History test 5

Oberlin College

What was the first college to admit women?

traditional

What kind of education is concerned with passing on knowledge and proven methods of the past?

cotton

What crop dominated Southern agriculture?

Samuel Slater

Who is the Father of the American Factory System?

telegraph

Which was the fastest method of sending a message to the West?

macadam

What kind of road was raised above the surrounding terrain to aid drainage?

Hudson River

The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie to what other body of water?

plebiscite

What demonstrated that most citizens of the Republic of Texas wished to join the United States?

Battle of San Jacinto

At what battle did the Republic of Texas win her independence?

Marcus Whitman

What Presbyterian missionary led the Great Migration to Oregon Country?

Henry Clay

Who was the Whig nominee for the presidential election of 1844?

Zachary Taylor

What American officer won the Battle of Veracruz?

John C. Frémont

What American officer aided the Californians in the Bear Flag Revolt?

the gold rush

What was the primary reason for American interest in California?

William Taylor

What Methodist missionary preached to the settlers in California?

Liberty Party

What was the party of moderate abolitionists that campaigned during the 1840s?

Henry Clay

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

John Brown

Who was the abolitionist who attacked a settlement at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas?

John C. Breckinridge

Who was the nominee of the Southern Democrats for the presidency in 1860?

British law prevented industrial methods from spreading to America.

Why did American industry struggle to keep up with british immediately after her independence?

Slavery forced wages down, causing potential factory workers to seek employment in the North instead.

How did slavery affect Southern industrialism?

Kansas became a battleground between abolitionists and proslavery invaders.

How did the results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act demonstrate the shortcomings of popular sovereignty?

Scott was still a slave because slaves were property that Congress could not constitutionally seize and make free.

In Dred Scott v. Sanford, how did the Supreme Court rule?

He said he did not intend to interfere with slavery in the places where it already existed.

What message did Lincoln express in his first inaugural address?

teachers

Horace Mann encouraged normal schools, which were used for the training of

Cumberland Road

The National Road was originally known as the ?.

Narcissa Whitman

The first white women to journey west of the Rocky Mountains were eliza spalding & ?

Fifty-four Forty

The Democratic Party ran in 1844 on the slogan " ? or Fight!"

Francis Cabot Lowell

The power loom was invented by ?.

Seventh of March

Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in his ? speech.

Freeport

The ? Doctrine stated that the people of a territory could ban slavery by the laws of their territorial governments or by withholding police protection from slaveholders.

Josiah Holbrook

founded the first lyceum

William Dean Howells

editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine

Cyrus McCormick

invented the reaper

Oliver Evans

developed a high-pressure steam engine

DeWitt Clinton

responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal

Davy Crockett

frontiersman who died at the Alamo

Jedediah Smith

Christian trailblazer in the West

John Slidell

American envoy to Mexico

Zachary Taylor

general sent to protect the Texas border

William Lloyd Garrison

published The Liberator

Franklin Pierce

president who attempted to buy Cuba

Stephen A. Douglas

sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

Hinton Rowan Helper

wrote The Impending Crisis of the South

Jefferson Davis

made president of the Confederacy during the Civil War

American Spelling Book or Blue-Backed Speller

What commonly used textbook was written by Noah Webster?

Underground Railroad

What was the network of escape routes maintained by abolitionists through which many slaves escaped from the South?

cotton gin

What invention most affected Southern agriculture?

clipper ships

What was America's greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels?

William B. Travis

Who was the Texan commander at the Alamo?

1846-1848

What were the years of the Mexican War?

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Where did the United States and Mexico sign a treaty ending the Mexican War?

Harriet Tubman

Who was the best-known leader of the Underground Railroad?

Wilmot Proviso

What proposal attempted to bar slavery from the Mexican Čession?

1854

In what year was the Republican Party formed?

Robert E. Lee

Who was the military commander sent to stop the raid at Harper's Ferry?

Hannibal Hamlin

Who was Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in the election of 1860?