Most Missed Questions Test 2

4.  Why did the United States use protective tariffs during the Antebellum Period?

• To encourage foreign trade

• to help the nation's manufacturers

• to reduce the cost of consumer goods

• To improve the quality of goods

6.  Which of the following would an abolitionist during the Antebellum Period MOST likely support?

• A. The removal of the Cherokee from Georgia

• B. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

• C. The activities of the Underground Railroad

• D. The use of popular sovereignty in the territories

14.  In the first half of the 1800s, how did westward expansion impact the growth of democracy in the United States?

• A. Women were allowed many new rights, including suffrage.

• B. Women lost rights that they had fought to get due to the expansion of the Plantation System.

• C. The balance of power between slave and free states was disrupted.

• D. More African Americans in northern states were given the right to vote.

18. 18. Participants at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention issued the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

     

    What controversial change was called for in this Declaration?

• The abolition of slavery

• A demand for voting equality for women

• Reform of public education

• A ban on alcoholic beverages

28.  Which of the following best increases growing sectionalism during the Antebellum Period?

• A. Abolitionism grew in the North after Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.

• B. Native American populations saw a dramatic decline with the pursuit of Manifest Destiny.

• C. The Women's Rights Movement began in Seneca Falls, further dividing the North and West.

• D. Future presidents failed to continue Jefferson's exploration of the Louisiana Territory.

30.  Which of the following became a source of long-term political tension during the years of American expansion (1803-1850)?

• A. Monroe Doctrine

• B. Seneca Falls Convention

• C. Texas Independence

• D. Louisiana Purchase

36.  Which of the following statements is true about Jefferson's Embargo of 1807?

• A. It cut off all foreign trade to avoid being further drawn into the war between Britain and France.

• B. It limited the “melting-pot” effect by prohibiting immigration from European nations.

• C. It created a military alliance between Canada and Mexico to fight American expansionism .

• D. It revised trading conditions along the western Appalachian border to help Native Americans.

37.  In order to protect himself and the Federalist Party, President John Adams established a series of laws that were known as the

• A. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

• B. Necessary and Proper Act.

• C. Alien and Sedition Acts.

• D. Coercive Acts.

38.  In the first half of the 19th Century, which of the following were successful in postponing Southern secession and the beginning of the Civil War?

• A. The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

• B. The Monroe Doctrine and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• C. Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine.

• D. The Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.

41.  What is the connection between Texas, California, Missouri, and Kansas during the Antebellum Period?

• A. All experienced controversies over their admission as slave or free states.

• B. All faced heavy immigration due to popular sovereignty.

• C. All heavily relied on cotton production as their economic base.

• D. All belonged to Mexico before annexation by the United States.