Quiz 3 Flashcards
Who were the Know-Nothings?
1. An anti-immigrant political party that emerged in the 1840’s
2. A third political party founded to oppose the influence of Freemasonry
3. A group of pro-slavery Southern Senators who opposed the Missorui Compromise
4. A notorious gang that emerged in the slums of mid-19th Century New York City
An anti-immigrant political party that emerged in the 1840’s
Which of these was NOT part of the Missouri Compromise?
1. To prohibit bringing new people in slavery to Missouri
2. To admit Missouri to the union as a slave state
3. To admit Maine to the union as a free state
4. To draw a boundary at 36’30’ north of which there would be no new slave states
To prohibit bringing new people in slavery to Missouri
Which of these was an outcome of the First Seminole War?
1. To expel Native Americans from Flordia on the Trail of Tears
2. For Spain to cede their claim to the Arkansas Territory
3. For Spain to cede their claim to the Flordia Territory
4. To create an alliance among Native Americans called the Cherokee Confederacy
For Spain to cede their claim to the Flordia Territory
The Nullification Crisis was centered on Sotuh Carolina’s opposition to which Federal government policy?
1. Indian Removal
2. The Tariff of Abominations
3. The Second Bank of the United States
4. Manifest Destiny
The Tariff of Abominations
What is the term for Andrew Jackson’s fight against the formation of a Second Bank of the United States?
1. The Bank War
2. The Nullification Crisis
3. The Panic of 1837
4. The Eaton Affair
The Bank War
What is the term for the conspiracy theory that Freemasons constituted a secret elite that controlled American politics?
1, Ordo Templi Orientis
2. Anti-Masonism
3. Nativism
4. Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Masonism
What is the origin of the term “Jim Crow”?
1. The name of a prominent politician and advocate of slavery
2. The name of a Native American tribe
3. The stage name of a white performer who dressed in blackface
4. The region of the Mississppi Delta with the highest concentration of people in slavery
The stage name of a white performer who dressed in blackface
What was the Benevolent Empire?
1. A belief that westward expansion of the United States would lead to a stronger nation
2. A justification of slavery, claiming that it was in the best interests of the enslaved
3. A policy supporting Christian missionary work among Native Americans
4. A set of social reform movements in the antebellum US
A set of social reform movements in the antebellum US
William Llyod Garrison used his newspaper the Liberator to argue for which perspective on the abolition of slavery?
1. Immediatism
2. Gradualism
3. Accomodationism
4. Reformism
Immediatism
Elizabeth Cady Stantion composed the Declaration of Sentiments, arguing in favor for women’s rights, at what meeting of women’s rights activists?
1. The General Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840
2. The Second Great Awakening
3. The Seneca Falls Convention
4. The American Equal Rights Association
The Seneca Falls Convention
