History - Practice CLEP Test (part II)

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States in the first quarter of the nineteenth century?

• Demands of southern textile manufacturers for cotton

• Introduction of crop rotation and fertilizers

• Abolition of indentured servitude

• Expanded use of the cotton gin

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

The “putting-out system” that emerged in antebellum America refers to the

• organizing of slave labor into efficient planting teams

• production of finished goods in individual households

• sending of poor children to live on farms in the Midwest

• shipping of raw materials to European factories

• forced migration of Native Americans from valuable lands

Which of the following was a major focus of antebellum reform?

• Income tax law

• Universal suffrage

• Prison reform

• Creation of national parks

• Machine politics

During the early stages of manufacturing, the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, primarily employed

• native-born, single White men who had lost their farms

• native-born, single White women from rural areas

• White males from debtors’ prisons

• recent immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

• African American women

The issue of constitutionality figured most prominently in the consideration of which of the following?

• Tariff of 1789

• First Bank of the United States

• Funding of the national debt

• Assumption of state debts

• Excise tax on whiskey

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 idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following 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

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

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