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HIS 1110 Unit 6 Test – Questions and Answers- 20 25.
• Question 1
Why did William Lloyd Garrison's endorsement of the Grimké sisters help to divide the abolitionist movement? Correct Answer: They advocated for equal rights of women as well as the abolition of slavery
• Question 2
What country did the United States seek to gain in 1854, which became the central focus of the controversial Ostend Manifesto? Correct Answer:
• Question 3
Cuba Temperance, while still a social movement, had become a political issue. As a result, who enacted the first temperance laws? Correct Answer:
• Question 4
State governments What was the reform movement which advocated the relocation of African Americans (free and enslaved) from the United States to another country, typically somewhere in Africa? A formal organization that supported this type of "reform" collected $100,000 from the federal government to further their efforts and ultimately helped to create the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa. Many abolitionists, like William Lloyd Garrison, were staunchly against this type of reform movement. Correct Answer:
• Question 5
colonization Historian Kenneth Stampp identified what as the "peculiar institution?" Correct Answer: Slavery
• Question 6
Written at the height of the transcendentalist movement, what 1855 work by Walt Whitman has been called one of the most influential works in American literature? Correct Answer:
• Question 7
"Song of Myself" Which of the following was not one of the effects of the cotton boom? Correct Answer:
• Question 8
The trade between the United States and France and Spain increased. Because of the cotton boom, there were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States. In that same year (1860), how many whites owned more than 50 slaves? Correct (^) 3% Answer:
• Question 9
Identify the following person: He was born a slave in 1790 in South Carolina, but eventually bought his, his wife's, and his daughter's freedom. Soon after, he purchased his own slaves and put them to work manufacturing cotton gins. By the eve of the Civil War, he had become one of the richest and largest slaveholders in South Carolina. Correct Answer: William Ellison
• Question 10
William Lloyd Garrison utilized various techniques in his abolitionist efforts. Which of the following tactics did he not employ? Correct Answer:
• Question 11
Gradual reform Because of the cotton boom, there were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States. In that same year (1860), how many whites were non-slaveholders? Correct Answer:
Match Match the term to its most appropriate description. o Question Correct A term meaning "before the war" which is used to describe the decades of time in the United States' history before the American Civil War began in 1861 B. antebellum This device was modernized (not invented) and eventually patented by Eli Whitney in 1794. It separated the seeds from raw cotton quickly and easily, allowing for the laborer to remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton a day, compared to one pound if done by hand. C. cotton gin Birthed as a result of the discontinuation of international slave trade in 1808, the internal forced domestic migration of more than one million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Lower South aided in the continuation of the rise in cotton production D. second middle passage John C. Calhoun's idea suggested in his 1850 essay entitled "Disquisition on Government" that suggested that a majority of a separate region (that would otherwise be in the minority of the nation) with the power to veto or disallow legislation put forward by a hostile majority A. concurrent majority The trading of enslaved people within the borders of the United States E. domestic slave trade
• Question 17
Match the term to its most appropriate description. o Question Correct Match A revival of evangelical Protestantism during the 1820s and 1830s that served as a catalyst for major reform movements that combatted drinking and slavery C. Second Great Awakening Document advocating for equal rights for women issued in 1848 at the first women’s rights convention in the United States and signed by 300 supporters, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass The strategy of moving African Americans (free and enslaved) out of the United States, usually to Africa. A formal society was successful in getting $100,000 from the federal government in 1819 to further this project, which aided in the creation of the colony of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa. B. Seneca Falls Declaration of Rights and Sentiments A. colonization Advocated by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, this belief centered on the notion that it was a person’s moral demand to take direct action to abolish slavery and instill equal rights among Black and White people E. immediatism A technique used by abolitionists to appeal to the consciences of the public, focusing specifically on the slaveholders, in which they would highlight the depravity of slavery D. moral suasion
