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US History Exam 2

Question 1 of 55

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Industrial Characteristics: (Choose all that apply)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Hand made

  • Division of Labor

  • Unskilled work

  • Master/Apprentice

  • Shop production of the whole item

  • Interchangeable parts

Explanation

Question 2 of 55

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T/F Utopian Society: a visionary system of political or Relgious perfection

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 55

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The word utopia comes from the Greek that combining the meanings of ___________ and ___________

Select one or more of the following:

  • "a good place"

  • "a perfect place"

  • "no such place"

  • "attainable place"

Explanation

Question 4 of 55

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Choose the statement that is NOT a common feature of Utopian societies

Select one of the following:

  • The perfectibility of mankind

  • Religion or secular

  • Sexuality -(either everyone could have sex with everyone or no one could have sex with anyone)

  • Communal economic society

  • Reject society

  • All founded in the US

Explanation

Question 5 of 55

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Shakers were a secular Utopian society.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 6 of 55

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Founder Mother Ann Lee Stanley brought the Shaker society to America in 1774, and she was believed to be.........

Select one of the following:

  • a prophet

  • an angel

  • the female incarnation of God

  • the mother to all (like mother nature)

Explanation

Question 7 of 55

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In the Shaker community families were abolished.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 55

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In the Shaker communities who participated in the government, society, economics and spiritual matters?

Select one of the following:

  • Only men

  • Both men & women

  • Only women

Explanation

Question 9 of 55

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The Shakers got their name because they were "shaking" cultural norms.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 55

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Shakers promoted celibacy ......

Select one of the following:

  • to please God

  • because they believed that sex was a sin

  • to prepare for the perfection that followed death

  • because the felt that children were to easily possessed

Explanation

Question 11 of 55

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Shakers were economically aggressive.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( Celibacy, Money, Religion ) was their downfall -tried to recruit and ( adapt orphans, reform, promote the Shaker community )

Explanation

Question 13 of 55

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Brook Farm

Select one of the following:

  • promoted celibacy- to prepare for the perfection that followed death

  • originated in the 17th century in germany

  • were transcendentalists -believed that through reason meditation, intellectual thought they could transcend the here and now and achieve a higher moral standing

Explanation

Question 14 of 55

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The Brook Farm community rejected

Select one of the following:

  • material goods

  • God

  • industry

  • roads

Explanation

Question 15 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Brook Farm valued ( spanianity, discipline ) over ( discipline, spanianity )

Explanation

Question 16 of 55

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Attributes of Brook Farm

Select one or more of the following:

  • Relaxed social and sexual morals

  • Cooperative community

  • Emphasised a communal communication with nature

  • Marriage tolerated; sex discouraged

  • Society of direct inspiration

Explanation

Question 17 of 55

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Institutions could not thrive in which community which was their downfall

Select one of the following:

  • Amana colonies

  • Shakers

  • Brooke Farm

Explanation

Question 18 of 55

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Amana colonies started as a Utopian society

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Amana colonies originated in the ( 17th, 16th, 18th ) century in ( Germany, Austria, Russia, Poland ) but facing prosecution moved to Iowa in 1855 and started ( 7, 8, 9 ) colonies

Explanation

Question 20 of 55

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Marriage encouraged; sex tolerated in the Amana colonies

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 55

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Which society had a hierarchy of work -everyone had to contribute to the community which was communal?

Select one of the following:

  • Shakers

  • Brook Farm

  • Amana colonies

Explanation

Question 22 of 55

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Communal ownership broke up and the proceeds were split into stocks and split into own family homes in the Amana colonies due to the Gold Rush

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 55

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

( The South, The North, The West, The East ) experienced very little changes as opposed to everyone else in the country

Explanation

Question 24 of 55

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What industries were found in cities in the South?

Select one of the following:

  • Lumber

  • Cigars

  • Iron

  • Trade

  • All of these were industries in southern cities.

Explanation

Question 25 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Demographics- the study of ( population, cities, geography of the cities, topography ), very ( spread out, close ) in the ( south, north )

Explanation

Question 26 of 55

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Which region experienced very little effect of immigration?

Select one of the following:

  • the west

  • the south

  • the north

Explanation

Question 27 of 55

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About 75% of people in the south were plantation owners

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 55

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Free blacks

Select one or more of the following:

  • were not able to own a gun

  • were able to vote in church

  • were not able to assemble

  • lived in the country

  • were able to vote

Explanation

Question 29 of 55

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Slavocracy controlled the political economy in the north

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 55

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What crop became very popular after the revolution?

Select one of the following:

  • Sugar Cane

  • Cotton

  • Tobacco

  • Wheat

  • Barley

Explanation

Question 31 of 55

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Brogan shoes were crappy shoes that were made in the north for slaves in the south.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 55

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What was it called when the salves were put on crowded ships, shackled, and forced to sit in their own waste.

Select one of the following:

  • The middle passage

  • The final passage

  • The ending passage

Explanation

Question 33 of 55

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

By 1840 ( 96%, 100%, 83% ) of slaves were born in the US

Explanation

Question 34 of 55

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Gabriel Prosser, slave, was a

Select one of the following:

  • skilled blacksmith

  • ship builder

  • house slave

Explanation

Question 35 of 55

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At religious revival meetings skilled blacks were picked to be the leaders

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 55

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Which slave conspired to attack Richmond Virginia on April 30, 1800?

Select one of the following:

  • Gabriel Prosser

  • Denmark Vessy

  • David walker

Explanation

Question 37 of 55

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Who created a document that denounced the religion of the south and said it was ok for slaves to rise up?

Select one of the following:

  • David Walker

  • Denmark Vessy

  • Gabriel Prosser

Explanation

Question 38 of 55

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

( Denmark Vesey, David Walker, John Brown ), a free black man, organized conspiracy to arm slaves and take over Charleston in 1822

Explanation

Question 39 of 55

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David Walker - free black from NC published a pamphlet “Appeal to the Coloured Citizens”, and called for convention in Charleston.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 55

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Nat Turner was a

Select one of the following:

  • preacher

  • blacksmith

  • a writer

Explanation

Question 41 of 55

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Nat Turner led a band of rebels from house to house in 1831 slaughtering 60 people and later himself and 200 random blacks were killed because of it.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 42 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( John Brown, Nat Turner ) - ( white man, black man ) who was a zealot for abolition and he and his sons tried to seize the arsenal of ( Harper’s Ferry, Charleston ) where ( Robert E. Lee, Jackson Stone ) brought in the ( Marines, Army ) and captured him.

Explanation

Question 43 of 55

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Southern defenses of slavery were

Select one or more of the following:

  • Religion

  • "White man's burden"

  • Slavery was a more humane employer

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 44 of 55

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Anti-immediate abolitionists - concerned about the immediate effect of abolition and Immediate Abolitionists called for immediate abolition no matter what it did to economy. The majority were immediates.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 45 of 55

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Why the West was settled?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Ambition

  • Opportunity - land was cheap, it was in the government’s interest to populate continent

  • Transportation

  • Cotton - huge industry in the South- powered by slaves

  • Manifest Destiny

Explanation

Question 46 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma ) Compromise -( Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma ) was admitted as a slave state and ( Maine, Massachusetts ) was separated from ( Massachusetts, Maine ) and admitted as a free state.

Explanation

Question 47 of 55

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

The Missouri Compromise the balance of the same number of slave and free states in congress

Explanation

Question 48 of 55

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

( Southern, Northern ) boundary of Missouri would thereafter separate North from South

Explanation

Question 49 of 55

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Who won the 1848 presidential election and was also a victorious general in the Mexican-American war?

Select one of the following:

  • Zachery Taylor

  • Martin van Buren

  • Lewis Cass

  • John Calhoun

Explanation

Question 50 of 55

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Compromise of 1850- California admitted as a free state

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 51 of 55

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( New Mexico, California ) Territory and Utah Territory would be ( open, closed ) to slavery by popular sovereignty

Explanation

Question 52 of 55

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The Fugitive Slave Act

Select one of the following:

  • strengthened that fugitive slaves must be returned to owners

  • All of these are true

  • Slave owners went to court in slave states and described the runaway slave

  • This was conclusive evidence, even in free states

  • If a judge decided a slave matched the description, they were “returned”

  • Judges were paid $10 if the slave “matched” but only $5 if not

Explanation

Question 53 of 55

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Revolutionary rhetoric -colonists question how Britain treated them almost like slaves and made no parallel to own slaves

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 54 of 55

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Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854
-Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory slavery would be

Select one of the following:

  • decided by popular sovereignty

  • legal

  • illegal

Explanation

Question 55 of 55

1

The Missouri Compromise line was never repealed until after the civil war.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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