Quizalize - Review Antebellum
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- Q1Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPTthe clash of economic interests between agrarian and industrialized regionsThe actions of irresponsible politicians and agitators in the North and Souththe growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slaverydifferences over the morality and future of slavery30s
- Q2During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves wasworking slowly and breaking toolsescaping to Canada via the Underground Railroadorganizing petitions and demonstrations against slaveryrebelling openly, using weapons, and planning confrontations30s
- Q3William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were know foropposing women's participation in public abolitionist meetingsadvocating colonization by former slaves in West Africasupporting the Kansas-Nebraska Act's provisions regarding slaveryadvocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation30s
- Q4One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s wasits members' tendency to be tolerant of religious diversitythe fact that almost all middle-class men attended graduate and professional schoolsthe separation of economic production from the home and family lifeIts members' support for ending legal immigration from eastern Europe30s
- Q5The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?Possession of California and most of the SouthwestAn undisputed claim to OregonThe right to construct a canal across the Isthmus of PanamaPossession of the Philippines30s
- Q6Members of the Hudson River School were best known for their paintings ofbattle sceneslandscapesportraitsstill lifes30s
- Q7The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPTinvolvement of middle-class womenclose links to the antislavery and temperance movementsconventions in the Northeast such as Seneca Falls, NYdemands for equal compensation for equal work30s
- Q8The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal ofencouraging immigration from Ireland and Germanytransporting African Americans back to Africasettling white Americans on western landsencouraging Chinese contract laborers to emigrate to the United States30s
- Q9The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?Enacted a stringent fugitive slave lawAdmitted California to the Union under the principles of popular sovereigntyAdmitted Texas to the Union as a slave stateAdjusted the Texas-Mexico boundary30s
- Q10"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep... The free laborer must work or starve. he is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right." George Fitzhugh, 1857 This excerpt reflects the argument in the antebellum South thatthe South needed to change to surviveslavery was immoralslaves lived better than northern factory workerscapitalism was the economic system most likely to generate wealth and happiness for the most people30s
- Q11"Let Southern oppressors tremble...let all enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble...I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population...I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice" Which of the following most likely authored this statement in 1831John C. CalhounStephen A. DouglassAbraham LincolnWilliam L. Garrison30s
- Q12During the Antebellum period there was a large influx of immigrants from _______ because of ___________.Russia, antisemitismScotland, the enclosure movementIreland, potato famineItaly, lost jobs due to poor industrialization in Italy30s
- Q13On this map, which area was acquired by President Pierce in 1853 as part of a plan for a southern transcontinental railroad separate from the Mexican War or Texas annexation?DCAB30s
- Q14In which of the following pairs was the second event causally related to the first?Gold Discoveries in California -> Compromise of 1850Mexican War-> passage of the Missouri CompromiseUncle Tom's Cabin -> Nat Turner's RebellionIndian land claims in Georgia -> Dred Scott decision30s
- Q15Which religious movement of the antebellum period was founded in the "burned over district" of upstate New York, but later faced an extermination order in Missouri and furher persecution by locals in Nauvoo, Illinois?OwenitesShakersOneidasMormons30s
