History test 4

Question 1

The term Industrial Revolution best refers to

Answer 1

A series of technological developments that transformed manufacturing

Question 2

What was a significant effect of the War of 1812 on the nation?

Answer 2

Increasingly strong feelings of nationalism around the country

Question 3

John C. Calhoun favored the concept of nullification, which

Answer 3

Allowed individual states to void federal laws they deemed unconstitutional

Question 4

Which statement best expresses the concept of Manifest Destiny?

Answer 4

God wants the United States to own all of North America

Question 5

Why were southern Democrats overwhelmingly in favor of going to war with Mexico?

Answer 5

They expected the conquered territories occupied by American settlers

Question 6

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo forced Mexico to do what?

Answer 6

Give up the northern region of their country to the United States

Question 7

Why did Californians want California to enter the Union as a free state?

Answer 7

They did not want southerners using slave labor to find gold

Question 8

How did the Underground Railroad help enslaved African Americans?

Answer 8

It provided a network of escape routes toward the North

Question 9

How did Frederick Douglass bring credibility to the abolition movement?

Answer 9

As a former slave, his stories of slavery’s cruelty and injustice opened people’s eyes

Question 10

According to pro-slavery advocates, why was slave labor superior to wage labor?

Answer 10

Employers and workers were not always fighting over wages

Question 11

Why would free African Americans likely be suspicious of the American Colonization Society?

Answer 11

It had been started by slave owners

Question 12

The Panic of 1837 strengthened the political fortunes of which political party?

Answer 12

Whig Party

Question 13

Anger over tariffs led John C. Calhoun to claim that states could void any federal law deemed unconstitutional. This concept is called what?

Answer 13

Nullification

Question 14

Which solution did President Polk offer to overcome opposition to the annexation of Texas?

Answer 14

The acquisition of the Oregon Territory

Question 15

What did the Gag Rule of 1836 prohibit?

Answer 15

The discussion of slavery in Congress

Question 16

Why were miners in the California Gold Rush called Forty-niners?

Answer 16

A large number of people migrated to California to find gold in 1849

Question 17

What was the justification for the concept of Manifest Destiny often based on?

Answer 17

Religious beliefs

Question 18

After the United states won the Mexican American War, what did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?

Answer 18

Extended the western border of the United States to the Pacific Ocean

Question 19

The debate over the annexation of Texas represented one part of a much larger national debate over which of the following issues?

Answer 19

The expansion of slavery

Question 20

Henry Clay promoted what ambitious economic plan based on tariffs that he believed would encourage growth in the country’s new industrial industries?

Answer 20

American slavery

Question 21

In an effort to improve transportation, states used private companies to build and operate roads that users had to pay a toll to use called what?

Answer 21

Turnpikes

Question 22

The American colonization Society established which colony on the coast of Africa to encourage the migration of free African Americans back to Africa?

Answer 22

Liberia

Question 23

Which inventor is responsible for introducing interchangeable parts and the cotton gin to America?

Answer 23

Eli Whitney

Question 24

As the slavery debate intensified, which policy in 1820 set the precedent for how future states would be admitted to the Union?

Answer 24

Missouri Compromise

Question 25

The reform movement led by Americans opposed to slavery became known as what?

Answer 25

Abolition Movement

Question 26

Which candidate won the 1824 election by making what was known as the “corrupt bargain”?

Answer 26

John Quincy Adams

Question 27

In the 1844 election which candidate won by promising to acquire both the Texas and Oregon territories?

Answer 27

James Polk

Question 28

What U.S. policy from the mid-1800s does this map illustrate?

Answer 28

The removal of American Indians from the eastern United States

Question 29

“Oh! times are tough, amazing rough,
Expenses are alarming,
I will go West, it’s far the best,
Try my luck at farming.
For the idea of staying here
To just earn your gruel,
Makes me feel sad and sometimes mad
‘Tis so awful cruel.”
-Lyrics by William Geer from “I Will Go West!”, by J.P. Barrett, 1875
What does the excerpt reveal about the motivations of Americans who migrated westwards during the 1800s?

Answer 29

They hoped to find better lives and economic opportunity

Question 30

“The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”
-James Monroe, address to Congress, December 2, 1823
What does President Monroe’s statement suggest that the United States will do?

Answer 30

Oppose European colonization in the Americas

Question 31

Which statement does the map best support?

Answer 31

The U.S. government sought to strike a balance between slave and non-slave states

Question 32

Based on the map, which event secured the most land for the United States?

Answer 32

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 33

“We, the People of Texas, in order to form a Government, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence and general welfare; and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves, and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.”
–Constitution of the Republic of the republic of Texas, 1836
The excerpt shows the intention of Texas settlers to

Answer 33

Form an independent nation

Question 34

British immigrant who is credited with bringing over Industrial Revolution knowledge

Answer 34

Samuel Slater

Question 35

8th President of the United States, responsible for the Panic of 1837

Answer 35

Martin Van Buren

Question 36

Integral part of gaining Texas independence, he was an early President of the Republic of Texas

Answer 36

Sam Houston

Question 37

President responsible for the Indian Removal Act and weakening the Federal Bank

Answer 37

Andrew Jackson

Question 38

Leader who led the Mormons west seeking religions freedoms

Answer 38

Brigham Young

Question 39

Former VP who threatened South Carolina’s secession during the Nullification Crisis

Answer 39

John Calhoun

Question 40

He revolutionized communication by creating an electric telegraph

Answer 40

Samuel FB Morse

Question 41

Led a Virginian slave revolt in 1831

Answer 41

Nat Turner

Question 42

His rise to President set the precedent for future presidential succession

Answer 42

John Tyler

Question 43

Military leader who overthrew the weak Mexican government and conquered the Alamo

Answer 43

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 44

President whose theatrical campaign revolutionized future presidential campaigns

Answer 44

William Henry Harrison

Question 45

Author of the Missouri Compromise and one of the founders of the Whig Party

Answer 45

Henry Clay