Dual US History Part 3 Review

Review Quiz 1. (Q001) The "peculiar institution" of the South was ● the issue of slavery. 2. (Q007) Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were ● smaller and less frequent. 3. (Q008) Paternalism meant ● the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care. 4. (Q009) The Second Middle Passage was ● the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South. 5. (Q010) What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia? ● She was sentenced to death. 6. (Q012) By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own ● property. 7. (Q014) In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in ● slaves. 8. (Q015) "Slave patrols" were ● farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves. 9. (Q017) John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered this idea "the most false and dangerous of all political errors." ● that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty 10. (Q021) 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. 11. (Q029) Which of the following is part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey? ● Vesey had purchased his freedom aer winning the lottery. 12. (Q030) Nat Turner ● led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites. 13. (Q031) Southern planters felt a community of interest with ● Cuban and British slaveowners. 14. (Q032) Why did slave owners in the 1850s begin to sell their city slaves to the countryside? ● They thought their slaves had too much independence, which negatively influenced the relation between master and slave. 15. (Q035) What two southern cities witnessed relatively prosperous free black communities develop in the 1800s? ● Charleston and New Orleans 16. (Q037) The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth. ● True 17. (Q046) By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined. ● True 18. (Q051) A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South. ● True 19. (Q065) The nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" applied to slave women as well as white women. ● False 20. (Q066) In the Lower South, fugitive slaves tended to head for rural plantations to hide in plain sight. ● False Review Quiz 1. (Q002) The American Colonization Society called for ● a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States. 2. (Q004) Stretching from Maine to Kentucky, this was the most successful of the religious communities in the mid-1800s. ● Shakers 3. (Q007) Which of the following was an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s? ● public meetings 4. (Q008) Robert Owen's utopian society promoted this idea to allow workers to receive the full value of their labor. ● communitarianism 5. (Q010) "Gentlemen of property and standing" were ● merchants with close commercial ties to the South. 6. (Q011) This first martyr of the antislavery movement was killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press. ● Elijah P. Lovejoy 7. (Q015) Which of the following was a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities? ● Owen promoted communitarianism as a way of making sure workers received the full value of their labor. 8. (Q018) The idea of "perfectionism" was the view that ● both individuals and society at large can be capable of indefinite improvement. 9. (Q019) America's first black newspaper was called ● Freedom's Journal 10. (Q027) Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of ● more humane treatment of the insane. 11. (Q030) The largest effort at educational institution building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish ● common schools. 12. (Q032) In her 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, this writer sought to apply to women the transcendentalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development. ● Margaret Fuller 13. (Q033) According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," women must ● go to work outside the home. 14. (Q035) Free blacks drew upon what political office to justify "birthright citizenship"? ● the President 15. (Q038) Free blacks were regularly excluded from ● steamships. 16. (Q041) The American Temperance Society, founded in 1826, directed its efforts to redeeming habitual drunkards, not the occasional social drinker. ● False 17. (Q043) Horace Mann argued that it was not a school's responsibility to reinforce social stability by rescuing students from the influence of parents who failed to instill the proper discipline in their children. ● False 18. (Q046) In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs. ● True 19. (Q054) Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female abolitionist orators in the country during her time. ● True 20. (Q056) Many Americans saw the reform impulse as an attack on their own freedom, particularly the temperance movement. ● True Review Quiz 1. (Q001) In the early decades of the 1800s, the population living in Texas who were non-Indian and of Spanish origin were called ● Tejanos. 2. (Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because ● of the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population. 3. (Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China ● tripled. 4. (Q008) The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called ● manifest destiny. 5. (Q012) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848 ● ended the Mexican War. 6. (Q013) When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution ● protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery. 7. (Q015) The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of ● the discovery of gold. 8. (Q016) In 1853-1854, President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry to ● force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States. 9. (Q018) 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 wanted to homestead there. 10. (Q019) In the Compromise of 1850, ● the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia. 11. (Q020) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 ● established the principal of popular sovereignty to decide the status of slavery. 12. (Q021) The Fugitive Slave Act ● allowed federal commissioners to determine the fate of fugitives without the benefit of a trial or testimony by the accused individual. 13. (Q023) The Republican Party, founded in 1854, ● was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers. 14. (Q024) The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was ● the Mexican War. 15. (Q028) In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates ● walked out of the convention, causing it to recess in confusion. 16. (Q039) The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against slavery. ● False 17. (Q042) In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize. ● True 18. (Q047) By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die. ● True 19. (Q051) By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center. ● True 20. (Q053) Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day, including opposing Illinois blacks the right to vote or serve on juries. ● True Review Quiz 1. (Q001) Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war ● Copperheads. 2. (Q004) Which of the following groups was a major target of the New York City dra riots? ● Conscription officers 3. (Q005) 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. 4. (Q011) As Lincoln withdrew forces in the West to protect areas in the East, tensions flared between the Indians and settlers, leading to ● Sioux Indians killing hundreds of white farmers. 5. (Q013) Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was ● 5.5 million. 6. (Q014) The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was one of these advances? ● railroads 7. (Q016) The Second Confiscation Act ● liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped to Union lines. 8. (Q017) Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed ● some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control. 9. (Q021) The Homestead Act ● offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West. 10. (Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865, ● abolished slavery throughout the Union. 11. (Q027) Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War? ● The southern commander, General Lee, was a skilled tactician who hoped that a series of defeats would weaken the North's resolve. 12. (Q030) During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place in ● Virginia and Maryland. 13. (Q031) What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort aer 1863? ● enlist in the United States Army 14. (Q036) What was the meaning of the Civil War for poet Bret Harte? ● The war led to the sacrifice of individual soldiers. 15. (Q038) What was General Grant's strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate Union victory? ● to use as many Union troops on the battlefield as possible in a war of attrition 16. (Q039) More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history. ● True 17. (Q042) Lincoln was initially not concerned with the issue of slavery as his paramount concerns were to keep the border slave states in the Union and to build the broadest base of support in the North for the war effort. ● True 18. (Q045) Over the course of the war, Confederate troops were better supplied than Union troops. ● False 19. (Q049) During the Civil War, the North instituted a dra, but the South never did. ● False 20. (Q053) Government involvement in the economy decreased during the Civil War. ● False Review Quiz 1. What activity made the postemancipation experience in the United States unique from other societies and became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality? ● the right to vote within two years of the end of slavery 2. One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to ● ensure a working system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders. 3. A "carpetbagger" was ● a northerner who settled in the South aer the war. 4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fieenth Amendment because ● it outlawed discrimination in voting based on race but not gender. 5. What did three amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly aer the Civil War? ● freedom from slavery; recognition as citizens; and the vote for adult black men 6. The phrase "forty acres and a mule" is derived from ● Sherman's Field Order 15 7. Which statement accurately describes sharecropping? ● It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year. 8. In President Andrew Johnson's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction? ● They should have no role in shaping policies. 9. The Black Codes were ● laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves in the South. 10. Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction ● were oen arrested and hired out to white landowners. 11. Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that ● the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race. 12. What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867? ● It divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote. 13. The Fieenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ● prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race. 14. The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 ● defined crimes that deprived citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses. 15. The Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create ● the first national biracial democracy in world history. 16. "Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans. ● True 17. Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent. ● True 18. During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators. ● True 19. The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party. ● True 20. The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction." ● True