Download a) National Republicans. - History With Mr. Wallace

Name:_____________________________________ Class: U.S. History 1 Date:_______________
Mr. Wallace
Chapter 5 - Division and Growth - Chapter Assessment
1) The rise of Southern industry kept pace with the spread of cotton plantations across the South.
a) True
b) False
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2) Most Southern slaveholders lived a life of gentility in grand mansions.
a) True
b) False
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3) Some African Americans had earned their freedom fighting in the American Revolution.
a) True
b) False
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4) Missouri's territorial government requested admission into the Union as a slave state.
a) True
b) False
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5) Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin AND popularized the use of the assembly line, transforming
gun manufacturing.
a) True
b) False
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6) The steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could
a) carry more cargo.
b) travel upstream.
c) provide on-board entertainment.
d) navigate smaller rivers.
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7) The Boston Manufacturing Company, a huge textile mill, employed mostly women and children
because
a) their small fingers were well suited to
b) they would work for lower wages than
spinning cloth.
men.
c) the company wanted to help families who
needed more than one income.
d) the company could not find enough men to
fill all the available jobs.
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8) A cotton gin
a) picks cotton.
c) removes cotton seeds.
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b) spins cotton into cloth.
d) bales cotton.
9) According to an accepted amendment to the Missouri Compromise, slavery
a) could expand into the Arkansas territory but not the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
b) could not expand into any other western territories.
c) could expand into the Great Plains but not to the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
d) would be allowed in a new state only if a free state entered the Union at the same time.
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10) John Quincy Adams won the presidency in 1824 because
a) he won the most popular votes.
b) he won the majority of votes in the Electoral
College.
c) he won the election in the Senate.
d) he won the election in the House of
Representatives.
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11) After the 1824 election, supporters of Jackson labeled themselves as Democrats, while Clay
and his supporters formed a new party called the
a) National Republicans.
b) Democratic-Republicans.
c) Democratic-Federalists.
d) Republican Federalists.
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12) When did Nat Turner lead his slave rebellion?
a) 1831
b) 1808
c) 1822
d) 1793
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13) Judging by the quotation below, how did Lucy Larcom feel about her work in the factory?
"I know that sometimes the confinement of the mill became very wearisome to me. In the sweet
June weather I would lean far out the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of the
sound inside. Looking away to the hills, my whole stifled being would cry out, 'Oh, that I had
wings!'"
—Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood
a) Lucy felt imprisoned in the mill and by her work.
b) She wished for some noise to break up the silent monotony of work.
c) Lucy relished her work and the sounds of the factory.
d) She was invigorated by her work and the factory environment.
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14) Based on the chapter content, what environment is Lucy Larcom most likely describing in this
quote?
a) a prison cell
b) a windmill
c) the workshop in her home
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d) work in a factory
15) "As far as the eye can stretch in the distance nothing but corn and wheat fields are to be seen;
and on some points in the Scioto Valley as high as a thousand acres of corn may be seen in
adjoining fields, belonging to some eight or ten different proprietors."
—description of Ohio, from The Cultivator (September 1851)
When the reporter who wrote the above excerpt described the Scioto Valley in 1851, he was
trying to portray a
a) Northern state that was fertile and bore the fruits of the labor of hardworking farmers.
b) Southern state that was fertile and made a great deal of money for plantation owners.
c) Southern scene where only a few farms were profitable and the rest barely survived.
d) Northern scene where only a few farmers had access to the land and because of that, only
two kinds of crops were grown.
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16) The Tariff of 1816 nurtured American manufacturers by
a) banning certain imports.
b) banning certain exports.
c) taxing imports.
d) taxing exports.
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17) In the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, Spain
a) ceded New Mexico to the United States.
c) agreed to control the Seminoles.
b) ceded Florida to the United States.
d) agreed to end slavery.
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18) What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?
a) Wilderness Road
b) Albany Turnpike
c) National Road
d) Erie Canal
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19) In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Supreme Court ruled that
a) child labor was illegal.
b) union strikes were legal.
c) labor organizing was illegal.
d) a workday of 10 hours was legal.
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20) As president, John Quincy Adams wanted to
a) expand the use of federal funds for internal improvements.
b) restrict the use of federal funds for internal improvements.
c) leave funding of internal improvements to the states.
d) leave funding of internal improvements to private businesses.
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21) Based on the map, which of the following states permitted slavery in 1820?
a) New York
b) Ohio
c) Georgia
d) Illinois
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22) "In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which the
rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free
and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be
considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."
—proclamation by President James Monroe
Monroe stated in the above proclamation that the American continents would be
a) areas for European colonization.
b) free and independent.
c) advocates of European colonization.
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d) patrons of European powers.
23) What two major crops that played a role in the South's fortunes were grown in both Texas and
Louisiana?
a) rice and tobacco
b) rice and sugarcane
c) cotton and tobacco
d) sugarcane and cotton
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24) The "Era of Good Feelings" was used to describe the presidency of
a) Andrew Jackson.
b) John Quincy Adams.
c) Henry Clay.
d) James Monroe.
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25) The leading economic activity in the United States in the early 1800s was
a) farming
b) road and canal building.
c) textile mills.
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d) building railroads.
26)
f
Robert Fulton
a) perfected the telegraph in 1832
27)
b
Frederick Douglass
28)
a
Samuel F.B. Morse
b) rose from slavery to become a prominent
leader of the antislavery movement
29)
g
Nat Turner
30)
e
Eli Whitney
31)
c
Henry Clay
32)
d
Francis C. Lowell
33)
h
John Quincy Adams
c) chief architect / supporter of the Missouri
Compromise
d) introduced mass production of cotton cloth to
the United States
e) invented the cotton gin and made use of
interchangeable parts
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f) took the Clermont 150 miles up the Hudson
River
g) led a slave revolt in 1831, resulting in the
death of 55 whites.
h) won 1824 presidential election in the House of
Representatives
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34)
a
Gibbons v. Ogden
35)
c
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
36)
b
McCulloch v. Maryland
a) Ruled that a company’s state-granted
monopoly over steamboat traffic in an area
was unconstitutional
b) Ruled that a national bank was constitutional
and that a state may not tax it
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c) Ruled that a Virginia law conflicted with Jay’s
Treaty, which recommended the states
restore confiscated property to Loyalists
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37)
c
Interchangeable Parts
38)
b
Labor Union
39)
d
Protective Tariff
40)
a
National Road
a) extended from Cumberland, Maryland, to
Wheeling, Virginia
b) organization that usually focused on a single
trade in the late 1820s and early 1830s
c) allowed machines to turn out large quantities
of identical pieces that workers assembled
into finished products
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d) taxed imports to drive up their prices
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