History Final Notes Flashcards
Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to?
make the United States a major commercial and military power
What was the main source of the political divisions that surfaced in 1790 and 1791?
the rights of women
What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?
He was executed, along with numerous aristocrats
The candidates in the 1796 election were Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr verses?
John Adams and Thomas Pinckney
Which political party viewed society as a fixed hierarchy, where only wealthy men and the “well-born” should hold political office?
Federalist
What brought an end to Washington’s presidency in 1796?
his wish that the office not become a a lifelong position
Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the end of slavery?
Benjamin Franklin
Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?
canals and steamboats
The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing parts in accessing trade with the Northwest?
New York
What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?
cotton
Cincinnati was known as what in the early nineteenth century?
Porkopolis
What was an important factor in Chicago’s growth from 1830 to 1860?
Railroads connected to Chicago to numerous eastern marketplaces
Which geographic area was the first to adopt an industrial system of manufactoring?
states in the “cotton kingdom”
Andrew Jackson’s inauguration was?
a loud and rowdy event
Which of the following helped to increase the visibility and power to the Catholic Church in America in the mid-nineteenth century?
the dramatic increase in the number of Irish-Catholic immigrants
According to Noah Webster’s American Dictionary, what term had become synonymous in American society with the right to vote?
“citizen”
What name is given to the sharp increase in printing and the availability of printed material in the 1830’s?
Information Revolution
Which was a component of the Monroe Doctrine?
The United States vowed to oppose efforts by European powers to establish any new colonies in the Americas.
During the Age of Jackson, the practice of politics was characterized by what?
a mass spectacle that served as a kind of public entertainment
Awarding political office based on party loyalty is called?
the spoils system
In the nineteenth century, which product was the words’s major crop produced by slave labor?
cotton
Which state was referred to the Tariff in 1828 as an “abomination”?
South Carolina
Which two categories delineate the key differences among southern states in the decades before the Civil War?
upper and lower south
Which was the only significantly large city in the cotton kingdom in 1860?
New Orleans
Urban enslaved people most often were?
servants, cooks, and other domestic servants
Seeing themselves as a chosen people, blacks viewed which biblical story as playing a central role in their version of Christianity?
Moses and the exodus from Egypt
An enslaved person purposefully slowing down the work pace on a large plantation is an example of?
active sabotage
What did Frederick Douglas insist was the only thing that could overthrow the institution of slavery?>
continuous resistance
What constituted the largest effort at institution building before the Civil War?
the establishment of common schools
Common schools provided the first significant career opportunity for which group?
working-class white men
Which book to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive enslaved man Josiah Tenson?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What issue enabled abolitionists to expand the appeal of their arguments to those who may not have cared much about slavery?
free speech
How did Frederick Douglas characterize celebrating the Fourth of July?
hypocritical
The Declaration of Sentiments condemned the “injuries and usurpations” of?
men against women
Who devoted much time to the crusade for the construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane?
Dorothea Dix
The majority of men who fought for the Union army were?
farm boys, shopkeeper, artisans, and urban workers
The majority of men who fought for the Confederate army were?
immigrants
Which was responsible for the greatest number of deaths among soldiers during the Civil War?
disease
Which was the following became an established business as a result of the Civil War?
photography
What was the most important piece of technology during the Civil War?
rifle
