Multiple Choice Chapter 11 Self-Quiz 2

. One of the obstacles blocking American expansion west of the Mississippi was

Native American control of the land

British forts and their alliances with Indian peoples.

French trade networks extending out to the Rockies.

Russian trappers and traders west of the Rockies.

. Under previous treaties with the United States, what ensured the Cherokee could retain their land and autonomy?

their frequent raids on Spanish settlements in the West

their annual payment of tribute

their good faith efforts to live peacefully and productively alongside Americans

their alliance with the United States during the War of 1812

. In 1834, Mexico did what to the Catholic Church?

gave it authority over unsettled lands in New Mexico and California

reduced its power by secularizing mission lands

introduced taxes on all its lands

granted it control over all Pueblo lands in New Mexico

. Who led most filibustering efforts in the 1850s?

Mexicans

Texans

Southerners

wealthy merchants

. The major influence on the Texas independence movement was

Southerners' desire to bring it into the United States as a slave state.

opposition to Mexican support for slavery in the territory.

a belief that the territory held gold and other mineral riches.

widespread discontent over the failures of Spanish administration.

. One of the outcomes of Charles Wilkes's expedition was that

it sparked the Texas war for independence.

it mapped out places for future trade and investment.

he briefly took control of Nicaragua.

it located a route through the Rockies to the Oregon territory.

. What was one of the effects of industrialization?

Workers had less contact with their employers.

A titled aristocracy developed in the United States.

Workers began striking for improved wages and hours.

Working-class leisure diminished.

. Frances Wright, Robert Dale Owen, and George Henry Evans called on workers to

create a nationwide strike to demand better pay.

accept their position in the workplace.

foment a revolution to overthrow the capitalist system.

use their voting power to transform their working conditions.

. Germans typically emigrated to the United States

in large family units.

with few labor skills.

to seek land in the far West.

because of the potato blight.

. In the largest American cities,

people still interacted much like they did in small towns.

labor and racial violence often made it dangerous to walk on the street.

most people lived in the same type of house regardless of income.

residents identified with one another on the basis of larger social or ethnic communities.

. What encouraged eastern slaveholders to sell their slaves to the Deep South?

fears of growing abolitionism in Virginia and the Carolinas

the high demand for labor in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi

the high price of cotton seed and fertilizers in the east

exorbitant taxes on slaves in some of the eastern states

. The author of the "exposition" against the tariff was

Andrew Jackson

John Quincy Adams

John Calhoun

George McDuffie

. The Whigs supported

sociocultural issues.

war with Mexico.

state funding and control of development projects.

Andrew Jackson.

. The key difference between gender relations in the East and West was

the need for men to provide physical protection in the West.

the large number of female prostitutes throughout the West.

the influence of Indian gender roles on settlers in the West.

the much larger population of males than females in the West.

. Men in the South

maintained older, more traditional forms of masculinity.

supported open expressions of emotions such as love.

ritualized verbal sparring that replaced duels and fisticuffs.

changed as a result of menâs and womenâs shared labor responsibilities.

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