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AMH2010  U.S. HISTORY I  QUIZ FOR WEEK ELEVEN (CHAPTER 12):  10 POINTS

 

  1. Preachers of the Second Great Awakening such as Charles Finney emphasized:

A)    Doctrine.

B)     Original sin.

C)    Atonement.

D)    Emotion.

  1. The campaign between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1828:

A)    Presented thoughtful discussion of controversial issues.

B)     Failed to attract significant public interest.

C)    Exposed Jackson’s lack of an effective political organization.

D)    Degenerated into a nasty but entertaining contest.

  1. As president, Andrew Jackson:

A)    Asserted his power most dramatically through use of the veto.

B)     Engaged in wholesale replacement of officeholders with his own supporters.

C)    Supported national funding for all internal improvement projects.

D)    Favored significant increases in the levels of protective tariffs.

  1. In his Exposition and Protest, John Calhoun argued that a state has the power to:

A)    Impeach the president.

B)     Nullify an unconstitutional federal law.

C)    Set its own tariff rates.

D)    Raise a volunteer army.

  1. Andrew Jackson argued that the national bank:

A)    Played a responsible role in promoting economic expansion.

B)     Should be recharted four years ahead of schedule.

C)    Restrained state banks from making unwise loans.

D)    Represented an example of special privilege that hurt the common man.

  1. During the depression of the late 1830s, the:

A)    Trade union movement steadily grew stronger.

B)     Wages of workers fell by 30 to 50 percent within two years.

C)    Prices of flour, port, and coal were cut in half.

D)    Deflationary policies of President Van Buren improved conditions.

  1. Antebellum Americans joined the temperance crusade, as they did other reform societies, largely to:

A)    Circumvent intrusions of the government.

B)     Escape the pressures of middle-class values.

C)    Avoid public suspicion of their own beliefs and behavior.

D)    Seek relief from an uncertain and changing world.

  1. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

A)    Horace Mann—public schools improvements.

B)     Dorothea Dix—prison reform.

C)  Samuel Gridley Howe—care and education of the blind.

D)    Thomas Gallaudet—temperance movement.

  1.  The American Anti-Slavery Society, formed by William Lloyd Garrison, advocated the:

A)    Gradual emancipation of slaves by individual owners.

B)     Colonization of free blacks in Africa.

C)    Immediate and total abolition of slavery.

D)    Purchase and release of slaves by the government.

10.  The Declaration of Sentiments, drawn up in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 asserted that:

A) All men and women are created equal.

B) The proper place for a woman was in the home.

C) The improvement of mankind should be our ultimate goal.

D) Women served as society’s guardians of piety and virtue.