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| The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions... |
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| attacked the alien and sedition acts, were written by Madison and Jefferson, and claimed the right of a state to protect its people from unconstitutional federal laws |
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| Speculators took advantage of which of these Federalist measures? |
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| the refunding of the national debt by paying full face value of Revolutionary War bonds |
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| Which of President Adam's actions angered high federalists? |
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| his decision to improve relations with France in 1799-1800 |
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| Which of these probably would not be a supporter of Jefferson's republican party? |
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| Scored a victory over the Indians that opened Ohio to white settlement and won a promise by the British to evacuate forts in the Northwest Territory |
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| Between 1800 and 1823 the United States did all of the following except... |
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| extend right to vote to woman and blacks |
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| Thomas Jefferson believed that... |
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| educated farmers were the most virtuous citizens and best upholders of republican liberty |
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| Chief Justice John Marshall's opinions backed... |
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| the right of federal courts to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional |
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| stimulated the growth of manufacturing in the United States |
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| By the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812... |
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| neither the United States nor Britain gained territory or made concessions |
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| Republicans from the West and South who wanted to take Canada from Britain and Florida from Spain |
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| During Madison's presidency... |
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| Congress chartered a second national bank |
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| Secretary of state, John Quincey Adams is associated with which foreign policy initiatives? |
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| formulating the Monroe Doctrine and purchasing Florida |
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| During the Era of Good Feelings... |
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| The Federalist party disappeared but the Republican party adopted some of its policies |
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| During the War of 1812... |
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| The northeastern states became increasingly unhappy about the war |
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| Andrew Jackson's remark, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." refers too... |
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| move the Cherokees west of the Mississippi River, regardless of Supreme Court rulings |
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| By 1840, what portion of Americans lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River? |
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| Which of the following was most responsible for the spread of cotton growing into the old Southwest? |
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| Which of the following statements about the Erie Canal is correct? |
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| It linked New York City through inland waterways to Ohio and made the city a major outlet for midwestern produce |
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| As a result of the Panic of 1819... |
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| many westerners hated the National Bank |
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| In the 1820s and the 1830s the majority of the workers in the Lowell and Waltham textile mills were |
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| young women from New England farms |
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| Which of the following statements about the professions in the late 1840s is correct? |
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| No state required a person to have medical education or a license to be a doctor |
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| By the mid-1830s which of the following accounted for 2/3s of America's foreign exports? |
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| The transportation revolution in the years after the War of 1812 contributed to the growth of all of the following except... |
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| industry in the deep south |
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| The immediate result of Jackson's distribution of federal funds to state banks was to... |
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| bring about rapid economic expansion, speculation, and inflation |
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| The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up in opposition to the... |
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| All of the following were found as Utopian communities except... |
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| Which of the following statements about William Lloyd Garrison is incorrect? |
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| He favored removal of freed blacks from the United States to colonies in Africa |
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| The "gag rule" was repealed in 1845 largely due to the efforts of... |
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| Martin Van Buren did not... |
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| defect to the newly formed Whig party in protest over Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis |
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| Reformers of the antebellum period... |
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| received their best response in New England and areas to which New Englanders had migrated |
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| Revivalists and Unitarians were similar in... |
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| their belief that human behavior could be changed for the better |
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| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments called for... |
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| The 1840s and 1850s in the United States were characterized by all of the following except... |
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| advances in medical knowledge |
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| All of the following were inventions of the antebellum period that were mass-produced and/or widely used in the 1840s and 1850s except... |
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| Alexander Graham Bell's telephone |
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| Which of the following cities declined in importance as a commercial center because of the railroad building that took place in the 1840s and 1850s? |
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| An urban middle-class home in the 1850s would probably not have... |
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| indoor faucets supplying hot and cold running water |
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| James Gordon Bennett was the... |
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| founder of the penny press |
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| Which of the following statements about transcendentalism is incorrect? |
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| it claimed that great literature must conform to universal standards or form and beauty |
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| In designing New York's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux... |
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| tried to create the look of the countryside and screen out the surrounding city |
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| Which of the following writers introduced into fiction the character of the American frontiersman and the theme of conflict between primitive life in the wilderness and the advance of civilization? |
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| Which of the following statements about the Hudson River school of painters is incorrect? |
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| its members painted only landscapes of the Hudson River and its vicinity |
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| The majority of white men in the antebellum South were... |
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| nonslaveholding family farmers |
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| all of the following were true of planters except... |
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| they almost always built mansions on their plantations for their families |
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| The yeomen farmers of the Old South... |
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| were congregated in the upland and hilly regions |
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| In 1857 a book calling on nonslaveholding southern whites to abolish slavery in their own inters was published by... |
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| As compared to the North, the Old South had a higher... |
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| In 1860, what percentage of southern whites owned at least one slave? |
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| The black family under slavery... |
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| received no legal recognition or protection |
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| Why weren't there more slave revolts in the Old South? |
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| Blacks were outnumbered by white almost everywhere in the South and lacked allies and guns |
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| Most blacks in the antebellum South... |
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| drew from Christianity as the religion of their slave masters |
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| Which of the following statements about white people of the pine barrens is incorrect? |
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| they usually worked for the planters as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or overseers |
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| The two biggest sources of immigration to the United States between 1840 and 1860 were... |
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| Ireland and the German states |
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| IN the case of Commonwealth vs. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that... |
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| labor unions were not necessarily illegal combinations or monopolies |
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| Squatter or popular sovereignty meant.. |
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| allowing residents of a territory to decide whether to permit slavery there |
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| Which of the following statements about President Polk's actions is incorrect? |
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| He ordered Zachary Taylor to keep his troops north of the Nueces River to avoid a confrontation with Mexico |
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| The expansionist phrase manifest destiny was first coined by... |
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| All of the following people or groups were nativist and anti-Catholic except.. |
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| The fate of the Donner party best illustrates... |
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| the hazards faced by pioneers traveling west on the Overland Trail |
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| The Senate rejected the treaty annexing Texas that was drawn up by Secretary of State John Calhoun because... |
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| he defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery |
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| The Wilmot Proviso called for... |
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| prohibiting slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico |
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| forts constructed by the Spanish to protect their missions in the Southwest |
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| Which of the following statements about the Compromise of 1850 is correct? |
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| Its passage was helped by Stephen Douglas's strategy of breaking up Clay's Omnibus bill into separate measure |
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| Personal-liberty laws were... |
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| State laws aimed at hampering enforcement of the fugitive slave act |
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| Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine... |
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| pointed out how settlers could exclude slavery from a territory despite the Dred Scott Case |
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| Which is the most valid statement describing the Republican party position in the election of 1860? |
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| There should be no further extension of slavery into the territories |
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| What did the South gain from the Compromise of 1850? |
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| a stronger fugitive slave law |
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| The lecompton constitution would have provided... |
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| a proslavery government for Kansas |
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| The Ostend Manifesto pertained to... |
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| The Dred Scott decision declared that Congress could not... |
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| bar slavery in the territories |
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| The secession of southern states began immediately after... |
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| The Crittenden compromise was not acceptable to Lincoln for all of the following reasons except... |
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| he had decided soon after his election to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation... |
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| freed the slaves in areas in rebellion against the U.S government |
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| Which of the following Union military objectives proved the hardest and took the longest to accomplish? |
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| Andrew Johnson was nominated as Lincoln's running mate in 1864 to... |
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| win the votes of prowar northern Democrats |
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| Which of the following men, denouncing Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and suspension of the write of habeas corpus, called for immediate peace with the Confederacy? |
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| Union capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was strategically important because... |
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| it gave the North control over the whole Mississippi River |
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| The supreme court ruled in Ex parte Milligan that... |
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| civilians could not be tried by military tribunals when the civil courts were open |
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| Slaves during the Civil War... |
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| ran to Union lines when they could and worked for or fought for the North |
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| By 1865, African Americans constituted about what portion of the Union army? |
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| Which of the following statements about he women in the Civil War is correct? |
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| Women replaced draftees in many of the industrial jobs in the North |
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| Which of the following statements is correct? |
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| Both the Union and the Confederacy printed unbacked paper money to help finance their war efforts |
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