US History Unit 4 Test Review – Flashcards
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Who was the leader of Texas Revolution and fought Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna? He later won independence for Texas and became its first president
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Sam Houston
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Where was the site of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention?
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Seneca Falls
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What effect did "Manifest Destiny" have on the United States throughout the nineteenth-century?-
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Manifest Destiny extended the United States all the way to the Pacific.
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Which women's rights reformer delivered the "Declaration of Sentiments" at an 1848 women's rights convention? She believed in a woman's right to vote in the mid-1800s would have most likely supported her.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Who organized and led the major slave revolt in Virginia in 1831? He was later captured, tried, and executed for his actions in the revolt.-
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Nat Turner
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Which of the following nineteenth-century personalities was a revivalist and gave rise to the "Second Great Awakening" in the 1820s?-
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Charles Finney
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How did the annexation of Texas worsen the relationship between the United States and Mexico in 1845?-
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sparked a war between the two nations between 1846 to 1848.
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Horace Mann is associated as a leader of what early nineteenth-century reform movement?-
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public school
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What was the primary tactic used by abolitionists to make their case against slavery in the years preceding the Civil War?-
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The use of moral persuasion in writings and emotional speeches changed the minds of people who later supported their cause.
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In 1846, President James Polk sent Zachary Taylor to the border with Mexico to do what?-
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Protect United States interest in the disputed territory with Mexico.
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In the Presidential Election of 1844, the dispute over what territory led to the slogan "Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight!" and showed James K. Polk's willingness to go to war if elected president?-
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Oregon
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Who became a leading Abolitionist in the 1860s? He published the North Star denouncing slavery and wrote a personal biography about the evils of slavery.-
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Frederick Douglass
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What was the primary goal of the leaders of the women's rights movement during the mid-nineteenth-century?-
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The right to vote
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During the mid-1800s, the temperance movement was primarily led by whom?-
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women and churches
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Generally, which political party in the 1840s would have been against the Wilmot Proviso prohibiting slavery in western territories?-
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Southern Democrats
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Which reformer campaigned for reform in prison and mental health facilities during the mid-nineteenth century?-
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Dorothea Dix
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"Forty-niners" refer to what group of people in the 1840s and 1850s?-
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settlers who traveled to California looking for gold in 1849
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke supported what social reform in the 1800s?-
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abolition
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Who was the leading abolitionist who published The Liberator in 1831 advocating immediate emancipation of slaves in the South?-
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William Lloyd Garrison
