Sanders HIS 1301 T6

QUESTION 1

1. Filibustering expeditions were used by southern expansionists throughout the early 1800s and increased in frequency in the 1850s. Why were these filibuster expeditions used?

		to annex new slave states
		to prove that the southern states could bolster an independent army
		to prove what Lewis and Clark failed to discover—that there was in fact a Northwest Passage
		to establish an early route for the forthcoming transcontinental railroad

4 points   

QUESTION 2

1. Temperance, while still a social movement, had become a political issue. As a result, who enacted the first temperance laws?

		The federal government
		State governments
		Local governments
		Temperance organizations

4 points   

QUESTION 3

1. What country did the United States seek to gain in 1854, which became the central focus of the controversial Ostend Manifesto?

		Cuba
		Belgium
		Nicaragua
		Spain

4 points   

QUESTION 4

1. Which of the following is not a movement sparked by the Second Great Awakening?

		Abolition movement
		Temperance movement
		Moral reform movement
		Industrial movement

4 points   

QUESTION 5

1. During the 1800s, which city in the United States had the largest slave market?

		New Orleans, Louisiana
		Richmond, Virginia
		Charleston, South Carolina
		Savannah, Georgia

4 points   

QUESTION 6

1. Amid the movements of the early 1800s, reformers also interested themselves in the workings of the mind to help them understand the rapidly changing world around them. Scientists believed that the mind contained thirty-seven different "faculties" or strengths or weaknesses that could be determined under close examination of the size and shape of the cranium. What was the early science associated with the mapping the cranium?

		phrenology
		psychology
		sociology
		polygenism

4 points   

QUESTION 7

1. Written at the height of the transcendentalist movement, what 1855 work by Walt Whitman has been called one of the most influential works in American literature?

		Walden; Or, Life in the Woods
		"Nature"
		"Song of Myself"
		"Self-Reliance"

4 points   

QUESTION 8

1. Which of the following was not one of the effects of the cotton boom?

		The trade between the United States and France and Spain increased.
		The manufacturing throughout the North increased.
		The demand for slave labor increased.
		Major ports, like St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, developed or expanded.

4 points   

QUESTION 9

1. What were transcendentalists most concerned with?

		emphasis on individualism
		the Calvinist doctrine of predestination
		an accomplished afterlife
		achieving a perfect democracy

4 points   

QUESTION 10

1. What was the reform movement which advocated the relocation of African Americans (free and enslaved) from the United States to another country, typically somewhere in Africa? A formal organization that supported this type of "reform" collected $100,000 from the federal government to further their efforts and ultimately helped to create the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa. Many abolitionists, like William Lloyd Garrison, were staunchly against this type of reform movement.

		colonization
		moral suasion
		immediatism
		teetotalism

4 points   

QUESTION 11

1. William Lloyd Garrison utilized various techniques in his abolitionist efforts. Which of the following tactics did he not employ?

		Immediatism
		Gradual reform
		Political action
		Moral suasion

4 points   

QUESTION 12

1. The Second Great Awakening started from the sparks of a church revival that took place in which state?

		Mississippi
		New York
		Kentucky
		California

4 points   

QUESTION 13

1. John C. Calhoun from South Carolina defended the rights of the South and the institution of slavery with which idea?

		Popular sovereignty
		Concurrent majority
		Nullification
		Transcendentalism

4 points   

QUESTION 14

1. All of the following were key figures associated with Seneca Falls except:

		Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		Lucretia Mott.
		Frederick Douglass.
		Hannah Van Buren.

4 points   

QUESTION 15

1. Because of the cotton boom, there were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States. In that same year (1860), how many whites owned more than 50 slaves?

		3%
		10%
		50%
		75%

4 points   

QUESTION 16

1. Match the term to its most appropriate description.

A term meaning "before the war" which is used to describe the decades of time in the United States' history before the American Civil War began in 1861                                                               This device was modernized (not invented) and eventually patented by Eli Whitney in 1794. It separated the seeds from raw cotton quickly and easily, allowing for the laborer to remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton a day, compared to one pound if done by hand.                                                               Birthed as a result of the discontinuation of international slave trade in 1808, the internal forced domestic migration of more than one million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Lower South aided in the continuation of the rise in cotton production                                                               John C. Calhoun's idea suggested in his 1850 essay entitled "Disquisition on Government" that suggested that a majority of a separate region (that would otherwise be in the minority of the nation) with the power to veto or disallow legislation put forward by a hostile majority                                                               The trading of enslaved people within the borders of the United States

A. concurrent majority B. antebellum C. domestic slave trade D. cotton gin E. second middle passage

15 points   

QUESTION 17

1. Match the term to its most appropriate description.

A revival of evangelical Protestantism during the 1820s and 1830s that served as a catalyst for major reform movements that combatted drinking and slavery                                                               Document advocating for equal rights for women issued in 1848 at the first women’s rights convention in the United States and signed by 300 supporters, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass                                                               The strategy of moving African Americans (free and enslaved) out of the United States, usually to Africa. A formal society was successful in getting $100,000 from the federal government in 1819 to further this project, which aided in the creation of the colony of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa.                                                               Advocated by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, this belief centered on the notion that it was a person’s moral demand to take direct action to abolish slavery and instill equal rights among Black and White people                                                               A technique used by abolitionists to appeal to the consciences of the public, focusing specifically on the slaveholders, in which they would highlight the depravity of slavery

A. Second Great Awakening B. colonization C. Seneca Falls Declaration of Rights and Sentiments D. moral suasion E. immediatism

15 points   

QUESTION 18

1. Place the events listed below in correct chronological order starting with the oldest event.

                                                       

Frederick Douglass published his biography,  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,  An American Slave Written by Himself. The book focused on Douglass' life as a slave while living in Maryland. After publishing his biography, Douglass sought refuge in Europe to avoid being murdered in the United States. He returned to the United States years later, after British abolitionists bought his freedom.

                                                       

Eli Whitney revolutionizes the production of cotton throughout the American South with cotton gin.

                                                       

Nat Turner leads a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner's rebellion caused Virginia's state legislature to briefly consider the abolishment of slavery for measures of security. However, the legislature reconsidered and, in turn, played a large role in the United States’ domestic slave trade.

                                                       

William Lloyd Garrison founds the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) and within five years has over 250,000 members who are often called Garrisonians. They rejected colonization as a racist scheme and opposed the use of violence to end slavery.

                                                       

Frederick Douglass escapes Edward Lloyd’s plantation in Maryland