Final+Exam+Questions

So here is the email Mr. Knight sent out. It contains a bunch of the questions that he is pulling from. Have fun studying! o and sorry the questions are all messed up-it didnt paste well from my email.... Dan

My advice for studying chapter 11-14 was to use the online Brinkley website. I think I have uncovered something tricky. I think there are generally 2 quizzes for each chapter, and I’m not sure how to access the second one //on purpose// – it seems to be random and I’ve had success trying it //from a different computer//…
 * To make life easier for you, I’ve pasted a databank of questions that I will be drawing from.**
 * Don’t forget that I have given quite a few short quizzes in class – not always graded – that could be on the test.**
 * I’m pulling questions from any packet I’ve distributed, and don’t forget that we’ve had at least one practice test**
 * I hope its not overwhelming.**
 * Please pass the word to students in the class, in case they haven’t’ checked their email.**

(B) wheat (C) sugar (D) tobacco (B) 10% (C) 25% (D) 33% (A) John C. Calhoun (B) Jefferson Davis (C) Henry Grady (A) Honor (B) Chivalry (D) Dignity (A) Southern women were generally more subordinate to men than in the North (B) Southern women had less access to education than their northern counterparts (D) Southern women were even further removed from the public sphere than those in the North (A) Small farmers depended on plantations for credit and markets (B) Many southern whites aspired to be slaveowners nonetheless (C) **Most southern white men were cut off from the democratic** process (D) Poor whites derived satisfaction from the doctrine of white supremacy (A) “sand hillers” (B) “crackers” (D) “clay eaters” (A) Mexico (C) Argentina (D) Jamaica (B) slaves could not carry firearms (C) slaves could not hold property (D) slaves could not testify against white people (A) cotton (B) sugar (C) tobacco (A) Many slaves cultivated gardens for their own use (B) **Slaves tended to be healthier than southern** whites (C) Slave families were often divided by the slave trade (D) The proportion of blacks to whites declined after 1808 (A) Natchez (B) New Orleans (D) Charleston (A) work slowdowns (B) breaking tools (D) performing tasks improperly (A) autonomous black churches were banned by law (B) African-American services were often more emotional than white services (D) Blacks often held secret religious services at night (A) Extended kinship networks became strong and important (C) Black women began bearing children at younger ages than whites (D) Up to a third of all black families were disrupted by the slave trade
 * Chapter 11**
 * 1) Which of the following non-cotton crops would most likely be grown in the coastal South – South Carolina, Georgia, and parts of Florida?
 * (A)** **rice**
 * 1) The total value of southern textile manufactures in 1860 was __of the total value of raw cotton that year.__
 * (A)** **2%**
 * 1) Which of the following was a prominent antebellum advocate of southern economic independence from Northern industry?
 * (D)** **James B.D. De Bow**
 * 1) Which of the following virtues would a Southern plantation owner be //least// likely to champion in himself?
 * (C)** **Industry**
 * 1) Which of the following is //not// true of the “Southern Lady”?
 * (C)** **Southern women had fewer children than their counterparts on the North**
 * 1) Which of the following was //not// a reason why nonslaveholders generally tended to accept the slavery system?
 * 1) Which of the following was //not// a disparaging tern in general use to describe the poorest white southerners of the antebellum period?
 * (C)** **“rednecks”**
 * 1) Which of the following nations also still permitted slavery in the mid-nineteenth century?
 * (B)** **Brazil**
 * 1) Which of the following was //not// a provision under the slave codes?
 * (A)** **slaves could not attend church**
 * 1) Which of the following crop cultures generally used the “task system” of assigning slave labor?
 * (D)** **rice**
 * 1) Which of the following is //not// true of life under slavery?
 * 1) Which of the following cities did //not// have a sizeable free black population?
 * (C)** **Birmingham**
 * 1) Which of the following was //not// generally a method of everyday resistance practiced by slaves?
 * (C)** **sit-down strikes**
 * 1) Which of the following is //not// true of slave religion?
 * (C)** **Black religion emphasized obedience and submission before God**
 * 1) Which of the following is //not// true of the slave family?
 * (B)** **The “nuclear family” model was shunned by slaves as impractical**


 * Chapter 12 Quiz 1**

1. The reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century reflected which of the following impulses: 2. The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth century 3. The first great American novelist was
 * 1) an optimistic faith in human nature
 * 2) a rational view of man and his ability
 * 3) a desire for control and order
 * 4) a desire to end slavery
 * 5) **both an optimistic faith in human nature, and a desire for control and order**
 * 1) painted scenes of carefully cultivated landscapes
 * 2) favored portraits of Revolutionary War heroes
 * 3) **considered untamed nature as the best source of spiritual inspiration**
 * 4) had a different philosophy from Emerson and Thoreau
 * 5) often painted portraits of each other
 * 1) Walt Whitman
 * 2) **James Fenimore Cooper**
 * 3) Herman Melville
 * 4) Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * 5) Edgar Allan Poe

4. Transcendentalists believed that
 * 1) “understanding” was more important than “reason”
 * 2) man should repress instinct and strive for externally imposed learning
 * 3) each individual should strive to “transcend” the limits of intellect and allow emotions to create an “original reaction to the universe”
 * 4) individuals should avoid anything that would bring one too close to the natural world
 * 5) “**reason” was more important than “understanding”**

5. In his essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” Henry David Thoreau claimed an individual should
 * 1) not pay poll taxes
 * 2) **refuse to obey unjust laws**
 * 3) live in isolation and as simply as possible
 * 4) reject the artificial constraints of government
 * 5) embrace an excessive interest in material comforts


 * 1) American utopians
 * 2) **attracted tens of thousands of followers during the antebellum period**
 * 3) had a consistent supporter in Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * 4) operated primarily in the South
 * 5) struggled to meet both individual needs and the demands of the communal society
 * 6) never developed a large following


 * 1) The Oneida Community
 * 2) advocated “free love” to redefine gender roles
 * 3) called for celibacy and attracted members of conversion
 * 4) **believed it liberated women from the demands of male “lust” and from traditional bonds of family**
 * 5) was widely accepted and had almost no critics
 * 6) sought to expand parental control over children

8. Like other experiments in social organization of this era, Mormonism reflected
 * 1) a strong antislavery bias
 * 2) a celebration of individual liberty
 * 3) a desire to improve the status of women
 * 4) a strong desire to isolate believers from general society
 * 5) **a belief in human perfectibility**

9. Evangelical Protestantism added major strength to which of the following reforms
 * 1) **temperanc**e
 * 2) education and rehabilitation
 * 3) women’s rights
 * 4) peace
 * 5) abolitionism


 * 1) Each of the following was an example of new ideas about health in this era EXCEPT
 * 2) phrenology
 * 3) water cures
 * 4) **reforms promulgated by city health boards to cure epidemics**
 * 5) dietary theories
 * 6) none of the answers is correct


 * 1) The emphasis on educational reform was consistent with the spirit of the age because it
 * 2) **focused on the unleashing of individual talents**
 * 3) stressed educational equality
 * 4) focused on external learning
 * 5) stressed the importance of community
 * 6) emphasized the development of individual talent


 * 1) The creation of asylums
 * 2) was only for the mentally ill
 * 3) was only for criminals
 * 4) **attempted to rehabilitate “unfit” people into useful citizens**
 * 5) was simply an attempt to curb the abuses of the old methods of dealing with the poor and the ill
 * 6) was for the mentally ill and criminals


 * 1) As women in various reform movements confronted the problems they faced in a male-dominated society, they responded by
 * 2) withdrawing from the movements
 * 3) accepting the notion that men and women were assigned separate “spheres” in society
 * 4) focusing their attention on religious matters
 * 5) **setting in motion the first important feminist movement**
 * 6) Establishing the W.C.T.U.

14. Which of the following groups was most involved in the feminist movement?
 * 1) Baptists
 * 2) Episcopalians
 * 3) Mormons
 * 4) Shakers
 * 5) **Quakers**

15. Education reformers intended public schools to perform all of the following roles EXCEPT to
 * 1) extend and protect democracy
 * 2) **raise questions and criticisms of authority**
 * 3) expand individual opportunities
 * 4) inculcate values of thrift, order, discipline, and punctuality
 * 5) establish social order


 * 1) After 1830, which of the following reform movements began to overshadow the others?
 * 2) **antislavery**
 * 3) women’s rights
 * 4) temperance
 * 5) education
 * 6) rehabilitation


 * 1) The most noted black abolitionist of the day was
 * 2) Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * 3) William Lloyd Garrison
 * 4) **Frederick Douglass**
 * 5) Joseph Smith
 * 6) Benjamin Lundy


 * 1) Opponents of abolitionism in the North believed
 * 2) abolitionists were dangerous radicals
 * 3) the movement would lead to a war between the North and South
 * 4) the movement would lead to a great influx of free blacks into the North
 * 5) **All the answers are correct**
 * 6) None of the answers are correct


 * 1) Immediate abolition gradually accomplished was the slogan of
 * 2) **moderate antislavery forces**
 * 3) Garrison and his followers
 * 4) Southern antislavery planters
 * 5) Black abolitionists
 * 6) The free soldiers


 * 1) Personal liberty laws
 * 2) allowed masters to claim slaves who ran away to the North
 * 3) freed slaves who escaped to states in the Old Northwest
 * 4) **forbade state officials to assist in the capture and return of runaways**
 * 5) outlawed the interstate slave trade
 * 6) allowed slaves to purchase their freedom


 * 1) The movement that advocated keeping slavery out of the territories was known as the
 * 2) personal liberty movement
 * 3) **free-soil movement**
 * 4) John Brown Brigade
 * 5) Garrison solution
 * 6) The Missouri Compromise


 * 1) Throughout the North, black Americans
 * 2) enjoyed full access to education and most career opportunities
 * 3) voted and held government jobs proportionate to their numbers
 * 4) **defended their freedom and responded eagerly to the cause of abolitionism**
 * 5) earned a decent standard of living
 * 6) were more violent in their abolitionist rhetoric than Garrison


 * 1) The creation of “asylums” for social deviants was an effort to
 * 2) punish the inmates
 * 3) get the deviants out of society
 * 4) **reform and rehabilitate the inmates**
 * 5) cut down on the cost of crime and punishment
 * 6) all the answers are correct


 * 12 Brinkley Quiz**
 * 1) Which of the following was not a member of the Hudson River School of American painters?
 * 2) Thomas Cole
 * 3) Frederick Church
 * 4) Asher Durand
 * 5) **Edward Hopper**


 * 1) Which of the following writers is best known for his poems celebrating democracy and the liberation of the individual?
 * 2) James Fenimore Cooper
 * 3) **Walt Whitman**
 * 4) Herman Melville
 * 5) Edgar Allan Poe


 * 1) Which of the following southern writers focused on the struggles of ordinary people and helped pave the way for the southern realism of Mark Twain?
 * 2) Edgar Allan Poe
 * 3) Beverly Tucker
 * 4) William Gilmore Simms
 * 5) **August B. Longstreet**


 * 1) Which of the following would NOT be a recommendation of transcendentalism?
 * 2) Individuals should transcend the limits of intellect and give range to emotions
 * 3) Individuals should reject conformity and social repression
 * 4) **Individuals should emulate the rich cultural heritage of** **Europe**
 * 5) Individuals should look to the natural world for inspiration


 * 1) Which nineteenth century utopian community was directly influenced by transcendental philosophy?
 * 2) **Brook Farm**
 * 3) Oneida
 * 4) New Harmony
 * 5) Amana


 * 1) Which famous American author took part in- and later expressed his disillusion with – the transcendentalist experiment in utopian living?
 * 2) Walt Whitman
 * 3) Herman Melville
 * 4) **Nathaniel Hawthorne**
 * 5) Edgar Allan Poe


 * 1) Which of the following is NOT true of the Oneida community?
 * 2) All residents were “married” to all other residents
 * 3) It was established by John Humphrey Noyes
 * 4) Children were raised communally
 * 5) **Its members practiced celibacy**


 * 1) Which of the following led the movement known as Shakerism?
 * 2) Robert Owen
 * 3) **Mother Ann Lee**
 * 4) George Ripley
 * 5) John Humphrey Noyes


 * 1) Who led 12,000 Mormons from their settlement in Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Utah territory in 1844?
 * 2) Robert Owen
 * 3) Joseph Smith
 * 4) **Brigham Young**
 * 5) Lucy Wright


 * 1) Where was the “burned-over district,” so-named for being especially prone to religious awakenings?
 * 2) **Upstate** **New York****, along the** **Erie Canal**
 * 3) The former Puritan strongholds of New England
 * 4) The banks of the Mississippi
 * 5) Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee


 * 1) The average male in the 1830s drank alcohol as the average person today.
 * 2) half as much
 * 3) about the same amount of
 * 4) twice as much
 * 5) **three times as much**


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT a health or science fad of the antebellum period?
 * 2) the “water cure”
 * 3) **orthodontics**
 * 4) phrenology
 * 5) health spas


 * 1) Which of the following was/were instrumental in popularizing phrenology in America?
 * 2) Sylvester Graham
 * 3) **Orson and Lorenzo Fowler**
 * 4) William Morton and John Warren
 * 5) Ignaz Semmelweis


 * 1) Who is remembered as one of the greatest educational reformers of his day?
 * 2) Ignaz Semmelweis
 * 3) **Horace Mann**
 * 4) William Lloyd Garrison
 * 5) Elijah Lovejoy


 * 1) Which of the following is NOT true of the antebellum educational reform movement?
 * 2) as a result, 94% of the 1860 Northern population was literate
 * 3) In the Far West, formal attempts were made to educate Native Americans
 * 4) By the 1850s, all states supported the principle of public elementary schools
 * 5) **In the Upper South, formal attempts were made to educate African-Aemrican slaves**


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT a reform or rehabilitation institution created in the antebellum era?
 * 2) Almshouses
 * 3) Penitentiaries
 * 4) **Orphanages**
 * 5) Mental asylums


 * 1) From what religious denomination did many early women’s rights reformers emerge?
 * 2) Methodist
 * 3) **Quaker**
 * 4) Baptist
 * 5) Unitarian


 * 1) Where did women’s rights advocates hold the important 1848 convention which launched the suffrage movement?
 * 2) **Seneca Falls****,** **New York**
 * 3) Richmond, New York
 * 4) New York City
 * 5) White Plains, New York


 * 1) On what famous American document did women’s rights activists model their 1848 resolution?
 * 2) **The Declaration of** **Independence**
 * 3) The Constitution
 * 4) The Bill of Rights
 * 5) Washington’s Farewell Address


 * 1) Which West African nation was founded by members of the American Colonization Society as a home for manumitted slaves?
 * 2) Ghana
 * 3) Somalia
 * 4) **Liberia**
 * 5) Eritrea


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT an obstacle faced by members of the American Colonization Society?
 * 2) Their plan was impracticable under any conceivable program
 * 3) Many African Americans found their proposals insulting
 * 4) It never received enough funding to carry out its intended projects
 * 5) **Virginia** **and** **Maryland** **banned the organization outright as the work of “agitators”**


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT new and different about William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionism?
 * 2) He called for immediate rather than gradual emancipation
 * 3) He emphasized the effects of slavery on black – not white – Americans
 * 4) **He published his own antislavery newspaper**
 * 5) He called for full citizenship rights for African Americans


 * 1) Which of the following black abolitionists advocated the violent overthrow of slavery?
 * 2) Frederick Douglass
 * 3) Sojourner Truth
 * 4) Harriet Tubman
 * 5) **David Walker**


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT a reason Garrison became a controversial figure among abolitionists?
 * 2) He called the Constitution “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”
 * 3) **He called for slaves to rise up and kill their masters**
 * 4) He called for full equality for women in the abolitionist movement
 * 5) He rejected the idea of all prisons and asylums


 * 1) Who composed the most popular and widely-read work of abolitionist propaganda in America?
 * 2) William Lloyd Garrison
 * 3) **Harriet Beecher Stowe**
 * 4) Frederick Douglass
 * 5) Theodore Dwight Weld


 * Chapter 12 Quiz 1**


 * 1) The reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century reflected which of the following impulses:
 * 2) an optimistic faith in human nature
 * 3) a rational view of man and his ability
 * 4) a desire for control and order
 * 5) a desire to end slavery
 * 6) **both an optimistic faith in human nature, and a desire for control and order**


 * 1) The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth century
 * 2) painted scenes of carefully cultivated landscapes
 * 3) favored portraits of Revolutionary War heroes
 * 4) **considered untamed nature as the best source of spiritual inspiration**
 * 5) had a different philosophy from Emerson and Thoreau
 * 6) often painted portraits of each other


 * 1) The first great American novelist was
 * 2) Walt Whitman
 * 3) **James Fenimore Cooper**
 * 4) Herman Melville
 * 5) Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * 6) Edgar Allan Poe


 * 1) Transcendentalists believed that
 * 2) “understanding” was more important than “reason”
 * 3) man should repress instinct and strive for externally imposed learning
 * 4) each individual should strive to “transcend” the limits of intellect and allow emotions to create an “original reaction to the universe”
 * 5) individuals should avoid anything that would bring one too close to the natural world
 * 6) “**reason” was more important than “understanding”**


 * 1) In his essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” Henry David Thoreau claimed an individual should
 * 2) not pay poll taxes
 * 3) **refuse to obey unjust laws**
 * 4) live in isolation and as simply as possible
 * 5) reject the artificial constraints of government
 * 6) embrace an excessive interest in material comforts


 * 1) American utopians
 * 2) **attracted tens of thousands of followers during the antebellum period**
 * 3) had a consistent supporter in Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * 4) operated primarily in the South
 * 5) struggled to meet both individual needs and the demands of the communal society
 * 6) never developed a large following


 * 1) The Oneida Community
 * 2) advocated “free love” to redefine gender roles
 * 3) called for celibacy and attracted members of conversion
 * 4) **believed it liberated women from the demands of male “lust” and from traditional bonds of family**
 * 5) was widely accepted and had almost no critics
 * 6) sought to expand parental control over children


 * 1) Like other experiments in social organization of this era, Mormonism reflected
 * 2) a strong antislavery bias
 * 3) a celebration of individual liberty
 * 4) a desire to improve the status of women
 * 5) a strong desire to isolate believers from general society
 * 6) **a belief in human perfectibility**


 * 1) Evangelical Protestantism added major strength to which of the following reforms
 * 2) **temperanc**e
 * 3) education and rehabilitation
 * 4) women’s rights
 * 5) peace
 * 6) abolitionism


 * 1) Each of the following was an example of new ideas about health in this era EXCEPT
 * 2) phrenology
 * 3) water cures
 * 4) **reforms promulgated by city health boards to cure epidemics**
 * 5) dietary theories
 * 6) none of the answers is correct


 * 1) The emphasis on educational reform was consistent with the spirit of the age because it
 * 2) **focused on the unleashing of individual talents**
 * 3) stressed educational equality
 * 4) focused on external learning
 * 5) stressed the importance of community
 * 6) emphasized the development of individual talent


 * 1) The creation of asylums
 * 2) was only for the mentally ill
 * 3) was only for criminals
 * 4) **attempted to rehabilitate “unfit” people into useful citizens**
 * 5) was simply an attempt to curb the abuses of the old methods of dealing with the poor and the ill
 * 6) was for the mentally ill and criminals


 * 1) As women in various reform movements confronted the problems they faced in a male-dominated society, they responded by
 * 2) withdrawing from the movements
 * 3) accepting the notion that men and women were assigned separate “spheres” in society
 * 4) focusing their attention on religious matters
 * 5) **setting in motion the first important feminist movement**
 * 6) Establishing the W.C.T.U.


 * 1) Which of the following groups was most involved in the feminist movement?
 * 2) Baptists
 * 3) Episcopalians
 * 4) Mormons
 * 5) Shakers
 * 6) **Quakers**


 * 1) Education reformers intended public schools to perform all of the following roles EXCEPT to
 * 2) extend and protect democracy
 * 3) **raise questions and criticisms of authority**
 * 4) expand individual opportunities
 * 5) inculcate values of thrift, order, discipline, and punctuality
 * 6) establish social order


 * 1) After 1830, which of the following reform movements began to overshadow the others?
 * 2) **antislavery**
 * 3) women’s rights
 * 4) temperance
 * 5) education
 * 6) rehabilitation


 * 1) The most noted black abolitionist of the day was
 * 2) Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * 3) William Lloyd Garrison
 * 4) **Frederick Douglass**
 * 5) Joseph Smith
 * 6) Benjamin Lundy


 * 1) Opponents of abolitionism in the North believed
 * 2) abolitionists were dangerous radicals
 * 3) the movement would lead to a war between the North and South
 * 4) the movement would lead to a great influx of free blacks into the North
 * 5) **All the answers are correct**
 * 6) None of the answers are correct


 * 1) Immediate abolition gradually accomplished was the slogan of
 * 2) **moderate antislavery forces**
 * 3) Garrison and his followers
 * 4) Southern antislavery planters
 * 5) Black abolitionists
 * 6) The free soldiers


 * 1) Personal liberty laws
 * 2) allowed masters to claim slaves who ran away to the North
 * 3) freed slaves who escaped to states in the Old Northwest
 * 4) **forbade state officials to assist in the capture and return of runaways**
 * 5) outlawed the interstate slave trade
 * 6) allowed slaves to purchase their freedom


 * 1) The movement that advocated keeping slavery out of the territories was known as the
 * 2) personal liberty movement
 * 3) **free-soil movement**
 * 4) John Brown Brigade
 * 5) Garrison solution
 * 6) The Missouri Compromise


 * 1) Throughout the North, black Americans
 * 2) enjoyed full access to education and most career opportunities
 * 3) voted and held government jobs proportionate to their numbers
 * 4) **defended their freedom and responded eagerly to the cause of abolitionism**
 * 5) earned a decent standard of living
 * 6) were more violent in their abolitionist rhetoric than Garrison


 * 1) The creation of “asylums” for social deviants was an effort to
 * 2) punish the inmates
 * 3) get the deviants out of society
 * 4) **reform and rehabilitate the inmates**
 * 5) cut down on the cost of crime and punishment
 * 6) all the answers are correct


 * 13 Brinkley Quiz 2**


 * 1) The settlement of the western territories
 * 2) united the North and South with a common feeling of nationalism
 * 3) **divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery in the territories**
 * 4) eliminated the need for debate over the issue of slavery
 * 5) facilitated effective compromises over the increasingly divisive issue of slavery
 * 6) created more slave states than free states


 * 1) By the end of the 1840s, the territory of the United States included
 * 2) all of the nation’s current territory
 * 3) the entire territory of the current continental United States
 * 4) **nearly the entire territory of the current continental** **United States**
 * 5) the entire continental United States east of the Rockies
 * 6) the Gadsden Purchase


 * 1) The idea that God and history had selected America to expand its bounderies over the continent of North America was known as
 * 2) **Manifest Destiny**
 * 3) divine right
 * 4) white supremacy
 * 5) Nativism
 * 6) imperialism


 * 1) When the new republic of Texas requested annexation by the United States,
 * 2) the American government quickly agreed
 * 3) **Americans in the North opposed acquiring a large new slave territory**
 * 4) Southerners, led by President Jackson, pushed for annexation
 * 5) Mexico gave up all claims to Teas
 * 6) Mexico declared war on the U.S.


 * 1) American immigrants into Oregon
 * 2) did not outnumber the British until after the Civil War
 * 3) had little impact on the few native Americans there
 * 4) **outnumbered the British by 1850**
 * 5) were mostly fur trappers
 * 6) drove the Indians into Canada


 * 1) Immigrants going west on the great overland trails faced the least danger from
 * 2) **hostile Indians**
 * 3) diseases
 * 4) mountain and desert terrain
 * 5) hunger
 * 6) the brutal winter weather


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT part of President Polk’s policy regarding New Mexico and California?
 * 2) sending troop[s to the Nueces River in Texas
 * 3) informing Americans in California that the United States would respond sympathetically to a revolt against Mexico
 * 4) instructing the Pacific naval commander to seize California ports if Mexico declared war
 * 5) **ceasing all diplomatic contact with** **Mexico**
 * 6) all the answers are correct


 * 1) By combining the Oregon and Texas issue in 1844, Democrats hoped to
 * 2) start a war with Mexico and Great Britain
 * 3) attract John Tyler to the Democratic Party
 * 4) divert attention from the slavery issue
 * 5) **get Van Buren to support Polk**
 * 6) appeal to both Northern and Southern expansionists


 * 1) Travelers on the Overland Trail
 * 2) experienced significantly higher death rates than the general population
 * 3) experienced constant and deadly attacks by Indian tribes along the trail
 * 4) was a highly individualized experience
 * 5) **often migrated as families that practiced traditional gender divisions of labor**
 * 6) were often loners who preferred a vagabond lifestyle


 * 1) The war with Mexico was criticized
 * 2) by Southerners who believed Polk deliberately maneuvered the country into the conflict on behalf of Northern interests
 * 3) **by Northerners who believed it was part of a slaveholders’ plot to bring in more slave states**
 * 4) by businessmen who believed it would hurt commerce with England and Mexico
 * 5) by Democrats from all sections of the nation
 * 6) by Texas Mexicans who favored reunification with Mexico


 * 1) The Wilmot Proviso
 * 2) went into law without the president’s signature
 * 3) was supported by Southern militants
 * 4) was a compromise acceptable to the South and the North but not the West
 * 5) drew very little attention outside of Congress
 * 6) **passed the House but not the Senate**


 * 1) The “overlord” of the Sacramento River Valley and the man on whose land gold was discovered was
 * 2) John C. Fremont
 * 3) **John A. Sutter**
 * 4) Nicholas Trist
 * 5) Lewis Cass
 * 6) Stephen W. Kearny


 * 1) The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT
 * 2) California would come in as a free state
 * 3) In the rest of the lands acquired from Mexico, territorial governments would be formed without restrictions on slavery
 * 4) **The national government would not pay the** **Texas** **debt**
 * 5) The slave trade, but not slavery, would be abolished in the District of Columbia
 * 6) None of the answers are correct


 * 1) Which of the following did NOT support the Compromise of 1850?
 * 2) Henry Clay
 * 3) **Zachary Taylor**
 * 4) John C. Calhoun
 * 5) Daniel Webster
 * 6) Millard Fillmore


 * 1) The new leaders emerging in Congress after the Compromise of 1850 were
 * 2) less able politicians
 * 3) **more concerned with narrow interest of self-promotion**
 * 4) as skilled at compromise as the older leaders
 * 5) interested in broad national issues
 * 6) less pragmatic than their predecessors


 * 1) The “Young America” movement
 * 2) was a movement to garner support for abolition among the youth of America
 * 3) was a movement to garner support for slavery among the youth of America
 * 4) **was intended to divert young Americans’ interests toward nationalism and expansion and away from the “transitory” issue of slavery**
 * 5) was part of President Franklin Pierce’s efforts to further expand the nation’s territories to pacify the slavery interests.
 * 6) Was an unsuccessful diplomatic attempt to acquire Cuba


 * 1) The question of statehood for Kansas and Nebraska became a critical issue because
 * 2) of the rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis as the location of the eastern terminus
 * 3) of southern fear that the transcontinental railroad would be built through them
 * 4) of Northern concern over the new wheat states and depressed grain prices
 * 5) many believed that they could never support a population sufficiently to justify statehood
 * 6) **of the question of whether they would be slave or** **free states****.**


 * 1) Northerners who accepted the concepts of “free soil” and “free labor” believed
 * 2) **slavery was dangerous not because of what it did to blacks but because of what it did to whites**
 * 3) slavery opened the door to economic opportunity for whites
 * 4) slavery was what made the South a glorious civilization and one that should be admired
 * 5) slave labor would work in Northern factories and should be allowed to expand
 * 6) slavery closed the door to economic opportunity for whites


 * 1) Through personal liberty laws, Northern states attempted to
 * 2) **use state authority to interfere with the deportation of fugitive slaves**
 * 3) force industries to recognize labor unions
 * 4) allow women to own property
 * 5) extend the right to vote to all tax-paying adults
 * 6) legalize the “underground railroad”


 * 1) Southerners who believed in the “positive-good” theory argued
 * 2) **slavery was good for blacks**
 * 3) slavery should be maintained, even though it was not profitable for whites
 * 4) Northern factory workers were better off than slaves, but they deserved to be because they were white
 * 5) Blacks were not biologically inferior, they just needed time to catch up culturally
 * 6) Slavery enhanced the over-all American economy


 * 1) American efforts to buy or seize Cuba failed because
 * 2) international pressure was put on President Pierce
 * 3) there was little nationalism in the nation by the 1850s
 * 4) **antislavery forces in the North opposed it**
 * 5) it was believed we had more territory than we could use
 * 6) established Southern planters feared Cuban competition


 * 1) The Dred Scott decision
 * 2) affirmed Missouri law
 * 3) was a victory for the antislavery movement
 * 4) declared Scott a free man
 * 5) outlawed the interstate slave trade
 * 6) **affirmed the South’s argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery**


 * 1) Abraham Lincoln
 * 2) believed slavery was morally wrong, but was not an abolitionist
 * 3) had been a Democrat before he became a Republican
 * 4) believed the expansion of slavery would hurt the spread of free labor
 * 5) tried to avoid the slavery issue in his debates with Douglas
 * 6) **believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist, and had been a Democrat before he became a Republican**


 * 1) The single event that did the most to convince white Southerners they could not live safely in the Union was
 * 2) the election of Lincoln
 * 3) the Pottawatomie Massacre
 * 4) **John Brown’s raid**
 * 5) The Dred Scott decision
 * 6) The split of the Democratic Party at the 1860 convention


 * 14 Brinkley Quiz ans**


 * 1) By the end of the 1850s, the two-party system in the United States
 * 2) was the only thing holding the nation together
 * 3) still focused on the issues that had created the “second party system”
 * 4) had reduced slavery to a minor issue
 * 5) **accentuated rather than muted regional controversy**


 * 1) The first seven Southern states that seceded were
 * 2) in the lower South
 * 3) the states where the largest concentration of slaves were located
 * 4) the homes of the most outspoken “fire eaters”
 * 5) **all of the above**


 * 1) Which of the following stands did President Buchanan take after the first state seceded?
 * 2) no state has the right to secede from the Union
 * 3) the federal government has no authority to stop a state from seceding from the nation
 * 4) Federal troops should be called out to stop secession
 * 5) Secession was a legal act
 * 6) **Both a. and b.**


 * 1) At Fort Sumter
 * 2) President Lincoln resupplied the federal troops in time to avoid an armed conflict
 * 3) Major Anderson managed to withstand the bombardment of the Confederates and keep the Fort in the Union hands
 * 4) **The Confederates fired the first shot of the Civil War**
 * 5) The Union army fired the first shots of the Civil War


 * 1) Which of the following was TRUE when the Civil War began?
 * 2) **all the important material advantages lay with the North**
 * 3) the South had the active support of England
 * 4) Southern industry was sufficient to conduct a war
 * 5) The Union was prepared for a long war


 * 1) Which of the following was an advantage enjoyed by the South at the outset of the war?
 * 2) It would be fighting, for the most part, a defensive war
 * 3) Most of the white population of the South supported the war
 * 4) Northern opinion on the war was divided
 * 5) **All of the above**


 * 1) Historians have debated all of the following about the Civil War EXCEPT
 * 2) **whether the slaves contributed to the Northern victory**
 * 3) whether it was an irrepressible conflict
 * 4) whether it was really fought over the issue of slavery
 * 5) whether the failure of the party system caused the war


 * 1) The New York City Draft Riots
 * 2) occurred when Irish strikebreakers were attacked by New York longshoremen
 * 3) led to the deaths of 1000 people
 * 4) **included lynching of a number of African Americans**
 * 5) ended the use of conscription as a means of gaining new soldiers for the Union army


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT enacted by the Republican Party during the Civil War?
 * 2) A new National Bank Act
 * 3) Increased taxes on almost all goods and services
 * 4) Higher tariffs
 * 5) **Hard money policies requiring all payments in gold or silver**


 * 1) In which of the following acts did Lincoln not “ignore” the Constitution?
 * 2) Sending troops into battle without asking for a declaration of war
 * 3) Increasing the size of the regular army
 * 4) **Putting diplomatic pressure on** **England** **not to recognize the Confederacy**
 * 5) Unilaterally proclaiming a naval blockade of the South


 * 1) During the Civil War, Northern women
 * 2) did not become involved in the conflict
 * 3) tried to get the men they knew to stay home
 * 4) **entered nursing, a field previously dominated by men**
 * 5) did work at home but made no contribution to the needs of employers for additional labor


 * 1) The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves
 * 2) in the North as well as the South
 * 3) **in the Confederacy, except those areas already under Union control**
 * 4) and offered compensation to the masters in slave states that remained loyal to the Union
 * 5) in the South, but offered to return them to masters who declared their loyalty to the Union


 * 1) The Union Army
 * 2) refused to use African American soldiers in any capacity
 * 3) refused t o use African American soldiers in combat positions
 * 4) **had a higher mortality rate for black soldiers than white soldiers**
 * 5) paid black and white soldiers equally


 * 1) The Civil War was difficult on American workers because it
 * 2) cut of immigration and they had to work harder
 * 3) **drove prices up and cut purchasing power**
 * 4) prevented mechanization, so they had to work longer hours
 * 5) removed almost all women from the workplace


 * 1) The Confederacy ultimately financed its war effort through
 * 2) an income tax
 * 3) requisitions from the staples
 * 4) **paper money**
 * 5) tariffs on imported goods


 * 1) The greatest source of division in the South was
 * 2) **the doctrine of the state’s rights**
 * 3) the difference of opinion over the war
 * 4) the question of whether to use slaves in combat
 * 5) over “King Cotton” diplomacy


 * 1) The most concrete legacy of the Civil War for Southern white women was the
 * 2) recognition that women could do men’s work and the opening of more employment opportunities
 * 3) elevation in status they enjoyed when the slaves were freed
 * 4) **decimation of the male population and the creation of a major sexual imbalance in the region**
 * 5) the loss of status when the slaves were freed


 * 1) In England, which of the following supported the South?
 * 2) unenfranchised classes
 * 3) **ruling classes**
 * 4) liberals
 * 5) English manufacturers


 * 1) Baseball
 * 2) was primarily a popular pastime among northern soldiers
 * 3) was invented by Abner Doubleday
 * 4) **was played in front of crows as large as 40,000 during the Civil War**
 * 5) was still a game for gentlemen only during the war


 * 1) The United States was upset when England declared neutrality because
 * 2) it meant that England might aid the South
 * 3) **it meant that the two sides in the conflict were of equal stature**
 * 4) the South could easily get English loans
 * 5) such a declaration usually led to diplomatic recognition


 * 1) The first battle of the Civil War was
 * 2) Shiloh
 * 3) The Seven Days
 * 4) **First** **Bull Run**
 * 5) Wilson’s Creek


 * 1) The bloodiest engagement of the Civil War was fought at
 * 2) **Antietam**
 * 3) Gettysburg
 * 4) Atlanta
 * 5) Chickamauga


 * 1) Sherman’s march through Georgia was designed to
 * 2) find supplies for the Union armies in Virginia
 * 3) free the slaves in central Georgia
 * 4) get Lincoln reelected
 * 5) **break the well of the Southern people**


 * 1) King Cotton diplomacy
 * 2) enabled the South to get all the war material it needed from Europe
 * 3) worked for most of the war
 * 4) **was a failure**
 * 5) worked for the North


 * 1) In the Indian territory in the West, the Civil War
 * 2) was hardly felt
 * 3) was seen as a war between whites, and the Indians did not care who won
 * 4) **resulted in something of a civil war all its own**
 * 5) allowed the Indians to force the Untied States to give them better treaty terms.


 * 14 Brinkle y Quiz 2**


 * 1) Which of the following states did NOT secede from the Union until after the firing on Fort Sumter?
 * 2) Georgia
 * 3) South Carolina
 * 4) Texas
 * 5) **Virginia**


 * 1) What did the Crittenden Compromise call for?
 * 2) It would let all states organize according to popular sovereignty
 * 3) It would prohibit the expansion of slavery, but let slavery continue to exist where it was already in place
 * 4) **It would reestablish the** **Missouri** **Compromise line for all present and future** **US** **territory**
 * 5) It would add a Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution procting the right to own slaves


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT an advantage held by the North in the Civil War?
 * 2) the North had twice as much railroad trackage
 * 3) **Northern opinion about the war was less divided**
 * 4) The Nroth had much greater industrial capacity
 * 5) The North had a much larger population

a. The Homestead Act c. The Morrill Land Grant Act d. The National Bank Acts
 * 1) Which of the following was NOT legislation passed by the Union during the Civil War?
 * b.** **The Dawes Act**


 * 1) Who was at the center of the violence during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots?
 * 2) Street gangs
 * 3) Nativists
 * 4) **Irish Workers**
 * 5) African Americans


 * 1) How did Abraham Lincoln respond to Chief Justice Taney’s write in //Ex Parte Marryman?//
 * 2) He applauded it
 * 3) He reluctantly enforced it
 * 4) He invoked executive privilege
 * 5) **He ignored it**


 * 1) What did the second Confiscation Act stipulate?
 * 2) Slaves used in support of the Confederate military would be considered freed
 * 3) Slaves in Union-controlled areas of the South were free
 * 4) **Slaves owned by anyone aiding the South were free**
 * 5) All slaves were free


 * 1) In which of the following states were slaves freed by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?
 * 2) Kentucky
 * 3) Tennessee
 * 4) Maryland
 * 5) **South Carolina**


 * 1) Which of the following was a famous black regiment headed by Robert Gould Shaw?
 * 2) 32nd New York
 * 3) **54th** **Massachusetts**
 * 4) 54th Pennsylvania
 * 5) 8th New York Brigade


 * 1) Which formerly male-dominated field did women enter in droves during the Civil War?
 * 2) Teaching
 * 3) Government office work
 * 4) Retail sales clerks
 * 5) **Nursing**


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT true of the Confrederate government and war effort?
 * 2) **The Confederate constitution acknowledged the right of secession**
 * 3) Congress passed a conscription act affecting all white males between 18 and 35
 * 4) Congress issued over $1.5 billion in paper currency to finance the war
 * 5) The Confederate constitution made the abolition of slavery practically impossible


 * 1) Which of the following is NOT true of the Confrederate home front?
 * 2) Southern women were forced to take on the many new and unfamiliar tasks
 * 3) **Slave codes were relaxed by the Confederate government to lessen the chances of a slave insurrection**
 * 4) Major food riots occurred in several states, including the capital of Richmond
 * 5) Southern agriculture and industrial production declined by a third


 * 1) What did Lincoln believe should be the goal of the Union war effort?
 * 2) Recapturing the Confederate capital of Richmond
 * 3) Recapturing as much southern territory as possible
 * 4) **Destroying the Confederate army**
 * 5) Destroying the southern industrial-complex


 * 1) Which fo the following was NOT a reason why the Confederacy’s “King Cotton diplomacy” failed to sway Engalnd?
 * 2) Englsh manufacturers had a surplus of raw cotton on hand in 1861
 * 3) **Cotton garments had fallen out of fashion throughout the** **British Empire**
 * 4) England could import cotton from Egypt or India as necessary
 * 5) English workers continued to support the North despite economic hard times.


 * 1) Which hof the following led an infamous band of Congrederate guerilla fighters along the Kansas-Missouri border?
 * 2) Judah Benjamin
 * 3) William T. Sherman
 * 4) Clement Vallandigham
 * 5) **William Quantrill**


 * 1) How many Americans died in the Civil War?
 * 2) 40,000
 * 3) 236,000
 * 4) **618,000**
 * 5) 1.2 million


 * 1) Which of the following was NOT a military innovation used during the Civil War?
 * 2) Hot air balloons
 * 3) **Mustard gas**
 * 4) Repeating weapons
 * 5) Trench warfare


 * 1) Which of the following wearly Civil War battles was a victory for the Confederacy?
 * 2) **First** **Battle** **of** **Bull Run**
 * 3) Battle of Shiloh
 * 4) Battle of Wilson’s Creek
 * 5) Battle of Murfreesboro


 * 1) Who led the Union forces at the Battle of Shiloh?
 * 2) **Ulysses S. Grant**
 * 3) George B. McClellan
 * 4) William T. Sherman
 * 5) William S. Rosecrans


 * 1) Which of the following Civil War battles was (technically) a victory for the Union?
 * 2) Second Battle of Bull Run
 * 3) **Battle** **of** **Antietam**
 * 4) Battle of Fredericksburg
 * 5) Battle of Chancellorsville


 * 1) At what battle was “Stonewall” Jackson killed?
 * 2) Vicksburg
 * 3) Gettysburg
 * 4) Fredericksburg
 * 5) **Chancellorsville**


 * 1) Who led the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg?
 * 2) Joseph Hooker
 * 3) Ulysses S. Grant
 * 4) **George Meade**
 * 5) Ambrose Burnside


 * 1) Which of the following battles was NOT a decisive turning point in 1863?
 * 2) Vicksburg
 * 3) **The Wilderness**
 * 4) Gettysburg
 * 5) Chattanooga


 * 1) What wartime event buoyed Northern voters just prior to the elecdtion of 1864?
 * 2) Battle of Nashville
 * 3) Cold Harbor
 * 4) **Capture of** **Atlanta**
 * 5) Sherman’s March to the Sea


 * 1) Through what two states did Sherman conduct his famously destrictive march?
 * 2) North Carolina and Virginia
 * 3) Georgia and Alabama
 * 4) **Georgia** **and** **South Carolina**
 * 5) Alabama and Mississippi