APUSH

By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had

. encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol.

The __________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.

Liberty Party

Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships in 1854?

Matthew Perry

Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?

They practiced "complex marriage" and publicly recorded sexual relations.

How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?

They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following EXCEPT:

U.S. control of all of the Oregon Country

The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:

U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858

All of the following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas EXCEPT

allow Native Americans equal rights

What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?

its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants

American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s

led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials

The Republican free labor ideology:

led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.

On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that

only white persons could be U.S. citizens

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to

prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico

The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:

protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:

the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon

there was a hierarchy of races, with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees.

Brook Farm

was founded by New England transcendentalists

Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

was fundamentally a white society.

Freedom's Journal

was the first black-run newspaper in the United States

Angelina and Sarah Grimké

critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women

The American Civil War began in April 1861, when

Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the

Declaration of Independence.

Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:

Oregon.

Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?

Ostend Manifesto

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

That they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society

William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called

The Liberator.

Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.

The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over

a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the

construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane

Abbey Kelly

demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements.