Quiz 5

Who is traditionally credited with the invention of the cotton gin?

• Nikola Tesla

• Eli Whitney

• James Watt

• Robert Fulton

The practice of rewarding political supporters with positions of influence and power after winning an election is known as?

• Corrupt Bargain

• Spoils System

• Encomedia

• System of a Down

Of the following which was not a major innovation or invention associated with "Market Revolution" of the 19th century?

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph Machine

• Steam Engines

• Radio

US policy toward Native Americans in the Jacksonian Era focused on

• Assimilation into mainstream American culture

• Relocation west of the Mississippi River

• Full-scale war to kill all Native Americans on US soil

• Restoration of Native American land which had been unjustly claimed by settlers

Which of the following was a condition of the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state

• Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state

• Slavery was prohibited above the 36 degree 30 second parallel

• All of the above

Of the following which is considered to be the only truly successful uprising by enslaved Africans in the Americas?

• Stono Ferry 1739

• Haiti 1791-1804

• Barbados 1816

• Charleston 1822

In Richmond in 1800 an enslaved blacksmith ____ was arrested, convicted and hanged in connection with a planned uprising.

• Stede Bonnet

• Denmark Vesey

• Gabriel Prosser

• Albert Simmons

Which abolitionist figure authored the novella "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

• Elijah P. Lovejoy

• Sarah Grimke

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

_____ is the 19th century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continent was both justified and inevitable?

• American Exceptionalism

• Monroe Doctrine

• Manifest Destiny

• Obvious Conquest

Which 19th century inventor created the first uniform language or code to be commonly used for telegraph communications beginning in the 1830s?

• Thomas Edison

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

• Samuel Morse