Question 1
Why did William Lloyd Garrison's endorsement of the Grimké sisters help to divide the
abolitionist movement?
Question 2
What country did the United States seek to gain in 1854, which became the central focus of the
controversial Ostend Manifesto?
Question 3
Temperance...
Why did William Lloyd Garrison's endorsement of the Grimké sisters help to divide the
abolitionist movement?
Correct They advocated for equal rights of women as well as the abolition of
Answer: slavery
Question 2
What country did the United States seek to gain in 1854, which became the central focus of the
controversial Ostend Manifesto?
Correct Cuba
Answer:
Question 3
Temperance, while still a social movement, had become a political issue. As a result, who enacted
the first temperance laws?
Correct State governments
Answer:
Question 4
What was the reform movement which advocated the relocation of African Americans (free and
enslaved) from the United States to another country, typically somewhere in Africa? A formal
organization that supported this type of "reform" collected $100,000 from the federal
government to further their efforts and ultimately helped to create the colony of Liberia on the
west coast of Africa. Many abolitionists, like William Lloyd Garrison, were staunchly against this
type of reform movement.
Correct colonization
Answer:
Question 5
Historian Kenneth Stampp identified what as the "peculiar institution?"
Correct Slavery
Answer:
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Written at the height of the transcendentalist movement, what 1855 work by Walt Whitman has
been called one of the most influential works in American literature?
Correct "Song of Myself"
Answer:
Question 7
Which of the following was not one of the effects of the cotton boom?
Correct The trade between the United States and France and Spain increased.
Answer:
Question 8
Because of the cotton boom, there were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River
Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States. In that same year (1860), how many
whites owned more than 50 slaves?
Correct 3%
Answer:
Question 9
Identify the following person: He was born a slave in 1790 in South Carolina, but eventually
bought his, his wife's, and his daughter's freedom. Soon after, he purchased his own slaves and
put them to work manufacturing cotton gins. By the eve of the Civil War, he had become one of
the richest and largest slaveholders in South Carolina.
Correct William
Answer: Ellison
Question 10
William Lloyd Garrison utilized various techniques in his abolitionist efforts. Which of the
following tactics did he not employ?
Correct Gradual reform
Answer:
Question 11
Because of the cotton boom, there were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River
Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States. In that same year (1860), how many
whites were non-slaveholders?
Correct 76.1%
Answer:
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