Deck 10: Shaping America in the Antebellum Age

Question 1

The Mormons faced public hostility because of

A) rumors of unorthodox sexual practices.
B) prejudice against immigrants.
C) their passive religious activities.
D) All of the above. .

Answer 1

All of the above. .

Question 2

Religious enthusiasm and commitment were the means by which some Americans of the 1830s found certainty and reassurance in a fast-changing world.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, politics was primarily the business of the social and economic elite.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Upon passage of a compromise tariff in 1833, South Carolina agreed that states do not have the powers of nullification or secession.

Question 5

The cost of moving the Cherokee Indians, which totaled $6 million, was deducted from the $9 million awarded the tribe for their eastern lands, and of the 15,000 who set out, perhaps a quarter died.

Question 6

International trade problems probably contributed more to the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent depression than Jackson's policies.

Question 7

Democrats tended to be more moralistic than Whigs, viewing politics as an appropriate arena for cleansing society of sin.

Question 8

Many prison inmates went mad or committed suicide stemming from reforms that included tiny cells and solitary confinement in the mid-1800s.

Question 9

Between 1828 and 1832, dozens of workingmen's parties arose in the United States.

Question 10

Between 1834 and 1836, American workers struck some 168 times.

Question 11

The American Colonization Society was founded in 1856 but settled no blacks in Africa.

Question 12

In 1837, Theodore Weld published American Slavery as It Is, a major criticism of the institution.

Question 13

In 1829 a northern free black man named Nat Turner published a pamphlet that called for slave rebellion.

Question 14

In 1850 at its annual meeting, the American Antislavery party split into opposing factions.

Question 15

As a result of the Second Great Awakening, the ________ church became the largest denomination in the United States by 1844, with over a million members.

Question 16

Protesting against slavery and the Mexican War, ________ refused to pay his taxes, went to jail briefly, and wrote the classic essay "On Civil Disobedience" (1849).

Question 17

In his famous essay Exposition and Protest, John Calhoun presented the doctrine of ________, by which southern states could protect themselves from harmful national action.

Question 18

The Cherokee remember their forced removal, during which perhaps a quarter of their tribe died, as the ________.

Question 19

In the election of 1832, the National Republicans adopted the name of ________ to show their opposition to "King Andrew" Jackson and his supporters.

Question 20

Alexander Graham argued that ________ should be eaten to preserve health.

Question 21

In 1853 Charles Brace started the ________ in New York City that became a model of change.

Question 22

Thomas ________ helped to found schools for the blind and deaf.

Question 23

The ________, founded in 1834, was the first attempt at a national labor organization in the United States.

Question 24

The ________ ushered in a depression that emptied the hopes and pockets of American workers.

Question 25

The first American college to open its doors to men and women, blacks and whites, was ________.