8th Social Studies Unit 9 Review

The American claim is by the right of our ____________ to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent.

-John Sullivan, 1845

What belongs in the blank above?

• expansionist decree

• political right

• manifest destiny

A key belief in manifest destiny was the idea that-

• American democracy should be spread across the continent

• Americans were responsible for conserving the natural environment

• more fertile land was needed for food production in the United States

• more land would lead to increased international power for the United States

Which president completed the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the United States overnight?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• George Washington

• James Madison

The Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, Mexican Cession, Oregon Country, and Gadsden Purchase were all examples of-

• War-ending treaties of the Nineteenth Century

• Territories annexed by the United States

• Territories acquired by the United States

• Growth during the colonial period

The purchase of the Gadsden Purchase was to-

• end Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's political career

• expand slave territories in the southwestern United States

• allow for a southern route for the Transcontinental Railroad

• increase the territory acquired through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

In which ways did Dorothea Dix impact society within the United States?

Choose TWO answers

• States passed laws so that criminals received harsher sentences.

• Facilities were opened to help mental-health patients.

• Facilities were improved for the disabled.

• Suffrage was expanded for women.

• Worker safety regulations were improved.

The reform efforts of Dorothea Dix during the mid-nineteenth century led to-

• improved education for immigrant children

• the creation of worker safety regulations

• the expansion of suffrage for women

• improved facilities for the mentally ill and disabled

In antebellum America, reform movements such as abolition, temperance, and women's rights coincided with which of the following Great Awakening periods?

• The First

• The Second

• The Third

• The Fourth

What is one way Ralph Waldo Emerson impacted American society?

• founded the Hudson River School

• advocated for the abolition of slavery

• spoke out against tyranny and for continued civil disobedience

• wrote literature influence by transcendentalism

Horace Mann believed a solid public education system would serve as a-

• great equalizer

• money generator

• pillar of the wealthy

• segregator of races