Liberty University Online Academy

HIUS 316

QUIZ 5

Question 1)One of the first significant American practitioners of the Hudson River School was:  

• Question 2

Dark Romanticism:

• Question 3

The Romantic Movement started in:

• Question 4

Who was Jackson’s chosen successor as President?

• Question 5

William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia after serving how long as president?

 Answer: one month

• Question 6

Both the Whigs and Democrats disassociated themselves from abolitionism and minimized discussion of slavery during the presidential election of 1840.

• Question 7

Economic conflicts would dominate Van Buren’s presidency.

• Question 8

Most African Americans in Seminole territory were chattel slaves of the Seminoles.

• Question 9

What famous lawyer and politician was brought in by the abolitionists to defend Joseph Cinque and the other West Africans captured on the Amistad?

• Question 10

Van Buren’s administration cemented the Democratic Party’s opposition to abolitionism as a party distinctive, even in the North.

Question 11

John Tyler was the only sitting president in American history to be expelled from his political party.

Question 12

The Whig party refused to compromise with slavery and supported abolition and racial equality.

Question 13

Who succeeded Martin Van Buren as president and what party were they affiliated with?

• Question 14

According to Howe, what was the main factor that turned public opinion against Van Buren and the Democratic party by the close of his presidency?

• Question 15

What was the primary motive for the Second Seminole War?

Question 16

Van Buren’s administration hoped to use the Amistad case as an example of their hard line against slave uprisings to win support in the South during an election year.

Question 17

Van Buren successfully defused a violent grass roots movement in New York against who?

• Question 18

Which of the following was NOT true about President Van Buren?