History Final Exam Review Questions And Answers

In the northern colonies slaves, - ANS Were a small enough percentage of the population that they faced less harsh laws than in the south How did the Spanish colonist respond to the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico - ANS by ceasing to demand labor and goods from the Pueblos for tribute Where was the first European colony established in North America - ANS Saint Augustine Which Native American tribe most resisted forced relocation under the Indian Removal Act - ANS Cherokee The US Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia established which of the following rulings - ANS only the federal government could negotiate with Native American nations How did westward expansion affect the slave trade in the United States - ANS it created a greater demand for slaves by expanding the plantation systems Which best describes how Mexican leaders reacted when large numbers of Americans settled in Texas in the 1820's and 1830's - ANS they expected American settlers to become loyal Mexican subjects and productive citizens Paternalism was based on the premise that - ANS the white slave holders acted in the best interests of the slaves In the My Story excerpt on Solomon Northrup and the New Orleans slave market, Freeman is a - ANS slave trader In the nineteenth century, which Protestant denomination grew in numbers in the United States due to increased immigration from Europe? - ANS Lutheranism How did Charles G. Finney's brand of Christian revivalism differ from those of previous Evangelical leaders? - ANS He stressed the control that humans have over their own destinies. Which new church grew quickly in spite of being met with hostility after it was founded in the 1830s? - ANS Mormonism Which American philosophical movement influenced many early reform efforts in New England? - ANS Transcendentalism The utopian community begun by Robert Owen in 1825 was founded around which principle? - ANS cooperative labor With which movement did the perfectionist reform of the early nineteenth century Christian revivalists take its earliest form? - ANS temperance How did the abolitionist views of William Lloyd Garrison differ from those of earlier anti-slavery advocates? - ANS He opposed the forced return of African slaves to Africa How did abolitionists use the political system to fight slavery? - ANS by forming third parties that advocated laws against slavery Why did female abolitionists often meet resistance within their own movement? - ANS Religious leaders often used the Bible to justify female inferiority Why did William Lloyd Garrison's endorsement of the Grimke sisters divide the abolitionist movement? - ANS They lectured to co-ed audiences Sylvester Graham's reformers targeted all of the following EXCEPT -- - ANS Sylvester Graham Which utopian community or movement is connected with transcendentalism? - ANS What was a major concern for the group known as the Federalists? - ANS That the new nation would be unable to confront foreign and domestic threats How was Pennsylvania's constitution radically different from other state constitutions? - ANS It allowed for only one legislative body and no governor In the mid 1770s, the American Revolution was met with the most resistance by which group of people? - ANS loyalists The Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War in 1783, ceded the territory of which future U.S. state to the United States? - ANS Michigan The Ladies Association of Philadelphia, founded by Esther DeBerdt Reed -- - ANS led fundraisers to raise supplies for the Continental Army Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin changed the industry of the South in which way? - ANS It led to more land in the South being dedicated to cotton farming.* Most of the slave traders involved in the internal slave trade sold slave in all of the following states EXCEPT - ANS Michigan Paternalism was based on the premise that -- - ANS the white slaveholders acted in the best interests of slaves Which of the following was a provision of the Compromise of 1850? - ANS Free states would be forced to return slaves who escaped to those states. In 1856, in which territory did confrontations between free- and slave-state factions become violent? - ANS Kansas