5 Written Questions

1. American literary movement that sought to reconcile the traditional white society of the U.S South after its defeat in the Civil War
2. An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.
3. A society which established the colony of Liberia, to which freed blacks were sent from the United States. The colony later declared its independance.
4. In 1834, mill workers in Lowell organized a union known as this, which staged a strike to protest a 25 percent wage cut. Two years later the association struck again, against a rent increase in boardinghouses. Both Strikes failed, and a recession in 1837 nearly killed the organization.
5. Houston gathered 800 at San Jacinto. Shouted "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" while attacking Santa Anna (1300 soldiers) Santa Anna captured, and he signed a treaty recognizing independence of Texas 1836. Final battle of the Texas Revolution

5 Matching Questions

1. Edgar Allen Poe
2. Ku Klux Klan
3. Sojourner Truth
4. Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
5. Morrill Act

1. a of 1862, in this act, the federal government had donated public land to the states for the establishment of college; as a result 69 land- grant institutions were established.
2. b machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers, helped keep southern states the land of slavery
3. c United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
4. d a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep african americans from obtaining their civil rights
5. e Was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. This treaty ended the Mexican-American war. Mexico agreed to give up all its northern lands to the United States. These lands included California, Utah, Nevada, and parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. The United States payed Mexico $15 million.
   1. The Bear Flag Revolt
   2. The Oregon Trail
   3. The Cult of Domesticity
   4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2. Book written by Thoreau in which he wrote about his experiences while living alone on Walden Pond
   1. David Walker
   2. Ironclads
   3. Walden
   4. Liberia
3. Courthouse where Gen. Lee and Gen. Grant met to end the civil war.
   1. Jim Crow
   2. The March to the Sea
   3. Appomattox Courthouse
   4. Wilmot Proviso
4. proposed in 1846 that congress ban slavery in all southwestern lands that might become states; passed in the House but not by the Senate; slave states saw it as a northern attack on slavery
   1. Wilmot Proviso
   2. Slave Codes
   3. Walt Whitman
   4. Herman Melville
5. A spanish slave vessel. Africans destined for slavery in Cuba seized the ship from its crew in 1839 and tried to return it to Africa, but the U.S. navy seized the ship and held the Africans as pirates.
   1. Free Soil
   2. The Amistad
   3. The Liberator
   4. Liberia

5 True/False Questions

1. Henry David Thoreau → He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt.

   True        False

2. Paternalism → the policy or practice of treating or governing people in the manner of a father dealing with his children. Providing for their needs but not giving them their complete freedoms.

   True        False

3. Robert E. Lee → political movement of the 1840s that opposed the expansion of slavery in order to allow white farmers to settle in western territories

   True        False

4. Nat Turner Rebellion → largest slave rebellion; seventy escaped slaves killed white families throughout the South hoping to spark a massive slave rebellion; it ultimately failed. 1831.

   True        False

5. The March to the Sea → • Union General William Sherman led his troops through Tennessee, Georgia,
   and South Carolina burning and destroying cities, farms, and railroads.
   • General Grant and his Union troops chased Lee's troops through Virginia and
   destroyed the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia

   True        False