The Indian Removal Act of 1830

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 ultimately was not applied to the Cherokee since their was removal by the state of Georgia was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

a. True

b. False

4. Which statement is false re: the Old South?

a. Cotton led to the growth of slavery & contributed to Northern industrialization.

b. Dueling was considered a matter of honor.

c. There were Southern preachers that used the Bible to justify slavery.

d. More than half of white Southern families owned slaves.

5. Which statement is false re: the Old South? 

a. Cotton led to the growth of slavery & contributed to Northern industrialization.

b. Dueling was considered a matter of honor.

c. There were Southern preachers that used the Bible to justify slavery.

d. More than half of white Southern families owned slaves.

6. no question

7. The Transcendentalists cultivated an individualistic ethos and self-reliance. 

a. True

b. False

8. The steam ship was key to opening up the trans-Mississippi region up to trade since it enabled captains to ship goods and supplies both up and down the river.  

a. True

b. False

9. The  Anglo-American Texans (known as Texians) who were upset with President Santa Anna’s centralization of power and the lack of a Mexican constitution, declared their independence and announced that they were going to follow the U.S. constitution.  

a. True

b. False

10. The Liberty Party advocated for the abolition of slavery, through not for gender or racial equality. 

a. True

b. False

11. Lincoln immediately declared that he was going to use military force to hold the Union together.  

a. True

b. False

12. The Compromise of 1877 gave the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes, a Northern Republican, in exchange for the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. 

a. True

b. False

13. James McPherson, in “Revisionist Historians,” argued that revisionist works are outside the norm and that historians should avoid writing them.  

a. True

b. False

14. The Market Revolution integrated the various regions of the country, encouraged urbanization, and created a national market.  

a. True

b. False

15. Here’s some irony: Southerners often spoke of states rights and bemoaned the federal government, yet they expected northern states that were opposed to slavery to help apprehend and return their slaves in cooperation with the federal government.  

a. True

b. False

16. John Brown, though he failed in his raid on Harper’s Ferry, arguably helped start the Civil War because many Southerners thereafter believed that the North would take strong measures to abolish slavery.  

a. True

b. False

17. The abolitionist movement was developed most strongly by progressives, most of whom were not very religious, hence it would be reasonable to say that religious people did not play a strong role in the abolitionist movement.  

a. True

b. False

18. John Calhoun, when he wrote that South Carolina had the right to nullify a federal law if it was deemed unconstitutional by the state, was the first politician in the United States to express such an opinion.  

a. True

b. False

19. The Battle of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and severed the Confederacy, while Sherman’s March to the Sea demoralized the South.  

a. True

b. False

20. President John K. Polk waged war with Mexico and purchased the Oregon Territory from Britain to achieve American manifest destiny.  

a. True

b. False

21. One could reasonably argue that the US Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, was usurping Congress’ right to regulate Congress and thus was behaving as an activist court.  

a. True

b. False

22. Andrew Johnson battled it out with Congress to control the process of Reconstruction and arguably lost though he did narrowly avoid impeachment.  

a. True

b. False

23. William Tecumseh Sherman displayed his mastery of logistics and his conviction that the enemy’s morale and capacity to wage war should be obliterated with his famed March to the Sea. 

a. True

b. False

24. The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, provided for the abolition of the slave trade in Washington DC, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, and provided that settlers in certain territories would choose whether to be free or slave states.

a. True

b. False

25. Despite their desire to join, African Americans were not allowed to fight for the Union Army or Navy during the entirety of the American Civil War. 

a. True

b. False