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USI Unit 5 Creating A National Identity (2)
Test Description: Part 1
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What was the focus of John James Audubon's work?
A
birds
B
rivers
C
pioneers
D
Native Americans
2) Who was not a nineteenth century American poet?
A
Emily Dickinson
B
Margaret Fuller
C
John Greenleaf Whittier
D
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3) What themes did James Fenimore Cooper explore in his Leatherstocking Tales?
A
stoicism versus naturalism
B
man's inhumanity to man
C
humanity expressed in art
D
frontier wilderness versus civilization
4) Which of the following themes were most commonly explored in American art and literature of the early nineteenth century?
A
war and peace
B
nature, democracy, and the common man
C
communal and social aspects of life
D
love, romance, and betrayal
5) Which American artist created paintings that captured the democratic spirit of a young nation?
A
Thomas Cole
B
George Catlin
C
John James Audubon
D
George Caleb Bingham
6) Which of the following are not key ideas of transcendentalism?
A
nonstructured religion
B
communion with nature
C
materialism
D
nonconformity
7) Who put Emerson's transcendental ideals of self-reliance and communion with nature into practice?
A
Washington Irving
B
James Fenimore Cooper
C
Henry David Thoreau
D
Nathaniel Bumppo
8) What describes the idea that it was God's plan for the United States to expand across the continent?
A
westward expansion
B
divine right
C
manifest destiny
D
California proposition
9) How did mountain men and fur traders help open up the Pacific Northwest to settlement?
A
They established missionaries along the major rivers of the region.
B
They blazed trails through the Rockies and other difficult terrain.
C
They sold their services as Indian fighters to settlers traveling west.
D
They formed commercial ventures that escorted settlers across the mountains.
10) The Santa Fe Trail ran from the Missouri River to the Rio Grande. What was it primarily used for?
A
to trade with the Mexicans and Native Americans of the region
B
to help establish railroads in the Southwest
C
to bring thousands of settlers to the Southwest
D
to bring Christianity to Native Americans in the region
11) What was the experience of the Mormons as they traveled from the Midwest, through the South Pass, and into to the Salt Lake Basin?
A
They experienced numerous encounters with Native Americans.
B
They discovered a new passage that improved travel.
C
They had a difficult journey through barren lands.
D
The journey was surprisingly easy.
12) What did President James Polk hope to gain as a result of provoking a war with Mexico?
A
additional territory including California and New Mexico
B
support from the Native Americans in the Southwest
C
clarification of the border between the United States and Mexico
D
control of the Rio Grande
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