us history exam 4

Which of the following was associated with the Second Great Awakening?

the popularity of camp meetings

Why did the working poor often favor expanding the number of public schools?

Workers wanted free schools to give their children an equal chance to pursue the American dream

For all their differences, the variety of reform movements that arose in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth had what in common?

an impulse to perfect people and society

Which statement best describes the Transcendental Club, which had its first meeting in the 1830's?

a loosely knit group of diverse, intellectually curious individualists who met to discuss philosophy

Horace Mann advocated for a public school system for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

to give school-age children a year-round learning opportunity

He was the leading proponent of tax-supported public schools.

Horace Mann

Which reform movement of the period was the most popular?

temperance

Which of the following was NOT true about the Second Great Awakening?

the Second Great Awakening decreased the number of Americans attending churches

He was an outspoken radical abolitionist who published "The Liberator".

William Lloyd Garrison

She worked tirelessly to shed light on the awful conditions in asylums.

Dorothea Dix

Upstate New York saw more Second Great Awakening revivals and was nicknamed the

Burned-over district

The Declaration of Sentiments was issued in 1848 as a result of the

Seneca Falls Convention

All of the following were changes during this period EXCEPT

Ending the practice of sending adolescent children off to a relative to learn a trade

Joseph Smith:

founded the Mormon Church in western New York

African Americans found the Methodist and Baptist churches especially attractive because of their:

belief in salvation for all

Why might women be drawn to camp meetings?

They provided women with opportunities to participate as equals in public rituals

All of the following are reasons Mormons generated hostility from non-Mormons EXCEPT

they denied they were Christians

Which of the following was founded by Joseph Smith and practiced polygamy?

Mormons

Which of the following was NOT true about the Transcendentalist movement?

They believed that the Market Revolution and the growing national marketplace was more important that communal self sufficiency

Which of the following activities was most commonly practiced by African Americans as a means of resisting slavery in the early 1800's?

work slowdowns

What was the name of the wealthy, white group that dominated the politics of the pre-Civil War South?

planters

Twenty years after the ratification of the U.S Constitution, Congress prohibited

the importation of slaves into the United States

Which of the following is a CORRECT statement about the United States in 1850?

The vast majority of Irish settled in the cities of the Northeast

Which of the following was TRUE about railroads before the Civil War?

They were more developed in the North

Which of the following forms of slave resistance was the LEAST common among African Americans?

violent rebellions

Which of the following group of immigrants came during the 1840s and 1850s to escape the potato famine?

irish

What is the term to describe animosity by current Americans toward recent immigrants?

nativism

Average rural Americans viewed the growth of cities during this period as

places of vice and crime

During the 1840s and 1850s, large numbers of German migrants to the United States settled in which area?

Illinois and Wisconsin

Most of the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century:

quickly became failures

William Lloyd Garrison

demanded immediate emancipation of slaves

The most famous and popular Second Great Awakening minister was a former lawyer named

Charles G. Finney

Which of the following were characteristics of African Americans living in the North during the Antebellum period?

They experienced near constant racism

In the Antebellum period, free African Americans were

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

In the 1830s and 1840s, all of the following were generally true about immigration EXCEPT

an overwhelming majority of native-born Americans welcomed the immigrants as a cheap source of labor

Who invented the mechanical reaper?

Cyrus McCormick

Which of the following was NOT true about cotton?

It made everyone in the South rich

Which of the following is NOT true about the white society in the South during this period?

The vast majority of whites owned at least three slaves

All of the following are reasons why free blacks in the South did not universally want to move to the northern states EXCEPT

They did not want to give up their right to vote in the South

The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned

1 to 10 slaves

Which of the following was NOT characteristics of the harsh conditions in Northeastern cities around 1850?

high rates of school attendance among all classes

What was the biggest moving factor in moving westwards in the 1820s and 1830s?

access to land

In 1833 this individual came to power in Mexico:

Santa Anna

What did the United States gain from the Mexican-American War?

California, New Mexico, and Texas border

What year did Texas declare their independence?

1836

What river was considered the border from the perspective of the United States/ Mexico?

Rio Grande/ Nueces

Westward expansion was caused by all of the following except:

oil

Texas was immediately annexed to the United States after the Texas Revolution.

False

Which of the following was NOT a result about the Mexican War?

Oregon saw a huge surge in settlers

All of the following are reasons why the American portion of the Oregon country was considered superior to the British portion EXCEPT:

The American portion contained Vancouver Island and some of the best whaling in the world

In 1853, the United States acquired what is today the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico in the

Gadsden Purchase

The battle (engagement over its construction) that brought about the declaration of war was?

Resaca de la Palma

Which President escalated relations at the southern border with Mexico?

James Polk

Which President officially annexed Texas into the United States?

John Tyler