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