US 1 Chapter 8 Practice Test
Masconomet American History I - Semester 2 Final Exam Review - Chapter 8 Practice Test
- 1.Beginning in the early 1800s and continuing through the presidency of Andrew Jackson, ordinary citizens became a greater political force.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Andrew Jackson was hard working, intelligent, and highly educated.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.William Henry Harrison was a simple frontiersman.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.In the 1800s, Irish and German immigrants stirred feelings of nativism among Americans because the immigrants were mostly Catholic.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Supporters believed that national nominating conventions would give more political power to the
- A.
Political parties.
- B.
Smaller states.
- C.
Political bosses.
- D.
People.
- 6.The Whig party advocated
- A.
expanding the federal government.
- B.
Preserving states' rights.
- C.
Limiting commercial development.
- D.
Lowering tariffs.
- 7.Most German immigrants arriving between 1815 and 1860 settled in the
- A.
Northeast.
- B.
Midwest.
- C.
South.
- D.
Southeast.
- 8.The new revivalism of the early 1800s rejected the traditional Calvinist idea that
- A.
All people could attain grace through faith.
- B.
Only a chosen few were predestined for salvation.
- C.
People were born sinful.
- D.
Each person contained the capacity for spiritual rebirth and salvation.
- 9.The peoople who formed utopian communities believed that
- A.
Society tended to corrupt humans.
- B.
Humans were basicly bad.
- C.
Government must be reformed.
- D.
People needed more faith.
- 10.Underlying the prison reform movement was a belief in
- A.
Educating prisoners to make them better citizens when they got out.
- B.
Rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up.
- C.
Relaxing the harsh discipline to make prisons more humane.
- D.
Bringing criminals back to God.
- 11.The first step in gradualism approach to ending slavery was to
- A.
Phase out slavery in the North.
- B.
Phase out slavery in the Lower South.
- C.
Stop new slaves from being brought into the country.
- D.
Phase out slavery in the Upper South.
- 12.In the North, citizens __________ the abolitionist movement.
- A.
Supported
- B.
Opposed
- C.
Were indifferent to
- D.
Held a wide range of views on
- 13.Andrew Jackson suported the spoils eystem because he believed it
- A.
Brought into government the country's most educated people.
- B.
Opened up government to more ordinary people.
- C.
Encouraged good workers to stay in their government jobs.
- D.
Attracted young thinkers into public service.
- 14.Large numbers of Irish immigrants began leaving their homeland in 1845 because
- A.
They were seeking religious freedom.
- B.
They were fleeing political turmoil.
- C.
They were fleeing famine in Ireland.
- D.
They were seeking better-paying jobs.
- 15.Romanticism emphasized all of the following EXCEPT
- A.
Feeling over reason.
- B.
Inner sirituality over external rules.
- C.
Society over the individual.
- D.
Nature over environments created by humans.
- 16.During the reform movement of the mid-1800s, the phrase "take the pledge" meant
- A.
Committing to improve oneselt.
- B.
Officially joining a church.
- C.
Giving up liquor.
- D.
Promising to be faithful.
- 17.Normal schools were established in the early 1800s to
- A.
Teach all children how to read.
- B.
Train teachers.
- C.
Educate women.
- D.
Educate African American children.
- 18.Abolitionist _____________ once told an audience that he was a theif and a robber because he "stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master, and ran off with them."
- A.
Theodore Weld
- B.
Frederick Douglass
- C.
William Lloyd Garrison
- D.
Nat Turner
- 19.Several states in the North passed "personal liberty laws" that
- A.
Freed enslaved African Americans in the state.
- B.
Protected abolitionists from mob attacks.
- C.
Allowed abolitionists to express their opinions in their publications.
- D.
Restricted slave recapture.
- 20.According to the map above, which Southern state had the lowest percentage of African American population in 1820?
- A.
Arkansas
- B.
Kentucky
- C.
Florida
- D.
Tennessee
- 21.
Which two states had the highest percentage of African Americans in 1820, as shown in the map above?- A.
Florida and Louisiana
- B.
South Carolina and Mississippi
- C.
South Carolina and Louisiana
- D.
Mississippi and Louisiana
- 22.The slogan used by the Whigs in the election of 1840 referred to
- A.
A canoe used in the War of 1812 and its paddler.
- B.
A presidential candidate's battle victory and to his vice presidential running mate, John Tyler.
- C.
An unfortunate incident that involved John Tyler, a Southerner and former Democrat.
- D.
A rowdy song.
- 23.
As shown in the above diagram, ________ was famous for writing about the dark terrors humanity faced.
- A.
Cooper
- B.
Thoreau
- C.
Emerson
- D.
Poe
- 24.During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson became a hero for leading his troops victory in the Battle of
- 25.Andrew Jackson replaced the _____________ system with the national nominating convention.
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