Final Exam Questions Flashcards
In McCullough v. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court confirmed the:
“implied powers” of Congress.
Artisan workers:
created the nation’s earliest trade unions.
The railroad network that developed during this period linked:
the Northeast to the Northwest.
Which of the following helped enlarge the urban population in this era?
- immigrants from Europe
- declining productivity of many eastern farms
- the growth of the population as a whole
One cause of the Panic of 1819 was:
a drop in the demand for US cotton, when English textile manufacturers began importing from India
One of the immediate results of the new transportation routes constructed during the “canal age” was:
an increased white settlement in the Northwest.
The cotton gin was invented by:
Eli Whitney.
The work of Eli Whitney:
led to the expansion of the cotton culture and slavery.
When compared to working conditions in European industries, the Lowell mills were a paradise for working women.
True
In the early eighteenth century, the American Robert Fulton:
made significant advances in steam-powered navigation.
The Marshall Court upheld the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.
True
The South was an important part of the national railroad network.
False
The American “mountain men”:
were closely tied to the expanding market economy of the United States.
The lasting significance of Gibbons v. Ogden was that it:
defined the right of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.
The Supreme Court ruling in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) was a victory for:
corporate contracts.
The Black Hawk War:
occurred because Black Hawk and his followers refused to recognize a treaty by which they ceded their lands to the U.S.
The so-called “corrupt bargain” of 1824 involved:
a political deal to determine the outcome of the presidential election.
When the Bank of the United States died in 1836, the country was left with a fragmented and chronically unstable banking system.
True
In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Marshall Court ruled that:
Georgia had no right to extend its laws over Cherokee territory.
To many in 1828, the election of Andrew Jackson as president was a victory for the “common man.”
True
The “spoils system” refers to:
giving out jobs as political rewards.
In the Election of 1824, Jackson claimed he had won the election, but according to the Constitution he lost the election because:(
he did not receive the majority of the electoral college votes
Adams’s nationalistic program, which was a lot like Clay’s American System, was not funded because:
Jackson’s supporters in Congress voted against it.
During the age of Jackson, politics became open to virtually all the nation’s white male citizens.
True
The Cherokee were supported in their unsuccessful battle against removal by:
the Supreme Court.
During the first decades of the nineteenth century the American view of Indians as “noble savages” changed to a view of them simply as “savages.”
True
In his victory in 1828, Jackson drew his greatest support from the:
South and the West.
The Seminole:
were never completely removed from their lands in Florida.
The advance of the southern frontier meant the spread not just of cotton but also of slavery.
True
In 1832, supporters of President Jackson held a national convention in order to:
make the nominating process more democratic.
Transcendentalists:
emphasized feeling over reason
The most noted black abolitionist of the day was:
Frederick Douglass.
During the Second Great Awakening, the Indian revivalist Handsome Lake called for:
the restoration of traditional Indian culture.
The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was essentially restricted to white people.
False
The Second Great Awakening succeeded in restoring to prominence traditional doctrines such as predestination.
False
The Mormons were forced to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo due to persecution from neighbors.
True
In the early nineteenth century the idea of colonization, which involved the transporting of free black Americans to Africa:
was strongly opposed by free African Americans as being proslavery and antiblack
In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided:
- by radicals and moderates within their ranks.
- over whether or not to use violence.
- by calls for northern and southern separation.
- over the question of female equality.
In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States:
linked alcohol to crime and poverty.
Evangelical Protestantism added major strength to which of the following reforms?
temperance
Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?
complete celibacy
Although it sold well, the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had little impact on American antislavery attitudes.
False
Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.
True
To abolitionist, slavery was a question of morality, not economics.
True
The message of the Second Great Awakening:
called for an active and fervent piety.
Within the American South, the institution of slavery:
created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a society and culture of their own.
Slave families:
consistently operated on the model of the “nuclear family.”
The South, like the North, changed from an agricultural to an industrial economy during this period.
False
