history 201 unit 8
Compared to the Pennsylvania model of prisoner rehabilitation, Sing Sing prison in New York
Allowed prisoners to work side-by-side.
How did advocates of the Benevolent Empire attempt to perfect society?
By personal contact, testimony, and moral suasion.
Following the battle at San Jacinto, Texans made Sam Houston their first president and
Called for Texas to be annexed to the United States.
What was Congress's response when President Andrew Jackson refused to show them papers he had shared with cabinet members?
Congress censured Jackson.
What was the most significant cause of decline in the population of Indians after the arrival of white Europeans in their area?
Diseases and malnutrition.
Most immigrants who followed missionaries to Oregon Territory were
Farm families of modest means.
The Liberty Party was replaced by the ___ in 1848. Correct answer:
Free Soil Party.
In the new culture of self-improvement that characterized the 1830s, what did reformers believe was the key to individual success?
Hard work, industriousness, and frugality.
Who were the primary targets of the American nativist movement?
Irish Catholics.
What agreement was reached in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
It confirmed the boundary between the United States and Great Britain from Maine to the Rocky Mountains.
What prediction did Governor DeWitt Clinton make regarding the Erie Canal?
New York City would become the emporium of the world.
The Missouri Compromise was a devastating defeat for
Opponents of slavery.
What prompted a stream of religious missionaries to Oregon Territory in the 1830s?
Rumors that Indians in Oregon had expressed an interest in Christianity.
What was the most prevalent trend in internal migration in America in the 1830s and 1840s?
Rural people moving to cities.
Reformers refocused their attention in the 1830s on what social needs?
Self-control and external restraint.
Where did women gather in 1848 to pass their Declaration of Sentiments, a kind of declaration of independence from male domination?
Seneca Falls, New York.
What was the greatest impediment to the annexation of Texas to the United States?
Slavery.
Who developed the first Anglo colony in Mexican Texas?
Stephen F. Austin.
What did free black leaders think were the true motives of the American Colonization Society's effort to repatriate blacks in Africa?
That they were mostly interested in getting rid of free blacks.
By the end of Andrew Jackson's administration
The Democratic Party had grown too diverse to remain stable.
Labor organizer Seth Luther characterized society as a struggle between
The producers and the rich.
By 1830, American workers had seen
The results, or damages, of wage dependency.
What was the largest and longest tenured reform proposal aimed at improving individuals in society?
The temperance movement.
What agreement ended the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The Female Moral Reform Society
Tried to reclaim women from prostitution.
How did the New Middle Class regard gender assignments in society?
Women were gentler and therefore best suited to remain at home.
What kind of economy developed rapidly in Texas in the 1820s?
A cotton economy dependent on slavery.
What did John Slidell bring to Mexico on orders of President Polk in 1846?
A purchase offer in the value of $30 million.