USH Qtr 2 Review

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Why did suffrage increase during Jackson's presidency?

Back

You no longer had to own property and more people felt connected to politics

Front

Who was the US educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)?

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Horace Mann

Front

People who wanted to end slavery in the United States were called?

Back

Abolitionists

Front

The Erie Canal played a large role in the settlement of the Midwest because it provided a link between the Atlantic Ocean and the ____ for transporting products more quickly.

Back

Great Lakes

Front

States Rights can best be defined as the belief that states: could not free their slaves, could leave the union at any time if they chose to, could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state, could force the national government to turn over all national government property to the states

Back

could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state

Front

The idea that the US should control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is called

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Manifest Destiny

Front

Both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were intended to settle disputes over...

Back

The legality of slavery in new territories

Front

President Polk won the Election of 1844 by a landslide because...

Back

He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny

Front

Which item would best complete the list? Inexperienced military leaders, Lack of Industries, Larger Population, Lack of agricultural land

Back

Lack of Industries

Front

According to the quotation by Abraham Lincoln, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."

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sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union