History

Test # 3

Chapter 9

Question 1• How have American-Canadian

relations have been since our Revolution from Great Britain?

Mixed, while the U.S. struggled with England there had been several efforts by the U.S. to conquer

Canada.

Question 2• Definition: A Native American people

made up of various primarily Creek groups who moved into northern Florida during the 18th and 19th centuries, later inhabiting the Everglades region as well.

Seminoles

Question 3• Definition: The first major American

canal, stretching two hundred fifty miles from the Great Lakes across New York State to Albany, where boats would travel along the Hudson River to New York City.

Erie Canal

Question 4• What development changes the

prosperity of slavery?

The invention of the cotton gin made the growing of cotton more profitable

Question 5• Definition: Authored by the 5th

President of the United States, the doctrine declared U.S. opposition to European interference in the Americas.

Monroe Doctrine

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Question 6• Why was it considered that the

presidential election of 1824 had been stolen?

Jackson had received the most electoral votes but not enough to declare victory; the House

chose J. Q. Adams.

Question 7• Definition: American slave leader who

organized about 70 followers and led a rebellion in Virginia, during which approximately 50 whites were killed (1831). He was then captured and executed.

Nat Turner

Question 8• What change in the economy and

culture did industrialization produce that the Founders not anticipate?

That so much wealth would be concentrated in so few

Question 9• From what did abolitionism gain most

of its rationale for its opposition to slavery?

Religious teachings & the words of the Declaration of

Independence

Question 27• Definition: An American religious leader

who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1830) and led his congregation westward from New York State to western Illinois, where he was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob.

Joseph Smith

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Question 11• Definition: The 8th president of the U.S.

(1837-1841). A powerful Democrat from New York, he served in the U.S. Senate (1821-1828), as secretary of state (1829-1831), and as vice president (1833-1837) under Andrew Jackson before being elected president in 1836. He unsuccessfully sought reelection in 1840 and 1848.

Martin Van Buren

Question 12

• What is Laissez-faire economics?

Allowing the marketplace to function without interference

Question 13• Definition: A slave ship on which 49 Africans

rebelled in 1839 off the coast of Cuba. The ship sailed to Long Island Sound where Spanish authorities demanded they be turned over for punishment. A group of American abolitionists, led by former President John Quincy Adams, fought for and won their freedom in 1841. The 35 who survived returned to Africa

Answer 13

Amistad

Question 15

• Who is considered the founder of modern economics?

Adam Smith

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Question 16• Why did the United States go to war

with Mexico?

Americans in the slave states merely coveted land held by

Mexico for centuries.

Question 17• Definition: The concept that settlers of

each territory would decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.

popular sovereignty

Question 18• Definition: The first major gathering of

woman’s rights advocates was held in this New York town in 1848.

Seneca Falls

Question 19• Definition: A former New York slave

who became an advocate for abolitionism and for woman’s rights.

Sojourner Truth

Question 58• Definition: The federal act of 1850

providing for the return between states of escaped black slaves.

Fugitive Slave Act