14,15, 17
Between 1830 and 1860, nearly __ million Irish arrived in America
2
Church attendance was still a regular ritual for __ of the 23 million Americans in 1850
3/4
All of the following happened after President John Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new bank of the United States except
A signed another similar national bank bill providing for a fiscal corporation
During the debate in Congress over President Polk's requested congressional declaration of war against Mexico, the Polk administration was frequently call on by __ to respond "spot resolutions", demanding to know where American blood had been shed to provoke war
Abraham Lincoln
During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain
America was unlawfully invaded by the British
Arrange Annexation of Texas, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, settlement of Oregon boundary, Aroostook war
Aroostook war, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Annexation of Texas, settlement of Oregon boundary
The area in dispute between the US and Great Britain in 1845 between the
Colombia river, the 49th parallel and the pacific ocean
The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was
Daniel Webster
Life on the frontier was
Downright grim for most pioneer families
One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
Edgar Allen Poe
Construction of the Erie Canal
Forced some New England farmers to move or change occupations
When North westerners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, Oregon settlement supporters such as Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of MO responded that
Great Britain was a far more powerful nation than Mexico
All of the following are true statements about the relationship between Irish immigrants and U. S. citizens except
Irish immigrants became fiercely supportive of the abolitionist cause
The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was in 1845 by
John L. O'Sullivan
In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt (1841), the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that
Labor unions were no illegal conspiracies in Massachusetts provided that their strategies and tactics were honorable and peaceful
Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening
Lacked much intellectual vitality
The first major transportation project in the United States, which ran 62 miles and was completed in the 1790s, that proved to be a stimulus for western economic developments was the
Lancaster Turnpike
All were legacies of US war with Mexico except
Latin America solidified their friendly relation with the US government
In the 1840s the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
Manifest Destiny
All of the following were nineteenth century notions of gender differences except
Men were charged with teaching young boys to be good and productive citizens
The largest single addition the American territory was
Mexican cession
Virtually all the distinguished American historians who wrote American and Latin American histories during the mid nineteenth century came from
New England
Most early railroads in the United States were built in
North
__ represented the group in North America that expressed the most vigorous support for the US gaining political control of all of the Oregon Country
Northern Democrats
Which of the following represents an accurate description of the response by Americans generally or a subsection of Americans to the Oregon settlement with Great Britain
Northwestern states joined with antislavery forces in the north to condemn the pact
As one of the greatest revivalist preachers, Charles Grandison Finney Advocated
Opposition to slavery, a perfect Christian kingdom on earth, opposition to alcohol
Native-born Protestant Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would
Outbreed, outvote, and eventually overwhelm politically, socially, and culturally the Protestant native-born citizens and culture of America
German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to
Preserve their own language and culture
Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was the
Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time
The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860
Resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican war, declare that
Slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the US
A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was
Sold to New England textile mills
The religious zeal of the Second Great Awakening led to the founding of many small, denominational, liberal arts colleges, chiefly in the
South and West
The nomination of James K. Polk as Democrats in 1844 presidential candidate was secured by
Southern expansionists
The first Old World Empire Europeans to come to California were
Spanish
All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in promoting an independent Republic of Texas except
Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants
Chronological order of Oregon, Texas, and CA
Texas, Oregon, California
Those seeking to reform women's styles of dress in the 1840s claimed all of the following except
That bloomer-style trousers were necessary to prevent a women's sexuality from becoming unhinged to immoral actions with a man who was not her husband
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson write
The American Scholar
The Mormon religion originated
The burned over district of New York
In 1846, the US went to war with Mexico for all the reasons except
The impulse to satisfy congress man Abraham Lincoln
All of the following are true statements about German immigrants except
They typically settled in Northeast coastal cities
All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except
They worked a maximum five day week for eight hours a day
The most noteworthy south novelist before the Civil War who wrote works such as The Yemasee and the Cassique of Kiawah was
William Gilmore Simms
The Aroostook War was
a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
a stronger religious influence in many areas of American life including abolitionism and benevolent and charitable organization
In the presidential election of 1844 the Whig candidate, Henry Clay
alienated both proponents and opponents of annexing Texas by issuing seemingly contradictory written statements about his view on annexing Texas
Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through
an inner light
The Californios political ascendancy in California ascended
as a result of the influx of Anglo gold diggers and the waning of the pastoral economy
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to
attract the vote of states' righters
The British American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada was solved
by a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border
All of the following were legal questions raised as a result if the new market economy except
can a democratic government still support slavery
The initial waves of Irish immigrants typically worked in all of the following occupations except
coopers
John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson
In his quest for California, Polk
first advocated buying the area from Mexico
By the time of the fabled London World's Fair in 1851, American products were prominent among the world's commercial wonders which included all of the following except
ford's automobile
Unitarians endorsed the concept of
free will and salvation through good works
Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as
generally tense with periods of bot violence and peaceful resolution
All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early 19th century America except
government regulation of all major economic activity
Noah Webster's dictionary
helped standardized the American language
When the war with Mexico began, Polk
hoped to fight a limited war ending with the conquest of California
The election of 1844 was notable because
it was fought over the issue of expansionism
Whether they were propertied or landless, immigrants were often enticed to leave their homelands by
letters from family or friends in the Us, bragging about easy opportunities for wealth
The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it
more reliant on women as members and social reformers
The early factory system distributed its economic benefits
mostly the owners
The Second Great Awakening tended to
promote religious diversity
Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by
rich soil of the Willamette River Valley
As a result of the development of the cotton gin
slavery revived and expanded
The effect of early nineteenth century industrialization on the Trans Allegheny West was to encourage
specialized, cash crop agriculture
The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
stemmed from the hard struggling, and monotonous life of many American men and women
The American workforce in early nineteenth century was characterized by
substantial employment of women and children in factories
Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the belief
that a supreme being endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior
As the new continental market economy grew
the home came to be viewed as a refuge from the workday world
Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth century America because
the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles
The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was
the rebellion against British rule and potato famine
Unitarians held the following beliefs except
they believed in a stern and Puritan type of God
One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that
too much learning would injure women's brains, ruin their health, and make them unfit for marriage
A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the
wave of nationalism from the war of 1812
Despite early resistance, the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was
wealthy and politically powerful Americans feared that if the government failed to provide free public education, poor families immigrants would utilize their free vote to elect candidates and political partied opposed by these political and economic elites
The Second Great Awakening tended to
widen the lines between classes and regions