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History Quiz on US History Exam 2, created by Ellen Schriever on 14/10/2016.
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Question 1

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Industrial Characteristics: (Choose all that apply)
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  • Hand made
  • Division of Labor
  • Unskilled work
  • Master/Apprentice
  • Shop production of the whole item
  • Interchangeable parts

Question 2

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

Question 3

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The word utopia comes from the Greek that combining the meanings of ___________ and ___________
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  • "a good place"
  • "a perfect place"
  • "no such place"
  • "attainable place"

Question 4

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

Question 5

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Shakers were a secular Utopian society.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Founder Mother Ann Lee Stanley brought the Shaker society to America in 1774, and she was believed to be.........
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  • a prophet
  • an angel
  • the female incarnation of God
  • the mother to all (like mother nature)

Question 7

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In the Shaker community families were abolished.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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In the Shaker communities who participated in the government, society, economics and spiritual matters?
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  • Only men
  • Both men & women
  • Only women

Question 9

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

Question 10

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Shakers promoted celibacy ......
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  • 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

Question 11

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Shakers were economically aggressive.
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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[blank_start]Celibacy[blank_end] was their downfall -tried to recruit and [blank_start]adapt orphans[blank_end]
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  • Celibacy
  • Money
  • Religion
  • adapt orphans
  • reform
  • promote the Shaker community

Question 13

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Brook Farm
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  • 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

Question 14

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The Brook Farm community rejected
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  • material goods
  • God
  • industry
  • roads

Question 15

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Brook Farm valued [blank_start]spanianity[blank_end] over [blank_start]discipline[blank_end]
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  • spanianity
  • discipline
  • discipline
  • spanianity

Question 16

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Attributes of Brook Farm
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  • Relaxed social and sexual morals
  • Cooperative community
  • Emphasised a communal communication with nature
  • Marriage tolerated; sex discouraged
  • Society of direct inspiration

Question 17

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Institutions could not thrive in which community which was their downfall
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  • Amana colonies
  • Shakers
  • Brooke Farm

Question 18

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Amana colonies started as a Utopian society
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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Amana colonies originated in the [blank_start]17th[blank_end] century in [blank_start]Germany[blank_end] but facing prosecution moved to Iowa in 1855 and started [blank_start]7[blank_end] colonies
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  • 17th
  • 16th
  • 18th
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Russia
  • Poland
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Question 20

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Marriage encouraged; sex tolerated in the Amana colonies
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  • True
  • False

Question 21

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Which society had a hierarchy of work -everyone had to contribute to the community which was communal?
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  • Shakers
  • Brook Farm
  • Amana colonies

Question 22

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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
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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[blank_start]The South[blank_end] experienced very little changes as opposed to everyone else in the country
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  • The South
  • The North
  • The West
  • The East

Question 24

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What industries were found in cities in the South?
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  • Lumber
  • Cigars
  • Iron
  • Trade
  • All of these were industries in southern cities.

Question 25

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Demographics- the study of [blank_start]population[blank_end], very [blank_start]spread out[blank_end] in the [blank_start]south[blank_end]
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  • population
  • cities
  • geography of the cities
  • topography
  • spread out
  • close
  • south
  • north

Question 26

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Which region experienced very little effect of immigration?
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  • the west
  • the south
  • the north

Question 27

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About 75% of people in the south were plantation owners
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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Free blacks
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  • 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

Question 29

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Slavocracy controlled the political economy in the north
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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What crop became very popular after the revolution?
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  • Sugar Cane
  • Cotton
  • Tobacco
  • Wheat
  • Barley

Question 31

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

Question 32

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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.
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  • The middle passage
  • The final passage
  • The ending passage

Question 33

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By 1840 [blank_start]96%[blank_end] of slaves were born in the US
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  • 96%
  • 100%
  • 83%

Question 34

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Gabriel Prosser, slave, was a
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  • skilled blacksmith
  • ship builder
  • house slave

Question 35

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

Question 36

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Which slave conspired to attack Richmond Virginia on April 30, 1800?
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  • Gabriel Prosser
  • Denmark Vessy
  • David walker

Question 37

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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?
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  • David Walker
  • Denmark Vessy
  • Gabriel Prosser

Question 38

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[blank_start]Denmark Vesey[blank_end], a free black man, organized conspiracy to arm slaves and take over Charleston in 1822
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  • Denmark Vesey
  • David Walker
  • John Brown

Question 39

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

Question 40

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Nat Turner was a
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  • preacher
  • blacksmith
  • a writer

Question 41

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 42

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

Question 43

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Southern defenses of slavery were
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  • Religion
  • "White man's burden"
  • Slavery was a more humane employer
  • None of the above

Question 44

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 45

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Why the West was settled?
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  • 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

Question 46

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[blank_start]Missouri[blank_end] Compromise -[blank_start]Missouri[blank_end] was admitted as a slave state and [blank_start]Maine[blank_end] was separated from [blank_start]Massachusetts[blank_end] and admitted as a free state.
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  • Missouri
  • Mississippi
  • Oklahoma
  • Missouri
  • Mississippi
  • Oklahoma
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts
  • Maine

Question 47

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The Missouri Compromise [blank_start]kept[blank_end] the balance of the same number of slave and free states in congress
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  • kept

Question 48

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[blank_start]Southern[blank_end] boundary of Missouri would thereafter separate North from South
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  • Southern
  • Northern

Question 49

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Who won the 1848 presidential election and was also a victorious general in the Mexican-American war?
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  • Zachery Taylor
  • Martin van Buren
  • Lewis Cass
  • John Calhoun

Question 50

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Compromise of 1850- California admitted as a free state
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  • True
  • False

Question 51

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[blank_start]New Mexico[blank_end] Territory and Utah Territory would be [blank_start]open[blank_end] to slavery by popular sovereignty
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  • New Mexico
  • California
  • open
  • closed

Question 52

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The Fugitive Slave Act
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  • 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

Question 53

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

Question 54

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Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 -Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory slavery would be
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  • decided by popular sovereignty
  • legal
  • illegal

Question 55

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