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US Survey Final
Chapters 7-15
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/16/2011

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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions...
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attacked the alien and sedition acts, were written by Madison and Jefferson, and claimed the right of a state to protect its people from unconstitutional federal laws
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Speculators took advantage of which of these Federalist measures?
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the refunding of the national debt by paying full face value of Revolutionary War bonds
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Which of President Adam's actions angered high federalists?
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his decision to improve relations with France in 1799-1800
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Which of these probably would not be a supporter of Jefferson's republican party?
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A Boston Merchent
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Anthony Wayne
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Scored a victory over the Indians that opened Ohio to white settlement and won a promise by the British to evacuate forts in the Northwest Territory
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Between 1800 and 1823 the United States did all of the following except...
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extend right to vote to woman and blacks
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Thomas Jefferson believed that...
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educated farmers were the most virtuous citizens and best upholders of republican liberty
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Chief Justice John Marshall's opinions backed...
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the right of federal courts to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional
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The Embargo Act...
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stimulated the growth of manufacturing in the United States
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By the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812...
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neither the United States nor Britain gained territory or made concessions
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The war hawks were...
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Republicans from the West and South who wanted to take Canada from Britain and Florida from Spain
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During Madison's presidency...
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Congress chartered a second national bank
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Secretary of state, John Quincey Adams is associated with which foreign policy initiatives?
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formulating the Monroe Doctrine and purchasing Florida
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During the Era of Good Feelings...
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The Federalist party disappeared but the Republican party adopted some of its policies
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During the War of 1812...
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The northeastern states became increasingly unhappy about the war
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Andrew Jackson's remark, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." refers too...
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move the Cherokees west of the Mississippi River, regardless of Supreme Court rulings
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By 1840, what portion of Americans lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River?
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1/3
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Which of the following was most responsible for the spread of cotton growing into the old Southwest?
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Eli Witney's Cotton Gin
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Which of the following statements about the Erie Canal is correct?
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It linked New York City through inland waterways to Ohio and made the city a major outlet for midwestern produce
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As a result of the Panic of 1819...
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many westerners hated the National Bank
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In the 1820s and the 1830s the majority of the workers in the Lowell and Waltham textile mills were
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young women from New England farms
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Which of the following statements about the professions in the late 1840s is correct?
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No state required a person to have medical education or a license to be a doctor
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By the mid-1830s which of the following accounted for 2/3s of America's foreign exports?
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Cotton
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The transportation revolution in the years after the War of 1812 contributed to the growth of all of the following except...
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industry in the deep south
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The immediate result of Jackson's distribution of federal funds to state banks was to...
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bring about rapid economic expansion, speculation, and inflation
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The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up in opposition to the...
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"Tariff of Abominations"
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All of the following were found as Utopian communities except...
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Rochester, New York
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Which of the following statements about William Lloyd Garrison is incorrect?
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He favored removal of freed blacks from the United States to colonies in Africa
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The "gag rule" was repealed in 1845 largely due to the efforts of...
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John Quincy Adams
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Martin Van Buren did not...
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defect to the newly formed Whig party in protest over Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis
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Reformers of the antebellum period...
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received their best response in New England and areas to which New Englanders had migrated
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Revivalists and Unitarians were similar in...
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their belief that human behavior could be changed for the better
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The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments called for...
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equal rights for women
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The 1840s and 1850s in the United States were characterized by all of the following except...
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advances in medical knowledge
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All of the following were inventions of the antebellum period that were mass-produced and/or widely used in the 1840s and 1850s except...
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Alexander Graham Bell's telephone
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Which of the following cities declined in importance as a commercial center because of the railroad building that took place in the 1840s and 1850s?
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New Orleans
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An urban middle-class home in the 1850s would probably not have...
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indoor faucets supplying hot and cold running water
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James Gordon Bennett was the...
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founder of the penny press
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Which of the following statements about transcendentalism is incorrect?
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it claimed that great literature must conform to universal standards or form and beauty
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In designing New York's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux...
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tried to create the look of the countryside and screen out the surrounding city
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Which of the following writers introduced into fiction the character of the American frontiersman and the theme of conflict between primitive life in the wilderness and the advance of civilization?
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Which of the following statements about the Hudson River school of painters is incorrect?
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its members painted only landscapes of the Hudson River and its vicinity
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The majority of white men in the antebellum South were...
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nonslaveholding family farmers
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all of the following were true of planters except...
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they almost always built mansions on their plantations for their families
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The yeomen farmers of the Old South...
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were congregated in the upland and hilly regions
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In 1857 a book calling on nonslaveholding southern whites to abolish slavery in their own inters was published by...
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Hinton R. Helper
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As compared to the North, the Old South had a higher...
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Murder rate
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In 1860, what percentage of southern whites owned at least one slave?
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25 percent
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The black family under slavery...
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received no legal recognition or protection
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Why weren't there more slave revolts in the Old South?
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Blacks were outnumbered by white almost everywhere in the South and lacked allies and guns
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Most blacks in the antebellum South...
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drew from Christianity as the religion of their slave masters
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Which of the following statements about white people of the pine barrens is incorrect?
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they usually worked for the planters as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or overseers
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The two biggest sources of immigration to the United States between 1840 and 1860 were...
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Ireland and the German states
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IN the case of Commonwealth vs. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that...
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labor unions were not necessarily illegal combinations or monopolies
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Squatter or popular sovereignty meant..
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allowing residents of a territory to decide whether to permit slavery there
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Which of the following statements about President Polk's actions is incorrect?
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He ordered Zachary Taylor to keep his troops north of the Nueces River to avoid a confrontation with Mexico
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The expansionist phrase manifest destiny was first coined by...
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John L. O'Sullivan
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All of the following people or groups were nativist and anti-Catholic except..
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Martin Van Buren
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The fate of the Donner party best illustrates...
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the hazards faced by pioneers traveling west on the Overland Trail
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The Senate rejected the treaty annexing Texas that was drawn up by Secretary of State John Calhoun because...
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he defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery
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The Wilmot Proviso called for...
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prohibiting slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
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Presidios were...
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forts constructed by the Spanish to protect their missions in the Southwest
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Which of the following statements about the Compromise of 1850 is correct?
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Its passage was helped by Stephen Douglas's strategy of breaking up Clay's Omnibus bill into separate measure
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Personal-liberty laws were...
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State laws aimed at hampering enforcement of the fugitive slave act
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Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine...
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pointed out how settlers could exclude slavery from a territory despite the Dred Scott Case
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Which is the most valid statement describing the Republican party position in the election of 1860?
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There should be no further extension of slavery into the territories
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What did the South gain from the Compromise of 1850?
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a stronger fugitive slave law
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The lecompton constitution would have provided...
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a proslavery government for Kansas
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The Ostend Manifesto pertained to...
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Cuba
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The Dred Scott decision declared that Congress could not...
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bar slavery in the territories
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The secession of southern states began immediately after...
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Lincoln's election
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The Crittenden compromise was not acceptable to Lincoln for all of the following reasons except...
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he had decided soon after his election to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation...
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freed the slaves in areas in rebellion against the U.S government
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Which of the following Union military objectives proved the hardest and took the longest to accomplish?
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taking Richmond
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Andrew Johnson was nominated as Lincoln's running mate in 1864 to...
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win the votes of prowar northern Democrats
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Which of the following men, denouncing Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and suspension of the write of habeas corpus, called for immediate peace with the Confederacy?
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Clement L. Vallandigham
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Union capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was strategically important because...
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it gave the North control over the whole Mississippi River
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The supreme court ruled in Ex parte Milligan that...
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civilians could not be tried by military tribunals when the civil courts were open
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Slaves during the Civil War...
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ran to Union lines when they could and worked for or fought for the North
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By 1865, African Americans constituted about what portion of the Union army?
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1/10
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Which of the following statements about he women in the Civil War is correct?
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Women replaced draftees in many of the industrial jobs in the North
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Which of the following statements is correct?
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Both the Union and the Confederacy printed unbacked paper money to help finance their war efforts
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