Deck 12: Peoples in Motion, 1832-1848

Question 1

American slave traders transported thousands of enslaved men, women, and children to the __________ for sale.

A) British empire
B) Caribbean
C) Upper South
D) Lower South

Answer 1

Lower South

Question 2

How did the United States government encourage settlement in Oregon?

A) by securing peace with Indians of the region
B) by paying bounties on furs from Oregon
C) by surveying and mapping the Oregon Trail
D) by granting land to potential settlers

Answer 2

by surveying and mapping the Oregon Trail

Question 3

How did England treat Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century?

A) like a colony that existed purely to enrich England
B) as an autonomous nation
C) as an equal partner in the nation of Great Britain
D) like a political ally

Answer 3

like a colony that existed purely to enrich England

Question 4

By 1847, __________ had decided the Mormons could not remain in Illinois.

A) Joseph Smith
B) Hyrum Smith
C) Lewis Cass
D) Brigham Young

Question 5

What do the patterns of the internal slave trade in the first half of the nineteenth century suggest?

A) that there was a strong and growing demand for slaves in the Upper South
B) that demand for slaves in the Lower South was in decline
C) that there was a strong and growing demand for slaves in the Lower South
D) that demand for slaves was equally strong in the Upper and Lower South

Question 6

In 1845 a potato blight in __________ led to mass migration to the United States.

A) Ireland
B) Germany
C) Scotland
D) France

Question 7

Throughout the 1830s, the U.S. government pursued the policy of __________.

A) removing Indians from the Southeast
B) assimilating Indians into white society
C) forcing Indians to relocate to the Southeast
D) leaving Indians alone as much as possible

Question 8

The Panic of 1837 __________.

A) devastated the National Trades Union
B) led to unemployment rates above 50 percent
C) was a boon to the labor movement
D) was made worse by the actions of French creditors

Question 9

The General Trades Union __________.

A) consisted of fifty trade societies
B) organized white collar workers
C) was only open to highly skilled workers
D) was repudiated by both the Whigs and the Democrats

Question 10

Which of the following helps explain why the Mormons prospered in Utah?

A) They set up an effective irrigation system.
B) They found gold.
C) They sold supplies to other settlers.
D) They established textile factories.

Question 11

__________ led many German intellectuals, farmers, and workers to flee the region.

A) An invasion by France of Austria in 1830
B) A failed uprising against the Prussian state in 1848
C) A series of failed harvests in central Europe
D) A successful revolution in Austria in 1848

Question 12

Who led the led the Seminole resistance in the Second Seminole War?

A) John Ross
B) Osceola
C) John Ridge
D) Elias Boudinot

Question 13

Which of the following helps explain why Martin Van Buren won the presidential election of 1836?

A) The Democrats were split by region.
B) The Whigs fielded three candidates.
C) Van Buren was the most popular man in America.
D) Van Buren got credit for many of Andrew Jackson's accomplishments.

Question 14

Which of the following groups supported the Whigs?

A) advocates of Clay's American System
B) proslavery expansionists
C) admirers of Andrew Jackson
D) newly arrived immigrants

Question 15

Between 1830 and 1850, __________ immigrants entered the United States.

A) 93,000
B) 152,000
C) 2.3 million
D) 5 million

Question 16

In the 1840s, it is estimated that every family moved once every __________ years.

A) three
B) four
C) five
D) ten

Question 17

Which of the following was true of the Trail of Tears?

A) Four thousand Indians died in the course of the forced march.
B) Most of the participants in the march were Seminole Indians.
C) It led from Georgia to Mississippi.
D) It was carried out in direct violation of federal law.

Question 18

Between 1800 and 1860, the average price of slaves __________.

A) fell by 50 percent
B) doubled
C) quadrupled
D) increased ten-fold

Question 19

Anti-Jackson forces, led by __________, formed the Whig party.

A) Nicholas Biddle
B) Henry Clay
C) Daniel Webster
D) Martin Van Buren

Question 20

Most Irish immigrants settled __________.

A) in the far West
B) in the Lower South
C) in the Midwest
D) on the eastern seaboard

Question 21

Sarah and Angelina Grimké were __________.

A) fugitive slaves
B) reviled by most abolitionists
C) born into a South Carolina slaveholding family
D) killed by an angry mob

Question 22

Sylvester Graham argued that __________ was bad for one's health.

A) regular church attendance
B) sexual excess
C) wheat flour
D) politics

Question 23

__________ defended the African slaves in the Amistad case.

A) Nicholas Biddle
B) Martin Van Buren
C) John Tyler
D) John Quincy Adams

Question 24

Which of the following was true of the Washington Society?

A) It encouraged men to give up drinking alcohol.
B) It was a nativist organization.
C) It called for the creation of a public school system.
D) It sought the revival of the Federalist party.

Question 25

Nativists held that immigrants should be __________.

A) watched and monitored by the police
B) required to live in the territories
C) welcomed with open arms
D) denied the rights enjoyed by white male native-born Americans

Question 26

In his book Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States, __________ charged that Catholics were a threat to American democracy.

A) Franklin Pierce
B) Martin Van Buren
C) Samuel F. B. Morse
D) Henry Ward Beecher

Question 27

The Grimké sisters saw similarities between the legal constraints faced by __________.

A) white women and slaves
B) free blacks and religious dissenters
C) Hispanics and Asians
D) poor whites and free blacks

Question 28

The Whigs promoted William Henry Harrison as a(n) __________.

A) simple, humble man
B) natural aristocrat
C) an enlightened man of ideas
D) polar opposite of Andrew Jackson

Question 29

When William Henry Harrison died shortly after taking office, __________ became president.

A) Franklin Pierce
B) Millard Fillmore
C) Zachary Taylor
D) John Tyler

Question 30

The Panic of 1837 was brought on by __________.

A) the collapse of the Bank of the United States
B) overspeculation in canals, turnpikes, railroads, and slaves
C) falling cotton prices
D) Spanish banks calling in American loans

Question 31

__________ was the most famous fugitive slave in America.

A) Solomon Northrup
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Sarah Grimké
D) David Walker

Question 32

__________ founded New Harmony in Indiana in 1825.

A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Robert Owen

Question 33

Horace Mann was the leading promoter of __________.

A) urban sanitation systems
B) women's property rights
C) prison reform
D) public school systems

Question 34

Who benefited the most from the emergence of public school systems in the 1830s and 1840s?

A) northern white children
B) northern black children
C) southern white children
D) midwestern white children

Question 35

What was the gag rule?

A) a ban on the reading of antislavery petitions in Congress
B) a ban on the publication of antislavery petitions in newspapers
C) a ban on mailing antislavery literature to the South
D) a ban on giving antislavery speeches in Washington D.C.

Question 36

Why did some evangelical Protestants object to Andrew Jackson's political rhetoric?

A) They were uncomfortable with his denigration of custom and tradition.
B) They believed his speeches demonstrated too much tolerance for Catholic immigrants.
C) They worried that he downplayed his own personal religious experience.
D) They thought religion, not class, should shape politics and society.

Question 37

Robert Owen's New Harmony was founded on __________.

A) the core concepts of tradition, loyalty, and faith
B) the notion of individual self-expression
C) the principles of cooperative labor
D) the ideas of Karl Marx

Question 38

Between 1830 and 1850, the number of colleges __________.

A) increased by 50 percent
B) increased by 75 percent
C) more than doubled
D) more than quadrupled

Question 39

By the 1830s, almost all states required __________.

A) midwives to attend medical school
B) immigrants to wait five years before voting
C) voter identification
D) that doctors be licensed

Question 40

William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator called for __________.

A) a ban on slavery in the territories
B) a renewed colonization movement
C) gradual, compensated emancipation
D) immediate emancipation

Question 41

Which of the following was in dispute in 1846 between Mexico and the United States?

A) fishing rights in the Gulf of Mexico
B) the status of slaves in Mexico
C) the southern border of Texas
D) the purchase price of California

Question 42

What were the key issues in the election of 1844?

Question 43

How did public education emerge and develop in the 1830s and 1840s?

Question 44

Supporters of manifest destiny believed that _____________.

A) white Americans were a superior and exceptional race
B) one day Native Americans would be assimilated into white society
C) slavery was a stain on the American soul
D) one day the entire world would be ruled by democratic governments

Question 45

Who were the nativists and why did they oppose immigration and immigrants?

Question 46

The Wilmot Proviso __________.

A) banned slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico
B) sought to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law
C) provoked outrage in the North
D) secured easy passage in Congress

Question 47

Why did the Democrats refuse to nominate Martin Van Buren in 1844?

A) He was outspoken in his opposition to slavery.
B) He was outspoken in his opposition to the annexation of Texas.
C) He was outspoken in his support for the Bank of the United States.
D) He was outspoken in his support for Clay's American system.

Question 48

By 1835, only one out of every __________ Texans was a native Spanish speaker.

A) three
B) five
C) two
D) eight

Question 49

Describe the development of the American antislavery movement in the 1830s.

Question 50

The 1829 Texas constitution ________________.

A) favored the Tejano minority
B) gave women the right to vote
C) abolished slavery
D) prohibited free blacks from living there.

Question 51

Which of the following was true of Dorothea Dix?

A) She got her start as reformer as a Sunday school teacher.
B) She was primarily interested in women's rights.
C) She brought the settlement house idea to America.
D) She was born in abject poverty.

Question 52

Which of the following was a key term of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

A) The United States gained all of Texas and half of Mexico.
B) The United States paid Mexico $200 million.
C) Mexico gained trading rights at New Orleans.
D) Slavery was established in all of the Southwest.

Question 53

The 1844 the Democrats nominated__________.

A) Martin Van Buren
B) William Henry Harrison
C) James K. Polk
D) Henry Clay

Question 54

What did Robert Owen and John Humphrey Noyes have in common?

A) They were both Mormons.
B) They were both dedicated to the abolition of slavery.
C) They were both industrialists.
D) They both condemned traditional marriage.