The freedom rides of 1961 traveled through which of the following states? |
Alabama and Mississippi |
Why did the African-American civil rights protesters that marched in June 1963 in more than 186 cities not try more deliberately to avoid arrest? |
The very point of the protests was to illustrate the punitive nature of southern Jim Crow Laws. |
How could Birmingham police chief Eugene Connor have undermined Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategy in Birmingham in May 1963? |
He could have allowed the protesters to march unimpeded |
What did president John F Kennedy have in common with his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower? |
Both tended to view the entire world through the lens of the cold war. |
Why did John F. Kennedy consider civil rights a moral crisis for the nation? |
He found racial discrimination incompatible with the United States’ claim for leadership of the free world |
What set President Lyndon Baines Johnson apart from his predecessor John F. Kennedy? |
He knew the meaning of poverty and racial injustice from his own life |
Which of the following organizations does not belong in this group? |
YAF |
What did the defeat of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater show? |
The civil rights movement had redrawn the political map and opened the south to the Republican Party |
On what grounds could foreign nationals apply for immigrant status in the United States after 1965? |
Their families ties to U.S. citizens or other immigrants |
Why are the riots in American cities during the 1960’s best understood as battles? |
Urban blacks saw the predominantly white police force as an occupying army |
What did students of the new left movement think was missing in American Liberalism in the 1960’s? |
The practice of true participatory democracy |
In what ways did the counterculture represent the fulfillment of the consumer marketplace? |
The counterculture extended the concept of individual choice into every realm of life |
The slogan of the March on Washington was "Jobs and Freedom" |
True |
John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy for Latin America called for a revolution in Cuba |
False |
The Cuban Missile Crisis did nothing to change Kennedy’s attitudes toward the Cold War |
False |
At the onset of his presidency, John F. Kennedy regarded civil rights as his top priority |
False |
The Immigration Reform Act did not alter the rate or national origin of immigration after 1965 |
False |
Unlike the New Deal, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, not depression |
True |
Why did President Nixon embrace the Philadelphia Plan for affirmative action in the building trades? |
He was hoping to weaken the power of trade unions |
Why did the fight over busing become so violent in Boston in the mid-1970’s? |
Boston’s tightly knit Irish-American community in South Boston fought integration violently |
What triggered the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia? |
The invasion of U.S. troops in 1970 |
Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of the My Lai massacre? |
One person was found guilty in this killing of 350 civilians, but was released in 1974 |
What led to the congressional discovery that the FBI had spied on millions of Americans in the 1960’s? |
The Church Committee Investigations |
Why did conservatives have the last laugh in the Watergate scandal? |
Watergate proved the conservatives’ point that the power of the federal government had to be restricted |
Which of the following comparisons of wage trends for 1953 to 1973 and 1973 to 1993 is accurate? |
Wage gains were typically eaten up by inflation in the first half |
Why did President Carter cut off aid to Argentina in 1978? |
A brutal military dictatorship had emerged there, waging a dirty war against its own citizens |
How did the experience of the 1960’s shape America’s neoconservatives? |
Neoconservatives came to believe that even the best-intentioned social programs did more harm than good |
What setback did the advocates of the Roe V. Wade decision of 1973 suffer in 1976? |
President Ford vetoed federal funding for abortion |
How did trickle-down economics claim to increase government tax revenues? |
By lowering tax rates |
What victory could cultural conservatives claim in 1986? |
The supreme court upheld the constitutionality of state laws banning homosexual acts |
Richard Nixon appointed Earl Warren to chief justice of the supreme court in 1969 |
False |
Even during the energy crisis of the 1970’s the national economy grew |
False |
Why was it unlikely that the Soviet Union was going to embark on a new military campaign in the years following World War 2? |
The communist nation had suffered more than 20 million casualties, along with immense devastation |
Why did American policy makers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall plan? |
They were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the soviet sphere of influence |
Why did the United States allow West Germany to become part of a defensive alliance less than ten years after the defeat of Nazi Germany? |
The successful Soviet detonation of a nuclear bomb underlined the importance of a militarily united West |
In the 1950’s what did the term "Tolalitariansim" describe? |
Facism, Nazism, and communism |
How did the Soviet focus on social and economic rights in the Cold War human rights debate affect American Attitudes? |
In the climate of anticommunist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to socialism |
Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946? |
The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers’ real income |
Why did southern Democrats fear losing their position in the Democratic Party following its national convention of 1948? |
Party liberals under the leadership of Hurbert Humphrey had added a strong civil rights plank to the party platform |
Why did Harry Truman’s loyalty review system target homosexuals working for the government? |
Homosexuals were considered susceptible to blackmail and thought to be lacking the manly qualities necessary to fight communism |
The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954? |
The Army |
How did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric? |
They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda |
The freedom train contained documents such as the Wagner Act and FDR’s Four Freedoms speech |
False |
George Kennan’s Long Telegram laid the foundation for the policy of containment |
True |
The truman Doctrine was in support of giving billions of dollars for European economic recovery |
False |
Overall despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful |
False |
What about the golden age of capitalism between 1946 and 1960 was most beneficial for Americans? |
Most monetary gains reached ordinary citizens through rising wages |
The shopping mall was the inevitable result of what institution? |
The suburb |
What made the Army-McCarthy hearings unusual for American television programming of the 1950’s? |
It was deeply political and controversial |
Why were American suburbs of the 1950’s so heavily segregated? |
Residents, brokers, and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages that barred the sale to non-white |
What gave conservatives of the 1950’s their political unity? |
The common enemies of the Soviet Union and the federal government |
How did President Dwight d. Eisenhower surpass the New Deal in government involvement in the economy? |
He presided over the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways |
Why did the Eisenhower administration embrace the doctrine of "Masssive retaliation" |
The constant threat of mutually assured destruction under the doctrine made for more cautious diplomacy |
Why did the Soviet Union strongly support the national independence movements in the new third world? |
They hoped to convince new nations to ally themselves with the eastern bloc against European and American imperialists |
Why did the editors of Life magazine fear that American freedom might be in danger from to being used enough? |
Americans seemed to have largely withdrawn from open dissent in the public sphere |
Which of the following assessments of the civil rights movement is most accurate? |
The movement came as a great surprise and was predicted only by a few |
What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi? |
The idea of peaceful civil disobedience |
Which event did President John F. Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration? |
The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik |
The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950’s |
True |
The standard consumer package of the 1950s included a car, house, and television |
True |
The new conservatives understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition |
True |
In the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon by a landslide |
False |
According to supreme court justice Louis Brandis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression? |
By increasing their workers’ wages |
What time period most influenced the New Deal? |
First World War |
Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt dissolve the Civil Works Administration? |
Complaints multiplied that this measure was contributing to a permanent class of government dependents |
Why did workers during the 1930’s make demands that went beyond better wages? |
They were hoping to establish a set of basic civil liberties for workers |
In contrast to the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organization fought for:? |
Industrial democracy |
By 1935, Huey Long and Francis Townsend had made which of the following approaches to economic recovery less promising for New Dealers? |
Efforts at general business recovery |
Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace democracy? |
Social Security |
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt describe the notion of a "liberty of contract"? |
He denounced it as a service to the interest of "the privileged few" |
After the court packing attempt, how did the change in the jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court affect American life? |
The new political climate in the United States Supreme Court meant that a federal child labor ban could stand constitutional muster. |
Which of the following had been a traditional belief prior to the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes? |
Balanced budgets were sacred |
Which of the following statements best assesses the fate of feminism during the New Deal? |
Given the broad consensus that the job claims of male providers superseded women’s, organized feminism essentially disappeared |
Why did stigma around public assistance during the New Deal years? |
Black workers were relegated to the least generous assistance programs with discriminatory eligibility standards administered by states |
How did the federal government institutionalize racism during the New Deal? |
The Federal Housing Administration refused to ensure mortgages in integrated neighborhoods |
The Supreme Court ruled that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional |
True |
In the Past, Depressions had hurt the labor movement; however labor made great strides during the New Deal |
True |
Upton Sinclair campaigned for governor of California on the Share Our Wealth movement |
False |
Although well intended, the New Deal for Native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimiliations |
False |
In what aspect of American foreign policy did Franklin D. Roosevelt remove himself from Herbert Hoover’s precedent? |
He formally recognized the Soviet Union in an effort to stimulate trade |
Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt announce his candidacy for the third term in 1940? |
He argued that the recovery was too fragile and the international situation too dangerous for him to leave his post |
Why did so many American workers walk out of the jobs in 1943-1944? |
They charged their employers with the unseemly expansion of corporate profits |
What taste of freedom did women enjoy World War 2? |
The thrills and excitement of military service |
Who did publisher Henry Luce credit with the provision of "the abundant life" in his blueprint for postwar property, The American Century? |
Free enterprise |
On what grounds did the Austrian-born economist Friedricha. Hayek reject the New Deal state? |
He was convinced that even the best intentioned government planning efforts would threaten individual liberties |
Why did Executive Order 9066 not apply to persons of Japanese descent living in Hawaii? |
Since nearly 40 percent of the population was of Japanese descent, the evacuation order would have been impractical |
How did the promise of freedom in the postwar years differ for black and white Americans? |
For White American, freedom was a position to be defended; for African-Americans it was a goal to be achieved |
Why did the United States drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima? |
There was no indication that Japan was at all willing to surrender |
What made it so difficult for the United States to reject the demands of Joseph Stalin for establishing a Soviet sphere in eastern Europe? |
Roosevelt realized the sacrifices the Soviets had made in their victory in the eastern front |
What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common? |
They all had suffered the least casualties and financial losses during the war |
When war broke out in Europe in 1939, the Soviet Union stood virtually alone in fighting Germany |
False |
The America First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany |
False |
The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people |
False |
After the war, the South remained very poor. Many rural people lived without indoor plumbing |
True |
Which of the following assessments of the Roosevelt Corollary is accurate? |
It represented a vow to defend the Western Hemisphere against European intervention |
Which of the following elements of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instated back home? |
The League of Nations |
Why did the War Industries Board establish standardized specifications during World War 1? |
To increase efficiency and speed up production |
Assess the way in which the Committee on Public Information presented its message to encourage Americans to remain loyal and support to war effort? |
The CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy |
What did employers, urban reformers, as well as women reformers hope prohibition would achieve during the war years? |
Peace and order on the home front |
Which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the Sedition Act of 1918? |
"I call on you to boycott the draft" |
How did eugenics shape public policy during World War 1? |
It provided anti-immigrant sentiment with an air of professional expertise |
In what ways was W.E.B. Du Bois a typical progressive? |
He believed that investigation, exposure, and education could solve the nation’s problem |
How did Garveyites define freedom at the time of World War 1? |
As black self-reliance and national self-determination |
What triggered the surge of conservative governments in central Europe at the end of World War 1? |
The world wide revolutionary upsurge |
Assess the impact of the bombing of the New York Stock Exchange in September 1920? |
it caused the death of forty people |
Why did many people in eastern Europe consider Woodrow Wilson a "popular saint"? |
His criticism of imperialism helped eastern European peoples carve out new independent nations |
Patriotism during World War 1 meant support for the government, the war, and the American economic system |
True |
During World War 1, most progressives were outraged at the broad suppression of freedom of expression and spoke out against the Sedition Act |
False |
Americanization programs often targeted native born Anglo-Americans as transmitters of culture |
False |
How was American life different in the 1920’s than in the years prior? |
Although Americans worked hard in an increasingly industrial world, they also enjoyed more vacations |
Assess the state of individual American financial savings by the end of the 1920’s? |
By the end of the 1920’s, the majority of American families had no savings whatsoever |
Why did cigarettes become known as "torches of freedom" during the 1920’s? |
Women began to smoke cigarettes as an expression of personal freedom |
The prevailing jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court in the 1920’s can best be described as? |
Laissez-faire |
Which of the following best describes the significance of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922? |
It demonstrated a repudiation of Wilson’s free trade ideas |
What united the authors Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920’s? |
Both were deeply disillusioned with conservative American politics and materialism |
Which of the following legal bans no longer passed constitutional scrutiny by the end of the 1920’s ? |
Criminalizing the advocacy of unlawful acts for the sake of political change |
Which of the following trends of the 1920’s did fundamentalists support? |
The prohibition of liquor sales |
How did fundamentalist Christians define freedom in the 1920’s? |
As voluntary adherence to moral liberty |
What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920’s? |
Control of the nation should be returned to native-born protestants |
Which of the following best describes the economic dynamic of the Great Depression? |
Mass unemployment and the lack of investments triggered a devastating cycle of deflation |
What did Hoover’s observation during the depth of the Depression that "many persons left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples" indicate? |
President Hoover had grown increasingly out of touch with the economic reality of Americans |
If one commodity drove the economy in the 1920’s, it was the typewriter. |
False |
After World War 1, American corporations ceased to pursue overseas investments |
False |
Farmers benefited the most from the prosperity of the decade |
False |
During the 1920’s, labor lost over 2 million members |
True |
Which of the following prompted some urban observers to misjudge Populists as a backward-looking movement? |
Their beliefs in a commonwealth of small producers and the dignity of labor |
How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops? |
They called for public ownership of the railroads |
Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of Reconstruction? |
Investors came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital investments in the region |
How did racial segregation in the labor market affect Afican-American women? |
A high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic service |
How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South? |
They insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift" |
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs? |
The victim’s alleged sexual conduct |
The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890’s reflected:? |
A shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals |
Native-born middle class women under the leadership of Carrie Chapman-catt argued that they deserved the right to vote on account of:? |
Their status as an educated and superior race |
Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Phillippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American War? |
Cuba would have become an associated territory as well |
Which of the following was the reason for U.S. control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines? |
Control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval and commercial power |
Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish American War? |
Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between North and South |
William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans |
False |
The campaign of 1896 is considered the first modern campaign because of McKinley’s campaign travels |
False |
Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of Reconstruction |
False |
Why was "the city" the focus of progressive politics? |
The overwhelming majority of Americans lived in cities |
What was the most significant difference between Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and Ellis Island in the New York harbor? |
Angel Island had to administer the immigration of Asian and Mexican migrants |
Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism? |
Military service |
The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what? |
A mature consumer economy |
Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders? |
He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations |
What constitutional right did workers claim in defense of their public activism? |
The right to free speech |
Why did Montezuma call for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1916? |
The Bureau had failed to secure Indian self-determination. |
Why did progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World? |
Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation |
Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers’ ideas on the political process? |
They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures. |
Why did businesses support the Pure Food and Drug Act? |
They understood that greater public confidence in the quality of the products helped their sales. |
Why did the Wilson administration impose a graduated income tax in 1913? |
The substantial reduction of duties on imports required Wilson to make up for lost revenue |
Which of the following was a new governmental institution that Progressives had implemented by 1916 for the protection and advance of "industrial freedom"? |
Labor Unions |
Upton Sinclair wrote a piercing two-volume history of the Standard Oil Company |
False |
Angel Island was where most Mexican immigrants entered the United States |
True |
During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation |
True |
Progressives wished to completely overthrow industrial capitalism |
False |
How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy? |
The leadership for the civil rights movement came from African-American churches |
How did Fredrick Douglass see the post-Civil War South? |
Douglass wanted to ensure the ideals of the the Declaration of Independence became a reality for black men, too |
What would have made the Freedmen’s Bureau more effective? |
The government should have employed more agents to help with the numerous duties of the bureau |
According to the petition from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom? |
They tried to limit economic opportunity |
Through analyzing the "sharecropping Contract," what can be determined? |
The contract was a type of economic slavery |
what was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson? |
A man from a state that had seceded was now president |
How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln? |
When making decisions, Johnson was less flexible than Lincoln |
In what was was reconstruction policy a success? |
It established an amendment promising equal protection for all |
When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue? |
Both Congress and the president accused the other of unconstitutional acts |
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction? |
Women were excluded from the suffrage amendment |
When analyzing the election of 1876, what conclusion can be drawn? |
The Republican Party had increased its support in the South |
by examining Reconstruction from 1863-1877, what conclusion can be drawn? |
Equal rights for African-Americans continued to increase after 1877 |
Compared to rebels in the rest of world history, the rebels of the defeated Confederacy were treated very harshly |
False |
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto |
True |
The senate, following the House’s impeachment veto, removed Andrew Johnson from office |
True |
When the Union was restored by 1870, the southern states had Democratic majorities |
False |
Why did new products like Ivory Soap and Quaker Oats symbolize the continuing integration of the economy in America’s Gilded Age? |
These products were national brands, sold everywhere across the United States thanks to the expanding railroad network |
Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age? |
They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors |
How were skilled workers able to secure new freedoms for the themselves in rapidly expanding industries? |
Their knowledge allowed them to control the production process and the training of apprentices |
What did Native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia? |
They found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions |
According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later nineteenth century? |
Tribal life and autonomy on the nation’s reservations |
Why was WilliamTweed so popular with the city’s immigrant poor? |
He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes |
Which of the following best characterized the Democrats’ position on the Republicans’ monetary policy during the American Gilded Age? |
They largely agreed that the farmers’ demands for increasing the money supply had to be resisted |
Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890? |
The law established a precedent that the national government could regulate the economy in the interest of the public good. |
Which of the following property assesses the significance of wage labor in industrializing America during the Gilded Age? |
More and more Americans experienced wage labor as a permanent condition on the edge of poverty |
What did the books of Henry George, Laurence Gronlond, and Edward Bellamy all have in common? |
They all offered decidedly optimistic remedies for the unequal distribution of wealth |
The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
True |
By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non farm activities |
True |
Railroad companies divided the United States into Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones |
True |
The spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth |
True |
For the South in the 1830s, making the Texas territory part of the United States could potentially be most beneficial in what way? |
Several slave states could be created out of Texas |
When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest? |
Northern Democrats |
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through:? |
Wars with Mexico |
how did the territory acquired from the Mexican War promote Thomas Jefferson’s earlier idea of an Empire of Liberty? |
Only people classified as whites gained full rights |
The opening of Japan to United States trade let to what? |
Japan became a modernized military power |
Why was the extension of slavery significant politically? |
Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate |
What was ironic about the Fugitive Slave Act? |
The South promoted states’ rights but with this law agreed to strong federal action |
Why were the Know-Nothings unable to curb the political influence of Irish immigrants? |
Voting rights were being determined by race |
In the 1850s, which action would be in line with Abraham Lincoln’s views on race? |
An African-American man trains as an artisan and then starts his own business |
What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglass? |
Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves |
By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 election, what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear? |
The voters worried that if Stephen Douglas was elected, slavery would be eliminated immediately |
In regard to Fort Sumter, analyze the maneuvering of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Who was superior, Davis or Lincoln? |
Lincoln made the South look like the aggressor |
The issue of Texas annexation was hotly linked to slavery and affected the nominations of presidential candidates in the 1840s |
True |
In California after the Mexian-American War, landowners of Spanish heritage had to adjust to a new identity as if they were immigrants |
True |
What did fighting a defensive war mean for the Confederates? |
Since the weapon technology was basically equal, it was advantage for the Confederates |
The scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict? |
Vietnam War |
What disagreements existed between McClellan, the commander of the Army of the Potomac, and President Abraham Lincoln? |
Lincoln thought the general was not using his manpower advantage |
What would have been a practical outcome of the Emancipation Proclamation? |
Slaveowners would be compensated for their property |
Besides preserving the Union, how else has Lincoln’s legacy lived on in today’s America? |
He overcame regional differences to build a new nation-state |
What was a result of the expanding Union economy? |
The size and spending of the government increased tremendously |
By analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War? |
The Civil War was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight |
What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863? |
He hoped to deliver a knockout blow to the North |
Why was Vicksburg essential? |
Capturing the city allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi River |
What separated Grant from the other Union generals that commanded the Army of the Potomac? |
Grant was willing to wage a war of attrition |
What was one downside to Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan of Reconstruction? |
It only required one tenth of the area’s population to commit to supporting the Union and emancipation |
The Union navel blockade was very effective early in the war |
False |
Abraham Lincoln realized that his armies had to capture the Confederate capital, Richmond, in order to win the war |
True |
It was clear to most people from the beginning of the war that the war meant the end of slavery |
False |
Why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery? |
Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased |
Which of the following would have been a reflection of the paternalist ethos in southern slavery? |
The owner felt responsible for his slaves because the slaves could not take care of themselves |
What did paternalism reinforce? |
Slaves need to be watched carefully |
When comparing colonial slavery to nineteenth-century slavery, what was a major difference? |
In the colonial period, slaves did not work in the cotton fields |
What was the key to developing an African-American slave community? |
Slaves needed to have family members near them |
What was the biggest fear of a slave of any age? |
A family member being sold |
What role did Christianity play in slavery? |
Teaching slaves about Christianity helped to reinforce the owners’ ideas on paternalism |
Which of the following would be an example of "silent sabotage"? |
A slave on a large plantation slowed down the work pace |
In Joesph Taper’s letter to Joseph Long, how does Taper analyze his experience of living in Canada? |
The British system allowed for more "pursuit of happiness" |
In the New Testament, Jesus did not condemn slavery. What did this mean to southern slave holders? |
The New Testament could be used to endorse slavery |
Before his execution, how did Nat Turner see himself? |
He felt he was dying for the sin of slavery |
How did slavery take away the rights of whites? |
Written objections to slavery were banned in the South |
By 1860, the economic investments represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation’s factories, railroads, and banks combined |
True |
George Fitzhugh, a Virginia writer, stated slavery was part of civilized society |
True |
Free blacks in New Orleans worked as craftsmen |
True |
Despite being forbidden by law to marry, may slaves were able to create a family life on the plantation |
True |
Overall, how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women? |
Women needed to be treated as equals |
How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau? |
Thoreau focused on the individual; utopian leaders emphasized the community |
Why were most of the Utopian communities in the North? |
The South had few churches |
How did the Second Great Awakening influence American society? |
It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as slavery |
What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America? |
Education reform |
If the American Tract Society existed today, which of the following would anger this group? |
Businesses opening on Sundays to run special advertised sales |
Why did abolitionism’s focus move from a more gradual approach to calling for the immediate approach of ending slavery |
Slavery was growing in the Deep South, so a different approach was needed |
What was most significant about Theodore Weld’s argument concerning the sinfulness of slavery? |
Ministers could preach that slavery was the devil’s work |
Why could William Lloyd Garrison be seen as a more radical abolitionist than Fredrick Douglass? |
Garrison saw the Constitution as evil |
In his speech about the Fourth of July, how did Fredrick Douglass critique the founding of the United States? |
The Declaration of Independence was a good starting point for principles of freedom |
Which American Revolution ideology is best encapsulated in the Declaration of Sentiments? |
Give me liberty or give me death |
What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840? |
making slavery a prominent topic of conversation |
The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the upper south |
False |
The American Temperance Society directed its efforts at the drunkards but not the occasional drinker |
False |
In general, catholics supported the temperance movement |
False |
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