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American History I Final
American History I Final
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Undergraduate 2
11/28/2017

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The Declaration of Sentiments was written at...
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the Seneca Falls Convention
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Who contended that the Second Great Awakening was also intended to reform human society?
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Lyman Beecher
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The ______ movement intended to reduce or eradicate the consumption of alcohol in the US
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Temperance
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One of the biggest components of the second great awakening was located in the ______ portion of the US
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southern
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An early leading abolitionist was
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William Lloyd Garrison
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The leader of the individual freedom and self-culture aspects of transcendentalism was
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The goal of the American Colonization Society was...
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to send slaves back to Africa
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Christian activists assumed that the US had a mandate from _____ to provide a representative government
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God
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Early leader in the fight for women's suffrage was...
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Susan B Anthony
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The large wave of religious revivals at the turn of the 19 century was...
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The second great awakening
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Wrote NATURE
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An example of a utopian community would be
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the shakers
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After publishing his autobiography, he left for England for two years on a speaking tour. When he returned, he had enough money to purchase his freedom
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Fredrick Douglass
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During the romanticism , this author found his work in Boston because of the frankness of his writing
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Walt Whitman
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When considering the different denominations of Christians in the Jefferson age, which of the following believed Jesus to be a saintly but not divine man?
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Unitarian
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Inspired by the US' declaration of war against Mexico, _____ wrote "Civil Disobedience"
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Henry David Thoreau
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When considering the personal faith of Ben Franklin and and Thomas Jefferson , the definition of ___ describes their personal beliefs
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Deism
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The Second Great Awakening was a _____ movement
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Religious
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As described by an adherent, ___________ was defined as being “a little beyond” the scope of reason.
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transcendentalism
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act....
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repealed the Missouri Compromise
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Who was elected president in 1852?
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Franklin Pierce
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Which of the following regarding the Wilmot Proviso is untrue?
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The proviso passed the senate
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When he won the presidency, Abe Lincoln carried ____ slave states in the electoral college
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0
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In his inaugural address, Lincoln ...
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declared secession illegal
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The first man to run for president under the Republican party was...
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John C Fremont
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All of the following suffered from the Manifest Destiny except who?
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The French
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Which of the following statements regarding the Mexican American War is the most accurate?
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It was a war for territory
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What party split the presidential election of 1860?
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The democrats
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Which of the following statements regarding the Mexican American war is incorrect?
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More soldiers died in battle than from disease
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Zachary Taylor was not ....
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an abolitionist
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The Battle of Alamo in TX was...
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A defeat for the Texans
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_________ is the notation that citizens of a territory should regulate the existence of slavery just like the citizens of a state
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Popular Sovereignty
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Which state did America not accept after the Mexican American War?
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North Dakota
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When did the Mex-American War end?
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1848
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Manifest Destiny was based on the notion that the US would naturally expand
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westward
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President James K Polk stated that the cause of the Mexican American war was
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Mexico's invasion of American territory
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When was Lincoln elected?
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1860
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The Emancipation Proclamation was
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delayed until after the Union won the battle
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To cover the expenses of the Civil War, the Union did all except
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demand all payments of gold
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What percentage of the Northern forces was foreign born during the Civil War?
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25%
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The general associated with the futile charge at Gettysburg was
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Pickett
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The greatest killer of the Civil war was
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disease
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Southerners in the Civil War liked to compare themselves to
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those fighting the redcoats in the American Rev
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What did Lincoln promise to the South if they simply returned to the Union?
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they could keep their slaves
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The Civil War spurred the growth of all of the following except
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women's rights
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In the South, a man could get out of being drafted by
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hiring someone to take his place
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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was the last time the confederacy would invade the North
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As a result of the Civil War the political balance in the United States
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shifted from South to North
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Why did Lincoln choose to abolish slavery in 1862?
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Union defeats crushed morale and he wanted to use the issue to rebuild it.
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What was one area in which the South led the North during the Civil War?
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cotton production
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When the armies were raised, this left vacancies in the jobs that often were filled for the first time by
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women
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Slaves who ran away toward Union troops were
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considered contrabands of war
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Why did the North enact a blockade on the Confederacy during the Civil War?
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to divert goods shipped overseas to internal markets
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After the battle of vicksburg
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the union controlled the mississippi
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Because of the economic distress of the Confederacy
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rapid inflation occurred
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“Find out where your enemy is, get to him as soon as you can, and strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on” best describes the war making policy of
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Ulysses S Grant
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What was not a new weapon used in the Civil War?
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Airplanes
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