History Final Notes

Question 1

Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to?

Answer 1

make the United States a major commercial and military power

Question 2

What was the main source of the political divisions that surfaced in 1790 and 1791?

Answer 2

the rights of women

Question 3

What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?

Answer 3

He was executed, along with numerous aristocrats

Question 4

The candidates in the 1796 election were Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr verses?

Answer 4

John Adams and Thomas Pinckney

Question 5

Which political party viewed society as a fixed hierarchy, where only wealthy men and the “well-born” should hold political office?

Answer 5

Federalist

Question 6

What brought an end to Washington’s presidency in 1796?

Answer 6

his wish that the office not become a a lifelong position

Question 7

Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the end of slavery?

Answer 7

Benjamin Franklin

Question 8

Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Answer 8

canals and steamboats

Question 9

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing parts in accessing trade with the Northwest?

Answer 9

New York

Question 10

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

Answer 10

cotton

Question 11

Cincinnati was known as what in the early nineteenth century?

Answer 11

Porkopolis

Question 12

What was an important factor in Chicago’s growth from 1830 to 1860?

Answer 12

Railroads connected to Chicago to numerous eastern marketplaces

Question 13

Which geographic area was the first to adopt an industrial system of manufactoring?

Answer 13

states in the “cotton kingdom”

Question 14

Andrew Jackson’s inauguration was?

Answer 14

a loud and rowdy event

Question 15

Which of the following helped to increase the visibility and power to the Catholic Church in America in the mid-nineteenth century?

Answer 15

the dramatic increase in the number of Irish-Catholic immigrants

Question 16

According to Noah Webster’s American Dictionary, what term had become synonymous in American society with the right to vote?

Answer 16

“citizen”

Question 17

What name is given to the sharp increase in printing and the availability of printed material in the 1830’s?

Answer 17

Information Revolution

Question 18

Which was a component of the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 18

The United States vowed to oppose efforts by European powers to establish any new colonies in the Americas.

Question 19

During the Age of Jackson, the practice of politics was characterized by what?

Answer 19

a mass spectacle that served as a kind of public entertainment

Question 20

Awarding political office based on party loyalty is called?

Answer 20

the spoils system

Question 21

In the nineteenth century, which product was the words’s major crop produced by slave labor?

Answer 21

cotton

Question 22

Which state was referred to the Tariff in 1828 as an “abomination”?

Answer 22

South Carolina

Question 23

Which two categories delineate the key differences among southern states in the decades before the Civil War?

Answer 23

upper and lower south

Question 24

Which was the only significantly large city in the cotton kingdom in 1860?

Answer 24

New Orleans

Question 25

Urban enslaved people most often were?

Answer 25

servants, cooks, and other domestic servants

Question 26

Seeing themselves as a chosen people, blacks viewed which biblical story as playing a central role in their version of Christianity?

Answer 26

Moses and the exodus from Egypt

Question 27

An enslaved person purposefully slowing down the work pace on a large plantation is an example of?

Answer 27

active sabotage

Question 28

What did Frederick Douglas insist was the only thing that could overthrow the institution of slavery?>

Answer 28

continuous resistance

Question 29

What constituted the largest effort at institution building before the Civil War?

Answer 29

the establishment of common schools

Question 30

Common schools provided the first significant career opportunity for which group?

Answer 30

working-class white men

Question 31

Which book to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive enslaved man Josiah Tenson?

Answer 31

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 31

What issue enabled abolitionists to expand the appeal of their arguments to those who may not have cared much about slavery?

Answer 31

free speech

Question 31

How did Frederick Douglas characterize celebrating the Fourth of July?

Answer 31

hypocritical

Question 31

The Declaration of Sentiments condemned the “injuries and usurpations” of?

Answer 31

men against women

Question 31

Who devoted much time to the crusade for the construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane?

Answer 31

Dorothea Dix

Question 32

The majority of men who fought for the Union army were?

Answer 32

farm boys, shopkeeper, artisans, and urban workers

Question 33

The majority of men who fought for the Confederate army were?

Answer 33

immigrants

Question 34

Which was responsible for the greatest number of deaths among soldiers during the Civil War?

Answer 34

disease

Question 34

Which was the following became an established business as a result of the Civil War?

Answer 34

photography

Question 34

What was the most important piece of technology during the Civil War?

Answer 34

rifle