Pvhs American\US History 1 Final
33 Questions
| Total Attempts: 165
This test will contain information from the PVHS American History 1 coursework sections 1i-4
Questions and Answers
- 1.Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: Between 1810 and 1819 there were 7 major riots; in the 1830s there were ___.
- A.
100
- B.
105
- C.
110
- D.
115
- 2.Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: In a single decade, 1834–1844, ____ incidents of mob violence occurred in New York.
- A.
100
- B.
150
- C.
200
- D.
250
- 3.Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: By 1835, there were nearly _____ drinking places in New York--one for every 50 persons over the age of 15.
- A.
1,000
- B.
2,000
- C.
3,000
- D.
4,000
- 4.Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: In New York, the nation’s largest city, crime rose far faster than in the overall population. Between 1814 and _____, the city’s population doubled, but reports of crime quadrupled.
- A.
1831
- B.
1832
- C.
1833
- D.
1834
- 5.Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: During the early 19th century, poverty, lawlessness, violence, and vice appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: By _____ an estimated 2 million Americans had taken the “pledge” to abstain from hard liquor.
- A.
1834
- B.
1835
- C.
1836
- D.
1837
- 7.Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: In _____ the nation’s first formal national temperance organization--the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance--was born.
- A.
1824
- B.
1825
- C.
1826
- D.
1827
- 8.Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: By _____ the typical adult American consumed more than 7 gallons of absolute alcohol a year (compared to 2.6 gallons today).
- A.
1
- B.
3
- C.
5
- D.
7
- 9.Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: Instead of taking coffee breaks, people took a dram of liquor at ___ and again at 4 o’clock as well as drinks after meals “to aid digestion” and a nightcap before going to sleep.
- A.
11
- B.
10
- C.
9
- D.
8
- 10.Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: The New York Moral Reform Society had ________ members in 1837 and branches in New England and upstate New York.
- A.
14,000
- B.
15,000
- C.
16,000
- D.
17,000
- 11.Pre-Civil War Reform, Radical Reform and Antislavery: In _____ a group of prominent ministers and politicians formed the American Colonization Society to resettle free blacks in West Africa, encourage planters voluntarily to emancipate their slaves, and create a group of black missionaries who would spread Christianity in Africa.
- A.
1815
- B.
1816
- C.
1817
- D.
1818
- 12.Pre-Civil War Reform, Radical Reform and Antislavery: At the present rate of progress, predicted one religious leader in 1791, within ___ years it will “be as shameful for a man to hold a Negro slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft.”
- A.
20
- B.
30
- C.
40
- D.
50
- 13.Pre-Civil War Reform, Radical Reform and Antislavery: As late as the ______, no church had discouraged its members from owning or trading in slaves.
- A.
1750s
- B.
1760s
- C.
1770s
- D.
1780s
- 14.Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? The Continental Congress approves a resolution prohibiting slave importations and further American participation in the slave trade.
- A.
1774
- B.
1779
- C.
1787
- D.
1793
- 15.Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? John Laurens proposes to Congress the arming of 3,000 slaves to resist a British invasion of the South; Congress approves the proposal but the South Carolina legislature rejects it.
- A.
1774
- B.
1779
- C.
1787
- D.
1793
- 16.Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? The Constitutional Convention agrees to count three-fifths of a state's slave population in apportioning representations; forbids Congress from ending the Atlantic slave trade until 1808; and requires fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners.
- A.
1774
- B.
1779
- C.
1787
- D.
1793
- 17.Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
- A.
1774
- B.
1779
- C.
1787
- D.
1793
- 18.Pre-Civil War Reform, Women’s Rights: In ____, after the American Anti-Slavery Society split over the issue of women’s rights, the organization named three female delegates to a World Anti-Slavery Convention to be held in London later that year.
- A.
1840
- B.
1841
- C.
1842
- D.
1843
- 19.Pre-Civil War Reform, Women’s Rights: In _____ Angelina gained national notoriety by lecturing against slavery to audiences that included men as well as women.
- A.
1836
- B.
1837
- C.
1838
- D.
1839
- 20.Tragedy of the Plains Indians, A Thrity Years War: In _____, warfare spread to Colorado, after the discovery of gold led to an influx of whites.
- A.
1864
- B.
1865
- C.
1866
- D.
1867
- 21.Tragedy of the Plains Indians, The Sand Creek Massacre: Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, the lone American Indian in Congress, called it "one of the most disgraceful moments in American history." About _____ U.S. army volunteers stormed through an Indian encampment near Big Sandy Creek in Colorado, slaughtering scores of women and children. This episode became known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
- A.
500
- B.
600
- C.
700
- D.
800
- 22.Tragedy of the Plains Indians, The Sand Creek Massacre: In the Spring of_____, a wing of the Cheyenne tribe unleashed attacks on white settlers, which prompted John M. Chivington, a Methodist minister who had become Colorado's military commander and was eager to become a member of Congress, to call for volunteer Indian fighters for 100-day enlistments.
- A.
1864
- B.
1865
- C.
1866
- D.
1867
- 23.Tragedy of the Plains Indians, The Battle of the Little Big Horn: In ______, during a meeting under a flag of truce in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, an American soldier killed Crazy Horse by stabbing him with a bayonet.
- A.
1876
- B.
1877
- C.
1878
- D.
1879
- 24.Tragedy of the Plains Indians, The Battle of the Little Big Horn: On _____ 25, 1876, Custer's scouts had observed what they thought was a retreating Indian village along the Little Big Horn River in what is now Montana.
- A.
June
- B.
July
- C.
August
- D.
September
- 25.Tragedy of the Plains Indians, Wounded Knee I: Beginning in the _____, a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance arose among Indians of the Great Basin, and then spread, in the late 1880s, to the Great Plains.
- A.
1850s
- B.
1860s
- C.
1870s
- D.
1880s
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