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All of the following characterized the seigneurial system in New France EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. It was transplanted from France
b. It was developed during the Renaissance
c. Seigneurs derived prestige from their rank and revenue from the lands they were granted
d. The system survived until 1854
e. The Church acquired several seigneuries
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Question 2
Emigrants from which area had a decisive impact on South Carolina's early settlement?
Choose one answer.
a. North Carolina
b. Virginia
c. Barbados
d. Jamaica
e. Scotland
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Question 3
The Quakers of Pennsylvania:
Choose one answer.
a. Rejected the Calvinist belief in predestination
b. Did not believe in equality of the sexes
c. Were austere and conservative
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 4
Which British American colony was the first to legally recognize slavery?
Choose one answer.
a. Virginia
b. Massachusetts
c. Rhode Island
d. South Carolina
e. Georgia
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Question 5
Which of the following characterized New Netherland?
Choose one answer.
a. It was sponsored exclusively by the Dutch state
b. It was supposed to drive out British and French competition
c. Exported furs were its major resource
d. It attracted large numbers of early investors and settlers
e. It had a capital city called New Amsterdam
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Question 6
Which of the following defined Puritans in early New England?
Choose one answer.
a. Sexually prudish
b. Rigidly moral
c. Religiously zealous
d. Hostile to the arts
e. None of the above
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Question 7
Which of the following describes Spain's early colonization efforts in the Southwest?
Choose one answer.
a. The Spanish failed to find silver or gold deposits
b. A few civilian towns and military posts were created
c. Economic development was rapid
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 8
Which of the following elements of government were present in all of Britain's American colonies?
Choose one answer.
a. Bicameral legislature
b. Governor
c. Council
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 9
Why did the Europeans call the native peoples "Indians"?
Choose one answer.
a. Because the first natives known to the Europeans were from the West Indies
b. Because when Columbus arrived in the Americas, he thought he had arrived in the East Indies
c. Because Europeans wanted to subjugate the native peoples
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 10
Which of the following was a successful permanent settlement in the Americas prior to the seventeenth century?
Choose one answer.
a. Quebec
b. Charles Town
c. Jamestown
d. St. Augustine
e. Montreal
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Question 11
According to the Anglican clergyman William Smith, why was reconciliation with Britain better than rebellion?
Choose one answer.
a. The Americans had already asserted their independence through resistance
b. Alliances with foreign nations would jeopardize Americans' liberties
c. Britain might destroy the American colonies
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 12
The Articles of Confederation including all of the following stiuplations EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. There would be no president
b. Congress could regulate trade
c. The states had the power to tax
d. Congress could declare war
e. Congress could manage relations with Native American Indians
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Question 13
The Tea Act:
Choose one answer.
a. Placed a new tax on tea imported into the British American colonies
b. Placed a new tax on tea exported from the British American colonies
c. Did not impose a new tax on tea
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 14
Which of the following characterized the Loyalists?
Choose one answer.
a. They comprised 1 in 5 Americans
b. Many of them were black
c. Their lands were confiscated
d. They were banished from America
e. All of the above
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Question 15
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the "turbulent" 1790s?
Choose one answer.
a. The Genet affair
b. The Whiskey Rebellion
c. The Burr Conspiracy
d. The Jay Treaty
e. Relations with Native American Indians on the Ohio Frontier
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Question 16
Which of the following did NOT occur in 1775?
Choose one answer.
a. Battle of Lexington
b. The Olive Branch Petition
c. Parliament declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion
d. Paul Revere's ride
e. All of the answers are correct
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Question 17
Which of the following situations threatened the federal union's existence after the Revolutionary War?
Choose one answer.
a. The national government was on the verge of bankruptcy
b. Commercial conflicts had developed among the states
c. State legislatures had become tyrannical
d. All of the above
e. A and B
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Question 18
Which of the following was a form of colonial resistance to Parliamentary legislation?
Choose one answer.
a. Commercial boycott
b. Commitees of correspondence
c. Stamp Act Congress
d. All of the above
e. A and C
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Question 19
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the Americans' victory against Britain?
Choose one answer.
a. The geographic size of British America
b. Slaves who served in the American regiments
c. Guerilla tactics used by the Americans
d. Assistance from Spain, France, and the Netherlands
e. American popular support for the war
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Question 20
Which of the following acts expanded the customs department in the British American colonies?
Choose one answer.
a. The Molasses Act
b. The Sugar Act
c. The Iron Act
d. The Stamp Act
e. The Currency Act
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Question 21
After the War of 1812, which of the following threatened to undermine American industry?
Choose one answer.
a. Antislavery agitation
b. Cheap British goods
c. Outdated labor practices
d. Southern planters
e. Debts to foreign nations
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Question 22
During the 1810s and 1820s, "internal improvements":
Choose one answer.
a. Were funded by the federal government
b. Were funded by state governments
c. Pertained to transportation networks
d. A and B
e. A and C
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Question 23
Which of the following characterized the invention of the cotton gin?
Choose one answer.
a. The South was producing cotton before the invention of the cotton gin
b. Eli Whitney developed the cotton gin in 1795
c. Eli Whitney developed his invention after visiting a plantation in South Carolina
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 24
Which of the following defined the "Era of Good Feelings"?
Choose one answer.
a. Nationalistic fervor
b. Relative absence of political strife
c. Absence of sectionalism
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 25
Which of the following did NOT occur in 1819?
Choose one answer.
a. A financial panic
b. Decline in cotton prices
c. Congress considered the Missouri territorial government's petition for statehood
d. A Maine Republican introduced an ammendment to restrict slavery
e. The House of Representatives approved the Tallmadge Amendment
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Question 26
Which of the following identifies the significance of the War of 1812?
Choose one answer.
a. America defeated Britain for the second time
b. The war destroyed Native American Indians' ability to resist American expansion east of the Mississippi
c. The war allowed the U.S. to rewrite its boundaries with Spain
d. A and C
e. B and C
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Question 27
Which of the following was NOT part of Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark?
Choose one answer.
a. Explore the Mississippi River
b. Take note of the local flora and fauna
c. Record the latitute and longitude at important junctures
d. Record observations of the native peoples
e. Find a passage to the Pacific
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Question 28
Which state was NOT admitted to the union in the 1810s?
Choose one answer.
a. Ohio
b. Indiana
c. Louisiana
d. Mississippi
e. Alabama
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Question 29
Why did France finally decide to sell the Louisiana territory?
Choose one answer.
a. It was less valuable without the colony of Saint Domingue
b. France could not afford to send forces to occupy the entire Louisiana territory
c. Napoleon wanted to abandon France's imperial aspirations in the Western Hemisphere
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 30
All of the following are true of "The Revolution of 1800" EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. The phrase was invented by John Adams
b. The Republicans ascended to power
c. It took place during the presidential election of 1800
d. It saw the election of the third U.S. president by the House of Representatives
e. It marked the end of Federalist power
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Question 31
According Alexis de Tocqueville, when do democratic nations most prize equality?
Choose one answer.
a. When political liberties are curtailed
b. When universal suffrage is attained
c. When an old political system is overthrown
d. When an old social system is overthrown
e. When class divisions become more pronounced
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Question 32
All of the following occurred in the wake of the Indian Removal Act EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. The Second Seminole War
b. The Cherokee were tricked with an illegitimate treaty
c. The Creeks never signed a removal treaty
d. 4,000 Cherokee died on the Trail of Tears
e. The Choctaws were forced to pay the Chickasaws for the right to live on their western lands
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Question 33
During the 1820s and 1830s, the "rise of democratic politics" referred to:
Choose one answer.
a. The abolition of property qualifications for voting and officeholding
b. The guarantee of white male suffrage in all states
c. The process of states choosing presidential electors in the state legislature
d. The guarantee of white female suffrage in five states
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Question 34
The "American System" was comprised of which of the following elements?
Choose one answer.
a. A protective tariff
b. A national bank
c. Elimination of the National Bank
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 35
The Nullification Crisis of 1832 was directly caused by:
Choose one answer.
a. Low federal tariffs
b. High federal tariffs
c. The extension of slavery westward
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 36
The Whig Party of 1834 was a coalition of all of the following EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. Disgruntled Democrats
b. National Republicans
c. Democratic-Republicans
d. Anti-Masons
e. All of the answers are correct
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Question 37
Which factors gave rise to the birth of the second party system?
Choose one answer.
a. The Panic of 1819
b. Slavery debates in Congress
c. The War of 1812
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 38
Which of the following characterized the "Bank War"?
Choose one answer.
a. Jackson re-chartered the Second Bank of the United States
b. Federal revenues were diverted from state banks to the Bank of the United States
c. Jackson established "pet banks"
d. Jackson tried to replace all bank notes with hard money
e. All of the above
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Question 39
Which of the following characterized the Whigs?
Choose one answer.
a. They supported the American System
b. They were anti-monopoly proponents
c. They were anti-bank supporters
d. All of the above
e. A and B
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Question 40
Which of the following did NOT characterize Andrew Jackson's presidency?
Choose one answer.
a. A spoils system
b. Democratic republicanism
c. An emphasis on the common people
d. The increased power of the presidency
e. All of the answers are correct
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Question 41
According to William Grayson, the experience of enslavement:
Choose one answer.
a. Subjugates Africans
b. Retards morals and manners
c. Elevates the civilization of Africans
d. Assimilates Africans into American society
e. Is inferior to that of free labor
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Question 42
All of the following caused the growth of northern cities in the antebellum period EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. Migration of sons and daughters away from farms and villages
b. Growth of commerce
c. Federal tariffs
d. Expansion of factories
e. The need for services in rural areas
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Question 43
The American Colonization Society:
Choose one answer.
a. Was less popular than abolition in the North
b. Advocated emancipation
c. Was formed in 1816
d. Did not attract the support of southerners
e. Was embraced by black leaders
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Question 44
The domestic slave trade did all of the following EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. Originated in 1807
b. Originated in the 1760s
c. Displaced approximately 1.2 million enslaved people
d. Expanded slavery
e. Prompted a forced migration that exceeded the volume of of the transatlantic slave trade to North America
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Question 45
What percentage of Southern whites did NOT own slaves during the antebellum era?
Choose one answer.
a. 5 percent
b. 10 percent
c. 25 percent
d. 50 percent
e. 75 percent
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Question 46
What were the criticisms leveled against the Lowell and Manchester mills?
Choose one answer.
a. Fifteen-hour days
b. Poor ventilation
c. The girls slept six to a room
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 47
Which of the following characterized antebellum northern society?
Choose one answer.
a. Class distinctions widened
b. In some towns, nearly two-thirds of inhabitants did not own property
c. The urban middle class expanded
d. All of the above
e. A and C
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Question 48
Which of the following was NOT a feature of Southern nationalism?
Choose one answer.
a. Regional religious institutions
b. Southern colleges
c. Protectionism
d. The South saw itself as the inheritor of American revolutionary principles
e. Proslavery
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Question 49
Which of the following was NOT true of the factory system?
Choose one answer.
a. Only native-born women worked in the factories
b. It consolidated manufacturing operations under one roof
c. It often relied upon child labor
d. It offered an independent income to female workers
e. Textile factories processed slave-grown cotton
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Question 50
Which of the following contributed to the abolition movement in the North?
Choose one answer.
a. The Garrisonians
b. Religious abolitionists
c. Militant abolitionists
d. All of the above
e. A and B
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Question 51
In 1816, the African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by:
Choose one answer.
a. Benjamin Banneker
b. Olaudah Equiano
c. Richard Allen
d. Paul Cuffee
e. Denmark Vesey
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Question 52
The American Transcendentalists:
Choose one answer.
a. Were a group of young New Yorkers
b. Believed in logic and reason
c. Believed that all people contain seeds of divinity
d. Identified with the Enlightenment
e. Emphasized the collective
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Question 53
The capital of Liberia was called:
Choose one answer.
a. Freetown
b. Monrovia
c. Robertsport
d. Washington
e. Greenville
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Question 54
Which of the following emerged as part of the Temperance Movement in the 1840s?
Choose one answer.
a. The Washingtonian movement
b. The Maine Laws
c. The Blue Laws
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 55
Which of the following men plotted a slave revolt in 1822?
Choose one answer.
a. Denmark Vesey
b. Gabriel Prosser
c. Nat Turner
d. Peter Poyas
e. Cinque
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Question 56
Which of the following was associated with the Second Great Awakening?
Choose one answer.
a. Perfectionism
b. The Benevolent Empire
c. Charles Grandison Finney
d. All of the above
e. A and C
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Question 57
Which of the following was NOT a part of the prison reform movement during the antebellum era?
Choose one answer.
a. Crime was considered a 'disease'
b. 'Reformatories' were created
c. Insane asylums were constructed for the mentally ill
d. Debtor prisons were abolished
e. Asylums were created for prostitutes
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Question 58
Which of the following was NOT a reason that antislavery reformers used in order to condemn slavery?
Choose one answer.
a. Slavery encouraged prostitution
b. Slavery was economically retogressive
c. Slavery was sinful
d. Slavery encouraged sexual immorality
e. Slaveholders believed that they had absolute power
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Question 59
Which reform movement became a catalyst for the women's rights movement?
Choose one answer.
a. Utopianism
b. Antislavery
c. Temperance
d. Prison reform
e. Religious reform
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Question 60
Unlike Anglicans and Puritans, antebellum evangelicals believed that:
Choose one answer.
a. They were saved through grace
b. Grace transformed them
c. They were saved by doing good works
d. Sin could not be overcome
e. None of the above
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Question 61
"Manifest destiny" was a phrase first used in connection with:
Choose one answer.
a. The Louisiana Purchase
b. The Oregon boundary
c. Texas annexation
d. The Missouri Question
e. None of the above
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Question 62
After the Texas Revolution, Texas became:
Choose one answer.
a. A protectorate of Mexico
b. A protectorate of the United States
c. An American state
d. A British colony
e. An independent republic
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Question 63
How did the Mexican government try to reassert its authority over Texas?
Choose one answer.
a. By reaffirming its constitutional prohibition of slavery
b. By restricting trade with the United States
c. By converting American settlers to Roman Catholicism
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 64
In 1854, which man gave the famous advice: "Go West ... and grow up with the country"?
Choose one answer.
a. John L. O'Sullivan
b. Horace Greeley
c. Thomas Ritchie
d. Josiah B. Grinnell
e. Joseph Smith
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Question 65
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the dispute over the boundary of which state?
Choose one answer.
a. Oregon
b. California
c. Texas
d. Missouri
e. Maine
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Question 66
What was the nickname of immigrants who traveled to California in search of gold?
Choose one answer.
a. Niners
b. Carbetbaggers
c. Scalawags
d. Forty-niners
e. Bootleggers
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Question 67
Which nation did NOT claim rights to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s?
Choose one answer.
a. Russia
b. France
c. America
d. Spain
e. Britain
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Question 68
Which of the following was evidence of growing sectionalism in the 1840s?
Choose one answer.
a. The Wilmot Proviso
b. The Free Soil Party
c. The Split of the Whig party
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 69
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Mexican War?
Choose one answer.
a. The Wilmot Proviso
b. The Annexation of Texas
c. The movement of American pioneers into Mexican lands
d. The collapse of diplomatic relations between America and Mexico
e. Mexico's "invasion" of the United States
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Question 70
On the eve of Mexican Independence, Spanish settlements were NOT concentrated in which of the following areas?
Choose one answer.
a. The California coast
b. Southern Arizona
c. Florida
d. Central Texas
e. New Mexico
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Question 71
"Bleeding Sumner" referred to the caning of Charles Sumner by:
Choose one answer.
a. Preston Brooks
b. Andrew Butler
c. John Brown
d. Stephen Douglas
e. John C. Calhoun
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Question 72
How did Northerners characterize "Slave Power" in the 1850s?
Choose one answer.
a. It had seized control of the federal government
b. It had seized control of the majority of the state governments
c. It was going to wage war against the North
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 73
In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court ruled that:
Choose one answer.
a. Neither slaves nor free blacks were U.S. citizens
b. The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
c. Congress could not exclude slavery from the territories
d. All of the above
e. B and C
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Question 74
The Kansas-Nebraska Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. Destroyed sectional peace
b. Destroyed the Whig Party
c. Destroyed the Know Nothing Party
d. Divided the Democratic Party
e. Created the Republican Party
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Question 75
What was the main platform of the Republican Party during the presidential campaign of 1856?
Choose one answer.
a. Neither Congress nor territorial legislatures could allow slavery in the territories
b. Congress but not the territorial legislatures could allow slavery in the territories
c. Territorial legislatures but not Congress could allow slavery in the territories
d. Slavery was not a legal institution
e. None of the above
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Question 76
Which of the following was a component of the Compromise of 1850?
Choose one answer.
a. Restriction of slavery in Utah and New Mexico
b. Abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia
c. Forgiveness of Texas's debts
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 77
Which of the following was NOT a viewpoint espoused by Abraham Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858?
Choose one answer.
a. Slavery was a dynamic and expansive institution
b. Social and political equality should exist between the races
c. Slavery would reduce all laborers to virtual slavery
d. Black Americans had a right to life, liberty, and the fruits of their labors
e. All of the answers are correct
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Question 78
Which of the following was NOT one of John Brown's goals?
Choose one answer.
a. To capture the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry
b. To arm slaves in the countryside
c. To move southward to Tennessee and Alabama
d. To deport plantation owners
e. To ignite a sectional crisis that would destroy slavery
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Question 79
Which of the following were stipulations of the Fugitive Slave Law?
Choose one answer.
a. Runaway slaves were to be returned to their owners
b. Any black could be sent South solely because someone claimed ownership of him/her
c. An accused runaway had to stand trial before a judge
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 80
Which of the following was true of American slavery in the 1850s?
Choose one answer.
a. It was a pre-capitalist system
b. It was declining
c. It was becoming less profitable
d. It was not supported by lower-class whites
e. It could survive without the Atlantic slave trade
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Question 81
Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina seceded because of which event?
Choose one answer.
a. The Fort Sumter crisis
b. Lincoln's refusal to allow slavery in the territories
c. Lincoln's condemnation of South Carolina's secession
d. Lincoln's request of the states in the Union to furnish volunteer militiamen
e. Lincoln's invasion of the South
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Question 82
How did Abraham Lincoln address the newly seceded South in his inaugural address?
Choose one answer.
a. He declared that secession was wrong
b. He promised that he would not invade the South
c. He promised that he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed
d. All of the above
e. A and B
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Question 83
In defending their right to secede from the Union, which of the following documents did South Carolinians invoke?
Choose one answer.
a. The U.S. Constitution
b. The Declaration of Independence
c. "Common Sense"
d. The Constitution of the state of South Carolina
e. The Compromise of 1850
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Question 84
South Carolina demanded that President Buchanan surrender Fort Sumter in exchange for what?
Choose one answer.
a. A guarantee that the eight slave states of the Upper South would remain in the Union
b. A guarantee that the Confederacy would not invade the Union
c. Monetary compensation
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 85
Which of the following candidates did NOT run for the presidency in 1860?
Choose one answer.
a. John C. Fremont
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. John Bell
d. Stephen A. Douglas
e. John C. Breckinridge
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Question 86
Which of the following happened first?
Choose one answer.
a. The Confederacy was formed
b. South Carolina seceded
c. Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office
d. The Deep South seceded
e. Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy
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Question 87
Which of the following was NOT true of the newly created government of the Confederate States of America?
Choose one answer.
a. The seat of government was in Birmingham, Alabama
b. The international slave trade was prohibited
c. Protective tariffs were prohibited
d. Federally-funded internal improvements were prohibited
e. The president was limited to a single, six-year term in office
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Question 88
Which U.S.senator attempted to broker a compromise between North and South in January 1861?
Choose one answer.
a. Henry Clay
b. Daniel Webster
c. John Crittenden
d. Stephen Douglas
e. Abraham Lincoln
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Question 89
Why did Lincoln and his military advisors hesitate to surrender Fort Sumter?
Choose one answer.
a. The Union had no navy
b. They thought it might provoke a civil war
c. They thought it might incite a war with France or Spain
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 90
The Democrats convened in which city in April 1860 to nominate a presidential candidate?
Choose one answer.
a. Richmond
b. Atlanta
c. Charleston
d. Baltimore
e. Washington, D.C.
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Question 91
According to Professor David Blight, all of the following are reasons that the North won the war EXCEPT:
Choose one answer.
a. An industrialized war effort
b. The North had superior political leadership
c. The North had an existing political culture
d. The Confederacy was not a legitimate nation
e. The North's superior military leadership
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Question 92
In July of 1863, which of the following took place and became a "turning point" in the war?
Choose one answer.
a. Vicksburg
b. Gettysburg
c. Chancellorsville
d. A and B
e. B and C
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Question 93
Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation after which military battle?
Choose one answer.
a. Bull Run
b. Vicksburg
c. Gettysburg
d. Antietam
e. Fredericksburg
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Question 94
The Emancipation Proclamation did NOT declare:
Choose one answer.
a. That all slaves were free
b. That slaves were free only in those areas that were in a state of rebellion
c. That slaves in areas of the South occupied by Union troops were free
d. That the Civil War was a war against slavery
e. All of the answers are correct
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Question 95
What percentage of Confederate white males of military age had fought in the war by 1865?
Choose one answer.
a. 25 percent
b. 33 percent
c. 50 percent
d. 66 percent
e. 75 percent
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Question 96
Which of the following characteristics apply to the Civil War but do not characterize other wars fought in revolutionary and antebellum America?
Choose one answer.
a. Military conscription
b. A 'total war' military strategy
c. High mortality rates of troops
d. All of the above
e. A and C
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Question 97
Which of the following was NOT a Union advantage in the Civil War?
Choose one answer.
a. The North had four times the bank deposits of the South
b. Eighty percent of railroads were in the Union
c. There were 110,000 manufacturing centers in the North
d. The North had a functioning political party system
e. The North had superior generals
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Question 98
Which of the following was NOT an issue at stake in the presidential election of 1864?
Choose one answer.
a. Whether slavery would be preserved as a legal institution
b. Whether blacks would serve in the Union army
c. Whether the war would end in a negotiated settlement
d. Whether the war would end in unconditional surrender
e. Whether Lincoln would be re-elected
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Question 99
Which of the following was the "Achilles heel" of the Confederate war effort?
Choose one answer.
a. Slavery
b. A centralized government
c. The South's geography
d. The South's navy
e. States' rights
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Question 100
According to Professor David Blight, which theory about the causes of the Civil War suggested that secession protected the planter civilization of the South?
Choose one answer.
a. The honor thesis
b. The agrarian thesis
c. The Southern nationalism thesis
d. The Fear thesis
e. The preservation of slavery thesis
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