History - ch. 12-14

The reason why President Polk was willing to compromise with Britain, but go to war with Mexico was because Britain was powerful and Mexico was weak.

True

What was the result of temperance campaigns led by the American Temperance Union?

Alcohol consumption diminished.

As a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo - All of the answers are correct - The debate over the expansion of slavery heated up - The Rio Grande River was acknowledged as the natural boundary between Mexico and America - the US acquired new territory

All of the answers are correct

Which statement characterizes alcohol consumption in America in the decades up to 1830?

All social classes drank regularly.

What did New York journalist and armchair expansionist John L. O'Sullivan mean when he coined the term Manifest Destiny in 1845?

Americans had the God-given right to expand their civilization across the continent.

Mormon leader Joseph Smith was tried, found guilty by a jury of his peers, and executed in 1844.

False

According to the basic message of the Second Great Awakening only the most extraordinary and pious people could live a righteous life.

False

In 1830 Sam Houston led 400 American non-slaveholding families into Texas for the purpose of settlement.

False

The Panic of 1819 increased the American people's faith in the Second Bank of the United States.

False

The colonizationist scheme of the early 1800s proved to be popular among black abolitionists.

False

William Henry Harrison's defeat over Martin Van Buren in the presidential election of 1840 was a victory for the Democratic Party.

False

What undermined John Quincy Adams hope for national improvement?

He lacked the political skills necessary to implement his program so Congress never acted on his proposals.

How did Jackson's reelection in 1832 affect his view of the Bank of the United States?

He ordered federal deposits removed from its vaults.

How did President Jackson respond to South Carolina's threat of nullification?

He sent armed ships to Charleston harbor.

How did the spread of public schools in the 1820s and 1830s change teaching?

More school districts hired women as cheap instructors.

Which factor contributed to the Panic of 1819?

Rising prices increased inflation and speculation.

Texans gained their independence from Mexico in 1836 after

Sam Houston's army defeated Santa Anna's troops in a surprise attack at San Jacinto.

How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 pass in the House of Representatives?

Seventeen northern congressmen voted with their southern colleagues to preserve sectional harmony.

What was the dominant issue in the 1844 presidential election campaign?

Territorial expansion

The election of 1828 saw which issue come to the forefront for the first time in a presidential campaign?

The character of the candidates

What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?

The laws of Georgia had no jurisdiction over the Cherokee.

Why were James Tallmadge amendments to the Missouri statehood bill of 1819 controversial?

They would have made Missouri a free state.

What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?

To send freed slaves and other black Americans to Liberia

Andrew Jackson believed his political opponents during the election of 1828 were responsible for the death of his beloved wife Rachel.

True

President Jackson ruined the economy when he withdrew federal funds from the Second Bank of the United States and deposited the money into "pet" banks.

True

The Cult of Domesticity asserted that childrearing, caretaking, and domestic work was not work, but a natural expression of their femininity.

True

The greatest killers of pioneers on the open trails were disease and injury.

True

Which group was most outspoken in its opposition to the Mexican-American War?

Whigs

As president, Andrew Jackson favored

a limited federal government with an Indian removal policy.

The Wilmot Proviso is an example of

an attempt to aintain the balance between free and slave holding states in the aftermath of the Mexican American War.

In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison launched the Liberator in order to advocate for

an immediate end to slavery.

The national improvement program coined the "American System" in 1824 included all of the following EXCEPT:

an increase in the size of the national military.

At the Seneca Falls Convention the Declaration of Sentiments

condemned inequality between men and women

In 1830, President Jackson convinced Congress to pass legislation that

forced Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi.

African Americans were drawn to Baptist and Methodist churches because

of their message of spiritual equality

Transcendentalists viewed _____ as the key to the human experience.

self-reliance

Evangelicals believed in all the following EXCEPT

the Second Coming of Christ

The longest lasting Utopian community was

the Shakers

The beginning of the Mexican American War

was controversial because critics claim that President Polk provoked the war

The doctrine of nullification outlined by John C. Calhoun in response to the Tariff of Abominations argued that

when Congress overstepped its powers, states had the right to nullify Congress's acts.