‘-Exam 3, ch. 8-11

Mob actions sometimes lasted for days because there was no effective police to stop them.

Most European visitors to the United States in the 1830s considered Americans to be dull-witted and listless.

Most black women in urban America held jobs before and after marriage in the mid-1800s.

Northern farmers started using manure as fertilizer after 1800.

By the 1830s, all American states had adopted a plan of state-funded public education for children between 5 and 19 years of age.

Farmers in the __________ valley were leaders in adopting scientific farming techniques in the early 1800s.

In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, the Supreme Court held that a(n) __________ granted by a state could not be modified unless both parties agreed.

By 1860, almost __________ of the American people lived west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Of the following economic indicators describing conditions in Philadelphia, which one DECREASED from 1820 to 1860?

All of the following are true regarding the political rights of free blacks in the United States in the 1800s EXCEPT

The role of the ideal woman in antebellum America was to

Antebellum advocates of public education hoped that the schools would

Manufacturers primarily valued education for their workers because it

A short-lived strike by Lowell's women workers in February 1834 occurred in protest of

A dramatic rise in the concentration of wealth in the United States from 1820 to 1860

In the decades before the Civil War, Cincinnati workers

Susan Warner responded to financial adversity by

Which of the following values did self-help books emphasize in the early 1800s?

Between 1819 and 1824, a series of Supreme Court decisions established the basic principle that

Women workers at the Lowell mills

Brazil's slaves population reached over 15 million by 1860

After the congressional ban on the importation of slaves, the slave population in the United States steadily declined from 1808 to 1860.

Between 1820 and 1860, the number of free blacks doubled in the United States.

Most free blacks lived in the Upper South.

As sugar production increased in Latin America, the average working life for slaves in the fields dropped from 15 to 7 years.

In which of the following industries did slaves work in Central and South America?

The free black population of the United States increased from 1820 to 1860 because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT the

Wealthy southern planters justified slavery in terms of white superiority because such a defense

The most recent historical interpretations of slavery have viewed the institution

In what physical areas did urban whites attempt to restrict free black mobility?

Robert Francis Allston's chief concern as a slaveholder was to guard against his slaves'

The Tredegar Iron Company of Richmond decided in 1847 to shift from white to slave labor to

Free African Americans were likely to

The yeoman farmers of the South

Which of the following groups of blacks did NOT compose the Catholic population of Baltimore and New Orleans?

All of the following describe the historical development of the free black church EXCEPT the

Sociologist George Fitzhugh argued that southern black slaves

The largest slave population in the world in 1800 -- one million -- was in __________ .

Black women from the Catholic order of the Sisters of the __________ started schools and ministered to the old and infirm among the free black community.

Paralleling the growth of the southern economy and its dependence on the slave labor system, the number of slaves in the United States rapidly increased from 1.5 million in 1820 to __________ million in 1860.

In 1829 a northern free black man named Nat Turner published a pamphlet that called for slave rebellion.

Between 1834 and 1836, American workers struck some 168 times.

Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, politics was primarily the business of the social and economic elite.

Upon passage of a compromise tariff in 1833, South Carolina agreed that states do not have the powers of nullification or secession.

Between 1828 and 1832, dozens of workingmen's parties arose in the United States.

All of the following are true statements regarding Sylvester Graham EXCEPT:

Preachers of the Second Great Awakening such as Charles Finney emphasized

Utopian leader William Miller lost credibility by his

Which one of the following was NOT one of Finney's beliefs?

As a result of Jackson's Specie Circular of 1836,

All of the following describe the life and work of Abbey Kelly EXCEPT:

One of Andrew Jackson's key principles included the

As president, Andrew Jackson

What did trade unions advocate?

For members of his "perfectionist" community at Oneida, John Humphrey Noyes advocated

Hoping the issue would boost his reelection chances in 1844, President __________ reopened the question of annexing Texas.

As many as __________ Indians gathered at the Ft. Laramie Council of 1851.

For __________ , the gold rush in California was a disaster of epic proportions.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the gold miners in California?

In contrast to the agricultural frontier, migrants to the mining frontier were more

Most of the emigrants who headed for the Far West were

Mining camps were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

For most emigrants on the overland trails,

By 1860, the number of Americans living in the trans-Mississippi West

Perhaps most emigrants to the Far West were motivated by dreams of

Americans were attracted to Texas in the 1820s by the

Americans encountered a Spanish-speaking culture in which of the following places?

With the victory at San Jacinto in 1836, Texas

Eastern Indian tribes from the South and Old Northwest, whom the American government forcibly relocated in the West,

The Plains tribes posed an obstacle to white settlement due to their

As late as 1880, most large western cities counted more women than men.

In 1860, nearly 3,000 Chinese lived in Chinatown, a large district in San Francisco.

Most miners to California wanted to remain and settle permanently.

From the very beginning of the 1840s, thousands of American emigrants on the overland trails lost their lives to hostile Indian raids.

Despite his antagonistic stance, President Polk avoided war with Britain over Oregon Territory by offering to settle its boundary at the 49th parallel.