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- 1. Thomas Jefferson's most significant achievement as President
- is generally thought to be the:
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- (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- success and was repealed by Congress in 1809.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:
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- (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:
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- (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
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- (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
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- (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?
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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
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- 9. The Barnburners of the 1840s can most accurately be identified as:
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- (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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