US History Quiz Chapter 3 & 4

Who would most likely supported Andrew Jackson?

A wealthy eastern businessman

Henry Clay

A Western farmer

John Q. Adams

What was Andrew Jackson's view concerning suffrage?

He believed everyone living in the US should be allowed to vote

He believed any white man should be allowed to vote

He favored restricting suffrage to land owners

Whose support helped John Quincy Adams win the election in 1842?

William H. Crawford

John C. Calhoun

Henry Clay

Whish state was involved in the Nullification Crisis?

Georgia

South Carolina

Florida

What act ended the Nullificatrion Crisis?

The American System

Tarriff of 1833

The Indian Removal Act

Which Native American tribe left Georgia because of the Indian Removal Act?

Cherokee

Seminole

Mohawk

Who invented the cotton gin and interchangable parts?

Eli Whitney

Samuel Slater

Robert Fulton

Who invented the steel plow?

Alexander Graham Bell

Samuel Morse

John Deere

What is infrastructure and what was Clay's plan to build it?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is MOST identified with

Jacksonian democracy

Abolition

Women's suffrage

Education reform

Horace Mann assisted in creating the first

Public school

Board of education

Temperance society

What did the Temperance Society advocate?

Alcohol abstinence

The sale of alcohol

Women's suffrage

States' rights is BEST defined as the belief that

The federal government should tell the states what to do

States should not have rights

States should be able to decide most matters for themselves

What did Northern politicians want to happen to slavery?

To see it continue

To have it abolished

To send slaves back to Africa

Who were the former slave owners that became abolitionists?

William Lloyd Harrison

Harriet Tubman

The Grimke Sisters

Which abloitionist joined with John Brown on his raids?

Harriett Tubman

Frederick Douglass

Nat Turner

What was the Missouri Compromise designed to do?

Allow more free states

Allow more slave states

Maintain a balance of power in Washington, D.C.

What id James K. Polk NOT create in the United States?

Smithsonian Institute

U.S. National Park Service

Department of the Treasury

Independent U. S. Tresury

Who led the Texas rebellion against Mexico?

Davy Crockett

David Bowie

Sam Houston

Robert E. Lee

The most famous battle in the war between Mexico and Texas was

The Rio Grande

The Alamo

The Battle of the Bulge

Antietam

Who owned the Oregon territory before the US aquired it?

France

Spain

Italy

Great Britain

Who was the general that led the troops in the war with Mexico?

James Gadsden

Ulysses S. Grant

Sam Houston

Zachary Taylor

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo requred Mexico to give up

Utah and Arizona

California and Arizona

New Mexico and California

New Mexico and Texas

What event happened to increase California'a population

Wildfires in the East

Gold Rush of 1849

The Compromise of 1850

The Gadsden Purchase

What happened when Charles Sumner gave his speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

The Senate cheered his speech

The South Carolina senator beat him with a cane because he was angry

It made the Senate want to increase slavery

Why was Kansas called "Bleeding Kansas" after the Act was passed?

An increase in Native American massacres

The red clay soil of Kansas

Fights between abolitionist and slave owners

The election of 1860 caused

Unity in all the political parties

Abraham Lincoln to leave the presidential race

Deep divisions in the democratic party

The creation of a new political party

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