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QUIZ

Please circle the right answer.






1. The Specie Circular was..
a. a bulletin put out by Nicholas Biddle to let Americans know how the National Bank was
doing.
b. an executive order stating that the federal government would no longer accept any paper
currencies, but only gold or silver.
c. responsible for the withdrawal of most of the gold and silver out of the nation's banks,
with only New York and Philadelphia banks able to continue to function.
d. a government decision that led to much land speculation in the West.
e. a direct result of the Market Revolution and the unsettled economic times.

2. .Jacksonian Democrats..
a. believed in an active federal government that financed internal improvements and
promoted the moral health of the nation through antislavery laws.
b. favored a redistribution of land so that poor farmers would have a chance to become
independent.
c. thought that the federal government should remain small and avoid telling people how to
conduct themselves.
d. embraced the market revolution and saw business and the people's interests as
complimentary.
e. wanted to confront the question of slavery head on so that they could get the issue behind
them, but the Whigs were reluctant to discuss it openly.

3. As the president of the Second Bank of the United States, ____ attempted to manage the money supply and
distribution in America to stabilize the economy.
a. Andrew Jackson.
b. Henry Clay.
c. Alexander Hamilton.
d. Nicholas Biddle.
e. John C. Calhoun.

4. The immigrants who arrived from the mid-1800s onward tended to avoid what area?
a. California
b. Midwest (Old Northwest)
c. South
d. Boston
e. Middle Atlantic states



5. Which of the following is not true about German immigrants to Milwaukee and St. Louis?
a. Most quickly came to identify themselves as German-American shortly after their
establishment in the U.S.
b. They built a brewing tradition that continues to this day.
c. They formed Turnvereine in the spirit of the German liberation movement.
d. They formed distinct ethnic neighborhoods and communities.
e. They assimilated quickly enough not to face any significant nativist resentment.

6. Which of the following is not true about leisure in antebellum urban America?
a. Professional sports like horse-racing and boxing attracted large crowds.
b. Towns routinely constructed theaters early in their development where they featured
Shakespeare plays, among others.
c. Residents gathered and socialized in small taverns.
d. Men and women mixed and mingled in urban theaters.
e. Minstrel shows, which ridiculed African Americans, were a form of rural comedy theater
performed predominately in the South.


7. ___________ TRUE or FALSE. Social mobility was usually limited in the antebellum, stratified social class
system of the South, and when it did occur, it mostly pushed people downward.

8. Which of the following concepts was not supported by the Whig Party?
a. Federal funds should be used to finance internal improvements such as railroads and
canals.
b. Government could be used to legislate morality for America.
c. Market capitalism benefited all Americans over time.
d. Banks were essential for controlling the money flow of the country.
e. Immigration was making America stronger by creating new sources of labor.


9. ___________ TRUE or FALSE. One commonality among the Whigs and the Democrats was that both
parties avoided discussing slavery and its westward expansion because they worried it would cause
divisions within their own parties.


10. .In Worcester v. Georgia,
a. the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a sovereign nation and that the state
of Georgia could not enter it without Cherokee permission.
b. President Jackson asked Georgia to police its western border with the Cherokee.
c. Georgian gold seekers received the right to mine on Cherokee land.
d. a southern slaveholder won his suit over Georgia's repossession of ten of his slaves.
e. the Bank of the United States lost its suit for a renewal of its charter.

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