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- 1. Multiple Choice
The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted......
states' rights and governmental reform.
the use of reason and scientific theory.
spiritual revival and reform.
global trade and capitalism.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Preachers like _________________________________ emphasized the importance of a person's free will in seeking salvation rather than predestination.
Horace Mann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Finney
Nat Turner
- 3. Multiple Choice
In the early 19th century, reformers sought changes in all of the following EXCEPT......
women's rights.
the removal of Native Americans.
public education.
prisons.
- 4. Multiple Choice
The school teacher who led the movement to reform mental health facilities and prisons was...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Dorothea Dix
Henry David Thoreau
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following reformers and movements are incorrectly paired?
Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Movement
Horace Mann: Temperance Movement
Lucretia Mott: Women's Rights Movement
Frederick Douglass: Abolition Movement
- 6. Multiple Choice
The major supporter of an effective tax supported system of public education for all American children was.....
Robert Fulton
William Lloyd Garrison
Horace Mann
Nat Turner
- 7. Multiple Choice
Transcendentalists like ____________________________________ emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
- 8. Multiple Choice
What issue is most closely associated with abolitionists?
Women's rights
Temperance
Religious freedom
Slavery
- 9. Multiple Choice
He published The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, which advocated the emancipation of the slaves.
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the position of William Lloyd Garrison concerning slavery?
Immediate abolition of slavery with no compensation to slave owners.
The gradual and compensated emancipation of the slaves.
The strict maintenance of the gag rule.
Immediate abolition of slavery with compensation to slave owners.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Nat Turners revolt resulted in...
More slaves being granted their freedom.
Increased fear of slave revolts in the South.
Less strict slave codes.
An outbreak of slave revolts in the South.
- 12. Multiple Choice
This woman is best known for advocating a dress reform that included looser tops and short skirts with a pair of pants underneath.
Lucretia Mott
Amelia Bloomer
Emma Willard
Margaret Fuller
- 13. Multiple Choice
This former slave, who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women's rights. One of her famous speeches is "Ain't I a Woman."
Angelina Grimke
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Blackwell
- 14. Multiple Choice
Abolitionist _______________________ once told an audience that he was a thief and a robber because he “stole his head, these limbs, this body from my master, and ran off with them.”
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner
- 15. Multiple Choice
" 'If you teach that boy to read, there will be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy.’ These words sank deep into my heart……From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The "pathway from slavery to freedom" that Frederick Douglass speaks of in this excerpt refers to....
Freedom of speech
Education
Voting rights
Hard work
- 16. Multiple Choice
Catherine Beecher completed a national survey.....
on the changes needed to let women vote in the upcoming elections.
on women's heath and how 3 out of 4 women were unhealthy.
on the results of the Seneca Falls meeting and how it would influence future voting.
on how bloomers were healthy for women.
- 17. Multiple Choice
The "cult of domesticity" refers to.....
the idealization of women in their roles as wife and mothers during the 19th century.
the work of household servants and slaves.
the idea that women should work outside the home.
child labor.
- 18. Multiple Choice
The main goal of women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott who attended the Seneca Fall Convention in 1848 was to....
correct the abuses of big business.
make the public aware of environmental problems.
organize the first labor unions in the United States.
obtain equal rights for women.
- 19. Multiple Choice
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
“He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
“He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice....
“Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides....
“He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.”
Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848
The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that…..
the ability of women to earn wages was a positive development.
women should enjoy full and equal rights with men.
women should focus on the home and the domestic sphere.
women should educate their children about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
- 20. Multiple Choice
In the early 1800s, which factor was the most important in the development of Northern manufacturing centers?
Access to markets in the West
Abundance of water power.
Development of gold mines
Availability of slave labor.
- 21. Multiple Choice
Young women and children were hired at the Lowell Mils because they.....
were more numerous in Massachusetts.
were better workers than adult males.
worked for less money than men.
wanted to move to large cities like Lowell.
- 22. Multiple Choice
The Lowell System was characterized by.....
the recognition and support of labor unions by management.
coal mining.
mass production.
the development of cottage industries.
- 23. Multiple Choice
This Massachusetts court case determined that workers had the right to strike.
Gibbons v. Ogden
Morgan v. Virginia
McCulloch v. Maryland
Commonwealth v. Hunt
- 24. Multiple Choice
Home based manufacturing that was typical in American in the 1700s and early 1800s was called.....
None of thee answers.
capitalism.
cottage industry.
a market revolution.
- 25. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT an advantage of cottage industry?
People could stay in their own communities.
People could work in their own homes.
An entire family benefited from the income.
It was poor paying work.
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which inventor and invention is paired incorrectly?
Elias Howe-----Mechanical reaper
Charles Goodyear-----Vulcanized rubber
Samuel Morse-----Telegraph
Robert Fulton-----Steamboat
- 27. Multiple Choice
In a _______________________ economic system individuals own the means of production (farms, machinery, factories) and use them to gain profits.
Specialized
Capitalist
Simple
Communist
- 28. Multiple Choice
Capitalism fueled industrialization by.....
encouraging people to move from urban areas to rural areas.
ensuring all workers receive high wages.
encouraging entrepreneurs to establish their own businesses.
giving the country many natural resources.
- 29. Multiple Choice
As farms became mechanized.....
farmers became entrepreneurs.
immigrants bought less land.
farmers moved to urban areas.
the number of farm workers needed to harvest a crop increased.
- 30. Multiple Choice
Inventions like John Deere's steel plow and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper led directly to.....
a decrease in the number of people desiring to farm.
fewer agricultural exports.
an increase in crop production.
a decrease in the size of farms.
- 31. Multiple Choice
How did the completion of the Erie Canal affect United States trade?
The Midwest became the center for textile factories like Lowell Mill.
U.S. exports to other countries declined.
New York City lost business as people traveled west.
Western farmers gained better access to East Coast markets.
- 32. Multiple Choice
The term Manifest Destiny was used by many Americans to justify.......
the extension of slavery into the western territories.
war with Russia over New England.
western expansion into lands claimed by other nations.
ceding western land to Mexico.
- 33. Multiple Choice
The relatively flat grassland of the United States between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains is known as the.....
Coastal Plains.
Great Basin.
Great Plains.
Central Lowlands.
- 34. Multiple Choice
What did Cyrus McCormick's reaper do?
Enabled the use of steam power on boats
Revolutionized harvesting
Helped industrialize the textile industry
Mechanized the slaughter of livestock
- 35. Multiple Choice
What occurred in the 19th century that changed the way people acquire the goods they needed?
Stirkes
Capitalism
Speculation
Market Revolution
- 36. Multiple Choice
Most Americans who migrated to Oregon were attracted by the....
rich soil of the Willamette Valley.
hope to find a better trade route to East Asia.
expectation to fight the British.
discovery of gold in the Cascade Mountains.
- 37. Multiple Choice
The popular starting point of the Oregon Trail was.....
New Orleans, Louisiana
Independence, Missouri
Springfield, Illinois
Cumberland Gap, Virginia
- 38. Multiple Choice
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman traveled to Oregon Territory in 1836 to.....
open a trading post.
open a school for the children of mountain men.
search for gold.
convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
- 39. Multiple Choice
What famous pioneer route is represented by the dotted line on the map?
Forty-Niner Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormon Trail
- 40. Multiple Choice
This man led the Mormons west to the Great Salt Lake region of Utah after the death of Joseph Smith. Who is he?
John Louis O’Sullivan
Brigham Young
Stephen Austin
Henry David Thoreau
- 41. Multiple Choice
Why did the Mormons leave their settlements in the eastern U.S. and move west?
Their religious beliefs clashed with those of other settlers.
They wanted to keep their slaves and could only do so in Utah.
They were frequently attacked by Native Americans.
The valley where they had settled had frequent floods.
- 42. Multiple Choice
The man in this picture established the first legal American settlement in Texas. He is.....
Davy Crockett
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
Stephen Austin
- 43. Multiple Choice
Americans wanted to move to Texas.....
because there was cheap land to plant cotton.
because they wanted to help Mexico gain independence from Spain.
for protection for Native Americans.
for religious freedom.
- 44. Multiple Choice
Why was the Battle of the Alamo significant in Texas’ struggle for independence?
It was a decisive victory for Colonel William Travis.
It was a defeat against the independence movement, but enraged many to avenge those that died in the fort.
It was the final battle of Texas’ independence.
When Stephen Austin defeated the Mexican forces the U.S. finally gave him military support.
- 45. Multiple Choice
Texas independence was won when Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of....
Santa Fe.
Alamo.
San Jacinto.
Goliad.
- 46. Multiple Choice
Once the Republic of Texas was freed by Santa Anna, Texans elected ______________________ their first president and called for the annexation of Texas to the United States.
Davy Crockett
Sam Houston
Stephen Austin
Stephen Kearny
- 47. Multiple Choice
The primary obstacle to the achievement of U.S. statehood for Texas was.....
slavery.
the desire to mend relations with Mexico.
the constitution of annexation.
fear of reprisals by Mexico.
- 48. Multiple Choice
"Texas is now ours. Already before these words are written, her Convention has undoubtedly ratified the acceptance, by her Congress, of our proffered invitation into the Union; and made the requisite changes in her already republican form of constitution to adapt it to future federal relations. . . . [It is] the manifest destiny [of Americans] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
Excerpt from article by John Louis O’Sullivan in United States Magazine and Democratic Review
In the above excerpt, O’Sullivan discusses the justification for the United States to…..
accept annexation of Texas from Great Britain and occupy the territory.
annex Texas and expand settlement to western U.S. lands.
annex Texas and demand that it adopt U.S. customs and regulations.
include Texas in the Union as a slave state.
- 49. Multiple Choice
How did President Polk provoke the Mexican-American War?
By refusing to negotiate a diplomatic solution.
By sending troops south of the Nueces River to the Rio Grande into Mexican Territory.
By campaigning on the policy of “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
By ordering an attack on Mexican troops using movable artillery.
- 50. Multiple Choice
President Polk’s claim that “American blood [had been shed] on American soil” referred to the news of an armed clash between American and Mexican troops near….
San Francisco.
the Mississippi River.
the Rio Grande River.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- 51. Multiple Choice
According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, the United States…..
forfeited all lands north of the 54° 40’ N line.
received $15 million from Mexico.
gained California and New Mexico.
prohibited slavery in Texas.
- 52. Multiple Choice
The shaded area on the map became part of the United States through the....
Gadsden Purchase.
Louisiana Purchase.
Missouri Compromise.
Annexation of Texas.
- 53. Multiple Choice
Which point of view is being conveyed by the artist?
Encouragement of industrial development
Opposition to the purchase of Alaska
Opposition to the end of slavery.
Praise for Manifest Destiny
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