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U.S. History 1 - Final Exam - Review - Day 1
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) A cotton gin
a) picks cotton.
c) removes cotton seeds.
b) spins cotton into cloth.
d) bales cotton.
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7) 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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8) When did Nat Turner lead his slave rebellion?
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a) 1831
b) 1808
c) 1822
d) 1793
9) 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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10) 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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11) 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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12) What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?
a) Wilderness Road
b) Albany Turnpike
c) National Road
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d) Erie Canal
13) 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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14) "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.
d) patrons of European powers.
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15) The "Era of Good Feelings" was used to describe the presidency of
a) Andrew Jackson.
b) John Quincy Adams.
c) Henry Clay.
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d) James Monroe.
16)
f
Robert Fulton
a) perfected the telegraph in 1832
17)
b
Frederick Douglass
18)
a
Samuel F.B. Morse
b) rose from slavery to become a prominent
leader of the antislavery movement
19)
g
Nat Turner
20)
e
Eli Whitney
21)
c
Henry Clay
22)
d
Francis C. Lowell
23)
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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24) 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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25) Andrew Jackson believed only the wealthy and well educated should hold political office.
a) True
b) False
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