Chapter 6 - The Spirit of Reform Test
1) Beginning in the early 1800s and continuing through the presidency of Andrew Jackson,
ordinary citizens became a greater political force.
a) True
b) False
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2) Andrew Jackson believed only the wealthy and well educated should hold political office.
a) True
b) False
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3) Many Americans believed that the Great Plains was a wasteland and that moving Native
Americans there would end the conflict with them.
a) True
b) False
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4) William Henry Harrison was a simple frontiersman.
a) True
b) False
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5) Most Irish immigrants arrived in America with no money and few marketable skills.
a) True
b) False
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6) In the 1800s, Irish and German immigrants stirred feelings of nativism among Americans
because the immigrants were mostly Catholic.
a) True
b) False
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7) The first antislavery societies believed that ending slavery would not end racism in the country.
a) True
b) False
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8) In the South, many residents viewed abolitionism as an attack on their entire way of life.
a) True
b) False
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9)
e
William Lloyd Garrison
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d
Emma Willard
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f
Elizabeth Blackwell
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b
Frederick Douglass
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a
David Walker
14)
c
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
a) published the pamphlet Appeal to the Colored
Citizens of the World
b) African American abolitionist who was a
brilliant thinker and electrifying speaker;
published an antislavery newspaper
c) organized the Seneca Falls Convention, which
marked the beginning of an organized
women’s movement
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d) founded a girls’ boarding school in Vermont
e) founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
f) first woman to earn a medical degree in the
United States
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15)
d
National Nominating Convention
a) to withdraw from the Union
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b
Caucus System
17)
a
Secede
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c
Spoils System
b) practice of selecting presidential candidates at
a meeting of the party’s congressional
members
c) practice of appointing people to government
jobs on the basis of party loyalty and support
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d) practice of selecting presidential candidates at
a meeting of state delegates
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19) Most German immigrants arriving between 1815 and 1860 settled in
a) Massachusetts and New York.
b) Pennsylvania and Ohio.
c) Louisiana and New Mexico.
d) California and Texas.
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20) The new revivalism of the early 1800s rejected the traditional Calvinist idea that
a) all people could attain grace through faith.
b) only a chosen few were predestined for salvation.
c) only God would choose who was saved.
d) each person contained the capacity for spiritual rebirth and salvation.
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21) Underlying the prison reform movement was a belief in
a) educating prisoners to make them better citizens when they got out.
b) rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up.
c) relaxing the harsh discipline to make prisons more humane.
d) bring criminals back to God.
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22) Supporters of gradualism believed that the first step in ending slavery should be to
a) phase out slavery in the North.
b) phase out slavery in the Lower South.
c) stop new slaves from being brought into the country.
d) stop plantation owners from buying new slaves.
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23) Abolitionists argued that enslaved African Americans should be
a) freed immediately, without compensation to former slaveholders.
b) freed gradually with compensation to former slaveholders.
c) freed gradually to give the South’s economy time to adjust.
d) sent to their ancestral homelands in Africa.
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24) In the North, citizens ____ the abolitionist movement.
a) supported
b) opposed
c) did not know much about
d) held a wide range of views of
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25) " . . . We arrived here about five o'clock in the afternoon of yesterday, fourteen of us together,
where we were received with the greatest kindness of respectability . . . .When we came to the
house we could not state to you how we were treated. We had potatoes, meat, butter, bread,
and tea for dinner. . . . If you were to see Denis Reen when David Danihy dressed him with
clothes suitable for this country, you would think him to be a boss or steward, so that we have
scarcely words to state to you how happy we feel at present."
—Daniel Guiney, quoted in Out of Ireland
This immigrant's words give you a sense of how __________ the United States had become by
the 1850s.
a) stingy
b) welcoming
c) confusing
.
d) happy
26) According to the graph below, which year saw the biggest jump in voter participation from the
previous election, and what was that total participation for the year?
a) 1828 at 57.6 percent
b) 1832 at 55.4 percent
c) 1836 at 57.8 percent
d) 1840 at 80.2 percent
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27) The Second Bank of the United States played an important role in
a) lending money to poor farmers, especially Western settlers.
b) keeping the money supply of the United States stable.
c) supplying the gold and silver that supported state bank notes.
d) allowing banks to make loans at a higher interest rate.
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28) What kind of movement was the Second Great Awakening?
a) women’s rights movement
b) temperance movement
c) abolitionist movement
d) religious revival movement
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29) Tax-supported elementary schools in rural areas did not spread as quickly as in urban areas
because
a) rural communities could not acquire the necessary funding.
b) children were needed to help with planting and harvesting.
c) rural families did not value education as much.
d) rural areas could not attract teachers to their schools.
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30) Elizabeth Cady Stanton shocked others in the women's movement by proposing that they focus
on
a) equal pay for equal work.
b) getting women elected to Congress.
c) gaining the right to vote.
d) gaining workplace opportunities.
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31) Referring to this time line, the seeds of reform were being sown in all of the following areas
except
a) slavery.
b) women’s rights.
c) fair wages.
d) discrimination.
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32) "A young woman, a pauper . . . was for years a raging maniac. A cage, chains, and the whip
were the agents for controlling her, united with harsh tones and profane language. [A local
couple who took in the woman] are [now] careful of her diet. She calls them 'father' and 'mother.'
Go there now, and you will find her 'clothed,' and though not perfectly in her 'right mind,' so far
restored as to be a safe and comfortable inmate."
––Dorothea Dix
The quote shows an example of the ____________ movement.
a) temperance
b) women’s rights
c) prison reform
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d) educational reform
33) Based on the information in the graph, which is true of the period between 1815 and 1850?
a) Two million Irish immigrants came to the United States.
b) One third of immigrants who came to the United States were Irish.
c) Twice as many German immigrants as Irish immigrants came to the United States.
d) A total of 7 million immigrants came to the United States.
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34) To which movement did the passing of the first mandatory school attendance law belong?
a) voters’ rights
b) education
c) abolition
d) women’s rights
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35) Some Southerners demanded the suppression of abolitionist material as a condition for
a) continuing slavery.
b) remaining in the Union.
c) enforcing personal liberty laws.
d) considering abolition.
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36) In the early 1800s, many white men gained the right to vote because states
a) eliminated all voting qualifications for white men.
b) were forced by a new federal law to allow all white men to vote.
c) wanted to expand voting rights to farmers.
d) lowered or eliminated property ownership as a voting qualification.
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37) Which of the following people was NOT an abolitionist leader?
a) Thomas Dew
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Theodore Weld
d) Prudence Crandall
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38) Groups such as the Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner pledged never to vote for a
_______________ and pushed for laws banning them from holding public office.
a) Mormon
b) Universalist
c) Catholic
d) Protestant
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39) In 1833 Congress passed the Force Bill, authorizing the president to
a) use the military to enforce acts of
b) have members of Congress arrested.
Congress.
c) use the military to enforce new voting laws.
d) declare war without a vote from Congress.
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40) During the 1840s, more than a dozen states enacted sweeping prison reforms and created
special institutions for
a) the underage.
b) alcoholics.
c) the mentally ill.
d) debtors.
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41) Supporters of _______________ wanted slaveholders to be compensated for their loss when
slavery ended.
a) abolitionism
b) secession
c) colonization
d) gradualism
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42) Many residents in the South defended the institution of slavery because they
a) believed it was the key to the economy in their region.
b) feared an end to slavery would bankrupt many planters.
c) thought an end to slavery would lead to civil war.
d) wanted to protect the economy in the North.
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