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Question 1
The new revivalism of the early 1880s rejected the traditional Calvinist idea of what?
Only a chosen few were predestined for salvation

Question 2
Large numbers of Irish immigrants began leaving their homeland in 1845 because why?
They were fleeing famine in
Ireland

Question 3
Elizabeth Cady Stanton shocked others in the women’s movement by proposing that they focus on what?
Gaining the right to vote

Question 4
Manifest Destiny was the idea that God had given the continent to Americans and what else?
Wanted them to settle the western lands

Question 5
What belief was underlying prison reform?
Rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up

Question 6
According to Mexican law, did new immigrants have to speak Spanish?
No

Question 7
The Second Bank of the U.S. played an important role in what?
Keeping the money supply of the U.S. stable

Question 8
Abolitionists argued that enslaved African Americans should be what?
Freed immediately, without compensation to former slave holders

Question 9
Romanticism did not emphasize what?
Society over the individual

Question 10
Mountain men played a vital role in western settlement because why?
They carved out several eastto-west trails that helped settlers move west

Question 11
Under the National
Colonization Act, Mexico gave 26 empresarios large grants of land in exchange for a promise to do what?
Fill the land with a number of settlers

Question 12
In the North, how did citizens view the abolitionist movement?
They held a wide range of views

Question 13
In 1844 presidential race, candidate promised what?
Annex Texas and Oregon, and buy California from
Mexico

Question 14
Several states in the North passed “personal liberty laws” that did what?
Restricted slave recapture

Question 15
Who told an audience that he was a thief and a robber because he stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master, and ran off with them?
Frederick Douglas

Question 16
Tax supported elementary schools in rural areas did not spread as quickly as in urban areas because why?
Children were needed to help with planting and harvesting

Question 17
Why did the first pioneers become known as squatters?
They settled land they did not own

Question 18
After winning independence from Mexico, most Texans voted for what?
Annexation to the U.S.

Question 19
Andrew Jackson supported the spoils system because he believed what?
It opened up government to more ordinary people

Question 20
Which other country claimed part of Oregon?
Great Britain

Question 21
The Preemption Act of 1830 allowed squatters to do what?
Buy land from the government for the minimum price of $1.25 per acre

Question 22
Supporters of gradualism believed that the first step in ending slavery was what?
Stop new slaves from being brought into the country

Question 23
What was the goal of the
American Colonization Society?
Move African Americans to Africa

Question 24
How much money did the
U.S. pay Mexico in the
Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo?
$15 million

Question 25
The Bear Flag Republic came to an end when naval forces of the U.S. took possession of what?
California

Question 26
What kind of movement was the Second Great Society?
Religious revival movement

Question 27
What did people who formed utopian communities believe?
Society corrupted human nature

Question 28
Supporters of James K. Polk cried “Fifty-four Forty or
Fight,” which meant what?
Oregon to the 54 40 north latitude line

Question 29
How did the Donner Party try to survive?
Resorting to cannibalism

Question 30
Seeking religious freedom, the Mormons traveled west settling in what is now where?
Utah

Question 31
Mexico invited Americans and other foreigners to settle in
Texas because why?
Mexico could not persuade its own citizens to move to the frontier

Question 32
Why did the Mexican government imprison Stephen Austin?
Treason

Question 33
In 1844 presidential race, former president Martin Van
Buren lost his party’s nomination because why?
He did not publicly take a stand on annexation

Question 34
An uprising by settlers in northern CA resulted in a victory for the settlers who did what?
Declared the region an independent republic

Question 35
Why did President Polk replace
Zachary Taylor with Winfield
Scott as commander of the forces in Mexico?
Polk saw Taylor as a potential rival in the 1848 election

Question 36
What did Mexico accept as the southern border of
Texas in the treaty that ended the war between
Mexico and the U.S.?
The Rio Grande

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