1. History Test # 3

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3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Question 4 What development changes the prosperity of slavery? The invention of the cotton gin made the growing of cotton more profitable

7. 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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9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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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15. Question 11 Definition: The 8 th president of the U.S. (1837-1841). A powerful Democrat from New York, he served in the U.S. Senate (1821-1828), as secretary of state (1829- 1831), and as vice president (1833-1837) under Andrew Jackson before being elected president in 1836. He unsuccessfully sought reelection in 1840 and 1848. Martin Van Buren

16. Question 12 What is Laissez-faire economics? Allowing the marketplace to function without interference

17. 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 1841. The 35 who survived returned to Africa

18. Answer 13 Amistad

19. Question 15 Who is considered the founder of modern economics? Adam Smith

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21. 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.

22. Question 17 Definition: The concept that settlers of each territory would decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. popular sovereignty

23. Question 18 Definition: The first major gathering of woman’s rights advocates was held in this New York town in 1848. Seneca Falls

24. Question 19 Definition: A former New York slave who became an advocate for abolitionism and for woman’s rights. Sojourner Truth

25. Question 58 Definition: The federal act of 1850 providing for the return between states of escaped black slaves. Fugitive Slave Act