Unit 3: New Republic Quiz

This political cartoon is most likely a depiction of which of the following events?

• The Battle of Antietam during the Civil War

• Nat Turner’s Rebellion, a slave rebellion

• The Seneca Falls Conference, a women’s rights convention

• Sherman’s “March to the Sea” during the Civil War

A major reason for President Andrew Jackson’s policy toward the Cherokee Nation was to

• provide Native American Indians with better farmland.

• enforce the United States Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia.

• obtain land from Native American Indians for white settlers.

• gain the political support of Native American Indians.

What was an unintended consequence of the invention of the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney?

• It inadvertently led to the spread of slavery.

• It made cotton much easier for slaves to pick.

• It caused people to stop needing so much cotton.

• It angered Northern farmers who could not afford it.

Women assumed roles in all of the following reform efforts of the early 19^th century EXCEPT

• Temperance.

• the American System.

• Abolition.

• women’s suffrage.

The result of the War of 1812 was that the United States

• was united by nationalism and symbols of national identity during the subsequent Era of Good Feelings.

• gained the Florida territory from the Spanish.

• became increasingly politically divided.

• annexed the nation of Great Britain.

A major reason for the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) was to

• improve trade relations with Asia.

• gain new colonies in Latin America.

• acquire land to build a canal in Central America.

• limit European influence in the Western Hemisphere.

“Jacksonian Democracy” is associated with which of these characteristics?

• Suffrage for all people in the United States

• Voting rights extended to all adult, white males

• A nation governed by elitist property owners

• Laws promising full political equality regardless of race, sex or wealth

What did Education reformer, Horace Mann, believed about schools?

• Slaves enter the public school system

• Schools be created that were state funded and mandatory

• Colleges should be developed

• Schools be privately funded and optional

The nullification confrontation of 1832-1833 between President Andrew Jackson and South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun concerned

• Jackson’s attempts to abolish slavery in the South.

• Calhoun’s claim that a state has the power to ignore federal laws.

• the constitutionality of the second Bank of the United States.

• whether slavery would be allowed in western territories.

What did the temperance movement work to accomplish?

• Improve the treatment for the mentally ill

• End alcohol abuse and the problems associated with it

• Increase understanding among followers of different faiths

• Improve conditions in America’s new factories