Early 1800's U.S. History Quiz

What are Canals?

• A method of putting goods into cans for easy transportation.

• A water way that allows easy transportation of goods

• A series of battles between Canada and America

• A Native American leader that tried to unite all Native Americans

What was the problem with Missouri wanting to be a state?

• It is in Spanish territory and that's not allowed.

• The National road doesn't go all the way out there

• It upsets the balance between Free and Slave states

• It shows that Factory jobs in the North are not allowing people to move out west.

What states are added to the US through the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine

• Texas

• Louisiana

• Missouri

· Sojourner Truth · William Lloyd Garrison · Frederick Douglass

All of these were prominent names were figures in WHICH social movement?

• Abolition

• States’ rights

• prohibition

• prison reform

Which of these was a DIRECT result of the failed slave revolt of Nat Turner in 1831?

• Southern legislatures questioned the moral foundation of slavery.

• Laws greatly restricting the legal rights of free blacks and slaves were passed.

• Congress passed a law that would phase out the importation of African slaves.

• President Buchanan was elected for a second term.

What school reformer said, “If we do not prepare children to become good citizens, then our republic must go down to destruction, as others have gone before it”?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Dorothea Dix

• Horace Mann

• William Lloyd Garrison

The Declaration of Sentiments passed at the Seneca Falls Convention 1848 signaled

• An early effort to abolish slavery

• A key early step in the struggle for equal rights for women

• That Native Americans would not participate in the Trail of Tears

• The end of slavery in the United States

How did the cotton gin affect slavery in GA and other southern states?

• Slaves began making clothes in Northern factories

• Since farming stopped being an economic option, slaves were not needed

• Less cotton = smaller fields = need for fewer workers = less slaves

• More cotton = bigger fields = need for more workers = more slaves

Completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 encouraged growth of the Midwest and of New York City because it

• Stimulated development of cotton production in Ohio.

• Linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast

• Increased trade with Asia

• Helped force the removal of British forts in the Northwest Territory

Which of these BEST describes the belief of "Manifest Destiny"?

• the belief that the U.S. should send astronauts to the moon

• the belief that the U.S. should occupy all lands between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

• the belief that slavery in the U.S. was a state issue

• the belief that the U.S. should prevent European military activity in the hemisphere