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WorksheetsUnit 03 Antebellum Period Review
Total questions: 149
Worksheet time: 2hrs 29mins
This period in American history between the War of 1812 and the Civil War saw strong nationalism and little political division as there was essentially one political party.
"The Era of Good Feelings"
"The Colonial Period"
"The Antebellum Period"
"The Jeffersonian Era"
The Market Revolution best aligns with who's vision for America?
The Jeffersonian
The Hamiltonian
According to Crash Course, what would be the most effective way to ship something from Cincinnati to New York in the early 1800s?
Overland by road.
By ship down the Mississippi, through the gulf and up the east coast.
By rail using train.
By canal using boat.
The Market Revolution saw major advancements in the areas?
Transportation
Communication
Agriculture
Medicine
What are two infrastructure projects the United States government invested in during the Market Revolution?
Roads
Canals
Steam boats
Dams
What was a notable advancement in transportation made by Robert Fulton?
The Steamboat
The Steam Engine
The Stage Coach Wagon
The Cotton Gin
Which canal linked the Great Lakes and Hudson River making New York the nation's primer port?
Erie Canal
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
Kiel Canal
This notable advancement in transportation included routes such as the Baltimore & Ohio which began in 1828.
Railroads
Steamboats
Canals
Toll Roads
What is another notable advancement which may have prevented Andrew Jackson from fighting a battle two weeks after the end of a warlike the Battle of New Orleans?
The Telegraph
Railroads
National Roads
Steamboats
What did this episode argue was the most important innovation of this time period?
Factories
Railroads
Telegraphs
Water wheels
Which best describes the American System of production?
The mass-production of interchangeable parts.
The mass-production of low quality parts.
The mass-production of high end goods.
The mass-production of firearms.
Where did the American System of mass production with interchangeable parts begin?
New England
The Midwest
The South
The Western Frontier
Which two organizations were essential for the growth of the market economy in the U.S.
Big business
A Federal government that protected big business.
Small business
A Federal government opposed to big business.
Which system of industry slowly faded throughout the 19th century as production became more centralized in factories?
Cottage Industry
Cotton Industry
Textile Industry
Urban Industries
Which of the following is another effect of the market revolution?
It effected work and leisure time which were now dictated by a clock.
It affected work and leisure time which were now dictated by the seasons.
It affected work and leisure time which were now dictated by the raising and setting of the sun.
All of the above.
Which innovation increased the standardization of time?
Railroads
Steamboats
Stages Coaches
Bicycles
Initially mills in Lowell Massachusetts employed who in great numbers
Young women
Young men
Children
Immigrants
In Colonia America workers were paid a "price" or completed "piece work". What became the dominant form of payment for workers during the Market Revolution / Industrial Revolution?
A wage or wages
Lump sums
Block grants
Credit
What was one alternative to the soul-crushing wage work in factories?
Western migration
Eastern migration
Southern migration
Northern migration
What term was coined by John L. O'Sullivan describes Americans' belief that it is their destiny to spread out all over the country?
Manifest destiny
The Monroe Doctrine
Nationalism
Immigration
As Americans progressively moved west, eastern factory owners progressively turned toward who as a replacement?
Young women
Young men
Older people
Immigrants
What is one notable group of immigrants who came to America in large numbers as there was an ongoing natural disaster in their home country from 1845-1851?
The Irish
German speaking peoples (Germany didn't exist yet)
The Jews
Italians
What intellectual movement began during this time as Americans to redefine freedom in a changing world.
Transcendentalism
Gothic
Progressive
Modern
The 19th Century saw a series of economic booms and busts which are known as?
Business cycles
Playing the stock market
Disparity, or wealth inequality
Capitalism
What is the name of the period following the War of 1812 that saw great patriotism and little political division?
Antebellum Period
The Era of Good Feelings
The Colonial Period
The Early Republic
What are TWO qualities of the Era of Good Feelings?
Strong nationalism
Weak nationalism
Strong partisanship
No real partisanship
This proclaimed the Americas were off-limits to new European colonization as well as American neutrality in Europe.
The Treaty of Paris
Adams Onis Treaty
The Monroe Doctrine
The American System
This agreement created a boundary (36, 30) for prospective western states as free or slave.
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
The Tallmadge amendment
The Wilmot Proviso
This congressmen from Kentucky formed many of the political compromises of his era?
John Quincy Adams
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
This economic plan proposed by Henry Clay tried to connect the economies of the North, South, and West?
Mercantilism
The American System
Hamilton's Five Point Plan
Wealth of Nations
These are two Supreme Court cases which established important economic precedents in early US History
McCulloch v. Maryland (Supremacy, Necessary & Proper)
Gibbons v. Ogden (Interstate commerce)
Marbury v. Madison (Judicial Review)
Scott v. Sandford (Citizenship of African Americans)
This was the linking of northern industries with western & southern agriculture that occurred due to innovations in technology & methods that led to a variety of socio-economic changes in the US in the early 1800s.
Market Revolution
Industrial Revolution
The Antebellum Period
The Era of Good Feelings
This innovation made planting cotton profitable and in the process revived slavery and increase the need for western lands to plant it.
Cotton gin
McCormick Reaper
Telegraph
Riverboat
What were some important innovations in transportation during the Market Revolution?
Federally funded roads
Canals
Steam power
Factories
This innovation made the scope and scale of business possible.
Cotton gin
McCormick Reaper
Telegraph
Riverboat
This innovation allowed for greater productivity & access to markets.
Steam power
McCormick Reaper
Telegraph
Cotton gin
This innovation in the way workers were organized allowed greater productivity though it was stolen from England by Samuel "The Traitor" Slaughter
The Factory
The American System of Manufacturing
The American System proposed by Henry Clay
The Nation Road
This canal connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes making New York the largest trading & urban center on the east coast.
The Erie Canal
The Suez Canal
The Kiel Canal
The Panama Canal
Push factors such as famine and political revolutions in the 1830s & 1840s along with pull factors such as factory jobs lead to what?
Mass immigration
Mass migration
Mass exodus from the U.S.
Indian Removal
Which two immigrant groups immigrate to the US in large numbers in the 1830s & 1840s?
Germans
Irish
Eastern Europeans
The Chinese
This group of individuals were opposed to immigrants forming The Know-Nothing (American Party).
Nativist
Abolitionist
Transcendentalist
Shakers
This was a reaction of many individuals in the eastern states opposed to changes caused by the Market Revolution and population pressures caused by immigration.
Western migration
Easteern migration
Southern migration
Northern migration
The period following the War of 1812 is often known as what? Since there was one political party and relative agreement on domestic & foreign policies?
The Age of Jackson
The Era of Good Feelings
The Jeffersonian Era
The Hamiltonian Era
This was a program of economic nationalism which relied on federally funded infrastructure (roads & canals) projects, protective tariffs, and a National Bank?
The American System
The Middle Passage
The Lend Lease System
The Jeffersonian System
"The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." Is an excerpt from?
The Monroe Doctrine
The Missouri Compromise
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty
This president actually wrote the Monroe Doctrine and was the last President in the Era Good Feelings. His presidency led to major political divisions especially over the Tariff of 1832 also known as the tariff of abominations.
John Quincy Adams
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
This controversial proposal set forth by Henry Clay stated that slavery would not be allowed in any new state above the 36, 30 line.
The Monroe Doctrine
The Missouri Compromise
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty
What military victory during the War of 1812 helped the political career of Andrew Jackson?
The Battle of New Orleans
The Siege of Fort McHenry
The Battle of Lake Erie
The Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
The election of 1824 saw Andrew Jackson win the popular vote but lose a contested electoral vote to John Quince Adams in what many people called?
a Corrupt Bargain
a stolen election
the King of Frauds.
the big lie.
The rise of democratization in the U.S. is also known as
The Age of Jackson
The Era of Good Feelings
The Jeffersonian Era
The Hamiltonian Era
Which of the following best describe voters in the U.S. prior to the election of Andrew Jackson?
White
Male
Land owners
College educated
The election of 1828 is known for
the negativity of its campaign ads.
the positive tone of its campaign ads.
the controversy of elector votes.
the issue of abolition in Kansas.
Andrew Jackson called this system "rotation in office" as he believed it would rid the government of corrupt officials. After Jackson fired 10% of the government replacing them with his supports critics refer to this system as the ______ system because as the saying goes, "to the victor go the ______"
spoils
rotten
swamp
electoral
This legislation was highly controversial even for its day and resulted in a controversial supreme court case.
The Indian Removal Act
The Adams Onis Treaty
The Tarrif of Abominations
The Trail of Tears
This controversial Supreme Court case found the Indian Removal Act unconstitutional. However, Andrew Jackson disregarded the decisions supposedly saying, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
Worcester v Georgia
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v Madison
The forced migration of Native Americans from the American Southeast west of the Mississippi as part of the Indian Removal Act is commonly known as?
(a)
This political party grew as an opposition to Jackson. Taking its name from a British political party which opposed absolute monarchy.
The Whigs
The Democrats
The Jeffersonians
The Anti-Masons
Andrew Jackson exercised what executive power more than any other previous President?
The veto
The pardon
A series of tariffs were highly unpopular in South Carolina which led to what crisis?
The Nullification Crisis
The Red Scare
The Opioid Crisis
The Panic of 1837
President Jackson loathed the National Bank as he thought it would be used against him during this second Presidential election bid. Jackson vetoed the National Banks charter and spread the money to a series of friendly banks known was
Pet banks
Spoils banks
Love banks
River banks
Andrew Jackson's veto of the National Bank & use of "pet banks" led to what economic crisis?
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1819
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression
The Panic of 1837 caused many individuals to flee their debts and move to what Mexican territory?
Texas
California
New Mexico
Florida
This era is known for greater democratic participation due to the reduction of land requirements for white males.
The Age of Jackson
The Enlightenment
The Great Awakening
The Antebellum Period
The election of 1824 saw Andrew Jackson win the popular vote but lose a contested electoral vote to John Quince Adams in what many people called?
a Corrupt Bargain
a stolen election
the King of Frauds.
the big lie.
Andrew Jackson called this system "rotation in office" as he believed it would rid the government of corrupt officials. After Jackson fired 10% of the government replacing them with his supports critics refer to this system as the ______ system because as the saying goes, "to the victor go the ______"
spoils
rotten
swamp
electoral
This legislation was highly controversial even for its day and resulted in a controversial supreme court case.
The Indian Removal Act
The Adams Onis Treaty
The Tarrif of Abominations
The Trail of Tears
This controversial Supreme Court case found the Indian Removal Act unconstitutional. However, Andrew Jackson disregarded the decisions supposedly saying, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
Worcester v Georgia
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v Madison
The forced migration of Native Americans from the American Southeast west of the Mississippi as part of the Indian Removal Act is commonly known as?
(a)
The resolution of this crisis is often seen as one of the positive Jackson Presidency as it preserved the Union despite South Carolina's calls for succession over the "Tariff of Abominations"
The Nullification Crisis
The Alien & Sedition Crisis
The Suez Crisis
The Veto of the Naitonal Bank
This controversial action by Andrew Jackson directly contributed to the Panic of 1837, one of the worst financial disasters in US History.
Veto of National Bank
Force Act to make South Carolina comply with Federal trade laws.
The Corrupt Bargain.
The Finacial Trail of Tears.
Which groups participated in the international slave trade?
Africans
Europeans
Americans
All of the above
The involuntary voyage enslaved Africans made from Africa to the Americas is known as?
The Middle Passage
The Great Migration
The Trial of Tears
The Second Middle Passage
When did the first enslaved Africans come to American?
1619
1776
1812
1865
What term best describes type of slavery practiced in the US where slaves were viewed as property of their owners?
(a)
This slave rebellion was the largest slave rebellion in the British colonies during the colonial period?
Stono's Rebellion
Gabriel's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The Haitian Rebellion
What Southern crop allowed the North to industrialize, especially its textile industry?
Cotton
Tobacco
Silk
Rice
This slave rebellion never happened due to a large storm and some of the enslaved members telling their white masters about the plans.
Stono's Rebellion
Gabriel's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The Haitian Rebellion
This was the mass movement of enslaved people from the upper south to the deep south to meet the needs of the cotton economy.
The Middle Passage
The Great Migration
The Trial of Tears
The Second Middle Passage
By the 19th century what percentage of the world's cotton came from the American South?
3/4
1/2
1/4
3/5
In what ways did the North play a role in and profit from Slavery in the South?
Northern merchants profited from the shipment and sell of cotton overseas.
Northern bankers financed the purchase of land for plantations
Northern insurance companies insured slaves as they were considered property.
Northern manufacturers produced cotton cloth and sold it back to Southern plantation owners to clothe their slaves.
What region of the US benefited the most from Slavery?
The South
The North
The West
The Great Plains
Slave states were home to a few major cities such as?
St. Louis
Baltimore
New Orleans
Cincinnati
Besides New Orleans most urbanization in the South took place where?
The Upper South
The Deep South
The Western slave states
All of the above
Which areas of the Southern economy struggled to develop as a result of the emphasis on a slave based economy?
Manufacturing
Transportation
Agriculture
All of the above
By 1860, there were four million slaves in the US, and the South they made up what percentage of the population?
1/3
1/4
3/4
3/5
The majority of slave owners in the South owned how many slaves?
Five or less
10 or less
100 or less
100 or more
The majority of Southerners, such as yeoman farmers, own slaves?
False
True
The majority of poor white Southerners supported slavery?
Mostly False - They saw it as a necessary evil
Mostly True - It gave them legal and social status.
Which founding father described slavery as, "As it is, we have the wold by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other."
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Ben Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
What notable Southern politician is known for this adamant defense of slavery as a positive good?
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Daniel Webster
What was used to justify the practice of slavery in the US?
Biblical passages.
Ideas from Greco-Roman societies and culture.
The idea that paternal nature of Southern slavery was more humane than Northern free market capitalism.
All of the above.
All slaves worked in agriculture?
False
True
This individual is one of the most famous escaped slaves. They made about 20 trips back to Maryland to help friends and relatives also make the journey north via the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Richard Allen
The deadliest slave rebellion in US history is?
The Nat Turner Rebellion
The Stono Rebellion
Gabriel's Rebellion
The Haitian Rebellion
The result of Nat Turner's Rebellion was?
harsher laws regarding slavery.
harsher laws on slave masters.
a decline in the use of slave labor.
an increase in the use of machinery.
This local regional dialect is based on different varieties of English, Central African, and West Africa.
Gullah
Cajun
Quebecois
High Tide Brogue
Which Utopian society is most famous for their religious dancing, excellent furniture, equality of the sexes and practice of celibacy?
The Shakers
The Quakers
Transcendentalist
Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints)
Which religious group formed in the 19th Century Reform Era from the teaching of Joseph Smith?
The Shakers
The Quakers
Transcendentalist
Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints)
____ was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.
The Second Great Awakening
The (First) Great Awakening
Mormonism
All of the above.
These communities sought to withdraw from the market place economy to form an ideal society?
Utopian societies.
Socialist societies.
Eclectic societies.
Rural societies
Western New York saw so much religious fervor that the people became resistant to the various messages making it known as the
Burned Over District.
Bible Belt
promise land for the Latter Day Saints.
Bronx
For many 19th Century Reformers freedom was
the freedom from the temptation or desire to engage in a harmful (sinful) activity/action.
the freedom to do whatever you want.
the freedom to do whatever you want to whoever you want.
the freedom to live without rules.
The Second Great Awakening stressed?
An individual's choice in salvation and a personal relationship with God.
A person's sinfulness and inability to complete their salvation on their own as God had already predestined the elect.
A unitarian view that salvation was a work in progress.
That God was found in nature.
Which of the following values of the Great Awakening merged those of the Market Economy?
Sobriety
Industry
Self-discipline
All of the above
Which two denominations saw a surge as a result of the Second Great Awakening?
Baptist
Methodist
Calvinist
Catholics
Temperance movements were extremely controversial amongst what group of Americans?
Catholic immigrants from Ireland & German speaking regions of Europe.
Protestant immigrants from Ireland & German speaking regions of Europe.
Buddhist immigrants from China.
Anglican immigrants from England.
19th Century Reformers developed and constructed which institutions?
Asylums
Prisons
Poor houses
All of the above
19th Century Reformers were also a proponents for
compulsory state funded education.
tobacco secession courses.
federally funded education programs.
exclusion of the poor from the educational system.
This 19th Century Reformer advocated for common schools as it would give poor students the moral character and body of knowledge to compete with upper class kids.
Horace Mann
John Dewey
Booker T. Washington
Maria Montessori
What was the largest movement in the 19th Century Reform movement?
Abolition
Temperance
Educational reform
Religious unity
Early 19th Century reformers included colonizationist which advocated sending African Slaves back to Africa notably the colony of
Liberia
South Africa
Morocco
Cuba
Which northern abolitionist and new paper editor of the Liberator was known as being, "as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice"?
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sojourner Truth
This 19th Century Reformer is likely the most famous abolitionist who wrote a brilliantly autobiography of his time as a slave and debunked the idea that Africans were intellectually inferior.
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sojourner Truth
In 1836 this congressional rule prohibited members of congress from even reading aloud or discussion calls for the emancipation of slaves.
The Gag rule.
The Censure Act
Alien & Sedition Act
The Filibuster
Josiah Henderson's autobiography is likely for bases for what famous anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas An American Slave
The Peculiar Institution
Midnight Rising
Many of the most prominent voices for abolition were?
Northern white women.
Southern white women.
Western Settlers.
Native Americans.
This principle of ______ held that husbands actually had authority over the person, property and choices of their wives.
Coverture
In Loco
Loco parentis
Covenant
The American woman's rights movement was limited to the U.S.?
True
False
19th Century Feminist were mostly from
the middle and upper class.
the middle and lower class.
the lower class.
the upper class.
This individual is probably the most famous African American woman of the 19th century woman's movement?
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lucretia Mott
This 19th Century female reformer became wealthy due to her more functional design for women's clothing.
Amelia Bloomer
Carry Nation
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Franes Willard
This famous meeting held in July of 1848 was comprised mostly of women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, developed the Declaration of Sentiments which sought many rights for women including the right to vote.
The Seneca Falls Convention
The Philadelphia Convention
The Liberty Convention
The Buffalo Convention
What idea did improve the status of women in the early 19th Century.
Republican motherhood
Democratic motherhood
First citizenship
All of the above.
According to this idea, women were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
Cult of Domesticity
Republican Motherhood
Unitarianism
Feminism
The ideas of the Cult of Domesticity and the place of women were rejected by all women?
Yes
No
Though there were limited job opportunities for women in the 19th Century. Which profession progressively saw a feminization during this time period.
Teaching
Industrial mechanics
News paper editor
Engineer
This movement against alcohol was predominantly led by women?
Temperance
Abolition
Education
The Second Great Awakening
What was the women's suffrage movement?
The women's movement for the right to vote.
The women's movement for the prohibition of alcohol.
The women's movement for great protections from abusive husbands.
The women's movement for equality in the eyes of the law.
Which phrase best describes American's belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Manifest destiny
Social Darwinism
Sectionalism
Secession
This episode of Crash Course presented what reason as a possible driver of the U.S.
Economics
Agriculture
Empire
Slavery
Which Western expansion route is probably the most famous route used by settlers moving west? Its name was used as the title for a popular video game.
Oregon Trail
California Trail
Sante Fe Trail
Mormon Trail
Before it became a state Oregon was jointly governed by the U.S. and
Britain
Russia
Spain
France
Before the Mexican cession which states belonged to Mexico (previously Spain)?
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
All of the above
Who was granted a huge tract of land in Northern Mexico (Texas) to help populate the region?
Moses / Steven Austin
Sam Huston
George M. Dallas
Antonio López de Santa Anna
When Texans rebelled against Mexico primarily over the issue of slavery. A large group of Texans were famously defeated at
the Alamo
San Jacinto
Tabasco
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Which of the following happened first after Texas won its independence from Mexico?
It became an independent country, The Lone Star Republic.
It became a state in the United States.
It became a member of the Confederate States.
It became a United State Territory.
Why was Texas initially not allowed to join the United States?
It would upset the free state slave state balance.
It would upset the territory balance between the states.
It failed to comply with government regulations.
The U.S. regarded the Texan population as rebels.
Shortly after annexing Texas the U.S. struck an agreement with Britain to annex what territory?
The Oregon
California
Texas
Alaska
The border of Oregon would be at what line?
49th parallel.
54th parallel
40th parallel.
The Rio Grande
After annexing Texas the President James K. Polk further antagonized Mexico by sending an American Army lead by Zachary Taylor into the area south of the Nueces River. This action known as “Polk's gambit” led to what conflict?
The Mexican American War
The Texan Revolution
The Spanish American War
The Lone Star Republic
Which Mexican general was the military commander and president of Mexico at various points during the Texan Revolution & Mexican American War?
Moses / Steven Austin
Sam Huston
George M. Dallas
Antonio López de Santa Anna
David Henry Thoreau was arrested for not paying taxes to protest the Mexican-American War and would later write what text?
On Civil Disobedience
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Red Badge of Courage
Which peace treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Oregon Treaty 1846
The Gadsden Purchase
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the U.S. pay Mexico $15 million and take most of what is today the American Southwest. The land Mexico lost as part of this treaty is known as?
The Mexican Cession
Old Mexico
New Spain
The Gadsden Purchase
The growing anti-immigrant, anti-catholic sentiment in the U.S. around the mid 1800's was known as?
Nativism
Racism
Xenophobia
Republicanism
The members of the nativist American Party formed in 1855 were known as?
Know Nothings
Republicans
Whigs
Romanist
What discovery in 1848 led to a massive population boom in California?
Discovery of gold.
Discovery of silver.
Discovery of cannabis.
Discovery of oil.
Which ethnic group flocked to California in large numbers during the 1849 Gold Rush?
Chinese
Irish
Germans
Italians
How was the problem of California statehood resolved?
The Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Gag rule
