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President Polk won the Election of 1844 because...
Durign the Era of Good Feelings, no one ran against him
He promised to pursue Western Expansion
He was a "Common Man" and lots of poor white men voted for him
Henry Clay supported him when the Election went to the House of Representatives
Letter 'E" marks which of the following:
United States in 1783
Mexican Cession
Texas
The Louisiana Purchase
Why was the area marked by letter "C" added to the U.S.?
The U.S. wanted the level land to build the Transcontinental Railroad
The U.S. won the area after the dispute over Texas' Southern border was settled
Mexico ceded (gave) the land to the U.S. in order to preserve peace
The U.S. gained the land in a treaty with Great Britain
Which area of land was acquired by the U.S. in 1848 after a conflict with Mexico?
A
B
C
D
E
The U.S. gained the land area marked "A" through the ________.
Annexation of Texas
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Buchanan - Pakenham Treaty
Causes of the War with Mexico included all of the following EXCEPT ___________
The Annexation of Texas
The U.S. promise to gain ALL of the Oregon Territory
Border disagreements between the U.S. and Mexico
Which land area did the U.S. gain in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A
B
C
D
E
What group of people settled in present day Utah after leaving the east coast because of religious persecution?
Irish and German Immigrants
The Mormons
The Forty-Niners
The Cherokee tribe
Because of the Gold Rush, the population of ________ grew rapidly and it applied to become a state.
Texas
Utah
Oregon
California
Several trails West started in ____________.
Independence, Missouri
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory
Nauvoo, Illinois
Santa Fe, Mexican Territory
Manifest Destiny was the belief that ___________
The United States' obvious fate was to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
Tejanos and Californios in the United States should be treated with respect.
The United States should respect the land claims of Native Americans.
The steam locomotive and the construction of railroad were important because they _______.
Made it easier to send soldiers West to force Native Americans off their land.
Provided fast and easy way to move people and to move goods to markets.
Made it faster and easier to move Native Americans to Indian Territory.
Enabled miners to get to California quickly to search for gold.
The war with Mexico began with __________.
The Bear Flag Rebellion in California
A border dispute on the Southern border of Texas
The Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico
The Siege of the Alamo in Texas
How did the U.S. gain the Southern part of the Oregon Territory?
The Buchanan-Packenham Treaty with the British
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with Mexico
The Adam-Onis Treaty with the Spanish
The Treaty of Ghent with the British
Why was the Gadsden Purchase made by the U.S. in 1853?
The land was needed for the building of a railroad
The land was a gift from Mexico
The land was part of the treaty with Mexico
Gold was discovered on the land
What were the people who searched for gold in California called?
Gold seekers
Forty-niners
Californios
Tejanos
Most miners who traveled to California to find gold came from ______.
Mexico
China
South America
New England
Most of the Forty-Niners found gold.
Who led the first group of around 300 American Settlers into Texas?
Moses Austin
Sam Houston
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The settlers in Texas felt they did not have religious freedom.
Mexico imposed heavy taxes on the Texans.
Mexico's government did not allow slavery.
All of the choices are correct.
What were the conditions required by the Mexican government to settle in Texas?
Become Mexican citizens
Convert to the Roman Catholic faith
All of the answer choices are correct
The Siege of the Alamo by the Mexican Army
The Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of Buena Vista
The Capture of Mexico City by the U.S. Army
After the Texans won their independence in 1836, ___________________.
Texas was an independent nation
Texas was annexed by the United States
The U.S. provoked a war with Mexico because of a disagreement about the Southern border of Texas
Mexico provoked a war with the U.S. because of a disagreement about the Southern border of Texas
Before Mexico became independent it was a colony of
Britain
France
Spain
Portugal
Once Texas was annexed by the U.S., there was a dispute about the Southern border. The U.S. claimed the border was the _______ and Mexico claimed the border was _______.
Red River . . . Arkansas River
Rio Laredo . . . Columbia River
Rio Grande . . . Nueces River
Missouri River . . . Colorado River
The settlers in Texas had conflicts with the Mexican government for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ___________
Mexico imposed heavy taxes on the Texans
Mexico did not allow slavery, and the settlers brought enslaved people to Texas
Mexcio wanted to spread slavery into Texas.
Mexico sent soldiers (prisoners) into Texas to enforce laws.
After Santa Anna laid siege to defeat part of the Texan Army and executed the survivors, _______ became an inspiration and rallying cry for Sam Houston's soldiers in the Texan Army.
"Never Surrender, Texans!"
"Fight for Texas, Boys!"
"Don't Mess With Texas!"
"Remember the Alamo!"
President Polk sent General _________ and his soldier into the disputed territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River to provoke a war with Mexico.
Winfield Scott
John C. Fremont
Stephen Kearny
Sam Houston
After Mexican soldiers attacked the American soldiers in the disputed lands, _____ asked Congress to declare war on Mexico.
Senator Henry Clay
President James K. Polk
General Zachary Taylor
Representative Abraham Lincoln
In the _____, Mexico recognized that Texas was part of the U.S. and accepted the Rio Grande as its southern border.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Adams-Onis Treaty
Mexican Cession
Buchanan-Pakenham Treaty
Reparations, which were part of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War, were ____________.
payments for war damages to people's homes, property, and businesses
Payments to the government for the lands lost during a war
A temporary cease fire or end to fighting
Permanently forcing people off of their land after a war
Based on his speech to Congress in May 1846, President James K. Polk called for war against Mexico because _________.
Santa Anna laid siege to the Alamo, killing all of the Texan soldiers
The Mexican Army shed American blood on American soil
Santa Anna ended Mexico's constitution and became a dictator
Americans living in Texas were required to become Mexican citizens and join the Catholic Church
All of the following for moving were reasons for moving West to Oregon EXCEPT ________.
Gaining free and fertile farmlands
Spreading religious faith to the Native people
Searching for gold
Trading goods and merchandise
What were the difficulties of traveling on the Oregon Trail?
The length of the journey
Illnesses and disease
The weather and crossing rivers and mountains
All the answer choices are correct
People traveled West on the Mormon because they ________
Faced hostile communities and persecution in the East due to their religious beliefs
Wanted to build new factories in the West
Did not agree with forcing Native American off their lands and onto reservations
All of the answer choices are correct
The focus of Manifest Destiny was
Searching for gold
Gaining more natural resources
Expanding Westward
Opening borders to new immigrants
The Santa Fe Trail was an important trading route between ___________ and _____________.
St. Louis and Santa Fe
Santa Fe and Independence
Mexico and Oregon Territory
Santa Fe and Salt Lake City
The Mountain Men, who hunted and trapped to get animal skins and furs to trade, were led by _____________.
Jedidiah Smith and James Beckwourth
John Jacob Astor and Frances Cabot Lowell
John C. Fremont and Stephen Kearny
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
The leader who opened (began) the Santa Fe Trail was _________.
James Beckwourth
William Becknell
Stephen Kearny
James K. Polk
Who were the main travelers on the Santa Fe Trail?
Families
Farmers
Traders
Missionaries
This trail was used for a group of people who wanted to practice their religion in peace.
The Mormon Trail
The California Trail
The Oregon Trail
The Santa Fe Trail
The purpose of this trail was to trade.
The Mormon Trail
The California Trail
The Oregon Trail
The Santa Fe Trail
The Spanish settlers in California already living in California were the _______.
Impressarios
Tejanos
Missionaries
______________ was led by Major John C. Fremont and helped the U.S. gain control of California and Northern Mexico.
The Bear Flag Revolt
The Californio Uprising
The War of Northern California
The Mexican Cession
________ captured Santa Fe in New Mexico and then led his soldiers into Southern California.
John C. Fremont
Sam Houston
Winfield Scott
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
________ led the U.S. Army's 1st amphibious landing at Vera Cruz, then captured Mexico City.
John C. Fremont
Sam Houston
Winfield Scott
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
________ led the Texan Army at San Jacinto, a surprise attack that captured Gen. Santa Anna and forced him to sign a treaty granting Texas its independence.
John C. Fremont
Sam Houston
Winfield Scott
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
The U.S. government paid Mexico $___ for the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico in the ____________?
8 million . . . Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
10 million . . . The Gadsden Purchase
18 million . . . The Mexican Cession
Who was the President and leader of the Mexican Army during the battle between Mexico and the settlers in Texas?
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
The Buchanan-Pakenham Treaty in 1846 set the U.S. border for ___________ at the 49th parallel.
Oregon Territory
The Mexican Cession
The Gadsden Purchase
The Republic of Texas
Charles Finney and other leaders of The Second Great Awakening preached that
Salvation can only be achieved through a personal and private belief in God.
People have free will and their own actions determine their salvation.
God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth.
People of all races and nationalities should be included in their religious services.
__________ was a time period of challenging traditional religious views with new ideas and beliefs like the "doctrine of free will".
The Temperance Movement
The Religious Enlightenment
The Second Great Awakening
The Religious Revival Movement
________ were huge outdoor gatherings lasting several days, where preachers tried to convert sinners and urged people to reform their lives.
Reformation Movements
Church Services
Revivals
Free Will Baptisms
___________ led reform efforts to help those imprisoned.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Dorthea Dix
Charles Finney
Horace Mann
Prisons needed to be reformed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ________.
Prisons were cramped and poorly heated
Guards frequently whipped prisoners who tried to escape
Debtors (people who owed money they could not pay back) were locked in prisons
Prisoners often went hungry because of inadequate food in prisons
In the early to middle 1800s, the rights of women were limited. Women could not do any of the following EXCEPT ___________.
Attend college or enter professions like medicine or law
Own property or keep their wages when married
Vote or serve on juries
Work away from home in places like textile factories
Reformers who focused on supporting women's rights and suffrage included all of the following EXCEPT __________.
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Horace Mann
Susan B. Anthony
The Temperance Movement was _________.
A shift in religious ideas that focused on the role in people's own actions in determining their salvation.
A widespread effort to prohibit (stop) the consumption of alcohol.
A renewed effort to reduce and eliminate the use of tobacco by young people.
The fight for equal rights such as education,voting, and workplace rights for women.
_________________ was the goal of The Temperance Movement.
Suffrage
Education Reform
Workers' Rights
Prohibition
Causes of The Temperance Movement included all of the following EXCEPT ________.
Many people belived that their fate was decided by God before they were born
Women and children suffered at the hand of husbands and fathers who drank too much
Alcohol abuse had reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., since it was often safer to drink than water
Dorothea Dix helped reform treatment for the mentally ill by ________.
Leading protests in Washigton, D.C., to make Congress aware of the problems.
Urging city and state governments to open asylums for those with mental illnesses.
Becoming a doctor that specialized in mental illnesses.
Boycottomg hospitals that refused to treat the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix was a leader in __________.
Education Reform
The Movement to End Slavery
Women's Rights
Prison Reform
Reforms for the mental were needed because people with mental illnesses _______;
Were sometimes allowed to wander the streets and become homeless.
Were often chained up or locked in cages in prisons.
Were often forced to do hard physical labor on farms and plantations.
Were usually left to live with family members, who were unable to care for them.
_____ worked to reform the prison system and the treatment of the mentally ill.
Lucretia Mott
Charles Finney
________ worked with Lucretia Mott to organize the Seneca Falls Convention and she wrote "The Declaration of Sentiments".
_______ wanted to improve the public school system by creating colleges to train teachers, raising the salaries of teachers, and lengthening the school year for students
Prudence Crandall
Susan B. Anthony
Charles Finney
Arkansas
Michigan
Arkansas
Michigan
_________ proposed the Missouri Compromise.
John Quincy Adams
Nicholas Biddle
It was only a temporary solution to the slavery problem
It solved the disagreements over slavery in the west
The Missouri Compromise line at 36 degrees 30 minutes North Latitude __________.
Determined where slavery would be allowed / banned in the Louisiana Territory
Caused Missouri to be admitted to the U.S. as a free state
Determined where slavery would be allowed / banned in the United States
Caused Kentucky and Virginia to become free states
Why was the Missouri Compromise unfavorable for the South or Slave States?
There was more land north of the 36 degree 30 minute line which didn't allow slavery
The South lost votes in the Senate because Missouri was North of the 36 degree 30 minute line
The South lost representatives in the House because Missouri was North of the 36 degree 30 minute line
There was more land south of the 36 degree 30 minute line which allowed slavery
Because of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, all of the following were true EXCEPT _______.
The South was able to provide raw materials for the textile mills in the North.
Cotton quickly became the main cash crop of the South.
Cleaning cotton was much easier, so the South's need for the labor of enslaved people decreased.
Because more land was needed for cotton, Native Americans were forced off their lands.
_______________ was characterized by the change from goods being made by hand at home to making goods by machine in factories.
The Factory System
The Use of Interchangeable Parts
The Industrial Revolution
Mass Production
__________ invented the cotton gin,
Norbert Rillieux
Cyrus McCormick
Frances Cabot Lowell
_______________ is defined as idential pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers.
Interchangeable Parts
Mass Production
The Factory System
The Industrial Revolution
_______________ was a machine invented by Cyrus McCormick with sharp blades that cut the stalks of wheat much faster than human workers could.
The steel plow
The mechanical reaper
The mechanical thresher
River travel improved during the 1800s because of the inventions of __________
Cyrus McCormick and John Deere
Norbert Rillieux and Henry Blair
Robert Fulton and Henry Shreve
Elias Howe and Isaac Singer
Samuel F.B. Morse invented the ____________.
Sugar Refining Machine
Factory System
Telegraph
Sewing Machine
Industry
Agriculture
Capitalism
Transportation
The __________ industry first benefited from the Industrial Revolution.
Transportation
Textile
Communication
Gun Making
The Industrial Revolution began in ____________
Great Britain
New England
The South
_______________ brought the ideas of the Industrial Revolution to the U.S. and opened the first textile mill in the U.S. in Rhode Island .
Richard Arkwright
Frances Cabot Lowell
Daniel Webster
Approximately ___________ of Southerners owned slaves.
One-tenth
The cotton gin _________.
Allowed Southern planters to produce their major cash crops with less need for enslaved workers
Caused the demand for slaves in the South to greatly increase
Made it easier to plant and pick cotton
Was invented by Henry Blair
Changing the way people worked by bringing workers and machines together in one place was called ________
The Factory System
Mass Production
Interchangeable Parts
The Industrial Revolution
Changes in transportation networks during the early - middle 1800s included (CHECK ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
Turnpike
Canal
Railroads
National Roads
________ wanted to preseve the nation for white, American-born Protestants - which was a cause of discrimination against immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans in the North and the South.
Nativists
Capitalists
Racists
Anti-reformists
________, which is the unfair or unequal treatment of certain groups of people based on issues such as race, gender, or nationality, was a problem in both North and South.
Discrimination
Suffrage
Nativism
Temperance
Characteristics of the Lowell Girls included all of the following EXCEPT they
Lived in dormitories at the mills and had strict supervision
Were required to attend educational lectures and go to church services
Were given ownership of the mill by Frances Cabot Lowell and made large profits
Published a literary magazine with articles about what they learned from attending lectures
Isaac Singer improved the ____________.
Sugar Refining Machine
Factory System
Seed-planting Machine
Sewing Machine
The economy of the south was based on ___________.
Industry
Agriculture
Capitalism
Transportation
Many factories were based in New England because (CHECK ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
New England had lots of fast moving rivers
New England's climate made growing crops difficult, so there were many slaves available to work in the factories
New England's people were well educated and skilled at inventing machines to improve the factories
There was a large supply of capital in New England that could be used to start new factories
Causes of the Industrial Revolution in the United States included all of the following EXCEPT __________.
Jefferson's Embargo Act
The War of 1812
Attacks on U.S. trade ships in the late 1700s - early 1800s
The Hartford Convention
Free African Americans in the South (CHECK ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
Made up about 25% of the African American population in the South
Were not allowed to travel freely or attend public schools
Were unable to vote or serve on juries
Frequently helped enslaved Africans Americans escape from plantations
All of the following are true about cities in the early - mid 1800s EXCEPT _________.
Cities experienced urbanization because of the factory jobs they offered
City wide fires were a danger because of wooden buildings and poorly trained fire-fighters
Improvements in medical care in city hospitals led to better health for people living in cities
Filthy streets, an absence of good sewage systems, and a lack of clean drinking water spread diseases
In 1841, _________ showed agency by escaping from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Chatham, Canada (even though he was recaptured and returned to Arkansas).
Nat Turner
Nelson Hackett
James Beckwourth
Henry Blair
In 1831, _________ showed agency by leadng a slave rebellion in Virginia (even though he was captured in the end and put to death).
Nat Turner
Nelson Hackett
James Beckwourth
Henry Blair
_________ invented a seed planting machine that made it easier and faster for farmers to plant their crops.
Nat Turner
Nelson Hackett
Norbert Rillieux
Henry Blair
