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Successes of Jefferson's first term included
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a successful embargo on foreign trade.
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In his First Inaugural Adress, Thomas Jefferson emphasized
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the ideals of republicanism.
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Jefferson believed that this group promoted aristocratic pretensions and courtly intrigue through such practices as weekly levees or formal receptions for presidential guests.
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Federalists
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One thing that could be said about women during Jefferson's administration is
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they wielded a good deal of informal political power.
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The cornerstone of the Republican domestic policy was
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retrenchment.
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President Jefferson's secretary of the treasury was
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Albert Gallatin
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By the time Jefferson left the presidency in 1809, this group held nearly all the appointive offices.
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Republicans
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The ruling of this Supreme Court judge ended the Republican offensive against the judiciary.
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Marshall
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President Jefferson assertively used the navy when he ordered it to
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attack the Barbary pirates for disrupting American trade.
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One outcome of Angl-French peace in 1800 was
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Napolean's renewed interest in reviving the French empire in America.
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Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson
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sent Lewis and Clark on an expedition through upper Louisiana.
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France's inability to reconquer _________ helped convince Napoleon to sell Louisiana.
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Saint-Dominique (Haiti)
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Not a true statement about Louisiana.
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it contained a great deal of America's least productive famland.
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President Jefferson failed in his attempt to
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purchase West Florida from Spain
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Aaron Burr hated Alexander Hamilton because Hamilton
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doubted Burr's character, and sabotaged his politcal aspirations.
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During the war period of 1793-1807 between England and France, American merchants
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enjoyed a huge increase in profits for exports.
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Not a true statement about the Embargo Act of 1807.
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It resulted in a vibrant economic boom in America
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President Madison was embarrassed when
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the Madison-Erskine agreement was disavowed by England.
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Relations with England worsened after President Madison
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accepted a trade agreement with Napoleon.
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The pan-Indian resistance movement focused its efforts on
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united Indian opposition to white settlement in the West.
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The treaty of Vincennes added which territory to the United States?
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Western Pennsylvania.
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Tecumseh was the chief of which tribe?
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Shawnee
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Tecumseh and the prophet Tenswatawa originally urged a policy of
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racial solidarity and spiritual rebirth.
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A result of the Battle of Tippecanoe was
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Tecumseh's alliancewith Britain.
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Support for the War of 1812 was strongest in
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the South and the West.
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President druring that time became known as "the era of good feelings."
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James Monroe
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Governor of Indiana territory who alienated Indians through his aggressive treatment
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William Henry Harrison
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President who made the decision to declare war on England in 1812
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James Madsion
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He killed Alexander Hamilton in a gun duel at Weehawken, New Jersey
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Aaron Burr
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During his 35 years on the Supreme Court, his forceful personality supported national goals
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John Marshall
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Commander of victorious American forces that drove the British off Lake Erie
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Oliver Perry
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He composed "The Star Spangled Banner" as he watched, with inspiration, the American defence of besieged Baltimore.
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Francis Scott Key
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Which group strongly supported the American cause in the War of 1812
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Methodists
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By the end of the first year of the War of 1812
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Britain controlled half of the Old Northwest.
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Which battle was won by the Anericans?
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Plattsburgh
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When the Americans lost Fort Dearborn, they lost territory that is present-day.
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Chicago
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This general crossed into Canada to recruit Canadians to the American cause but found few takers
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Hull
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Why did the American offensive acroos the Niagara River fail in 1812?
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A New York state militia refused to cross the river to join the regular army troops on the Canadian side.
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During the War of 1812, most Canadians
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fought against the Americans
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Calcium Channel Blockers
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Calan ( verapamil)
Cardizen (diltiazem) Procardia (nifedipine) |
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This restored relations between the British and Americans to thwat they were at the start of the war.
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Treaty of Ghent
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This restored relations between the British and Americans to thwat they were at the start of the war.
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Treaty of Ghent
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Newspaper reporters used the term "era of good feelings"to describe the presidency of
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James Monroe
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Newspaper reporters used the term "era of good feelings"to describe the presidency of
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James Monroe
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During the end of James Madison's presidency, the Republican Party
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began to embrace economic nationalism
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During the end of James Madison's presidency, the Republican Party
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began to embrace economic nationalism
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The Second Bank of the United States
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was created in part because of the financial chaos prevalent during the War of 1812.
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The Second Bank of the United States
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was created in part because of the financial chaos prevalent during the War of 1812.
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The first protective tariff in American history was passed in
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1816
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The first protective tariff in American history was passed in
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1816
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This restored relations between the British and Americans to thwat they were at the start of the war.
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Treaty of Ghent
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As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall
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made decisions that reflected his nationalist convictions.
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Newspaper reporters used the term "era of good feelings"to describe the presidency of
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James Monroe
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As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall
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made decisions that reflected his nationalist convictions.
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A result of Dourtmouth College vs Woodward was
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more protections for private corporations.
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A result of Dourtmouth College vs Woodward was
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more protections for private corporations.
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During the end of James Madison's presidency, the Republican Party
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began to embrace economic nationalism
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The Supreme Court's decision in McCulloch vs Maryland
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strengthend national power over the states.
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The Second Bank of the United States
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was created in part because of the financial chaos prevalent during the War of 1812.
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The Supreme Court's decision in McCulloch vs Maryland
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strengthend national power over the states.
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The Rush-Bagot Agreement
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signaled a new era of coorporation between the United States and England.
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The first protective tariff in American history was passed in
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1816
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The Rush-Bagot Agreement
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signaled a new era of coorporation between the United States and England.
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The Anglo-American Accords did all but,
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extend the boundary of Maine further north.
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As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall
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made decisions that reflected his nationalist convictions.
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The Anglo-American Accords did all but,
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extend the boundary of Maine further north.
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A result of Dourtmouth College vs Woodward was
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more protections for private corporations.
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The Supreme Court's decision in McCulloch vs Maryland
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strengthend national power over the states.
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The Rush-Bagot Agreement
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signaled a new era of coorporation between the United States and England.
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The Anglo-American Accords did all but,
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extend the boundary of Maine further north.
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The Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed in response to revolutions in
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Latin America.
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What tribe did Andrew Jackson and his troops attack in Florida?
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Seminoles
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In the Trans-Continental Treaty, the United States gained a huge ammount of territory in
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Florida
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The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed all but
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the active American presence in republicanism revolutions across the globe.
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The Panic of 1819 was initiated by
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a fall of cotton prices after a period of prosperity.
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The Missouri Compromise attempted to
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calm growing differences over the isue of slavery.
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The main architect of the Missoury Compromise was
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Henry Clay
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Henry Clay's American System included all but
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locally funded internal improvements
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In the election of 1824, who won the second-highest number of electoral votes?
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John Quincy Adams
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The Lewis and Clark expedition can best be comparted to
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the exploration of peace.
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In 1821 John Quincy Adams opposed American support for revolutionaries in
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Greece
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In the 1810's revolutions were common in
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South America
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John Quincy Adams felt that American influence should extend
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into South America.
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Many people called the election of 1824 "the corrupt bargain" because
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they felt Henry Clay unduly used his influence to determine the stalemated outcome.
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The election of 1824 originally ended in an electoral deadlock between
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John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
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A major change in American politics by the late 1820's was
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a mass participation through wider voting rights for white males.
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After the Salary Act of 1816
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many Congressmen were voted out of office in the next election
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By the end of the 1820's, the right to vote
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had moved significantly toward universal manhood suffrage for whites.
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Which group was an active participant in the Second Great Awakening?
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Baptists
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Preachers of the Second Great Awakening espoused all of the following ideas exept
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all humans were predestined at birth for heaven or hell.
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Many evangelical preachers of teh Second Great Awaking
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directly challenged slavery
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The first presidential candidate of the Democratic Party was
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Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson did not
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achieve a college education leading him to eventual success
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An important legacy of the election of 1824 was
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public sympathy for Jackson who lost because of a "corrupt bargain"
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Jacksonians portrayed John Quincy Adams as a man who
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was arrogant and did not understand the common man.
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The Albany Regency, a tightly disciplined politcal machine, was run by
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Martin Van Buren
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The election of 1828 revealed that Jackson had a formidable electoral base
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with farmers of the South and West
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Jackons's political opponents viewed his inauguration as "vulgar" because
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common people took part in the festivities at the White House
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Jackson dominated his presidency with
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the sheer force of his personaility.
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The spoils system features a strategy in which
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government jobs are given to supporters of the victorious party
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Which policy was supported by Andrew Jackson?
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Internal improvements that benefited the general public
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The Cherokee Indians
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had their own newspaper and a constitution.
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The term Trail of Tears refers to the
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horrifying conditions experienced by Cherokees during their removal
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The Seminoles were defeated by the U.S. army
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after their chief, Osceola, was arrested while negotiating peace
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In the case Worcester vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that
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the state of Georgia had violated the Constitution in their treatment of Indians.
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This would most likely have been said by a supporter of nullification.
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The states shall not adhere to federal law that is deemed to be unconstitutional
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The Indian Removal Act
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included Indians living inf Florida.
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Under the Indian Removal Act, most Indians were sent to
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Oklahoma
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Opponents of the Tariff of 1828 believed all but
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the tariff would artificially raise cotton prices.
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Around 1830 the only state with a majority population of African Americans was
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South Carolina
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John C. Calhoun enraged Jackson by doing all but
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throwing his support to those who held shares in the Bank of the United States
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Which statement best describes Jacksons view of thesoe who supported nullification?
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Jacson viewed nullification as a dangereous and treasonous affront to the union.
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The Force Bill was designed to deal with
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the nullification crisis
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The Force Bill gave Jackson the power to
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put down nullification with military force.
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When Henry Clay treied to make the Bank of the United States a key campaign issue in 1832
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Jackson turned the tables on him be vehemently opposing rechartering of the Bank.
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The person most responsible for the Panic of 1837 was
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Andrew Jackson
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During his second term, President Jackson
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dismantled the Bank of the United States
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Effects of destroying the Bank of the United States included all but
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the belief that Jacskon had sold out to the northeastern elite.
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Former Indian fighter who became first president elected from the Whig Party
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William Henry Harrison
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As the Democratic Party's first president, he claimed the legacy of Thomas Jefferson by appealing to the common man
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Andrew Jackson
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Key political organizer of teh Democratic Party who was elected president in 1836
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Martin Van Buren
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One-term president who was defeated in the election of 1828 after being portrayed as representing the elite interests of the Northeast
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John Quincy Adams
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Exapnsionist candidate who won the presidency back for the Democrats in 1844
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James Polk
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South Carolinian who was a major spokesman for nullification in the 1830s
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John C. Calhoun
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After succeeding Harrison as president, he switched parties and was a vice-presidential candidate for the Democrats
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John Tyler
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Creator of the American System and powerful Whig who was frustrated in his many failed attempts to become president
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Henry Clay
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The first crises that besieged teh administration of Martin Van Buren was the
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Panic of 1837
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The Panic of 1837 was caused by all but
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the lack of availability of credit for buying western lands in the early 1830s
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The Whig Party believed the Panic of 1837 happened for all reasons but
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irresponsibility on the part of Henry Clay in creating his financial plan
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Anti-Jacksonians called themselves Whigs because
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the accused Jackson of acting like a moncarch.
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The Independent Treasury System
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reduced the nation's money supply and prolonged the depression
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William Lloyed Garrison believed that slaver
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was immoral and should be legislated out of existence.
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In the 1830s, abolitionists achieved all but
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winning the support of President Jackson for their cause
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The gag rule
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allowed Congress to automatically table all antislavery petitions
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Compared to Democrats, Whigs were more likely to
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oppose further westward expansion
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The Whig Party was
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a supporter of government for economic development
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The Whigs made political inroads in the presidential election of 1836 when
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Van Buren lost some of the Democrats support in the South
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The first members of the Whig Party believed that
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Jackson had exercised too much power in his years as president
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William Henry Harrison won the election of 1840 for all but
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his youthful idealism appealed to a new generation of Americcans
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The first president to die in office was
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William Henry Harrison
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A true statement about John Tyler.
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He was expelled from the Whig Party when he was president.
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The dominant issue in the election of 1844 was
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the annexation of Texas
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The percentage of adult white males voting in presedential elections was highest in
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1840
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The election of 1844
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James Polk expressed expansionist ideas
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The winner of the 1844 eleciton was
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James Polk
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John Tyler successfully sponsored a joint resolution that
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annexed Texas as a new state in the union
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Before 1800, slavery was associated with all cash crops but
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short-staple cotton
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Was not a state in the Lower South
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North Carolina
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Not a state in the Upper South
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Georgia
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What percentage of the white southern population belonged to the plantation-owning class
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5%
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The most valued slaves in the slave market of 1815-1850 were male field hands and
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females of child-bearing age used as a means of increasing the slave population
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In 1807, the United States Congress
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ended the African slave trade
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A particularly cruel aspect of the internal slave trade was that it
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separated slaves from their families
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A true statement about slavery.
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It increased dramatically in the years leading to the Civil War.
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Souther planters believed that the system of slavery would be weakened by
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urbanization and industrialization
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In the period 1800-1840, the South experienced all trends but
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eventual adaptation of the land to the wide-scale growth of cotton
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In 1860 tobacco was an important crop in
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Virginia
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Marl was used in the attempt to
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replinish the soul in the Upper South
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This country led the cause to ban the slave trade
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Great Britain
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The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in
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1808
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All of the following statements about slave codes are true exept
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the were only enacted in the cottin kingdom of the Lower South.
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The general health of slaves included all factors but
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a life expectancy that was roughly the same as their white contemporaries.
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The housing of slaves revealed that
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housing was meager and provided little more than basic shelter.
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One of the biggest differences between the life conditions of slaves and poor whites was
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slaves worked much longer hours under much harsher conditions
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Slave owners commonly used all incentives to motivate hard work exept
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the insincere promies of eventual freedom
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Roughyl one-third of slave marriages were
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broken up by sales or forced removals
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Slaves followed West African customs in all ways but
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rejecting extended kinship ties.
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Slaves who converted to Christianity discovered
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a powerful message of equality that deemed slaver to be immoral.
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The plan for huge slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina failed when
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two domestic servants betrayed the plan
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The first large-scale plan of slave rebellion was led by
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Gabriel Prosser
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All of the following statements about Denmark Vesey's planned rebellion are true exept
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the plan failed because it did not direct the rebels to seize specific buildings
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Over 60 whites in Virginia were killed in a rebellion led by
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Nat Turner
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A false statement about Nat Turner
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He was caught and executed within two days by authorities in Virginia.
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It was difficult for American slaves to mount armed rebllions because
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the lacked the numbers to overpower withes
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Which religious group was largely involved in beginning the Underground Railroad
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Quakers
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The author of the letter was
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a runaway slave, Jackson Whitney
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What promise did the author's owner break?
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the promise not to break up his marriage and family
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What exact wording does the author use to describe his new existence?
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honored
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What did the recipient of the letter try do in Louisville?
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sell the author of the letter
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How did the author of the letter exect his ex-owner to be punished
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by the judgment of God
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Which word best describes the author's view of his ex-owner's assertations of Christianity?
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hypocritical
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What did the author want, more than anything, from his ex-owner?
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to have his wife and childreen sent to live with him in Canada.
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According to the author, what condition is "worse-than-murdered"?
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being enslaved and separated from family
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Approximately ____ percent of souther black families were free in 1860
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3
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____________ were the wealthiest class in America in 1860
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Large plantation owners
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Which statement about the wives of southern planters is not true?
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They were never allowed to be familiar wit the financial accounts of the plantation
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What percentage of southern white families did not own slaves in 1860?
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75%
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Yeoman farmers of the lower South
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wanted to limit the authority of government.
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Which statement about southern whites without property or slaves is not true
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They lacked self-reliance and depended on government welfare
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All of the following statements aobut black codes are true exept
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dthe applied only to slaves and not free blacks
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Most free blacks in the South lived in
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the Upper South
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In the late 1850s several southern states sought to
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re-enslave free blacks
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Which statement about the wives of southern planters is not true?
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They were never allowed to be familiar wit the financial accounts of the plantation
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What percentage of southern white families did not own slaves in 1860?
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75%
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Sectional tensions over slavery increased when
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Protestant sects permanentaly split apart over the issue of slavery
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Southern evangelicals who supported slavery used all of the following to support their arguments, exept
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the teachings of Jeses as presented in the Bible
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Yeoman farmers of the lower South
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wanted to limit the authority of government.
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Which statement about southern whites without property or slaves is not true
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They lacked self-reliance and depended on government welfare
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In Review of the Debates in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832 Thomas R. Dew
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provided a defense of slaver in the South
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All of the following statements aobut black codes are true exept
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dthe applied only to slaves and not free blacks
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Most free blacks in the South lived in
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the Upper South
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In the late 1850s several southern states sought to
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re-enslave free blacks
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Sectional tensions over slavery increased when
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Protestant sects permanentaly split apart over the issue of slavery
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Southern evangelicals who supported slavery used all of the following to support their arguments, exept
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the teachings of Jeses as presented in the Bible
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In Review of the Debates in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832 Thomas R. Dew
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provided a defense of slavery in the South
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By the 1850s, southern planters felt threatened regarding slavery for all of the following reasons, except
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they were making very low profits
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An effect of the practiacal use of steamboats was
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a revolution in transportation on western rivers
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The first demonstration of the practical commericial use of the steamboat was achieved by
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Robert Fulton
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Considered the greatest engineering feat of its era, the Erie Canal was constructed mostly by
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Irish immigrants
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Which of the following transportation systems was developed last?
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railroads
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During the 1840s
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railroads became the most dynamic booster of interregional trade
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During the 1840s, American railroads
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experienced a tripling in miles of tracks.
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Half of all capital for early railroads
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came from state governments
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The court systems support of corporate rights to eminent domain meant that
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corportations could purchase "rights of way" land whenever they needed it.
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In Gibbons vs Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled that
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states could not restrict trade within their jurisdictions
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Which city was not among America's larges in 1820?
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Pittsburgh
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The enormous growth of New York City was fueled by all of the following factors exept
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the city's refusal to invest in international connections
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Living conditions for the working class in cities were characterized by
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cramped, dirty dwellings
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The most notorious slum in New York City during the 1800s was
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Five Points
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Inland cities included all of the following except
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Baltimore
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Pittsburgh complemented its function as an exchange center by
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developing a significant manufacturing sector
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Which city became known as "Porkopolis" because it was an early meat-packing center
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Cincinnati
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St. Louis was ideally located for urban growth because
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of its location in the Mississippi Rivers
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Which city is not located on the Great Lakes?
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Cincinnati
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In 1860 the two most populous cities were
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New York and Philidelphia
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America's first large-scale, planned city for the sole purpose of manufacturing was
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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By mid-century, most of New York's population was
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foreign-born
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During the 1840s and 50s, the highest number of immigrants came from
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Ireland
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Why did many Irish people come to America in the 1840s and 50s?
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domination of Protestant landlords and starvation in Ireland
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All of the following statements about immigration from 1840-1860 are true except
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Irish-Americans generally experienced better living conditions than German-Americans
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In the cities and larger towns, most manufacturing was done by
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artisans
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In Jeffersonian America, manufacturing was centered in
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households and small workshops
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The putting-out-system
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created a business relationship between merchants and houshold artisans
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What is the best description of an artisan?
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a skilled craftsmen who makes things by hand.
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An indenture was
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a contract between a master artisan and an apprentice
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Which nation pioneered most of the methods and advances of industrialization?
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Great Britain
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The Rhode Island system of emloyment was based on
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the use of children as laborers in mills
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Lowell, Massachusetts represented an example of
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recruitment of workers through the Waltham system.
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Conditions in towns that used the Waltham system included all of the following except
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access to New England's finest public schools.
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Other than in New England's textile factories, the largest group of earliest manufacturing workers were
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native-born males
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Samuel Slater
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brought English ideas of manufacturing to America
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Which statment about Eli Whitney is not true?
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The cotton gin was his only significant contribution as an inventor.
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Western manufacturers improved their business conditions by
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turning to steam power after 1840
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When the Boston Associates built dams and canals
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the region's ecology and farmlands were altered
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Which statement best summarizes the distribution of wealth in the period 1800-1850?
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The gap between the rich and the poor continued to grow
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The growing middle class was most likely to find jobs in
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northern cities
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An aspect of the new middle class was
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the separation of the home from work interests
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A supporter of Temperance believed
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in prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
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The cult of domesticity emphasized that
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women should preserve religion and the morals of a family.
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Workingmen's political parties of the 1830s expressed
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the need of reforms for workers
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The first national union was
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The National Trades Union
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Working-class activists of the 1830s promoted all of the following ideas except
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the abolition of private property.
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In Commonwealth vs Hunt, the Supreme Court ruled that
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labor strikes were legal
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All of the following groups were disliked by nativists except
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Anglo-Americans
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In 1842, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in this case that a trade union was not necessarily subject to laws against criminal conspiracies and that a strike could be used to force employers to hire only union members.
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Commonwealth vs. Hunt
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Eastern elites, with the support of their wives and daughters, formed this group of church-affiliated reform organizations known as
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the benevolent empire
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The Sabbatarian movement
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wanted to curtail government commercial activities on Sundays.
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The American Temperance Society concerned itself mainly with
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changing American attitudes toward alcohol
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This man is considered to be the father of the Mormon Church
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Joseph Smith
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The Mormons believed strongly in
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tithing to the Mormon Church
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The first political demands for free tax-supported schools originated with
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the Workingmen's movement
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How did the American approach to dealing with social problems change in the early to mid 1800s?
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reformers turned to public authorities to establish new institutions
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School reform succeeded in large part because it appealed to the
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northern middle classes
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This religious group that was at its height in the 1830s and atrracted over 6,000 followers
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the Shakers
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This place was considered a showcase for the transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Brook Farm
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The author of Walden was
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Henry David Thoreau
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In 1817, antislavery reformers founded this society
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the American Colonization Society
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An example of an immediatist would be
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an abolitionist
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The British Emancipation Act of _______ was a boost to the abolitionist cause in the United States.
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1834
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Of the following, only __________ was still a major slave area by the mid-1820s
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Brazil
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Women's treatment within the __________ movement was the final impetus for forming a separate women's right movement
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Abolition
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This document, issued at the Senca Falls Convention, called for full female equality.
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the Declaration of Sentiments
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Which of the following is not true about the Liberty Party?
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All of the above statements are true
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Much of the bias against Irish immigrants in the mmiddle of the nineteenth century was anti-_______ in nature.
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Catholic
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The anti-immigrant measures of the 1840s and 1850s were spearheaded by descendents of immigrants from
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Britain and northern Europe
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Anti-immigration laws of the 1920s banned ________ entirely.
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Asians.
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