What term describes the belief that the United States' was "destined" to expand to the west coast, including land that at the time was controlled by Mexico?
Manifest Destiny
100
What major technological invention was created by Samuel Morse?
the telegraph machine
100
What name was given to the religious movement that lasted throughout the 1740s and 1750s that brought many people into organized religion for the first time?
the Great Awakening
200
What does the term "antebellum" mean?
Before the Civil War
200
What treaty ended the Mexican American War?
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
200
What movement during the 1700s sought knowledge through the use of reason and scientific methods instead of religion and other traditional methods?
the Enlightenment
300
What abolitionist was a former slave and referred to himself as a "thief and a robber"?
Frederick Douglass
300
What name was given to the religious movement during the 1740s and 1750s that brought many people into organize churches for the first time?
the Great Awakening
300
By 1820, what three southern states had been transformed into a booming "cotton kingdom" by the cotton gin and the production of short-staple cotton?
Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi
400
What abolitionist founded the abolitionist newspaper "the Liberator"?
William Lloyd Garrison
400
What US President asked Congress to declare war on Mexico because "American blood" had been spilled on "American soil"?
President James K. Polk
400
Describe the Tallmadge Amendments to the 1819 Missouri statehood bill.
1. No new slaves could be brought to Missouri once it was a state.
2. All slaves born in Missouri must be freed at the age of 25.
500
What abolitionist wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
500
What borders were proposed in the arrowhead region of Minnesota by the United States and Canada? What treaty settled this border dispute?
Canada proposed a border as far south as the mouth of St. Louis River (present day Duluth). The United States proposed a border as far north as Fort Williams (present day Thunder Bay). The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the border dispute and placed the border at its current location.
500
How did President Jackson react to the Supreme Court decision that said he and the United States government could not forcibly remove the Cherokee from Georgia?
He refused to enforce the decision, saying: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."