History 1302 Ch 11 & 12
James Fenimore Cooper's theme in leatherstocking Tales is that
American wilderness merely awaited transformation by pioneers.
The rise to power of what leader focused the unhappiness with government in Mexico for American colonists in Texas?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
How did advocates of the Benevolent Empire attempt to perfect society?
By personal contact, testimony, and exhortation.
How were children of the wealthy usually educated prior the Civil War?
By private tutors.
A series of sermons by the Reverend Lyman Beecher in 1825
Changed the debate on temperance from a health issue to a spiritual issue.
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 to which Indians had no immunity.
What was a notable trend among craftsmen in America by the 1830's?
Distribution of production to outworkers
Who were the primary targets of the American nativist movement?
Irish Catholics
The French observer, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans
Loved to organize.
What term suggests the belief of white Americans that by right they should occupy the North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
Landscape paintings by Hudson School artists rarely contain human figures except
Native Americans
What prediction did Governor DeWitt Clinton make regarding the Erie Canal?
New York City would become the emporium of the world.
What is meant by the term "Benevolent Empire"?
People, as God's agents, should care for other people
The completion of the last of the eastern Indian "removals" marked the beginning of a federal policy toward
Reservation
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 1830, American workers had seen
The results of wage dependency.
The American Anti-Slavery Society increased membership because
They traveled across the northern states speaking out about abolishing slavery.
How did most people reach their destinations in the West?
Walking beside wagons carrying precious cargo.
What stood at the center of the economy for all Plains Indians?
bison
Americans thought of manifest destiny along all of the terms listed below except
class
In the new culture of self-improvement that characterized the 1830's, what did reformers believe was the key to individual success?
hard work, industriousness, and frugality
What was the greatest impediment to the annexation of Texas to the United States?
slavery
The New England Artisan was
A newspaper published by Seth Luther
What did join John Slidell bring to Mexico on orders of President Polk in 1846?
A purchase of 30 million
