Unit 2 Check In #2

The Five Civilized Tribes...

• rejected white customs and were usually in conflict with their neighbors

• where able to live peacefully with white settlers and were not removed by Jackson's policies.

• adopted many white customs in hopes of staying on their ancestral lands.

• helped fight in the Mexican-American War

The Indian Removal Act, which paved the way for the forcible removal of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West, was signed by...

• James Monroe

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Andrew Jackson

The forced relocation and movement of Native Americans was called 

• The Trail of Tears

• Jacksonian Democracy

• The Declaration of Sentiments

• Manifest Destiny

To make changes in order to bring about improvement is called...

• referendum

• reform

• westward expansion

• Transcendentalism

The Second Great Awakening, which was a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s, led to an era of reform by...

• teaching that God had already picked those who would be saved no matter what good works were done on Earth.

• focusing on an un-enthusiastic style of worship.

• teaching that doing good works could help them to be saved.

• discussing why slavery was justified in the Bible.

A philosophy emphasizing that people should go beyond logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotion and intuition was called

• Abolition

• Predestination

• Suffrage

• Transcendentalism

Dorothea Dix was a reformer who

• sought to improve conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada.

• was a supporter of public school reform

• focused on abolishing slavery

• was an advocate for women's rights

Horace Mann was a reformer who 

• was a supporter of public school reform

• sought to improve conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada.

• focused on abolishing slavery

• was an advocate for women's rights

The movement to end slavery was called

• Suffrage

• Referendum

• Temperance

• Abolition

Frederick Douglass was a reformer who 

• was an escaped slave who was a gifted speaker and spoke on the horrors of slavery

• sought to improve conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada.

• was a supporter of public school reform

• was an advocate for women's rights