USI Unit 5 Creating A National Identity (2) Question Preview (ID: 49679)


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What was the focus of John James Audubon's work?
a) Native Americans
b) birds
c) pioneers
d) rivers

Who was not a nineteenth century American poet?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) John Greenleaf Whittier
c) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
d) Margaret Fuller

What themes did James Fenimore Cooper explore in his Leatherstocking Tales?
a) frontier wilderness versus civilization
b) humanity expressed in art
c) man's inhumanity to man
d) stoicism versus naturalism

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) love, romance, and betrayal
d) communal and social aspects of life

Which American artist created paintings that captured the democratic spirit of a young nation?
a) George Catlin
b) George Caleb Bingham
c) John James Audubon
d) Thomas Cole

Which of the following are not key ideas of transcendentalism?
a) nonstructured religion
b) communion with nature
c) materialism
d) nonconformity

Who put Emerson's transcendental ideals of self-reliance and communion with nature into practice?
a) Henry David Thoreau
b) James Fenimore Cooper
c) Washington Irving
d) Nathaniel Bumppo

What describes the idea that it was God's plan for the United States to expand across the continent?
a) divine right
b) manifest destiny
c) westward expansion
d) California proposition

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 formed commercial ventures that escorted settlers across the mountains.
d) They sold their services as Indian fighters to settlers traveling west.

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

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) The journey was surprisingly easy.
b) They had a difficult journey through barren lands.
c) They discovered a new passage that improved travel.
d) They experienced numerous encounters with Native Americans.

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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