Women’s rights and pre-civil war

Jacksonian banking policies did which of the following?

• Removed banking issues from national politics.

• Stalled the westward expansion.

• Ended foreign investment in the United States.

• Abolished state banks.

• Encouraged the expansion of credit and speculation.

What was the main authorization of the Jacksonian Indian Policy?

• To give Indians the rights to vote

• The relocation of eastern Indians to federal lands west of Mississippi River

• To provide Indians a safe zone in the colonies

• To execute all Indians who disagreed with the British

The diverse coalition making up the Whigs Party was clustered around the National Republican Party of

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Quincy Adams

Between the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and the outbreak of the Civil War (1861), the most important aspect of United States foreign policy was

• securing access to Canadian fisheries

• reopening the British West Indies to direct trade with the United States

• securing international recognition

• expanding the nation’s boundaries

• responding to Cuban independence

The presidential election of 1840 is often considered the first “modern” election because

• the slavery issue was first raised in this campaign

• it was the first election in which women voted

• voting patterns were similar to those later established in the 1890s

• for the first time, both parties widely campaigned among all the eligible voters

• a second Era of Good Feelings had just come to a close, marking a new departure in politics

The 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, was a protest against

• the use of women workers in textile factories

• the abuse of female slaves on Southern plantations

• the failure of the Democratic Party to endorse a woman suffrage amendment

• customs and laws that gave women a status inferior to that of men

• state restrictions that prevented women from joining labor unions

The Great Famine of Ireland in the 1840s affected the United States in which of the following ways?

• It led to a massive wave of Irish immigrants to the United States.

• It forced Americans to abandon imports of the potato and look for other sources of food.

• It led to a decline in the in uence of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Intermarriage between Irish immigrants and native-born US citizens declined.

The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of these EXCEPT the belief that

• commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base

• the use of land for settled agriculture was preferable to its use for nomadic hunting

• westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial

• the Creator selected America as a chosen land populated by a chosen people

• the ultimate extent of the American domain was to be from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

Which of the following groups was most likely to adopt the Free Soil ideology?

• Free African Americans

• Northern capitalists

• Western frontier settlers

• Southern yeoman farmers

• Southern plantation owners

Which of the following was opposed by both the Free Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-nineteenth century?

• Internal improvement in the West

• Extension of slavery into the territories

• Growth of textile manufacturing in New England

• Unrestricted immigration from Ireland

• Use of paper money