2nd nine weeks bank questions

During the Mexican War,

American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.

In the 1848 elections, the new party that emerged as a political force was the

Free-Soil Party.

Which of the following towns served as a major departure point for migrants traveling west on the overland trails?

Independence, Missouri

Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.

Which of the following statements regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act is FALSE?

It was sponsored by Henry Clay.

All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River School EXCEPT

James Whistler.

In the mid-1850s, the struggle over Kansas saw

John Brown murder several pro-slavery settlers.

The first Republican candidate for president was

John C. Frémont.

The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to

Liberia.

Herman Melville's most important literary work was

Moby Dick

Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that

None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.

As president, James K. Polk

None of these answers is correct.

In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was

Oneida

In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of

Oregon and Texas.

In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States in part because

President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tensions.

During the debate on the Compromise of 1850,

President Zachary Taylor suddenly died.

Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

Quakers.

The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the

Republican Party.

In the 1840s, regional critics of President James K. Polk claimed his policies favored the

South.

All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

Sydney Smith.

Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?

Walt Whitman

The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was

Winfield Scott's seizure of Mexico City.

In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was

a "positive good."

Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River School?

a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment

In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

a dispute over territory.

In the 1830s, abolitionists in the United States constituted

a small percentage of the national population.

During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the

absence of basic knowledge about disease.

The 1853 Gadsden Purchase

advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad.

Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States

agreed to pay millions to Mexico.

The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to

allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.

The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California

along with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act.

When it came to the issue of the extension of slavery, President James K. Polk favored

an extension of the Missouri Compromise.

When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, he

angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions.

The transcendentalist movement

anticipated the environmental protection movement of the twentieth century.

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States

Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

argued that personal salvation could be achieved by individual effort.

In 1849, President Zachary Taylor favored admitting California

as a free state.

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment.

Southern defenders of slavery made all the following arguments EXCEPT that

black codes protected slaves from abuse.

In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided

by radicals and moderates within their ranks

Walt Whitman

celebrated the liberation of the individual.

According to the nineteenth-century "science" of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?

character and intelligence

Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?

complete celibacy

In the 1840s, William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

defensive wars.

The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote

democracy.

Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

did not exist

The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to

evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape.

In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto

led to independence for Texas.

The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

led to the passage of "personal liberty laws."

In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

linked alcohol to crime and poverty

The Chinese who came to California during the gold rush

more often worked as merchants than miners

In the 1820s and 1830s, the government of Mexico

moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas.

The Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of

natural beauty.

In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the proposal to build a transcontinental railroad, as

none correct

The ideology of Free-Soil included

opposition to the expansion of slavery.

In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive Slave Act, some northern states

passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves.

The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were

primarily sad and macabre.

The Wilmot Proviso

prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.

Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party

promoted "free soil."

Transcendentalists

regarded reason to be the most important human faculty.

Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally

relatively young people who traveled in family groups.

In 1836, an attack by Mexican forces on the Alamo mission

saw the death of Davy Crockett.

Shaker societies

saw women exercise more power than men.

The goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was partly to

show that communal living was more efficient and productive than family life.

Frederick Douglass

spent years lecturing in England against slavery.

The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience.

William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than to whites.

Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be

strongly opposed to southern slavery.

In the 1850s, the "Young America" movement

supported the expansion of American democracy throughout the world.

In the election of 1852,

the Free-Soil Party gained strength.

The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that

the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

The Mexican War resulted in large part from

the United States provoking Mexico to fight.

In 1840, one catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with

the abolition of slavery.

In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera epidemics in the United States

typically killed more than half of those who contracted the disease.

In the California gold rush,

upwards of ninety-five percent of the "Forty-niners" were men.

Mormonism

believed in human perfectibility.

As a result of the gold rush, by 1850,

California had a very diverse population.

The admission of California into the United States was a divisive national issue because

California's entry would upset the nation's numerical balance of free and slave states.

The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 pamphlet was

David Walker.

The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

Dorothea Dix.

One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was

Elijah Lovejoy.

Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a

belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.

Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States

focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation.

The election of 1856 saw

former president Millard Fillmore in the running.

Between 1840 and 1860, most migrants traveling west on the overland trails

found the journey to be a very collective experience.

President James K. Polk

helped his candidacy for office by expressing a desire to re-annex Texas.

In the mid-1840s, the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest

included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease.

The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

intensified the debate over slavery.

The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights

issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.

Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of

the disorder of America's westward expansion.

In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the United States

warned it would increase the controversy over slavery

In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

was a controversial experiment in "free love."

The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate

was a vicious assault carried out by a member of the House of Representatives.

In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Society

was founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery.

The 1854 Ostend Manifesto

was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.

. In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature

was that American artists had little to offer Europe.

The presidential election of 1844

was won by a Democrat.

In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were

white southerners and their slaves.