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The author of Walden was

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Henry David Thoreau

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What is millennialism

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The belief that Judgment Day is imminent

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Which group would have been most likely to appreciate the aesthetic of Thomas Cole's paintings?

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the Transcendentalists

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According to Orson S. Fowler, what was the advantage of an octagon-shaped house?

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It encouraged harmony by approximating the shape of a circle.

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The Female Moral Reform Society attempted to vanquish

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brothels

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What was the Second Great Awakening?

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a religious revival

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The religious and secular utopias of the early nineteenth century were established in part as a response to anxieties about

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the market economy

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Which statement best represents the intention of those who supported the development of Central Park in New York City

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to bring nature to urban dwellers of all classes

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How did the approach to imprisoning criminals at a penitentiary differ from earlier approaches?

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the focus was on repentance and reform.

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What quality was shared by those who engaged in utopian social experiments and more conventional social reformers?

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a faith in Americans' ability to collectively improve their lot

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Such reformers as Mary Gove and Paulina Wright were interested in

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educating women on their reproductive rights and health

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Which of the following best describes the view of such Southerners as Thomas R. Dew toward slavery?

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Slavery is a positive good to society

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Through his newspaper The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison became a leading spokesperson for

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immediatism

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Who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints?

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Joseph Smith

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The "gag rule" was a procedural motion that

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required the House of Reps to automatically table all antislavery petitions.

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What was complex marriage as practiced in the community at Oneida, New York, established by John Humphrey Noyes?

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free sexual relations between the men and women of the community

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Which of the following best describes the stance of Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel hawthorne, and Herman Melville to contemporary American society?

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critical of the effects of the market economy.

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What was the Common School movement?

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the movement for universal public education

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Which is the bet summary of the doctrine of coverture?

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A woman is legally dead once she has married

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The American Colonization Society was formed with what purpose?

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to gradually liberate slaves and transport them to Africa

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How had Christians traditionally regarded the consumption of alcohol?

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as a problem when it led to drunkenness

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Horace Mann's most notable contributions were in the field of

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education

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How did Henry "Box" Brown support the abolitionist cause?

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His dramatic escape provided a compelling narrative for the movement to publicize

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Why did architects such as Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis reject the Greek Revival style?

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They believed that architecture should reflect social status.

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In what way did the Shakers reconfigure the traditional family?

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There was neither marriage nor sex between men and women.

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A supporter of temperance believed

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in abstinence from alcohol

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Which of the following best describes Charles Grandson Finney's theology?

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people can seek out salvation and usher in the millennium

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Phrenology studied the connection between a person's character and

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the shape of his or her skull

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In the Eastern State Penitentiary at Philadelphia, prisoners

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enjoyed no privacy

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How did Greece's war for independence influence America?

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It inspired the Greek Revival style of architecture and interior design.

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Why might a woman like Mary Cragin have embraced her life in John Humphrey Noyes's community at Oneida, New York?

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The community offered greater freedom to women.

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For what reason did Frederick Douglass include his own picture and signature in his book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Doublass, An American Slave?

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to increase the authenticity of the work

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What factors led to the transformation of Southern attitudes toward slavery?

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As cotton agriculture became more important to the economy and abolitionist fervor increased, white Southerners were compelled to defend the institution.

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To what did Transcendentalists look for inspiration and insight?

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nature

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The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 marked the beginning of

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the movement for women's rights.

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In 1848, women in New York won the right to

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retain control of inherited wealth.

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Reformers such as minister Lyman Beecher cast the problem of intemperance in

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spiritual terms

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Which of the following would most certainly be a proponent of immediatism

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a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society

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Thomas Jefferson's comparison of slavery to holding "the wolf by the ears" reflected his

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ambivalence toward the institution.

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What event led Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to focus their attention on the oppression of women?

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the restrictions they faced at the international antislavery conference in London.

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Abolitionists responded to Hiram Powers's statue The Greek Slave by

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comparing the slave's suffering to that of American slaves.

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Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl told about

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the sexual predations of white Southerners on black women.

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What did the popularity of sentimental novels and the board game "The Mansion of happiness" reveal about the cult of true womanhood?

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Its vision of domestic happiness was appealing to Americans.

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What did the Millerites anticipate first in march 1843 and later on October 22, 1844?

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The return of Christ

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All of the following were supporters of women's rights EXCEPT

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Sylvester Graham.

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Edgar Allan Poe differed from Nathaniel Hawthorne in that he

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embraced the topics of popular fiction in his literary art

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In his lectures, Sylvester Graham warned his audience to avoid the dangers of

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sexual overstimulation

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The "cult of true womanhood" identified women with

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piety, motherhood, and sexual passivity.

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Who was the leader of Texan forces that defeated and captured General Santa Anna at San Jacinto?

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Sam Houston

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What was the effect of faster communication during the Mexican War?

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Journalists became more independent in their reporting

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"Remember the Alamo" became a battle cry for Americans in the war against Mexico because

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so many Americans died in a battle there.

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Manifest Destiny emphasized the primacy of

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white American civilization

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Whom did the Free-Soil Party nominate as its candidate in the election of 1848

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Martin Van Buren

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Who were the "Barnburners"

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anti-slavery Democrats

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What encouraged President Taylor to secure the annexation of Texas?

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James K. Polk's victory in the 1844 election

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What was the main source of conflict between the US and Mexico before the Mexican War?

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a dispute over defining the border

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How did Americans initially regard photography?

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as copying reality perfectly

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Tejanos was the term for

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Hispanic Texans

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What was Henry Clay's position on the annexation of Texas?

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He did not want Texas admitted to the Union.

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What was the Overland Trail?

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the main route West

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Midwestern tribes from what territory were forced to relocate to the Indian Territory after their defeat in the Black Hawk War of 1832

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Iowa

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What factors led to Zachary Taylor's election as president in 1848?

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The Whigs' running separate campaigns in the North and South enabled Taylor to appeal to many voters in a nation divided over the issue of slavery, and the inclusion of a third-party candidate drew votes away from his Democratic rival

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What contributed significantly to the United States' victory in the Mexican War?

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the military superiority of the United States

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Franciscan-run Catholic missions in California for the most part treated Indians as

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slaves

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Who led the invasion of central Mexico that resulted in the taking of Mexico City?

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Winfield Scott

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What practice did American settlers bring to Texas that was illegal in Mexico by 1829?

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slavery

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Manifest Destiny was the doctrine that

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God intended the United States to extend westward to the Pacific.

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Where did the Mormons ultimately settle?

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Utah

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What was the daguerreotype?

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an early form of photography

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James K. Polk, or "Young Hickory," shared all of the following with Andrew Jackson EXCEPT

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a reluctance to use the military to meet his ends

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Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax in support of what cause?

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abolition

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Upon General Santa Anna's seizing power in Mexico,

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he established a dictatorship with himself at the helm.

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As president, James K. Polk could best be described as

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an expansionist

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In the 1848 election, the Free-Soil Party attracted all of the following EXCEPT

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Texans

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Why did the workload of women double when their families moved westward?

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Women maintained traditional roles within the family but also had to take on jobs usually reserved for men.

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What did the doctrine of "consecration and stewardship" require of Mormons?

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that they deed their property to the church.

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What was the Liberty Party?

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an antislavery, anti-annexation party that emerged in 1844

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What role did trappers play in the settlement of the West?

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Their explorations were informative to those interested in the West.

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Henry David Thoreau is famous for articulating his stance on

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civil disobedience

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In the 1848 election, the Whig Platform focused on

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the merits of its nominee

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Why did the Whigs reject Henry Clay as their candidate for president in the election of 1848?

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His policy of non-expansion was no longer compelling after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed.

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The most contentious issue in the election of 1848 was

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whether to permit slavery in the vast area just acquired from Mexico.

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The Wilmot Proviso proposed that

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slavery should be banned in the territory gained in the Mexican war.

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How did the generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor differ?

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Winfield Scott was arrogant, whereas Zachary Taylor lacked pretension.

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What was Abraham Lincoln's position on the Mexican War?

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He opposed the war and felt that territorial expansion was a threat to America's future

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The Free-Soil Party emerged during the Mexican-American War was committed to

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keeping slavery from spreading.

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After Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1821, the missions in California

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saw much of their land turned into rancheros.

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Proponents of popular sovereignty believed that

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residents of a territory should decide whether slavery should be permitted there

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What did Ralph Waldo Emerson mean when he said "Mexico will poison us"?

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The conflict over slavery will get worse, not better.

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Who was Brigham Young

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Joseph Smith's successor as leader of the Mormons

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What were the consequences for Mexico and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

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Mexico lost 55 percent of its territory

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What occurred in the mid-1830s to spare the beaver from extinction?

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Consumers began to prefer silk over fur.

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What was the main reason many Americans opposed the annexation of Texas?

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They did not want another slave state admitted to the Union.

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What tribe successfully resisted removal through the 1830s?

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the Seminole in Florida

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Starting in 1860, Southern states began to secede in response to

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the election of Abraham Lincoln

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Western settlement in the midst of the Gold Rush was characterized by its

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transience and lawlessness

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What did votes on the five bills of the Compromise of 1850 reveal?

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a growing sectionalism

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Why might many Southerners have been disappointed in their fellow Southerner Zachary Taylor?

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Taylor proposed that residents of California and New Mexico decide the question of slavery themselves.

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What was one outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska act?

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a bloody civil conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas

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All of the following were signs that the debate over slavery was intensifying through the 1850s EXCEPT

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the formation of the American Party.

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The Crittenden Compromise was proposed in response to

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the secession of Southern states

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Confederate officials ordered the Union commander of Fort Sumter to surrender when they learned that

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President Lincoln had ordered that supplies be sent to the fort.

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Why were Republicans able to gain the presidency in the election of 1860?

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The Republicans scored a decisive win in the North.

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In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln

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promised to enforce federal law in all of the states

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During the 1840s and 1850s, Northern factories strongly benefitted from the introduction of

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steam power

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President Pierce attempted to strengthen the Democratic Party and unite the nation by emphasizing

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an aggressive foreign policy

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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a network that helped slaves escape to Canada

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In the House and the Senate, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was voted against by every

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Northern Whig

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Under the Compromise of 1850, in which of the following territories or states would residents decide whether or not slavery should be permitted

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New Mexico

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Whom did the Southern Democrats nominate for the 1860 presidential election?

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John C. Breckinridge

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Visitors to the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York City could have seen examples of all of the following EXCEPT

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the telephone

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The Gold Rush resulted in all of the following except

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the institution of slavery in the West.

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In 1852, the California state legislature bolstered segregation by imposing a heavy tax on

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Chinese miners

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The Republican Party's first candidate in a presidential election was

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John C. Fremont

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Why did poor white Southerners support a slave society in which they had so little power?

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They believed in the inferiority of African Americans

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All of the following are true of the southern cotton from 1840 to 1860 except that

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its profitability enabled Southerners to become less dependent on Northern industry

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Who was most instrumental in ensuring that the Compromise of 1850 passed

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Free-Sailers and abolitionists were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it

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was viewed as evidence that Southerners planned to extend slavery wherever possible

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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln stated his belief that

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African Americans were entitled to rights

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John Brown hoped that his raid on Harpers Ferry would

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start a slave rebellion throughout the South

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Members of Young America supported which of the following

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extending Americans influence throughout the Americas

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By 1860, the percentage of Southerners who owned slaves was

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about 25 percent

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What was the effect of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

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Abraham Lincoln became known across the nation

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Why did Franklin Pierce handily win the presidential election of 1852?

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As a Northerner with Southern sympathies, he bridged the sectional divide.

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The creation of interchangeable parts benefited American industry by making it possible to

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speed up the manufacturing process

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act accomplish?

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the creation of Kansas and Nebraska as separate territories and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise Line

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The greatest concern relating to California's desire to enter the Union was

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the threat to the balance between free and slave states

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What attitude would Northern manufacturers most likely have had toward immigrants?

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They would have welcomed immigrants as a source of cheap labor.

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The Fugitive Slave Act included all of the following provisions EXCEPT that

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handsome bounties were awarded to those who returned fugitives to their owners.

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Members of the American Party were commonly referred to as the

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Know-Nothings

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What territories did President Pierce propose acquiring?

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Hawaii, Alaska, and Cuba

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced Northerners in what way?

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They became more hostile toward slavery.

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John Brown's raid on a federal arsenal occurred in the state of

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Virginia

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In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme court declared that

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neither enslaved nor free African American could become citizens.

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Southerners' demands that Northerners comply with the Fugitive Slave Act contradicted

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their support of states' rights.

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The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the dissolution of

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the Whig Party

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Who was elected the President of the Confederate States?

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Jefferson Davis

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Which aspect of the Compromise of 1850 proved to be most controversial?

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the fugitive slave act

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Who succeeded Zachary Taylor as president after his death?

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Millard Fillmore

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Southern congressmen told Stephen Douglas that they would approve his plan for Kansas and Nebraska if it included

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the repeal of the ban on slavery north of the 3630 line.

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The democrats struggled in the presidential election of 1860 after

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the party split into sectional factions.

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During the Gold Rush, 80 percent of the new arrivals to California were

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American-born

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