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  1. Return to Of The People 5e, Volume 1 Student Resources

Chapter 12 Quiz

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. All of the following statements about the Whig Party are true except

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. The consequences of the depression of 1837 were most severe in

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. Artists whose work celebrated the power and beauty of the untouched American landscape were known as the

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. The Hudson River School was influenced by the _______ movement sweeping Europe.

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. In the early nineteenth century, Americans first envisioned themselves cultivating the wilderness into a homestead and then further taming the land to build all of the following except a

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. The Sioux, Pawnee, Arapaho, Shoshone, and Cheyenne nations resided throughout the

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. American landholders in Texas were called

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. By the mid-1820s, American immigrants in Texas had developed a _______ economy.

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. The Mexican government's policies on slavery were

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. American immigrants in Texas regarded Mexican inconsistency and resistance toward slavery as

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. The major reason for the increasing tension between Texas and the Mexican government in the 1830s was the Mexican government's

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. Hoping eventually to secure United States statehood, Texas first declared itself _______ on March 2, 1836.

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. How did most overland migrants travel across America during the early nineteenth century?

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. What was the boundary between Texas and Mexico that Santa Anna had agreed to?

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. Which of the following statements best describes the domestic response to the Mexican-American War?

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. By the mid-1830s, federal policy toward Native Americans had begun to shift: later removals of Native Americans aimed more overtly at relocation culminating in

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. What happened to Mexicans in California after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

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. What did Henry David Thoreau argue in 1848 to an audience in Concord?

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. What did the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight!" refer to?

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. Which two demands did the Sioux make of the government in the mid-1840's?

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. _______, the belief that white Americans had providential right to as much of North America as they wanted, was part of the beliefs of citizens and of United States policy since the founding of the republic.

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. Map shows Major Trans Mississippi Indian Communities, circa, 18 50. From west of Iowa to down south the Indian communities are as follows. Omahas, Otoes, Pawnees, Otoes and Missouris, Iowas, Sawks and Foxes of Minnesota, Shawnees, Ottawas, Peorias and Kaskaskias, Weas and Piankashas, Sawks and Foxes of Mississippi, Potawatomis, Miamis, New York Indians, Osages, Cherokee Neutral Lands, Quapaws, Senecas, Seminole nation, Chickasaw nation, and Choctaw Nation. The rivers flowing across the regions where the communities live are Laramie, South Fork Platte, Republican, Solomon Fork, Grand Saline Fork, Kansas, Arkansas, Cimarron, North Fork Canadian, Washita, North Fork Red, Canadian, Verdigris, Missouri, Osage, and Neosho.
MAP QUESTION. Find "Map 12-3: Major Trans-Mississippi Indian Communities, ca. 1850." The situation depicted in the map emerged due to the policies of

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. In the painting, near the Hudson river is a hut. One boy goes near a boat in the river. Clothes hang on a clothesline outside the hut. Few women are near the hut. The place is surrounded by tall trees.
Study for Home in the Woods. The painting was most likely a reaction to which of the following contemporary developments?

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. Over time, indigenous groups of the Great Plains such as the Cheyenne gave up farming and organized their economic life around the hunt, foraging other food as they went. This change was a result of their making peace with their former enemies, the Apaches.

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. President Van Buren's proposal for an independent treasury was met with little opposition.

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. Although the United States was technically neutral in the matter of an internal Canadian rebellion against Great Britain in 1837–1838, some disgruntled American workers saw the rebels as latter-day embodiments of the spirit of the American Revolution and were drawn into an alliance with them.

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. The term "manifest destiny" became part of the American vocabulary when it was used by journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845.

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. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales portray Euro-American settlement of the New York back-country as a grand myth of manifest destiny in which settlement tamed the land and the newcomers forged a new, ennobled society.

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. Most of the migrants who headed west were farming families of moderate means, pushed out of the Midwest by the hard times of 1837.

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. By 1839, some Americans were convinced that Texas was destined to become the "land of refuge" for pro-slavery Americans.

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