US History 1812-1840

Which of the following phrases describe the South before the Civil War? Choose all that apply

• Large cotton plantations

• Dependent on slave labor

• Crowded cities

• Industrial - many factories

Why did slavery expand during the first half of the 1800s?

• More plantations of tobacco were planted in the west.

• The invention of the cotton gin encouraged more farming which relied on slavery.

• The South was trying to increase its population and match the North.

• Many immigrants from Ireland and Germany were moving to the South and buying slaves.

Why did the United States declare war in the War of 1812?

• The US wanted to punish Great Britain after the War of 1812.

• Napoleon convinced the US to be an ally with France.

• The US wanted Great Britain to stop impressing its soldiers.

• Great Britain was arming former American Loyalists to attack the US.

What agreement maintained the balance of slave and free states in the Senate?

• Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Ghent

• Corrupt Bargain

• Macon Bill No. 2

What is placing the interests of the entire nation above regional interests?

• sectionalism

• impressment

• abolitionism

• nationalism

What is placing regional interests above national interests?

• temperance

• nationalism

• transcendentalism

• sectionalism

What is the philosophy that one must listen to nature rather than church to hear God?

• temperance

• transcendentalism

• suffrage

• predestination

Who is famous for leading a slave revolt which killed 51 people in Virginia but failed to spread?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Horace Mann

• Neal Dow

• Nat Turner

Which reformer focused on helping the mentally ill and prisoners?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Lucretia Mott

• Dorothea Dix

• Frederick Douglass

What meeting was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?

• Missouri Compromise

• Second Great Awakening

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Treaty of Ghent