

During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

working slowly and breaking tools

The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it

strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

Which of the following describes “the Lowell system” in early nineteenth-century New England?

A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities

Which of the following states the principle of “popular sovereignty?”

The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ireland

What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?

To portray William Henry Harrison as a common man

Most young women who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills during the 1830s experienced all of the following EXCEPT

continued employment after marriage

The territorial changes shown in the southwestern region of the map most directly resulted from

the Mexican-American War

The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about

allowing slavery in the new territories