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1. Thomas Jefferson believed that.
2. By the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812,
3. During the Era of Good Feelings
4. The chief justice who carried out, more than any other federal official, the ideas of Alexander
Hamilton concerning a powerful federal government was
5. Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States because
6. Lewis and Clark’s expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory gained the US all of
the following except,
7. Macon’s Bill No. 2
8. When the United States entered the War of 1812
9. The delegates at the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions that called for
10. The Monroe Doctrine stated
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11. Which of the following was most responsible for the spread of cotton growing in to the old
Southwest?
12. In the 1820’s and 1830’s the majority of the workers in the Lowell and Waltham textile mills
were
13. Which of the following statements about the Erie Canal is correct?
14. The transportation revolution in the years of the War of 1812 contributed to the growth of all
of the following except
15. Which of the following statements about African-Americans living in the North between 1815
and 1840 is correct?
16. Andrew Jackson’s administration supported the removal of native Americans from eastern
states because
17. The Irish immigrants to early nineteenth-century America
18. The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
19. Compared with canals, railroads
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20. Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these
immigrants
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21. The immediate result of Jackson’s distribution of federal funds to state banks was
22. Which of the following statements about William Lloyd Garrison is incorrect?
23. Revivalists and Unitarians were similar in
24. The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments called for
25. John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having
struck a “corrupt bargain” when he appointed __________ to become __________.
26. Andrew Jackson’s political philosophy was based on his
27. The purpose behind the spoils system was
28. The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was
29. The Force Bill of 1833 provided that
30. Martin Van Buren’s most significant achievement in American politics was the
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31. Which advantages had the American Manufacturing System bring?
32. What city did Chicago replace as the “hub” of shipping goods west to east?
33. How was the use of coal a negative effect of the industrial revolution?
34. What was the major step that most doctors missed in surgical rooms?
35. All of the following were inventions of the antebellum period that were mass-produced
and/or widely used in the 1840s and 1850s except
36. James Gordon Bennett was the
37. What were minstrel shows?
38. Which of the following were NOT a part of the American Renaissance movement?
39. The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800-1860
40. In designing New York’s Central Park, Fredrick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
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41. The majority of white men in the antebellum South were
42. As compared to the North, the Old South had a higher
43. The black family under slavery
44. Why weren’t there more slave revolts in the Old South?
45. As the result of the introduction of the cotton gin,
46. All of the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except
47. Plantation mistresses
48. The following were ties between the Upper & Lower South except,
49. As a result of Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831, what had the South outlawed?
50. How did blacks interpret slavery?
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51. Popular sovereignty meant
52. The expansionist term Manifest Destiny was first coined by
53. The fate of the Donner Party best illustrates the
54. The Wilmot Provisio called for
55. How does Great Britain stir up controversy during the United State’s plan to annex Texas?
56. The United States’ victory in the Mexican War resulted in
57. Most Europeans immigrated to American with hopes to gain
58. The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between
59. Expansionists were concerned with the United States acquiring new territory in the West
because…
60. Why had the United States Senate view the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, a
complete failure?
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61. Compromise of 1850
62. Imbalance between slave and free states
63. Why had Kansas become an interest for Senator Stephen Douglas in 1853?
64. Which bill did Stephen Douglas propose to allow certain states to choose their slave status?
65. What was the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case?
66. The Ostend Manifesto pertained to
67. What is the most valid statement describing the Republican Party position in the election of
1860?
68. Why did John Brown choose Harper’s Ferry, Virginia to take over with former slaves?
69. Which state was the FIRST state to secede from the Union in 1860?
70. Why had many Upper South states resisted leaving the Union?
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71. Where did the majority of fighting take place during the Civil War?
72. Which of the following were considered Border States during the Civil War?
73. During the Battle of the Ironclads the South built an iron ship called ______________ and
the North built an iron ship called __________________.
74. Which attack in 1861 in South Carolina first sparked the Civil War?
75. Which was the FIRST battle of the Civil War in 1861?
76. Which year is the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln giving full
freedom to slaves?
77. Who leads one of the most significant campaigns of the Civil War by leaving a path of
destruction throughout South Carolina?
78. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
79. Why had the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi become an important target for General
Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War?
80. General _________________ surrenders at ____________________, Virginia in 1865
ending the Civil War.
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