MCQs of History - The Pre-Civil War Era – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 42

1. Question

The election of 1816 marked______

The end of the Federalist Party
The beginning of the Era of God Feelings
The inauguration of the American System
Al of the above

Question 2 of 42

2. Question

All of the following were components of Henry Clay’s American System except_____.

An improved national banking system
Universal method suffrage
Internal improvements
None of these

Question 3 of 42

3. Question

Old World powers obeyed Monroe Doctrine because_____

They didn't want to lose any trade deals
They hadn't any interest in North and South America
They feared the Royal Navy
None of these

Question 4 of 42

4. Question

The Monroe Doctrine declared that______

American settlers should push westward
The United States would annex Texas and Oregon
The Old World powers of Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the western Hemisphere
None of these

Question 5 of 42

5. Question

The Tallmadge Act______

Outlawed slavery north of 36 to 30'
Admitted Missouri to the Union on the condition that its slaved would gradually be set free
Nullified the 1828 Tariff of Abominations
None of these

Question 6 of 42

6. Question

The 1820 Missouri Compromise achieved all of the following except

It admitted Missouri as a slave state
It maintained the balance between free and slave states
It provided for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri
None of these

Question 7 of 42

7. Question

The Era of Good Feelings ended after______.

The Missouri crisis
The Panic of 1819
The Monroe Doctrine
Al of the above

Question 8 of 42

8. Question

John Quincy Adams,s presidency was tainted due to_____.

The Panic of 1819
The Missouri crisis
The "corrupt bargain"
None of these

Question 9 of 42

9. Question

The term “spoils system” refers to_____.

The distribution of civil service jobs to political patrons
Clay's plan to improve banking and internal infrastructure
Jackson's plan to kill the Bank of the United States
None of these

Question 10 of 42

10. Question

Andrew Jackson and western farmers loathed the Bank of the United States because_____.

They considered it a symbol of excessive federal power
It didn't print enough cheap paper money
They saw it as a symbol of aristocracy and wealth
All of the above

Question 11 of 42

11. Question

Southerners did not like high tariffs on imported goods because_____.

The South had very few factories of its own
Southerners purchased many European goods
They felt that tariffs demonstrated the federal government's bias against the South
All of the above

Question 12 of 42

12. Question

Why was Jackson outraged by South Carolina’s vote to nullify the Tariff of Abominations?

He felt higher tariffs were necessary to protect manufacturers
He detested the state's out right disobedience to the federal government
His own vice president had written the "South Carolina Exposition and Protest"
The crisis detracted from the Bank War that Jackson wanted to make the Primary election issue in 1832

Question 13 of 42

13. Question

The tariff of 1833 was important primarily because_____.

It prevented the Civil War from starting thirty years earlier than it did
It helped protect a fledgling industrial society in the North
It prevented the South from purchasing cheaper British goods
It keep the international market price for cotton high

Question 14 of 42

14. Question

What heavily influenced John Calhoun’s “South Carolina Exposition and Protest”?

The Bill of Rights
The writings of Thomas Paine
The Virginia and kentucky Resolutions of 1798
The proceedings of the Hartford Convention of 1814

Question 15 of 42

15. Question

Jackson Flagrantly disregarded a previous Supreme Court ruling when he______.

Signed the Force Bill
Dismantled the Bank of the United States
Issued the Special Circular
Threatened to use federal troops to collect tariff duties in South Carolina

Question 16 of 42

16. Question

The Whigs supported all of the following except_______.

Social reforms
High protective tariffs
Internal improvements
The westward expansion of slavery

Question 17 of 42

17. Question

What caused the Panic of 1837?

Over-speculation in western lands
The Specie Circular
A lack of credit
All of the above

Question 18 of 42

18. Question

During the mid-nineteenth century, most immigrants to the United States migrated from_____.

England
Italy and Greece
France
Germany and Ireland

Question 19 of 42

19. Question

What did the know-Nothing Party oppose?

Slavery
Immigration
The annexation of Texas
The consumption of alcohol

Question 20 of 42

20. Question

Who blocked the annexation of Texas?

Democrats
Whigs
Know-Nothing
All of the above

Question 21 of 42

21. Question

Democrats compaigned for all of the following except______.

An independent treasury
Unfettered westward expansion
A Bank of the United States
Lower protective tariffs

Question 22 of 42

22. Question

What caused the Mexican War?

The dispute over Texas
Polk's desire to annex California
Unpaid Mexican debts
All of the above

Question 23 of 42

23. Question

Mormons migrated to Utah in the 1840s amd 1850s to escape persecution for their belief in_____.

Free love
Polygamy
Slavery
Communism

Question 24 of 42

24. Question

The religious revivalism of the antebellum period had its roots in_____.

The First Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening
The Preaching of Charles Finney
The Burned-Over District

Question 25 of 42

25. Question

Where did Methodists and Baptists have the largest following?

The Middle States
The Northeast
The West and South
The Burned-Over District

Question 26 of 42

26. Question

Northern manufacturing blossomed between 1820 and 1840 because of____.

The cotton gin
Interchangeable parts
The mechanical mower-reaper
All of the above

Question 27 of 42

27. Question

What did the Erie Canal link?

Farmlands in the West to cities in the North
Cotton fields in the South to cities in the North
Texas to land east of the Mississippi
Farmlands in the West to cotton fields in the South

Question 28 of 42

28. Question

Dorothea Dix Fought crusades against_____.

The consumption of alcohol
Slavery
The mistreatment of the mentally ill
Prostitution

Question 29 of 42

29. Question

What was the main reason that Britain agreed to give the United States to all of the Oregon Territory south of the 49th parallel?

American in Oregon greatly outnumbered British settlers
The United States Agreed to trade Nova Scotia for oregon
Britain could no longer afford its costly Indian wars in Oregon
The United States Threatened Britain with war over the issue

Question 30 of 42

30. Question

Why did Whigs block the annexation of Texas in 1836?

They wouldn't accept Texas without all of Oregon
They wanted a buffer state between the United States and Mexico
They feared that Texas would become a slave state
They were bitter they had lost the election of 1836 to Van Buren

Question 31 of 42

31. Question

Where were the majority of internal transportation improve-ments made during the antebellum period?

In the North, but not in the West or South
In the North and West, but not in the South
In the South and North, but not in the West
In the South and West, but not in the North

Question 32 of 42

32. Question

Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical mower-reaper stimulated agricultural production in the_______.

South
North
West
All of the above

Question 33 of 42

33. Question

What did many Americans in the mid-1800s they were “manifestly destined” to do?

Eliminate slavery
Convert Native Americans to Christianity
Eliminate prostitution, alcohol, and other moral vices to create a more perfect society
Settle the entire North Americans continent, if not the whole western hemisphere

Question 34 of 42

34. Question

Which movement did Joseph Smith found?

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The temperance movement
The abolitionist movement

Question 35 of 42

35. Question

Whig party leaders expelled President John Tyler from the Party in 1845 because he

Consistently opposed Whig legislation
Annexed Texas against the party's wishes
Re-established Bank of the united States
All of the above

Question 36 of 42

36. Question

What was the temperance movement’s greatest triumph?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Tallmadge Act
The Wilmot Proviso
The Maine Law

Question 37 of 42

37. Question

John Marshall’s Supreme Court rulings generally_______.

Increased the power of the federal government relative to the power of the states
Increased the power of the Court relative to the power of the states and Congress
Increased the power of the states relative to the federal government
Increased the power of the presidency relative to the power of the Court

Question 38 of 42

38. Question

Many of the most prominent reforms during the antebellum period were_____.

Democrats
Westerners
Women
Blacks

Question 39 of 42

39. Question

All of the following were consequences of Eli Whitney’s inventions except_____.

The South experienced a boom in cotton production
Northern manufacturing surged to life
More slaves wee imported to the South
The South began importing more manufactured goods from the North

Question 40 of 42

40. Question

What did Abraham Lincoln’s “spot resolutions” do?

Attempted to eliminate slavery from certain spots in America
Attempted to ban slavery in Texas
Implied that Mexico had not in fact been the aggressor in the Mexican War
Prevented southerners from annexing Cuba and Nicaragua

Question 41 of 42

41. Question

The Mexican War_______.

Provided the South With new slavery territories west of Texas
Ruined the Wing Party
Helped Lincoln defeat Stephen Douglass in the Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Revived the sectional struggle over slavery

Question 42 of 42

42. Question

All of the following writers were active in the Transcendentalist movement except______.

Walt Whitman
T.S Arthur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

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