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WorksheetsUnit 9 and 10-US-Mexican War, Reform Movements, Sectionalism
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 35mins
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo made the _______________ River the boundary between
Nueces River
Sabine River
Colorado River
Rio Grande River
What was the spark that started the fighting during the Mexican War?
President Polk sent U.S. troops across the Nueces River to disputed territory.
Santa Anna attacked Taylor at Buena Vista
California declared independence as the Bear Flag Republic
Windfield Scott invaded Mexico at Vera Cruz
The most important result of the US-Mexican War was the
end of slavery in western territories
the annexation of Texas
removal of American Indians from New Mexico and Arizona
acquisition of land by the U.S. to fulfill manifest destiny
Mexico argued that the Texas border was the Nueces River, while the U.S. believed it was the ________ River.
Rio Grande
Mississippi
Colorado
Ohio
What was the outcome of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
US paid $15 million to Mexico for Mexican Cession
Mexicans living in the US were granted US citizenship
Texas recognized as a state and border was Rio Grande
All of the above
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo made the _______________ River the boundary between
Nueces
Sabine
Colorado
Rio Grande
After the US-Mexican War, the only remaining piece of land needed to complete the US was?
Gadsden Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican Cession
Oregon Country
What social movement helped create a desire in individuals to reform society?
the Second Great Awakening
the Romantic Movement
the Philosophical Movement
the Enlightenment
_______ was a schoolteacher who became an advocate for people who were mentally ill.
Daniel Webster
Lyman Beecher
Dorothea Dix
Margaret Fuller
The right to vote is known as
matrilineal
nullification
suffrage
temperance
The Declaration of Sentiments written at the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights is based on
the Declaration of Independence.
the writings of Angelina Grimké
traditions in matrilineal societies.
the writings of Frederick Douglass.
Women were compared to slaves because both groups
were responsible for raising children.
gave their pay to their spouses.
wrote pamphlets supporting abolition.
lacked economic and social rights.
First women’s rights convention in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Who was Horace Mann?
Leader of the Abolition Movement
Leader of the Temperance Movement
Leader of the Republican Party
Leader of the Education Reform Movement
The Quakers were____
the religious group that started the Second Great Awakening.
a religious group that believed in equality and worked to end slavery.
a religious group that headed west to Utah because of religious persecution.
the first religious group to settle in Massachusetts.
What was the Temperance Movement?
Reform movement that wanted to ban the sale and consumption (drinking) of alcohol.
Reform movement that fought for women's equal rights.
Reform movement that improved care for the disabled.
Reform movement that improved care of prisoners.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
first black congressman elected before the Civil War
abolitionist, writer and speaker working to end slavery
leader of the prison reform movement
partnered with Horace Mann to improve education
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was_____
leader of the Abolition Movement
leader of the Women's Rights Movement
leader of the Prison Reform Movement
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were part of the
abolitionists' movement
women's suffrage movement
prison and healthcare reform
education movement
Grievances about unequal treatment in divorce cases, criticism of how women dressed, and the lack of property rights and suffrage would all be found written in the
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Sentiments
Treaty of Paris
Worcester V Georgia
What best-selling book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that brought attention to the cruel conditions of slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Gone With the Wind
Up From Slavery
North and South
What religious movement inspired and motivated Americans to begin working to make life better in America?
The Reformation
The Second Great Awakening
The Renaissance
The First Great Awakening
Which Transcendentalist ended up in jail using civil disobedience as a reason to protest taxes that were being raised for the U.S.-Mexican War?
Baron de Montesquieu
Henry David Thoreau
John Locke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What was the focus of the Hudson River School of Art?
American landscapes and nature
Human conditions
Telling the story of runaway slaves
Education reform
What invention backfired leading to an increased demand for slaves because so much more cotton could be planted?
The telegraph
The railroad
The cotton gin
The mechanical reaper
The Dred Scott decision had a major impact on life in the US because it -
limited the power of the Supreme Court to rule on cases of race
supported Congress' right to forbid slavery in the territories
ruled that slavery in all territories was legal because slaves were property
reaffirmed the President's right to serve more than two terms in office
Who made this statement?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Phillis Wheatley
Which movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson lead?
Temperance
Abolitionism
The Second Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
Which of the following statements best explains the importance of the city identified on the map?
Upstate farmers met to protest unfair trading practices with Great Britain
The first women's rights convention occurred where women demanded equality
A rebellion occurred in which freed slaves took over a factory and federal arsenal
Abolitionists met to discuss a new US Constitution which outlawed slavery
Influenced by Romanticism in Europe, paintings like the one above of American nature and landscapes were produced by -
Ashcan School
The National Audubon Society
Hudson River School artists
Enlightenment artists
All of the individuals listed above were active members of -
Reform Movements
the American Revolution
Transcendentalism
the First Great Awakening
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court...
avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court.
ruled that Congress could not outlaw slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.
ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their masters allowed them to do so.
ruled that a slave that had been transported to a free state or territory was a free citizen of the Untied States.
Which region(s) of the country had a lot of manufacturing (factories)?
the north
the south
the west
the north and south
In Congress, who was nicknamed the "Great Compromiser" because he created the Missouri Compromise and other compromises during the 1800s trying to keep the US from splitting apart.
James Monroe
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Clay
Between 1850 and 1860, which of the following issues was a major area of conflict in U.S. politics?
Debate over tariffs
Expansion of slavery
U.S. policy of neutrality
Growth of cities
In the 1800's, which of the following required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?
Dred Scott Decision
Compromise of 1820
Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas earned this nickname as a result of the violence that broke out.
The show me State
The Ghost Town
Pottowatomie massacre
Bleeding Kansas
What occurred as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
All abolitionist groups and freed slaves left Kansas
Kansas became a slave state
Border ruffians invaded and took control of Nebraska
Bloody conflicts broke out in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups
After the War of 1812, the U.S. developed a sense of pride or patriotism in what we had accomplished so far as a country. Pride in one's country is considered
Sectionalism
Nationalism
Capitalism
Socialism
Loyalty to one's state or section of the country is
Sectionalism
Nationalism
Capitalism
Socialism
Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and the South over -
the admission of new states into the United States
presidential election results
immigration to the United States
the role of the Supreme Court in declaring acts unconstitutional
One effect of the rise of sectionalism, the growing disagreement over states' rights, and the issue of slavery was -
the formation of the Whig Party
increasing tensions between the North and the South
an end to the conflict over the extension of slavery in the territories
a permanent compromise between the North, South, and West
Which issue did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all concern?
The extension of slavery in the western territories.
The placement of tariffs on foreign imports.
The need for internal improvements in transportation.
the distribution of frontier lands to small farm owners.
California being admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law are both part of
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850
The Nullification Act
What type of transportation was common in the north but uncommon in the south?
Roads for vehicles
Wagon paths
Railroads
Steamboats for river travel
Which geographic factor helped trade for the northern factories?
fertile soil
rocky mountains
moderate climate
natural harbors
What serious problem in the U.S. led to the Civil War?
sectionalism
free enterprise
patriotism
consumerism
John Brown attacked a federal arsenal in hopes of beginning a slave revolt by passing out guns to escaped slaves. Where was this attack?
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
The Fugitive Slave Law allowed slave catchers to
sell slaves to the west
sell slaves in the north
capture escaped slaves in the north
sell their slaves
Which of the following best completes the diagram above?
slaveholding state
bordered by the Pacific Ocean
formerly a part of Mexico
part of the Confederacy
