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Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Young America movement?

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a weak foreign policy

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One of the first to use the phrase ʺYoung Americaʺ was

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Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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In ________, Herman Melville produced a novel, original in form and conception, to fulfill the demand of Young Americans for a New Literature.

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Moby Dick

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The American population moved westward in the 1830s and 1840s for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT

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loyalty to Mexico and Great Britain.

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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled a boundary dispute between ________ over ________.

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the United States and Canada; Maine and New Brunswick

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Which of the following was NOT Mexican territory in 1825?

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Oregon

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Delaying the equitable division of the Oregon Country was the reluctance of both the United States and Britain to surrender access to

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the Columbia River basin.

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In 1830, California, Texas, and New Mexico were under the sovereignty of

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Mexico.

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California in the 1820s and 1830s

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was controlled by wealthy rancheros.

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The most plausible reason for the Texas Revolution was

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the unwillingness of Anglo-Americans to accept Mexican rule.

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Which of the following Mexican policies irritated the Anglo-American settlers of Texas in the early 1830s?

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A) Mexicoʹs protection of the institution of slavery B) the dominance of Protestant churches in Mexico C) the refusal of the Mexican government to recognize Anglo land boundaries D) all of the above E) none of the above (ANSWER)

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Which one of the following states actually existed for ten years as an independent nation before its admission to the Union?

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Texas

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________, the hero of San Jacinto, became the first president of the Texas Republic.

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Sam Houston

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The most important overland route for American migration to the far West was

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the Oregon Trail

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The founder of the Mormon Church was

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Joseph Smith

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The Mormon community, established in Utah,

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was a model of a planned and efficient settlement

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The leader of the Mormon trek to Utah was

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Brigham Young

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John Tyler initiated the politics of Manifest Destiny

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to build a base for his re-election in 1844.

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Opposition to Tylerʹs plan for the annexation of Texas came, primarily, from

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northern antislavery Whigs

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The winner of the election of 1844 was

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James K. Polk.

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In the presidential election of 1844,

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James Polk identified himself with the most popular cause of the times

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Manifest Destiny was based, in part, on

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the belief that God was on the side of American expansionism

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The rallying cry ʺFifty-Four Forty or Fightʺ referred to which desired territory?

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Oregon

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Which one of the following was an important premise of Manifest Destiny?

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A) God supported American expansion B) the ʺarea of freedomʺ should be expanded C) population growth required new territories D) all of the above (ANSWER)

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The possibility of war with Great Britain over Oregon was increased by

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James Polkʹs aggressive foreign policy.

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James Polk went to war with Mexico

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to force the cession of New Mexico and California.

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The United States expected the Mexican-American War

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to be of a relatively short duration

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Each of the following occurred during the Mexican-American War EXCEPT

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William B. Travis and his men were annihilated at the Alamo

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided each of the following EXCEPT

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guaranteed that slavery would not be allowed west of the Rio Grande

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Railroad technology originated in

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England

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Shippers did not immediately shift to the railroads because

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canal boats were cheaper

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By the end of the 1850s, railroads had

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transformed the American economy

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Local and state governments in the United States

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were an important source of funding for railroads.

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The growth of American industry in the 1830s and 1840s was NOT influenced by

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the discovery of new natural resources

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Which of the following was NOT an essential feature of the factory system?

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each product being produced by one worker

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One of the most important effects of the American industrial revolution was

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a great wave of immigration.

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Between the 1830s and 1840s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from

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western Europe

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The major factor that pushed the Irish immigrant to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s was

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the great potato famine

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The majority of Irish immigrants settled in the

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Northeast.

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Most German immigrants came to the United States to escape

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hard times

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German immigrants

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suffered less prejudice than the Irish

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The evidence that shows that economics was a major motivation for immigration was found in the

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peaks in immigration and the demand for labor.

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The inventor of the mechanical reaper was

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Cyrus McCormick

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President Polk provoked the Mexican-American War by

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ordering Zachary Taylorʹs army into the disputed area south of the Nueces River

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The arrival of large numbers of immigrants

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worsened the already serious problems of the cities

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The majority of immigrants became

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wage workers in factories

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For former rural folk, the transition to industrial wage labor

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was not made easily

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The increasing employment of immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s

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made it difficult to organize industrial workers.

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Characteristic of the change in labor in the 1830s and 1840s was

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the decline in working conditions.

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An important result of the changing character of labor was

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an upsurge of labor militancy.

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