Final Exam Chapters 5-8 Flashcards
Which of the following is NOT true of African American involvement in the Civil War
Border ruffians helped to __________.
All of the following were strengths of the Confederacy except _______________.
All of the following were strengths of the Union except ___________________.
How did the Union General Benjamin Butler respond to refugee slaves who made it through Union lines to escape slavery?
Which of the following is NOT true about the Emancipation Proclamation?
Why did John Brown attack the armory at Harpers Ferry?
What was General Sherman’s objective on his March to the Sea?
___________ was a journalist and abolitionist who worked to alert the public of the evils of slavery by identifying it as a national sin and calling for its immediate end.
Which political party did not oppose the spreading of slavery into the West?
Which was NOT a provision of the Crittenden Compromise?
Which of the following did the North NOT do to mobilize for war?
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the weakening of the Confederacy during the war?
What was President Zachary Taylor’s top priority as President?
Which of the following was NOT a component of the Compromise of 1805?
Which of the following does NOT represent a goal of the Confederate States of America?
On what grounds did Dred Scott sue for freedom?
Which of the following is NOT a reason why many people opposed Lincoln’s reelection in 1864?
Which of the following did NOT contribute to Lincoln’s victory in the election of 1860?
___________ was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a direct response to the fugitive slave acts.
Which of the following is NOT true about Harriet Tubman?
How did the strategy of members of the Liberal Party differ from the abolitionists?
Which of the following was NOT an intended outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska bill?
Which of the following was a focus of the new Republican Party?
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Which of the following political parties was NOT a contender during the 1856 Presidential election?
At which important Atlantic port did conflicts between the Union and Confederacy ignite the Civil War?
Which of the following tribal nations was NOT considered one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” as defined by the federal government?
Although ultimately unsuccessful, which European nation did the Confederacy hope to secure as an ally in order to secure their victory?
The American Civil War provided a pretext for which European nation to attempt to restore its colonial empire in the Americas, specifically in Central America?
In the context of the antebellum era, what does colonization refer to?
A. Great Britain’s colonization of North America
B. The relocation of African Americans to Africa
C. American colonization of the Caribbean
D. American colonization of Africa
E. I don’t know the answer
The relocation of African Americans to Africa
Which of the following did William Loyd Garrison NOT employ in his abolitionist efforts?
A. Moral suasion
B. Immediatism
C. Political involvement
D. Pamphleteering
E. I don’t know the answer
Political involvement
Which community or movement is associated with transcendentalism?
A. The Oneida Community
B. The Ephrata
C. Brook Farm
D. Fourierism
Brook Farm
Which religious community focused on the power of patriarchy?
A. Shakers
B. Mormons
C. Owenites
D. Rappites
Mormons
John C. Calhoun argued for greater rights for Southerners with which idea?
A. Polygenism
B. Nullification
C. Concurrent majority
D. Paternalism
E. I don’t know the answer
Concurrent majority
Which of the following was NOT considered one of the ideals of Southern white womanhood as identified by writers like Thomas Roderick Dew in his Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences Between the Sexes?
A. Modesty
B. Meekness
C. Wit
D. Grace
E. I don’t know the answer
Wit
The ____________ River became the essential water highway in the United States as the cotton industry boomed.
A. Missouri
B. Rio Grande
C. Mississippi
D. Tennessee
E. I don’t know the answer
Mississippi
Which of the following was NOT one of the effects of the cotton boom?
A. U.S. trade increased with France and Spain
B. Northern manufacturing expanded
C. The need for slaves grew
D. Port cities like New Orleans expanded
E. I don’t know the answer
U.S. trade with France and Spain increased
Under the laws in the antebellum South, Slaves were _______________.
A. Servants
B. Animals
C. Property
D. Indentures
E. I don’t know the answer
Property
_____________ is the mapping of the cranium to specific human attributes, which was developed as a way to better understand the effects of a rapidly changing world during the antebellum period.
A. Phrenology
B. Sociology
C. Pathology
D. Craneology
E. I don’t know the answer
Phrenology
Sylvester Graham’s reformers targeted _____________.
A. The human body
B. Nutrition
C. Sexuality
D. All of the above
E. I don’t know the answer
All of the above
The first temperance laws were enacted by ________________.
A. State governments
B. Local governments
C. The federal government
D. Temperance organizations
State governments
Between 1820-1860, ____________ had the largest slave market in the United States where American traders sold a million or more slaves.
A. New Orleans
B. Miami
C. Mobile
D. Charleston
E. I don’t know the answer
New Orleans
Following the 1808 legalized banning of slave importation from West Africa, where did smugglers continue to bring slaves into the United States from?
A. Canada
B. Mexico
C. Cuba
D. Nova Scotia
E. I don’t know the answer
Cuba
Who led the rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia 1831, leading the state legislature to actually consider (although it didn’t) ending slavery in order to provide greater security to the area’s white population?
A. Nat Turner
B. Harriet Tubman
C. Charles Deslondes
D. Manuel Andry
E. I don’t know the answer
Nat Turner
The largest group of whites in the South ____________.
A. Owned no slaves
B. Owned between one and nine slaves each
C. Owned between ten and ninety-nine slaves each
D. Owned over one hundred slaves
E. I don’t know the answer
Owned no slaves
Yeoman farmers referred to the class of ___________.
A. Wealthy planters
B. Small landowners
C. Landless whites
D. Freed blacks
E. I don’t know the answer
Small landowners
The abolition of the foreign slave trade in 1807 led to ____________.
A. A dramatic decrease in price and demand for slaves
B. The rise of a thriving domestic slave trade
C. A reform movement calling for the complete end of slavery in the United States
D. The decline of cotton production
E. I don’t know the answer
The rise of a thriving domestic slave trade
A “mulatto” referred to a person with ___________.
A. One black great-grandparent
B. One black parent one white parent
C. On black grandparent
D. One Native American parent and one black parent
E. I don’t know the answer
One black parent and one white parent
Where did the majority of free blacks live during the antebellum period?
A. New England
B. Deep South
C. Midwest
D. Upper South
E. I don’t know the answer
Upper South
The controversy at the heart of the Ostend Manifesto centered on the fate of:
A. Ostend, Belgium
B. Nicaragua
C. Cuba
D. Louisiana
E. I don’t know the answer
Cuba