Question 1

The most important social distinction in the antebellum South was ____________________.

Accepted Answer

race

Question 2

Members of the Order,which eventually evolved into the Know-Nothings,supported all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A) temperance. 
B) restricting public office to native born men. 
C) lengthening the naturalization period before immigrants could become citizens. 
D) keeping their Order secret. 
E) tax support for parochial schools. 
A) temperance. 
B) restricting public office to native born men. 
C) lengthening the naturalization period before immigrants could become citizens. 
D) keeping their Order secret. 
E) tax support for parochial schools. E

Question 3

Immigrants did not seem very interested in politics.Many of the abolitionists advocated depriving white immigrants and Catholics of equal rights.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

The leading southern advocate of free labor ideology was Jefferson Davis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The central issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was

Accepted Answer

A) the transcontinental railroad. 
B) secession. 
C) slavery. 
D) states' rights. 
E) westward expansion. 
A) the transcontinental railroad. 
B) secession. 
C) slavery. 
D) states' rights. 
E) westward expansion.

Question 6

The winner of the 1856 presidential election was

Accepted Answer

A) Millard Fillmore. 
B) James Buchanan. 
C) Stephen Douglas. 
D) Franklin Pierce. 
E) Abraham Lincoln. 
A) Millard Fillmore. 
B) James Buchanan. 
C) Stephen Douglas. 
D) Franklin Pierce. 
E) Abraham Lincoln.

Question 7

John Brown was noted for all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A) killing unarmed proslavery farmers in the civil war in "Bleeding Kansas." 
B) attempting to incite a slave rebellion in Virginia. 
C) coining the phrase "the irrepressible conflict" to explain the coming of the Civil War. 
D) dying as a "martyr to freedom." 
E) attacking Harpers Ferry. 
A) killing unarmed proslavery farmers in the civil war in "Bleeding Kansas." 
B) attempting to incite a slave rebellion in Virginia. 
C) coining the phrase "the irrepressible conflict" to explain the coming of the Civil War. 
D) dying as a "martyr to freedom." 
E) attacking Harpers Ferry.

Question 8

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Lincoln-Douglas debates

Accepted Answer

a series of seven debates between Stephe

Question 9

The Panic of 1857 virtually destroyed the southern cotton economy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote...

Question 11

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S.Supreme Court involved a slave who

Accepted Answer

A) had been taken to live in Kansas. 
B) was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory. 
C) sued for his wife's freedom on the grounds that she had been married to a free black. 
D) had been freed by his master and who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. 
E) wished to exercise his right to vote. 
A) had been taken to live in Kansas. 
B) was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory. 
C) sued for his wife's freedom on the grounds that she had been married to a free black. 
D) had been freed by his master and who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. 
E) wished to exercise his right to vote.

Question 12

The name Democrats gave Republicans who they felt favored racial equality was ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The name Democrats gave Republicans who they...

Question 13

By 1856,most northern Know-Nothings had become ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of By 1856,most northern Know-Nothings had become ____________________....

Question 14

IDENTIFICATIONS
-John Brown

Accepted Answer

antislavery zealot whose violent raids f

Question 15

One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War was

Accepted Answer

A) lack of productivity in the agricultural sector. 
B) over-reliance on industrial growth. 
C) a developing commercial attitude. 
D) the decline of the cotton industry. 
E) a lack of diversification 
A) lack of productivity in the agricultural sector. 
B) over-reliance on industrial growth. 
C) a developing commercial attitude. 
D) the decline of the cotton industry. 
E) a lack of diversification

Question 16

____________________ declared,"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ declared,"A house divided against itself cannot...

Question 17

Advocates of the free labor ideology viewed labor strikes as

Accepted Answer

A) dangerous,subversive plots. 
B) unfortunate misunderstandings that could be solved by prayer. 
C) evidence of the increased influence of foreign immigrants. 
D) justification for forming a new political party. 
E) positive events that helped free workers improve their working conditions. 
A) dangerous,subversive plots. 
B) unfortunate misunderstandings that could be solved by prayer. 
C) evidence of the increased influence of foreign immigrants. 
D) justification for forming a new political party. 
E) positive events that helped free workers improve their working conditions.

Question 18

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Hinton Rowan Helper

Accepted Answer

North Carolinian who wrote The Impending

Question 19

The elections of 1854 were disastrous for northern Democrats.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Whig Party.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

The most important social distinction in the antebellum South was ____________________.

Members of the Order,which eventually evolved into the Know-Nothings,supported all of the following except

Immigrants did not seem very interested in politics.Many of the abolitionists advocated depriving white immigrants and Catholics of equal rights.

The leading southern advocate of free labor ideology was Jefferson Davis.

The central issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was

The winner of the 1856 presidential election was

John Brown was noted for all of the following except

IDENTIFICATIONS -Lincoln-Douglas debates

The Panic of 1857 virtually destroyed the southern cotton economy.

____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S.Supreme Court involved a slave who

The name Democrats gave Republicans who they felt favored racial equality was ____________________.

By 1856,most northern Know-Nothings had become ____________________.

IDENTIFICATIONS -John Brown

One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War was

____________________ declared,"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Advocates of the free labor ideology viewed labor strikes as

IDENTIFICATIONS -Hinton Rowan Helper

The elections of 1854 were disastrous for northern Democrats.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Whig Party.

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, conquest, catastrophe

The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America

England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Reform, resistance, revolution

The Revolutionary Republic

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

America During the Second World War

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2012

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