History Test # 3

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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 18 th and 19 th 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 5 th 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 Turne r

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 8 th president of the U.S. ( ). A powerful Democrat from New York, he served in the U.S. Senate ( ), as secretary of state ( ), and as vice president ( ) under Andrew Jackson before being elected president in He unsuccessfully sought reelection in 1840 and 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 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 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