Finals Class Prep 1 1820s-1850s

Question 1

Robert Fulton was instrumental in the development of

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Steam ships

Question 2

The northeastern and western economy boomed after 1800 for all the following reasons EXCEPT

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Greater government coordination of the economy

Question 3

Democrat-Republican values created a culture that accepted and encouraged individual men from all social classes to pursue their own improvement without unnecessary or undue restrictions.

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True

Question 4

Most northeastern elites were

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Whigs

Question 5

Factories tended to be seen most often in the

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Northeast

Question 6

Most slave owners voted for

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Whigs

Question 7

While the southern economy was prosperous, it went largely undeveloped and simplistic.

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True

Question 8

Free Labor ideology indicated a support for slavery.

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False

Question 9

The West became almost exclusively agricultural after 1800.

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False

Question 10

By the 1840s, which region was becoming increasingly isolated economically from the rest of the country?

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South

Question 11

Most white southerners supported (check all that apply)

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Free trade , State supremacy , Slavery

Question 12

“Yeoman farmers” referred to

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Middle-class family farms

Question 13

Most southern yeomen voted for

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Democrats

Question 14

Northern abolition of slavery brought little influence to the regional economy.

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False

Question 15

Convention at which the women’s movement demanded female suffrage

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Seneca Falls

Question 16

Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionist

Question 17

Elijah Lovejoy was killed in

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Illinois

Question 18

Temperance was associated with

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Alchol

Question 19

Publisher of the Liberator

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William Lloyd Garrison

Question 20

Leader of the women’s movement in the nineteenth century

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 21

Anti-slavery organization seeking to move freedmen to Africa

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American Colonization Society

Question 22

The Second Great Awakening focused on

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Religious revivalism

Question 23

Led a Virginia slave rebellion in 1831

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Nat Turner

Question 24

Liberia is in

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Africa

Question 25

Not an antebellum reform movement

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Minimum wage laws

Question 26

Most reformers were

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Whigs

Question 27

Polk was

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Pro-expansion

Question 28

The Wilmot Proviso was generally ______ by the South.

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Opposed

Question 29

David Wilmot ________ the expansion of slavery.

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Opposed

Question 30

Most Texas settlers moved from the southern states.

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True

Question 31

The Mexican Cession included all of the following EXCEPT

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Texas

Question 32

Mormons' primary home in the West was

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Utah

Question 33

The economy of Texas was essentially the same as in the US Deep South.

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True

Question 34

Northern Democrats were generally open to the expansion of slavery

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True

Question 35

Fire-eaters were

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Extreme southerners

Question 36

A majority of northerners by the 1850s were politically motivated to abolish slavery in the southern states.

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False

Question 37

The Great Compromiser

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Clay

Question 38

If it had passed, the Wilmot Proviso would have

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Prohibited slavery in the Mexican Cession

Question 39

The Free Soil movement called for the immediate abolition of slavery in the southern states.

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False

Question 40

Architect of the Compromise of 1850

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Clay

Question 41

The Compromise of 1850 was intended to resolve the crisis over

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California statehood

Question 42

Northern Democrats generally opposed states rights.

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False

Question 43

Gold was discovered in California

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1849

Question 44

In 1821, Texas belonged to

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Mexico

Question 45

The Free Soil movement supported the expansion of slavery.

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False

Question 46

In 1845-6, the US negotiated a boundary dispute with Great Britain over the territory of

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Oregon

Question 47

President during the Mexican War

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Polk

Question 48

Manifest Destiny was at its most intense during which decade?

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1840s

Question 49

Which of the following applied to the Slave Power conspiracy (select all that apply)

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Concern for the liberties of northern whites , Northern fears of the South , Northern sectionalism

Question 50

By 1850s, a majority of northerners opposed the expansion of slavery into the West.

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True

Question 51

Abolitionists opposed the annexation of Texas because

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It was a slave state

Question 52

"Southern Rights" refers to which of the following? (select all that apply)

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Southern support for the expansion of slavery ,Southern fears of the North, Southern concerns of becoming a minority, Southern anger at abolitionists

Question 53

Treaty that concluded the Mexican War

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Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 54

The Compromise of 1850 provided for all of the following EXCEPT

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Annexation of Texas as a free state

Question 55

The Nashville Convention

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Supported the expansion of slavery into parts of the Mexican Cession

Question 56

Led the Mormons across the Rocky Mountains

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Brigham Young

Question 57

By 1850, extreme southerners and northerners both called for secession.

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True

Question 58

Manifest Destiny was related to

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Westward expansion

Question 59

The primary crop in Texas was

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Cotton

Question 60

Not an antebellum reform movement

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Minimum wage laws

Question 61

Led a Virginia slave rebellion in 1831

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Nat Turner