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Chapt 7-11 Flashcards

1
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When did most northern states ended slavery.

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1777 and 1784

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Daniel Shays focused on closing down the court system because it

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it was the legal instrument of foreclosure on debts and farms.

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Economic nationalists such as Robert Morris wanted to do all of the following except

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weaken the ties between the Confederation and the Bank of North America.

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4
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Effects of the Revolution on women included all of the following, except

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the banning of the sale of black female slaves.

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5
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Federalists split the ranks of the Antifederalists by

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promising a bill of rights as the Constitution’s first amendments.

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6
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Framers of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 established

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a one-house legislature without an executive officer.

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Frenchman J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, on his travels and life in North America, expresses all of the following except

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his belief that monarchy is still superior to republicanism.

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James Madison argued that a large, diverse republic

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offered the best hope for safeguarding individual rights.

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9
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John Jay’s treaty with Spain was opposed by congressmen from the South because

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they felt Jay had sold out the interests of southerners who had pioneered the West.

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10
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Judicial review is

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the Supreme Court’s right to have the final say on constitutionality.

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11
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Most state constitutions, put into effect by the end of 1777, included all of the following except

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a commitment to custom rather than written constitutions.

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12
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Spain contested American land expansion

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along the Mississippi River.

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13
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The effects of Shays’s Rebellion included all of the following, except

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a renewal of public confidence in the national government.

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14
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The Great Compromise, created by Roger Sherman,

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successfully split the differences between small and large states.

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15
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The Land Ordinance of 1785 encouraged a certain type of settler by

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requiring a minimum purchase of 640 acres.

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16
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 did all of the following except

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provide the groundwork for ten new states.

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17
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not

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raise an army.

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18
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What compromise, between open popular election and Congressional election of the president, was reached by the Constitutional Convention?

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use of the electoral college to decide the winner of presidential elections

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19
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What is the correct order of events?

  • Constitution ratified
  • Bank of North America created
  • Shays’s Rebellion
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Bank of North America created, Shays’s Rebellion, Constitution ratified

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20
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Who is left out of the author’s description of British North America?

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African-American slaves and Indians

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21
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A deist believes

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in God as a creator, but not as a being who intervenes in earthly affairs.

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22
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During the 1780s, all of the following were true about the West except

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Indians and whites had not yet reached the point of conflict.

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23
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Federalists were alarmed by

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the growing intensity of violence in the French Revolution.

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24
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In his Farewell Address, Washington devoted most of his time to

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denouncing partisan politics.

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25
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Jefferson and Madison turned to the Republican legislatures of these states for resolutions that attacked the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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Kentucky and Virginia

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26
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New England was the most uniform region in America for all of the following reasons except

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it contained the highest percentage of people who had been Loyalists.

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27
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Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton’s ideas included all of the following except

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promoting an agrarian-based economy for the United States.

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28
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Squatters

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occupied land even though they held no title on it.

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29
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The Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in

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the decisive defeat of the Ohio Indians.

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30
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The election of 1800 was contentious and bitter in all of the following ways except

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the Republicans claimed that Washington was not a true hero of the Revolution.

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31
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The first government’s base of support was strengthened by

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passing the Bill of Rights.

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32
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The Judiciary Act

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represented an artful compromise that balanced legal powers.

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33
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The most ethnically and religiously diverse region in early America was

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the Mid-Atlantic region.

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34
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The Whiskey Rebellion was spurred by

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opposition to Hamilton?s excise tax.

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35
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The XYZ Affair almost caused

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a declaration of war against France.

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36
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This amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1804, prevented an impasse, similar to the one reached in the election of 1800, from happening again.

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the Twelfth Amendment

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37
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To gain southern support for his financial plan, Hamilton offered

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to win northern support for moving the nation’s capital to a southern location.

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38
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Washington was inaugurated in

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1789

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39
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What factor made the South the most populous region in the early United States?

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The presence of a large number of black slaves

40
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Which is the correct order of events?

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Hamilton submits financial plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Adams elected

41
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A key factor in the Americans’ victory in the War of 1812 came when

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Britain failed to secure naval control of the Great Lakes.

42
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All of the following statements about the Louisiana Purchase are true except

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it contained a great deal of America’s least productive farmland.

43
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Henry Clay’s American System included all of the following policies except

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locally funded internal improvements.

44
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In the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson also defeated

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the Creek Indians in the Old Southwest.

45
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Many people believed that Aaron Burr conspired to

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lead a plot for the purpose of breaking the union.

46
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Many people called the election of 1824 the corrupt bargain because…

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they felt Henry Clay unduly used his influence to determine the stalemated outcome.

47
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Newspaper reporters used the term era of good feelings to describe the presidency of

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James Monroe.

48
Q

Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and the prophet Tenkswatawa originally urged a policy of

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racial solidarity and spiritual rebirth.

49
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Successes of Jefferson’s first term included all of the following except

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a successful embargo on foreign trade.

50
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Support for the War of 1812 was strongest in

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the South and the West.

51
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The acquittal of this Supreme Court judge ended the Republican offensive against the judiciary.

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Chase

52
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The Louisiana Purchase was an example of President Jefferson’s desire to

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establish an agrarian republic based on moderate land ownership.

53
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The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed all of the following policies except

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the active American presence in republican revolutions across the globe.

54
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The Panic of 1819 was initiated by

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a fall in cotton prices after a period of prosperity.

55
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The Rush-Bagot Agreement

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signaled a new era of cooperation between the United States and England.

56
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The style of Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration revealed that

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republicanism would replace the aristocratic formalities of the Federalists.

57
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The Supreme Court’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland

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strengthened national power over the states.

58
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The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, an average per acre cost of

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3.5 cents.

59
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Thomas Jefferson’s vision for the future of America included all of the following except

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a nation without slavery in which blacks and whites lived in natural harmony.

60
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Why did the American offensive across the Niagara River fail in 1812?

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A New York state militia refused to cross the river to join the regular army troops on the Canadian side.

61
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By the end of the 1820s, the right to vote

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had moved significantly toward universal manhood suffrage for whites.

62
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During his second term, President Jackson

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dismantled the Bank of the United States.

63
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Jacksonians portrayed John Quincy Adams as a man who

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was arrogant and did not understand the common man.

64
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Opponents of the Tariff of 1828 believed all of the following ideas except

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the tariff would artificially raise cotton prices.

65
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Preachers of the Second Great Awakening espoused all of the following ideas except

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all humans were predestined at birth for heaven or hell.

66
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The Cherokee Indians

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had a written language and a constitution.

67
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The dominant issue in the election of 1844 was

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the annexation of Texas.

68
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The election of 1828 revealed that Jackson had a formidable electoral base

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with farmers of the South and West.

69
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The first crisis that besieged the administration of Martin Van Buren was

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the Panic of 1837.

70
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The first presidential candidate of the Democratic Party was

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Andrew Jackson.

71
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The Force Act gave Jackson the power to

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put down nullification with military force.

72
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The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following factors except

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the lack of availability of credit for buying western lands in the early 1830s.

73
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The spoils system features a strategy in which

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government jobs are given to supporters of the victorious party.

74
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Which group was an active participant in the Second Great Awakening?

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Baptists

75
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Which statement about John Tyler is true?

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He was expelled from the Whig Party when he was president.

76
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William Henry Harrison won the election of 1840 for all of the following reasons except

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his youthful idealism appealed to a new generation of Americans.

77
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William Lloyd Garrison believed that

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slavery was immoral and should be immediately ended.

78
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All of the following statements about black codes are true except

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they applied only to slaves and not free blacks.

79
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By mid-century, the Upper South

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had diversified its economy and relied less on slavery.

80
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By the 1850s, southern planters felt threatened regarding slavery for all of the following reasons except

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they were making very low profits.

81
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By the late 1700s, a long-range disadvantage of cultivating tobacco was

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wasteful agricultural practices exhausted the land.

82
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Henry Brown gained his freedom by

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shipping himself in a box to Philadelphia.

83
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In 1808, the United States Congress

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ended the African slave trade.

84
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It was difficult for American slaves to mount armed rebellions because

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they lacked the numbers to overpower whites.

85
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Most free blacks in the South lived in

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the Upper South.

86
Q

One of the biggest differences between the life conditions of slaves and poor whites was

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slaves worked much longer hours under much harsher conditions.

87
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Over 60 whites in Virginia were killed in a rebellion led by

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Nat Turner.

88
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Roughly one-third of slave marriages were

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broken up by sales or forced removals.

89
Q

Sectional tensions over slavery increased when

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Protestant sects permanently split apart over the issue of slavery.

90
Q

Slaves who converted to Christianity discovered

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a powerful message of equality that deemed slavery to be immoral.

91
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The growth of the cotton kingdom resulted in

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a lack of urban and industrial development in the South.

92
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The most-valued slaves in the slave market of 1815-1850 were male field hands and

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females of child-bearing age as a way of increasing the slave population.

93
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The use of wide-scale slavery in the Lower South was based on the economic production of

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short-staple cotton.

94
Q

What percentage of southern white families did not own slaves in 1860?

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75%

95
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What percentage of the white southern population belonged to the plantation-owning class?

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5%

96
Q

Which religious group was largely involved in beginning the Underground Railroad?

A

Quakers

97
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Yeoman farmers of the Lower South

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wanted to limit the authority of government.

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