:socialreform::test:

1) For most southern Freedmen, the Reconstruction Era was marked by:

a) Increased affiliation with the well-established Methodist Church
b) Little change from having their livelihood controlled by white landowners
c) Complete freedom to vote
d) A significant increase in independent black landowners

e) None of the above

2) What was the task system?

a) Incentive for the slaves to work hard
b) Allotment of labor based on slave’s health, gender, and age
c) System used in slave trade
d) None of the above
e) All of the above

3) Which famous abolitionist published an antislavery newspaper called The North Star?

a) Susan B. Anthony
b) William Stills
c) Frederick Douglass
d) James Fairfield
e) William Lloyd Garrison

4) What did the laws regarding feme coverts do to the rights of women?

a) They allowed women to purchase property and participate in court without her husband’s input
b) Women owned nothing in their relationship; even their clothes were their husband’s property
c) They enabled women to only receive pay in their husbands’ names
d) They increased the ability of women to participate in the local government
e) Both b and c

5) Which of the following was NOT a result of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?

a) The Thirteenth Amendment completed the work the proclamation had begun
b) 200,000 black soldiers and sailors served in the Union army
c) The war plan changed from suppressing rebellious states to ending slavery
d) The government was committed to a policy of abolitionism
e) The South was forced to immediately free their slaves

6) Which general led the capture of Ticonderoga?

a) James Wolfe
b) William Pitt
c) Marquis de Montcalm
d) Jeffrey Amherst
e) Edward Braddock

7) Which of the following immigrant groups were NOT welcomed by colonists?

a) French Huguenots
b) Pennsylvania Dutch
c) English
d) Scottish and Irish
e) None of the above

8) What was the result of the Treaty of Greenville?

a) American settlers agreed to leave the Indians alone
b) King Philip killed himself
c) United States permitted Indians to maintain claims in Ohio
d) United States generously paid Indians for Ohio
e) The Indians relinquished claims of Ohio

9) Which group of colonies was founded mostly by Puritans?

a) Chesapeake
b) Southern
c) New England
d) Canada
e) None of the above

10) Who was the governor during the Virginia Rebellion of 1676?

a) Nathaniel Bacon, Jr.
b) William Berkeley
c) John Rolfe
d) Thomas Calvert
e) Forker Frizzel

11) The First Emancipation (late 18^th century) was significant in all of the following ways, EXCEPT:

a) Slave imports decreased significantly
b) A substantial free black community emerged
c) Thomas Jefferson’s racist remarks intensified abolitionist voices
d) Slavery became known as a distinctly southern institution
e) None of the above

12) Which colony passed the Stamp Act Resolves?

a) New York
b) Massachusetts
c) Virginia
d) Pennsylvania
e) Maryland

13) Why did so many Puritans come to New England during the Great Migration?

a) They were curious to see America
b) They had family overseas
c) Taxes were raised in England

d) They had economic opportunities in America
e) They were persecuted for their religion in England

14) The admission of which state into the Union sparked a huge political controversy?

a) Maine
b) Ohio
c) Illinois
d) Missouri
e) Wisconsin

15) Who directed army troops in forcing the Cherokees to move west?

a) John Ross
b) Major Ridge
c) Andrew Jackson
d) Winfield Scott
e) None of the above

a) Were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
b) Were created by Redeemers in state legislatures
c) Were supported by Radical Republicans
d) Required African Americans to be employed
e) None of the above

17) The majority of Lowell factory workers were:

a) Black
b) Children
c) Amish
d) American Indian
e) Women

18) Which of these was NOT a component of the Compromise of 1850?

a) Texas would be admitted to the Union as a slave state
b) The slave trade in Washington D.C. would be banned
c) Utah and New Mexico would be created from the Mexican Cession and given the power to vote on slavery
d) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
e) The Fugitive Slave Law would be adopted

19) What was NOT an impact of the Great Awakening?

a) Colonists divided over religion
b) New religious denominations formed
c) Increased immigration to the colonies
d) More colleges were established
e) All of the above

20) What was NOT a principle of transcendentalism?

a) Strong belief in the study of nature
b) Individualism
c) Fervent religious revival
d) Discovering one’s inner self
e) None of the above