Unit 9: Westward Expansion, Culture, And Reform Question Preview (ID: 45811)


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CALIFORNIA and FLORIDA were both former territories of which country?
a) SPAIN
b) MEXICO
c) FRANCE
d) BRITAIN

Leader of the Transcendentalist Movement, author of the book, NATURE...
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Harriet Tubman
c) Charles Finney
d) Washington Irving

Transcendentalist leader, he refused to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican War as an act of civil disobedience
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Henry David Thoreau
c) William Lloyd Garrison
d)

Women were the main participants in social reform movements
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

She organized the Seneca Falls Convention and authored the Declaration of Sentiments...
a) Sojourner Truth
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Dorothea Dix
d) Susan B. Anthony

Seneca Falls, NY was the site of the first convention for this reform movement
a) Abolition Movement
b) Temperance Movement
c) Women's Rights
d) Education Reform

Which of the following is TRUE about the Erie Canal
a) Western farmers used it to send their goods down the Mississippi River to the port city of New Orleans
b) Western farmers sent their goods through the Great lakes through the canal to the Hudson River and New York City.
c)
d)

a religious revival that inspired people to participate in social reform movements
a) First Great Awakening
b) Second Great Awakening
c) The Enlightenment
d)

American artists from the Hudson River School focused their works on America's _________ .
a) nature and landscapes
b) environmental destruction caused by industrialization
c) social injustices
d) abolition

Public education reformer who helped bring free public education to all
a) William Lloyd Garrison
b) Horace Mann
c) Frederick Douglass
d)

This President promised to fulfill America's Manifest Destiny...
a) Henry Clay
b) James K. Polk
c) Andrew Jackson
d) Martin Van Buren

Prison reform is associated wit this person
a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b) Susan B. Anthony
c) Dorothea Dix
d) Clara Barton

What attracted so many settlers to California in the mid-1800's?
a) jobs working on the Transcontinental Railroad
b) jobs in orchards
c) Gold was discovered
d)

The War with Mexico and the War of 1812 were similar because...
a) both wars were attempts by the U.S. to gain territory from neighboring countries
b) both wars were fought over the issue of slavery expanding into new territories
c)
d)

When people move from rural areas to find jobs in cities, causing cities to grow...
a) Ruralization
b) Urbanization
c) Centralization
d)

They brought cultural traditions like Polka music, sausage making, Kindergarten, novels and fairy tales (Grimm brothers)
a) Chinese
b) Irish
c) Germans
d)

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