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Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Second Great Awakening

a)

people's own actions determined their salvation

b)

predestination - God decided the fate of a person's soul before birth

c)

people need to go good on this earth to go to heaven

2.

Second Great Awakening - people should make good choices and do good things so they don't go to hell if they choose sin.

a)

Charles Finney

b)

Henry Clay

c)

Martin Van Buren

d)

Fredrick Douglass

3.

Second Great Awakening leads to

a)

more ppl become social reformers because more ppl want to do good for others

b)

more ppl believe in God

c)

less ppl do good things because they believe in predestination

4.

what led to social reform

a)

second great awakening and Age of Jackson

b)

age of jackson and manifest destiny

c)

manifest destiny and second great awakening

d)

great awakening and age of jackson

5.

a movement that wanted to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason. civil disobedience: breaking laws you think are wrong.

a)

Transcendentalism

b)

Social Reform

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Second Great Awakening

6.

first state to ban slavery in its state constitution

a)

ohio

b)

lousiana

c)

california

d)

missouri

7.

Second Great Awakening inspired more opposition to slavery

a)

true

b)

false

8.

wrote The Liberator - abolitionist newspaper, became the nation’s leading anti-slavery publication Founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society (later became American AS)

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Fredrick Douglass

c)

John Adams

d)

John Quincy Adams

9.

why did northern textile mill owners and merchants not want slavery to end

a)

relied on the cotton produced by southern slaves

b)

feared freed slaves would come to the north and take their jobs

c)

both

10.

fertile land in the Pacific Northwest that attracted AMERICAN AND BRITISH settlers

a)

Oregon Country

b)

Lousiana Territory

c)

California

11.

Who led a group of 300 American families to settle in Texas

a)

Stephen Austin

b)

Martin Van Buren

c)

Fredrick Douglass

d)

John C. Calhoun

12.

why did the thousands of americans that flooded into Texas come into conflict with Mexican govt

a)

New settlers were Protestant NOT Catholic

b)

Many of them were slaveholders from the South and Mexico abolished slavery

c)

both

13.

Why did Stephen Austin urge Texans to revolt

a)

Santa Anna was a dictator

b)

mexico banned slavery

c)

denied Texans religious freedom

d)

all

14.

Who wins Texas or Mexico

a)

Texas

b)

Mexico

15.

at the end of tyler's presidency...

a)

annex texas

b)

annex oregon

16.

Election of 1844

a)

Tyler

b)

Clay

c)

Polk

17.

James K. Polk wanted annexation of Texas and Oregon

a)

true

b)

false

18.

party of Polk

a)

dem

b)

repub

c)

whig

d)

free soil

19.

slogan

a)

54-40 or fight

b)

thats the line at top of oregon

20.

who did polk negotiate a treaty w/ to divide Oregon w/ at 49 degrees N

a)

britain

b)

spain

c)

mexico

21.

where did mexicans believe border was

a)

nueces river

b)

rio grande

22.

where did americans believe border was

a)

Rio grande

b)

nueces river

23.

who believed in nationalism abt the mexican american war and supported it?

a)

south and west

b)

west and north

c)

south and north

d)

north

24.

who believed polk provoked the war and that it was morally wrong and greedy?

a)

south

b)

north

c)

west

25.

what completed Manifest destiny

a)

Gadsden Purchase

b)

comp of 1850

c)

missouri compromise

d)

annex of texas

26.

mormons settled where

a)

utah

b)

texas

c)

california

d)

ohio

27.

california gold rush - people from around the world that go to CA

a)

forty-niners

b)

miners

c)

mormons

28.

11 free, 11 slave in

a)

1819

b)

1820

c)

1821

29.

whats the issue w/ missouri joining as a slave state

a)

its north of the trend(line)

b)

disrupts the balance of free and slave states

c)

both

30.

missouri compromise

a)

maine joins as free, missouri joins as slave

b)

maine joins as slave, missouri joins as slave

c)

maine joins as free, missouri joins as free

d)

maine joins as slave, missouri joins as free

31.

Major precedent of the mis comp - creates Missouri comp line (north free south slave)

a)

true

b)

true

32.

Missouri Compromise

a)

only applies to Lousiana territory

b)

only applies to Ohio territory

c)

only applies to California

d)

only applies to mexico cession

33.

COMPROMISE OF 1850!!

a)

CA joins as a free state

b)

Fugitive Slave Act Slave

c)

trade in Washington DC is banned

d)

UT and NM Territory will decide their slave states by popular sovereignty

e)

Border between TX and NM is undetermined

34.

A proposal that any territory gained as a result of Mexican War should be free

a)

Wilmot Proviso

b)

Free Soil Party

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

35.

Free Soil Party (wanted mexico land to be free soil)

a)

anti slavery democrats

b)

anti slavery democrats and whigs

c)

anti slavery whigs

36.

All runaway slaves living in the North must be returned to their owner

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

comp of 1850

c)

slave trade

37.

who is the compromise of 1850 best for

a)

south

b)

north

38.

uncle tom's cabin

a)

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

by Van buren

c)

by Douglass

39.

uncle toms cabin

a)

critizes fugitive slave act

b)

supports it

40.

Uncle toms cab is aimed towards

a)

southern women

b)

southern men

c)

northern women

d)

northern men

41.

why do so many ppl have a prob w the FSA that is recognized in the novel

a)

forbids ppl from helping slaves *ideas of the 2nd GA to go to heaven you must do good on this earth*

b)

true