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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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%