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canals and steamboats

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What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time.

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The Erie Canal:

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The government discouraged western settlement at every turn.

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Which statement about the western settlements is FALSE?

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could not, under federal law, obtain public land.

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans:

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Guess-encouraged to have more children.

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Under the cult of domesticity, women were:

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Guess- rare to have paid domestic help.

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For middle class women, it was :

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a large, rowdy event.

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Andrew Jackson's inauguration was:

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were not required in any of the states after the original thirteen

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In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:

Question 9

A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:

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A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:

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Guess-Some wanted to gradually abolish slavery in Missouri while others wanted to keep it.

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Why was the Missouri Compromise necessary?

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revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union.

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Thomas Jefferson suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:

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Andrew Jackson

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In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)?

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Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the corrupt bargain of 1824.

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Which of the following did NOT happen during the election of 1828?

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often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.

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Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the corrupt bargain of 1824.

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the spoils system.

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The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:

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involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.

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The nullification crisis:

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ignored Indian attempts at assimilation.

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The Indian Removal Act:

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He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public

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How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?

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The rate of natural increase in the slave population had more than made up for the ban on the international slave trade that was enacted in 1808.

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Which of the following was TRUE of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?

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Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North

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What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

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own at least twenty slaves.

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To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:

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claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.

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By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument:

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were the Grimk&eacute; sisters.

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The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women:

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prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.

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The gag rule:

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the threat of sale

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The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?

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did poor work and broke tools.

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Silent sabotage can be defined as when slaves:

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Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion.

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Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is TRUE?

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Guess- started in 1860 right before the Civil War.

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The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

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was fundamentally a white society.

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Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

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was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.

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Harriet Tubman:

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