1) What impact did the Barbary Wars (under President Thomas Jefferson) have on the United States?  a

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1) What impact did the Barbary Wars (under President Thomas Jefferson) have on the United States? 

a. The wars caused a deep economic recession that damaged President Jefferson's national popularity. 

b. They led the U.S. government to declare that the United States was not founded upon Christianity.

2) During the presidency of John Adams, why did the Federalists secure passage of the Naturalization Act and the Sedition Act? 

a. They hoped to neutralize and silence their political opponents 

b. The northern United States was experiencing a large wave of undocumented immigrants

3) Which of the following is not an example of the market revolution's impact on the production of goods? 

a. Production tasks became subdivided and specialized

b. Employers devoted more time and resources to the training of workers 

c. The level of skill required for the production of goods declined 

4) How did Americans imagine that westward settlement would prevent the U.S. from becoming a society of rigid social classes, like those of Europe?

a. Westward settlement would provide a landowning alternative to low-wage poverty in the cities 

b. Western industrial enterprises paid better wages than their eastern counterparts

5) How did the Supreme Court and local judges grant greater power to the emerging corporations of the early-19th century? 

a. They empowered corporations to dominate communities and control their workplaces and workforces, without interference by state governments 

b. They declared that corporations were exempt from paying taxes on their profits, even when they operated on publicly-owned land 

6) Which of the following is incorrect regarding the anti-immigrant "nativist" movements of the mid-19th century? 

a. They feared that immigration was increasing the power and influence of the Catholic Church and the Pope. 

b. Their attitudes toward foreign newcomers reflected the those of Americans from many generations past

c. They successfully excluded the new immigrants from urban political and political influence

7) How did the market revolution affect the roles of women and the meaning of femininity? 

a. It expanded the economic opportunities and options available to women, as economic activity became more diverse and complex. 

b. It promoted the idea that women were uniquely designed for domesticity and the promotion of private virtue.

8) How did President Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States reflect a major national change in presidential leadership and power? 

a. A president had identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people, appealing directly to them for support. 

b. The financial disaster that his actions helped create caused a long decline in the power of the presidency.

9) Which of the following does not accurately characterize the prominent New York politician Martin Van Buren? 

a. He was a fervent believer in the unifying function of political parties, and he was the chief founder of the Democratic party

b. Like John Quincy Adams, he possessed a strong attachment to the political traditions of the Revolutionary era

c. He was a firm opponent of political conflicts between different regions of the country and wished to minimize them.

10) How did the Missouri Compromise foreshadow future conflicts over slavery? 

a. It failed to clarify whether slavery would be permitted in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory.

b. It raised the issue of the westward expansion of slavery for the first time. 

11.  How did the living conditions of southern white families without slaves differ from those of their northern counterparts? 

a. They tended to produce cash crops for the national market, rather than merely farming for their own subsistence. 

b. They were not a consumer market for manufactured goods produced in industrial areas. 

12. The slave rebellion led by Nat Turner had each of the following impacts, except

a. It demonstrated that the violent rhetoric of northern abolitionists was influencing slaves in the South. 

b. It led to a wave of repressive laws that tightened restrictions on slaves' daily activities. 

c. It demonstrated violent slave rebellions against white oppressors were doomed to end in failure. 

13. The three-fourths of southern whites who did not own slaves nevertheless supported the South's economic system because 

a. They believed that their own economic and personal freedom and status depended upon slavery. 

b. They feared the power of the slave-owning planter class to defend itself against any challenge to its authority 

c. Southern newspapers 

14. The buying and selling of slaves within the U.S. itself involved the movement of millions of slaves 

a. To the Cotton Belt of the Deep South 

b. From east of the Mississippi River to the west of the river

15. Which of the following helps explain why the slave-owning South was such a violent society? 

a. Power struggles between the planter elite and the white majority, who did not own slaves, were frequent and intense 

b. Defending one's reputation was a more urgent matter than it was in the individualistic and egalitarian North. 

16. Which of the following was not an economic activity that made the North a vital participant in the South's slave economy?

a. Manufacturing 

b. Railroads 

c. Maritime shipping 

17. Why were there more slave rebellions in Brazil and the Caribbean than there were in the American South? 

a. The ratio of slaves to whites was more evenly balanced in North America than in Brazil and the Caribbean. 

b. Living conditions made North American slaves more content than they did in Brazil and the Caribbean. 

18. Southern plantation owners imagined themselves to be modern-day version of Medieval aristocrats because 

a. They honestly believed that their obligations to the community were more important than profits. 

b. Their ancestral roots in the South were older and deeper than those of other white southerners. 

c. It helped justify their possession of a disproportionate share of the South's wealth and power 

19. In the "great civilizations" and "mud sill" justifications of slavery, southern slaveowners argued that 

a. The U.S. would become "a more perfect union" in the future, once slavery was no longer needed

b. Slave labor provided society's elite members with the opportunity to accomplish higher things 

c. The U.S. as a whole was the greatest civilization of all time, thanks to slavery. 

20. Which of the following was not a basic feature of southern society before the Civil War? 

a. Lack of change in that society's basic features over many generations 

b. Minimal concern for commercial priorities and northern-style business goals 

c. Strict adherence to codes of proper manners and behavior 

21. Regarding the colonization movement and the abolition movement that followed it, which of the following is correct? 

a. The colonizationists believed that slavery would eventually end on its own

b. The abolitionists wanted to send freed slaves back to Africa. 

c. The colonizationists were adamantly opposed to the owning of slaves. 

22. By the 1830s, white southerners had begun to argue that slavery was a "positive good," rather than a "necessary evil." Which of the following was not responsible for that change in thinking? 

a. Slavery was becoming increasingly essential to the profitability of the southern economy

b. Northern businessmen in the textile industry became reluctant to purchase cotton produced with slave labor 

c. Slave-owning had become an integral part of white southern society and culture. 

23.  During the antebellum era, African-American storytelling functioned as 

a. A form of rejection of African roots 

b. A form of paid entertainment for slave owners

c. A form of resistance to slavery 

24. Which of the following was the most common response of southern plantation slaves to their enslavement? 

a. Highly-organized work stoppages 

b. Armed rebellion 

c. Controlling the pace of work 

25. How did slaves find the Bible to be a source of inspiration and liberation? 

a. They focused on how the Bible condemns slavery in unambigious terms. 

b. They found validation in the Bible's warnings about the corrupting influence of wealth and power. 

c. They focused on the need to offer forgiveness to those who persecuted them. 

26. How does the "Preamble of the Mechanics Association of Trade Associations" (1828) use the language of the American Revolution to challenge workers' conditions? 

a. It quotes the Declaration of Independence to argue for worker's complete independence from employers. 

b. It refers to the evils of despotism and oppression, and the necessity of freedom and equality. 

27. In Democracy in America(1840), how does Alexis de Tocqueville characterize the conduct of individuals in "aristocratic nations" toward their predecessors and descendants? 

a. They believe themselves to be connected and obligated to both groups 

b. They have little memory of their predecessors and little concern for their descendants. 

28. According to Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America(1840), what makes Americans and their activities "monotonous"? 

a. They all must pursue social status in essentially the same manner. 

b. They lack the well-established cosmopolitan culture of Europe, which promotes varieties of forms of status. 

29. In Democracy in America(1840), how does Alexis de Tocqueville characterize Americans' relationship toward material goods? 

a. They never achieve deep fulfillment from acquiring them.

b. They value the quality of the goods more than their quantity. 

30. Why is northern employers' possession of capital an inadequate and insecure foundation for their own prosperity, according to George Fitzhugh in Cannibals All! (1857)? 

a. Because they do not own the people who work for them 

b. Because they don't manage their profits as effectively as southern planters do. 

31. According to George Fitzhugh's Cannibals All! (1857), why are southern slaves "the happiest, and in some sense the freest people in the world"? 

a. Slaves exert control over the plantation system in subtle and cunning ways that are invisible to the white observer. 

b. The system of slavery fulfills all of their needs and wants.