US History Quiz 6
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The Second Great Awakening was a reaction to: Question options:
a) the intellectual and social changes caused by the market revolution, westward expansion, and European immigration b) the lack of sleep people were getting due to long work days during the First Industrial Revolution c) the Enlightenment
d) a conspiracy theory that the Freemasons were trying to take over the US government on
Which of the following statements is true about US Indian Policy during the 1820s-1830s? Question options:
a) The US government removed the Cherokee despite the fact that they had embraced assimilation by adopting a written la
a tribal constitution based on the US Constitution.
b) None of the social reform movements born out of the Second Great Awakening tried to protect Indian rights.
c) The Supreme Court ruled that individual states had sovereignty over the Indian tribes living inside their state borders.
d) White Americans universally supported Indian removal.
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The abolitionist movement splintered in the 1830s because:
Question options
:
a) disagreement on whether or not abolition could be accomplished through the US political system due to the belief that th
Constitution was pro-slavery.
b) resentment that arose after women were elevated to leadership positions inside the American Anti-Slavery Society.
c) violent attacks by opponents of abolition in the North and South.
d) all of the above
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The wave of early 19th century religious revivalism that preached spiritual and moral renewal is known as: Question options:
a) evangelicalism b) the Second Great Awakening
c) the Catholic Reformation
d) deism on
By 1860, cotton alone accounted for __ percent of the total U.S. exports for the year.
Question options:
a) 40
b) 50
c) 60
d) 80
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In the U.S. South, the practice of ____ exemplified the often-
violent masculine code of honor that helped define elite culture in the region.
Question options:
a) bareknuckle boxing
b) arm-wrestling
c) dueling d) sword fighting on
Among the most important varieties of cotton in the U.S. South was the ____. It was developed in the 1830s and quickly dominated the export market.
Question options:
a) Eli Whitney
b) Petit Gulf
c) Sea Island Cotton
d) Short-staple cotton
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Which of the following statements is true about land prices in Mississippi in the decades leading up to the U.S. Civil War?
Question options:
a) Land purchased for $600 in 1835 could be sold for as much as $3,000 in 1850. Speculation in land made real estate value
b) Land purchased for $600 in 1835 could be sold for as much as $100,000 in 1850. Speculation in land made real estate va
volatile.
c) There was so much land, and it was so variable that it is difficult to say with any certainty what real estate values looked time.
d) Land prices declined. The agrarian South was not able to compete with the industrial North.
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What percent of all US exports did cotton make up by 1860?
Question options:
Under 35%
Nearly 90%
Over 60%
Around 50%
on What was different about the Cane Ridge, KY revival in 1801 compared to previous annual gatherings of rural protestants?
Question options:
Preachers from multiple denominations all spoke, encouraging individuals to seek their own salvation.
Baptists and Methodists at the gathering barred Protestant ministers from evangelizing.
It represented a move towards a more orderly and structured protestant church service.
Women were encouraged to preach.
n The Second Great Awakening influenced a wave of social reform movements starting in the 1820s because: Question options:
a) establishing Christianity as the state religion of the United States made reform a government imperative.
b) ideas like perfectionism, disinterested benevolence, and millennialism encouraged Americans to reject individualism and
more selfless endeavors.
c) the erosion of hierarchy and social deference made wealthy elites feel like they were losing a grip on society. d) George Whitefield gave a series of inspirational speeches before the US Congress.
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The involvement of women in the social reform movements of the 1820s-1830s was seen as acceptable because:
Question options:
a) they had been given the right to vote in 1820.
b) women had proven their "worthiness" for an increased public role after serving as soldiers during the War of 1812.
c) this type of activism was seen as a logical progression from their "motherly" duties of protecting virtue and providing sp
guidance to their children. d) all of the above
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The advances of the Market and Transportation Revolutions allowed for the growth of transatlantic reform movements because: Question options:
a) improved transportation connected people in the US as well as in Europe.
b) improved printing technology allowed reformers to reach a larger audience.
c) the invention of the radio allowed for print-less dissemination of information .
d) a and b.
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Which of the following was NOT a focus of reform societies during the Second Great Awakening? Question options:
a) ending prostitution b) banning non-religious activity on the Sabbath
c) ending the use of the Oxford comma
d) reforming prison systems
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Among enslaved southerners, family and kinship networks served to maintain ____.
Question options:
a) cultural traditions.
b) religious practices.
c) ancestral heritage.
d) all the above.
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The following factors were necessary preconditions for the cotton boom of the 1830s except:
Question options:
a) the general expulsion of Native Americans from the U.S. South.
b) new varieties of cotton better suited to the southern climate and soil.
c) inexpensive barbwire fencing that allowed planters to mark off their land.
d) inexpensive farmland with investors on both sides of the Atlantic ready to fund plantations. on
Which of the following statements best describes urbanization in the U.S. South from 1820 to 1860?
Question options:
a) Southern urbanization generally followed the same patterns as those in the U.S. North.
b) Southern cities generally developed around the flow of the cotton markets and allowed slavery to flourish. c) Most cities in the U.S. South looked more like European capitals than the grimy industrial cities of the U.S. North.
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d) There was a great deal of diversity in the U.S. South, so it is difficult to generalize. New Orleans is, for example, quite d
than Charleston.
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Despite the absence of machines, enslaved workers' productivity on Mississippi cotton fields increased by ___ percent between 1820 and 1860.
Question options:
a) 100
b) 200
c) 400
d) 600 on
Which was NOT a factor that led to the dominance of the Petit Gulf cotton strain?
Question options:
Plants could be grown close together, leading to increased yields.
It was easily processed by the cotton gin.
Native Americans forcibly removed from their lands made more acreage available for planting.
Consumers signaled a strong preference for the texture of this cotton.
on Which of the following was NOT part of the teaching of Christianity to enslaved peoples during the Antebellum period?
Question options:
Religious instruction stressed the subservience of enslaved people.
Independent bible study
Instruction was normally by white preachers/enslavers