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1. Thomas Jefferson's most significant achievement as President
is generally thought to be the:
(A) Embargo
(B) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
(C) Louisiana Purchase
(D) Declaration of Independence
(E) Virginia Declaration of Rights
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(C) This is the only viable answer. The Embargo was not a notable
success and was repealed by Congress in 1809. None of the other events
occurred during Jefferson's presidency.
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2. The Declaration of Sentiments issued by the Seneca Falls Woman's
Rights Convention of 1848 was modeled on:
(A) the Bible
(B) the Constitution
(C) the Declaration of Independence
(D) COMMON SENSE
(E) THE RIGHTS OF MAN
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(C) The Declaration of Sentiments of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
was similar to the Declaration of Independence in form. It presented
a list of grievances and demanded redress.
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3. An antebellum document opposed compensation to slaveowners for
emancipating their slaves because "it would be a surrender of
the great fundamental principle, that man cannot hold property
in man." This statement represents the views of:
(A) Henry Clay in 1820
(B) an abolitionist society of the 1830s
(C) the Supreme Court in 1857
(D) the Democratic Party in 1860
(E) Jefferson Davis in 1861
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(B) William Lloyd Garrison said this.
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4. A common demand of labor organizations during the Jacksonian
era was:
(A) the ten-hour work day
(B) imprisonment for debt
(C) college education for all citizens
(D) literacy testing
(E) the "open shop"
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(A) Workingmen's associations of the Jacksonian era demanded a
ten-hour work day, public education for their children, and an end to
imprisonment for debt.
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5. Before becoming President, Andrew Jackson served as all of the following
EXCEPT:
(A) a soldier in the Revolutionary War
(B) a Congressman from Tennessee
(C) a Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
(D) military governor of Florida
(E) Secretary of State
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(E) Andrew Jackson never served as Secretary of State.
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6. Which of the following antebellum reformers ran for election
as President of the United States?
(A) William Lloyd Garrison
(B) Robert Owen
(C) Horace Greeley
(D) Theodore Weld
(E) Lucy Stone
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(C) Horace Greeley, editor of the reform-minded NEW YORK TRIBUNE, ran for
President as a Liberal Republican in 1872. He was defeated by the regular
Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant.
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7. All of the following reforms were promoted in the antebellum
period EXCEPT:
(A) better care for the insane
(B) universal education
(C) temperance
(D) women's rights
(E) the "single tax"
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(E) The "single tax" was proposed by post-Civil War reformer Henry
George. He advocated the scheme in PROGRESS AND POVERTY (1879).
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8. All of the following groups created utopian communities in the
antebellum era EXCEPT:
(A) the Shakers
(B) the Oneidans
(C) the Homesteaders
(D) the Fourierists
(E) the Owenites
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(C) The Homesteaders were western settlers who gained title to uninhabited
land by living on it and establishing farms. They were not a part of utopian
communities.
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9. The Barnburners of the 1840s can most accurately be identified as:
(A) Republicans
(B) secessionists
(C) Populists
(D) Democrats
(E) Whigs
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(D) The Barnburners were radical Democrats in New York State in the 1840s.
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