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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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Questions 107

Answers

1
What is the official title for the US purchase of land in the southwest from Mexico?
The Purchase of 1853
The Gadsden Purchase
The Railroad Purchase
The Transcontinental Purchase
2
What Catholic mission was used as a fortress in the Texan War for Independence?
Alamo
Fort Travis
Fort Defiance
Dunn
3
Who was the writer and lecturer who was the primary creator of Trancendentalism?
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Walt Whitman
4
A compromise between Britain and the US resulted in this being the US Canadian border in Oregon
42nd Parallel
33rd Parallel
49th Parallel
38th Parallel
5
What roads were made from a series of logs laid side to side?
plank roads
corduroy roads
turnpikes
cumberland roads
6
Who was the Democratic candidate of 1844; platform called for the annexation of Texas?
Henry Clay
James K. Polk
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
7
Who, in 1791, invented the first American machine for spinning cotton?
Samuel Rutherford
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Samuel Slater
8
What did the US claim was the southern Texas border that was opposed by Mexico?
Sabine River
Rio Grande River
Nueces River
Red River
9
What was fastest sailing ship until 1840's?
The Sloop
The Steam Boat
The Shaker
The Clipper Ship
10
Who was the president of Yale that started campus revivals and affected students?
Timothy Dwight
Joseph Smith
Lowell Mason
Francis Asbury
11
What was the religion of the Enlightenment (1700s)?
Romanticism
Deism
Unitarianism
Transcendentalism
12
What denies many Biblical doctrines and believes human reason can solve all of man's problems?
deism
transcendentalism
unitarianism
romanticism
13
Who was the father of music education and created a method for music instruction?
Stephen Foster
Nat Turner
Lowell Mason
William Lloyd Garrison
14
What was Founded by Joseph Smith, who claimed he was visited by God?
Mennonism
Millerism
Mormonism
Methodism
15
Which missionary served for many years and was known as the Father of American Missions?
Stephen Foster
John Wesley
Horace Mann
Adoniram Judson
16
What was the movement to end slavery?
Emancipation Movement
Freedom Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Abolitionism
17
Who was the greatest of the revival preachers during the Second Great Awaking?
Timothy Dwight
Adoniram Judson
Charles Finney
Brigham Young
18
Who were the followers of William Miller (believed the Second Coming would be in 1843 or 1844)?
Millerites
Miller's Believers
Second Coming Believers
Millites
19
What was the commercial route that involved trade with the Spanish?
Ouachita Trail
Oregon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Mormon Trail
20
The American version of romanticism; believed that mankind has a spark of divinity
romanticism
transcendentalism
unitarianism
deism
21
What was the religious revival in 1801 in Kentucky galvanizing Protestants?
Cane Ridge Revival
Second Great Awakening
Kentucky Revival
Revival of 1801
22
Who was the Texan commander in the Texan War for Independence?
Stephen Austin
James K. Polk
John Henry Moore
Sam Houston
23
Who was the master short story writer of America before the Civil War?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Charles Finney
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
24
Who was the Governor of New York who began building a canal from Albany to Lake Erie?
Adoniram Judson
DeWitt Clinton
Robert Fulton
George Caleb Bingham
25
What was the name of America's first foreign missions board (it took place in 1810)?
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The Foreign Missions Commission
American Missions Board
The American Board of Missions
26
What was the result of The Mexican War that gave the southwest to the US?
Treaty of Rio
Treaty of Vera Cruz
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
27
What were privately built roads that users were charged for use of?
plank roads
turnpikes
parkways
toll roads
28
Who spoke at antislavery meetings, also led more than 300 slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Harriet Beecher Stowe
29
What emphasized the emotional, placing emphasis on the love of nature and the individual.
Individualism
Romanticism
Naturalism
Transcendentalism
30
What are identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring?
identical pieces
interchangeable parts
interchangeable components
replacements
31
The US purchased this land in the southwest from Mexico for the railroad in 1853 for $10
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Texas Purchase
New Mexico Purchase
32
What was the route west primarily used by a religious sect?
Oregon Trail
Ouachita Trail
Mormon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
33
Which Mexican coastal city was captured in less than three weeks?
Acapulco
Alamo
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
34
Who was the head of the Whig Party?
John Tyler
Henry Clay
James K. Polk
Winfield Scott
35
What was the millennial group who followed a mystic Mother Ann Lee?
Shakers
Mormons
Quakers
Millerites
36
Who was the very capable commander of US military forces called "Old Fuss and Feathers?"
Winfield Scott
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
37
What was the most important trail west and branched off to California?
California Trail
Appalachian Trail
Oregon Trail
Mountain Trail
38
What was the settlement of disputes over the American-Canadian border?
Treaty of America and Canada
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Treaty of Webster
Niagara Treaty
39
Who benefited from Awakening and favored personal conversion?
Christians
Mormons
Methodists
Catholics
40
Who was the artist during the shift away from the Federalist style of art?
Gilbert Stuart
Benjamin West
George Caleb Bingham
John Trumbull
41
Who was America's first great painter (moved to England but taught leading American artists)?
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
Gilbert Stuart
Benjamin Latrobe
42
When did the Battle of San Jacinto occur?
May 21, 1836
April 21, 1836
May 19, 1835
April 4, 1836
43
Who was the transcendentalist author of Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
DeWitt Clinton
44
Who founded the Methodist church?
Charles Finney
Francis Asbury
Robert Fulton
John Wesley
45
Which battle resulted in Texan Independence?
Battle of Buena Vista
Battle of Santa Anna
Battle of San Jacinto
Battle of Vera Cruz
46
Who was the British utopian reformer who bought New Harmony Indiana to make a perfect society?
Benjamin West
John Wesley
Charles Bulfinch
Robert Owen
47
Who was the influential speaker who went around America and preached Methodism?
Timothy Dwight
Francis Asbury
Lowell Mason
John Wesley
48
Who was the nominee who had not been a serious candidate before the nominating convention?
Dark Horse
Crazy Horse
Henry Clay
John Tyler
49
What dominated the agriculture and economy of the south?
beans
Coffee
corn
cotton
50
Who was the American general in northern Mexico nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready?"
James K. Polk
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
51
Which device, invented by Eli Whitney, cleaned cotton 50x faster than slaves?
cotton gin
mechanical reaper
cotton spinner
plow
52
Who sought to establish a small, perfect community as a model for reform of society at large?
farmers
societal reformers
quakers
utopian reformers
53
Whose poems featured the Romantic movement's revolt against reason and embrace of nature?
Margaret Fuller
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54
What was birth of the modern women's movement, called for equal rights for women?
Women's Convention 1848
The Women's Rights Movement 1850
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Cane Ridge Convention
55
What is the ban of the sale and consumption of alcohol?
alcoholism ban
prevention
prohibition
abolitionism
56
Who was one of America's finest portrait painters (painted Washington on the $1 bill)?
Gilbert Stuart
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
Benjamin Latrobe
57
What was/were instituted by Finney in the Second Great Awakening?
"New Measures"
"New Requirements"
"New Rules"
"New Establishments"
58
Who was a reformer/activist for the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
Susan B. Anthony
DeWitt Clinton
William H. McGuffey
59
Who wanted to further classical styles of architecture, and drew free plans?
Benjamin Latrobe
George Caleb Bingham
Charles Bulfinch
John Trumbull
60
What was the cheaper newspaper that made information more affordable?
quarter newspaper
dime newspaper
penny newspaper
nickel newspaper
61
Who was the explorer that went to CA and supported the American settlers who wanted to revolt?
John C. Fremont
Winfield Scott
Sam Houston
Stephen Kearny
62
What was California's name for a time?
Bear Flag Republic
The Golden State
Forest State
El Dorado State
63
What were the names of the missionary couple among the Cayuse Indians in Oregon?
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus and Patricia Whitman
Peter and Sara Whitman
John and Narcissa Whitman
64
Who was the author of The Scarlet Letter who dealt with hypocritical views of the Puritans?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walt Whitman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Fenimore Cooper
65
Who were the Methodist ministers who traveled from church to church, usually in rural areas?
Cane Ridge riders
circuit riders
utopian reformers
revivalists
66
Who was a reformer for public education?
Robert Owen
Stephen Foster
Timothy Dwight
Horace Mann
67
Who was the successor to the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith?
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
William Miller
Adoniram Judson
68
Who was the Mexican dictator general who wanted to drive Americans out of Texas?
Santa Anna
Santa Fiore
Santa Maria
Santa Cruz
69
What are roads made from a series of boards laid side to side?
plank roads
corduroy roads
turnpikes
boarded rows
70
Who helped develop America's greatest contribution to world literature, the short story?
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allan Poe
Lowell Mason
Washington Irving
71
In which battle did America win a narrow victory against a larger Mexican force?
Battle of New Mexico
Battle of Alamo
Battle of Sante Fe
Battle of Buena Vista
72
Who was the inventor of the steam boat?
Robert Fulton
Samuel Morse
John Deere
Humphry Davy
73
What act only requires a simple majority in both houses of Congress?
joint resolution
bill resolutions
impeachment
voting
74
What paid for itself/themselves in tolls in less than 10 years?
National Road
Toll Roads
Plank Roads
Eerie Canal
75
Who was the founder of the Mormon church?
Brigham Young
Charles Finney
Timothy Dwight
Joseph Smith
76
This songwriter wrote songs that embody the sentiment of the South before the Civil War
Dorothea Dix
Katherine Lee Bates
Stephen Foster
Francis Asbury
77
What were religious meetings held in a large tent or outdoors and last several days?
camp gatherings
church meetings
tent meetings
camp meeting
78
Who worked at different times with Charles Bulfinch on the design of the Capitol building?
Francis Asbury
Benjamin Latrobe
Dorothea Dix
Nat Turner
79
Who was the former slave that helped the abolitionist cause by writing of their experiences?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
80
The Mexicans claim this as the Texas border
Sabine River
Red River
Nueces River
Rio Grande River
81
Who was known for their elementary readers?
Horace Mann
William H. McGuffey
Timothy Dwight
Washington Irving
82
What was the second religious fervor that swept the nation and converted more than the first?
The Second Church Awakening
Second Great Awakening
The Great Revival
Second Revival
83
What began in 1811 in Cumberland Maryland and eventually stretched to Vandalia, Illinois?
Vandalia Road
Cumberland Road
National Road
Maryland and Illinois Railroad
84
What was the first coherent school of art (artists specialized in landscapes)?
Art Academy of America
Hudson River School
Hudson Art School
National School of Art
85
What was the anti-slavery party that was significant in the 1844 election?
Democratic Party
Libertarian Party
Republican Party
Liberty Party
86
What was Federalist architecture borrowed from classical Greek and Rome (US Capitol building)?
Mediterranean Revival
Greek Revival
Colonial Revival
Roman Revival
87
Who led a force to capture New Mexico and also aided in the conquest of California?
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
Stephen Kearny
88
What was established in 1860 from St Joseph Missouri to San Francisco, and was short-lived?
Pony Express
Telegraph
circuit riding
The Missouri-San Francisco Railroad
89
What was the climax and the most violent phase of Manifest Destiny?
Rio Grande River
The Louisiana Purchase
Mexican War
Texas Annexation
90
These are also known as toll roads
parkways
highways
turnpikes
charge roads
91
Who led the first group of American settlers into Texas?
Davy Crockett
Stephen Austin
Henry Clay
John Tyler
92
On what date did the US declare war on Mexico?
April 13, 1846
April 23, 1846
May 7, 1846
May 13, 1846
93
Who was the only Whig cabinet member to not resign in 1841?
Thomas Ewing
Francis Granger
John Crittenden
Daniel Webster
94
Who was the inventor of the mechanical reaper?
Robert Fulton
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
Samuel Slater
95
What was the idea that America was ordained to possess the North American continent?
Providence Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Ordained Destiny
Heavenly Destiny
96
Who was the inventor of the telegraph?
Cyrus McCormick
Alfred Vail
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
97
Who launched a newspaper, The Liberator, dedicated to attacking the moral evil of slavery?
George Caleb Bingham
DeWitt Clinton
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
98
Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
Samuel Slater
John Deere
99
Who was the slave who led a slave revolt in Southampton County Virginia?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
100
Who was the President that replaced Harrison and was referred to as "His Accidency?"
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
James K. Polk
John Tyler
101
What was the era in American art from Washington to Jackson?
Impressionist
Expressionist
Federalist
Colonial
102
Which was the first successful railroad, and consisted of horse drawn carriages on rails?
Camden and Amboy Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
103
What were the names of the missionary couple among the Nez Perce in Idaho?
Alexander and Eliza Spalding
Henry and Emma Spalding
Henry and Eliza Spalding
Alexander and Emma Spalding
104
Who perfected the plow by putting an edge of steel over the iron blade of the plow?
Eli Whitney
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Samuel Slater
105
Who was the first American novelist to gain fame outside America?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry David Thoreu
Frederick Douglass
106
What allowed inventors to secure sole rights for new devices and processes?
prohibition
shakers
patent
pony express
107
Who specialized in realistic historical paintings?
James Earl
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
William Rush

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BJU US History Ch. 11-12 (Tkachuk) My questions, my answers. Nuf said. #BJU #Ch11 #Ch12

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Questions 107

Answers

1
What is the official title for the US purchase of land in the southwest from Mexico?
The Purchase of 1853
The Gadsden Purchase
The Railroad Purchase
The Transcontinental Purchase
2
What Catholic mission was used as a fortress in the Texan War for Independence?
Alamo
Fort Travis
Fort Defiance
Dunn
3
Who was the writer and lecturer who was the primary creator of Trancendentalism?
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Walt Whitman
4
A compromise between Britain and the US resulted in this being the US Canadian border in Oregon
42nd Parallel
33rd Parallel
49th Parallel
38th Parallel
5
What roads were made from a series of logs laid side to side?
plank roads
corduroy roads
turnpikes
cumberland roads
6
Who was the Democratic candidate of 1844; platform called for the annexation of Texas?
Henry Clay
James K. Polk
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
7
Who, in 1791, invented the first American machine for spinning cotton?
Samuel Rutherford
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Samuel Slater
8
What did the US claim was the southern Texas border that was opposed by Mexico?
Sabine River
Rio Grande River
Nueces River
Red River
9
What was fastest sailing ship until 1840's?
The Sloop
The Steam Boat
The Shaker
The Clipper Ship
10
Who was the president of Yale that started campus revivals and affected students?
Timothy Dwight
Joseph Smith
Lowell Mason
Francis Asbury
11
What was the religion of the Enlightenment (1700s)?
Romanticism
Deism
Unitarianism
Transcendentalism
12
What denies many Biblical doctrines and believes human reason can solve all of man's problems?
deism
transcendentalism
unitarianism
romanticism
13
Who was the father of music education and created a method for music instruction?
Stephen Foster
Nat Turner
Lowell Mason
William Lloyd Garrison
14
What was Founded by Joseph Smith, who claimed he was visited by God?
Mennonism
Millerism
Mormonism
Methodism
15
Which missionary served for many years and was known as the Father of American Missions?
Stephen Foster
John Wesley
Horace Mann
Adoniram Judson
16
What was the movement to end slavery?
Emancipation Movement
Freedom Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Abolitionism
17
Who was the greatest of the revival preachers during the Second Great Awaking?
Timothy Dwight
Adoniram Judson
Charles Finney
Brigham Young
18
Who were the followers of William Miller (believed the Second Coming would be in 1843 or 1844)?
Millerites
Miller's Believers
Second Coming Believers
Millites
19
What was the commercial route that involved trade with the Spanish?
Ouachita Trail
Oregon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Mormon Trail
20
The American version of romanticism; believed that mankind has a spark of divinity
romanticism
transcendentalism
unitarianism
deism
21
What was the religious revival in 1801 in Kentucky galvanizing Protestants?
Cane Ridge Revival
Second Great Awakening
Kentucky Revival
Revival of 1801
22
Who was the Texan commander in the Texan War for Independence?
Stephen Austin
James K. Polk
John Henry Moore
Sam Houston
23
Who was the master short story writer of America before the Civil War?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Charles Finney
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
24
Who was the Governor of New York who began building a canal from Albany to Lake Erie?
Adoniram Judson
DeWitt Clinton
Robert Fulton
George Caleb Bingham
25
What was the name of America's first foreign missions board (it took place in 1810)?
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The Foreign Missions Commission
American Missions Board
The American Board of Missions
26
What was the result of The Mexican War that gave the southwest to the US?
Treaty of Rio
Treaty of Vera Cruz
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
27
What were privately built roads that users were charged for use of?
plank roads
turnpikes
parkways
toll roads
28
Who spoke at antislavery meetings, also led more than 300 slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Harriet Beecher Stowe
29
What emphasized the emotional, placing emphasis on the love of nature and the individual.
Individualism
Romanticism
Naturalism
Transcendentalism
30
What are identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring?
identical pieces
interchangeable parts
interchangeable components
replacements
31
The US purchased this land in the southwest from Mexico for the railroad in 1853 for $10
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Texas Purchase
New Mexico Purchase
32
What was the route west primarily used by a religious sect?
Oregon Trail
Ouachita Trail
Mormon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
33
Which Mexican coastal city was captured in less than three weeks?
Acapulco
Alamo
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
34
Who was the head of the Whig Party?
John Tyler
Henry Clay
James K. Polk
Winfield Scott
35
What was the millennial group who followed a mystic Mother Ann Lee?
Shakers
Mormons
Quakers
Millerites
36
Who was the very capable commander of US military forces called "Old Fuss and Feathers?"
Winfield Scott
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
37
What was the most important trail west and branched off to California?
California Trail
Appalachian Trail
Oregon Trail
Mountain Trail
38
What was the settlement of disputes over the American-Canadian border?
Treaty of America and Canada
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Treaty of Webster
Niagara Treaty
39
Who benefited from Awakening and favored personal conversion?
Christians
Mormons
Methodists
Catholics
40
Who was the artist during the shift away from the Federalist style of art?
Gilbert Stuart
Benjamin West
George Caleb Bingham
John Trumbull
41
Who was America's first great painter (moved to England but taught leading American artists)?
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
Gilbert Stuart
Benjamin Latrobe
42
When did the Battle of San Jacinto occur?
May 21, 1836
April 21, 1836
May 19, 1835
April 4, 1836
43
Who was the transcendentalist author of Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
DeWitt Clinton
44
Who founded the Methodist church?
Charles Finney
Francis Asbury
Robert Fulton
John Wesley
45
Which battle resulted in Texan Independence?
Battle of Buena Vista
Battle of Santa Anna
Battle of San Jacinto
Battle of Vera Cruz
46
Who was the British utopian reformer who bought New Harmony Indiana to make a perfect society?
Benjamin West
John Wesley
Charles Bulfinch
Robert Owen
47
Who was the influential speaker who went around America and preached Methodism?
Timothy Dwight
Francis Asbury
Lowell Mason
John Wesley
48
Who was the nominee who had not been a serious candidate before the nominating convention?
Dark Horse
Crazy Horse
Henry Clay
John Tyler
49
What dominated the agriculture and economy of the south?
beans
Coffee
corn
cotton
50
Who was the American general in northern Mexico nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready?"
James K. Polk
Stephen Kearny
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
51
Which device, invented by Eli Whitney, cleaned cotton 50x faster than slaves?
cotton gin
mechanical reaper
cotton spinner
plow
52
Who sought to establish a small, perfect community as a model for reform of society at large?
farmers
societal reformers
quakers
utopian reformers
53
Whose poems featured the Romantic movement's revolt against reason and embrace of nature?
Margaret Fuller
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54
What was birth of the modern women's movement, called for equal rights for women?
Women's Convention 1848
The Women's Rights Movement 1850
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Cane Ridge Convention
55
What is the ban of the sale and consumption of alcohol?
alcoholism ban
prevention
prohibition
abolitionism
56
Who was one of America's finest portrait painters (painted Washington on the $1 bill)?
Gilbert Stuart
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
Benjamin Latrobe
57
What was/were instituted by Finney in the Second Great Awakening?
"New Measures"
"New Requirements"
"New Rules"
"New Establishments"
58
Who was a reformer/activist for the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
Susan B. Anthony
DeWitt Clinton
William H. McGuffey
59
Who wanted to further classical styles of architecture, and drew free plans?
Benjamin Latrobe
George Caleb Bingham
Charles Bulfinch
John Trumbull
60
What was the cheaper newspaper that made information more affordable?
quarter newspaper
dime newspaper
penny newspaper
nickel newspaper
61
Who was the explorer that went to CA and supported the American settlers who wanted to revolt?
John C. Fremont
Winfield Scott
Sam Houston
Stephen Kearny
62
What was California's name for a time?
Bear Flag Republic
The Golden State
Forest State
El Dorado State
63
What were the names of the missionary couple among the Cayuse Indians in Oregon?
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus and Patricia Whitman
Peter and Sara Whitman
John and Narcissa Whitman
64
Who was the author of The Scarlet Letter who dealt with hypocritical views of the Puritans?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walt Whitman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Fenimore Cooper
65
Who were the Methodist ministers who traveled from church to church, usually in rural areas?
Cane Ridge riders
circuit riders
utopian reformers
revivalists
66
Who was a reformer for public education?
Robert Owen
Stephen Foster
Timothy Dwight
Horace Mann
67
Who was the successor to the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith?
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
William Miller
Adoniram Judson
68
Who was the Mexican dictator general who wanted to drive Americans out of Texas?
Santa Anna
Santa Fiore
Santa Maria
Santa Cruz
69
What are roads made from a series of boards laid side to side?
plank roads
corduroy roads
turnpikes
boarded rows
70
Who helped develop America's greatest contribution to world literature, the short story?
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allan Poe
Lowell Mason
Washington Irving
71
In which battle did America win a narrow victory against a larger Mexican force?
Battle of New Mexico
Battle of Alamo
Battle of Sante Fe
Battle of Buena Vista
72
Who was the inventor of the steam boat?
Robert Fulton
Samuel Morse
John Deere
Humphry Davy
73
What act only requires a simple majority in both houses of Congress?
joint resolution
bill resolutions
impeachment
voting
74
What paid for itself/themselves in tolls in less than 10 years?
National Road
Toll Roads
Plank Roads
Eerie Canal
75
Who was the founder of the Mormon church?
Brigham Young
Charles Finney
Timothy Dwight
Joseph Smith
76
This songwriter wrote songs that embody the sentiment of the South before the Civil War
Dorothea Dix
Katherine Lee Bates
Stephen Foster
Francis Asbury
77
What were religious meetings held in a large tent or outdoors and last several days?
camp gatherings
church meetings
tent meetings
camp meeting
78
Who worked at different times with Charles Bulfinch on the design of the Capitol building?
Francis Asbury
Benjamin Latrobe
Dorothea Dix
Nat Turner
79
Who was the former slave that helped the abolitionist cause by writing of their experiences?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
80
The Mexicans claim this as the Texas border
Sabine River
Red River
Nueces River
Rio Grande River
81
Who was known for their elementary readers?
Horace Mann
William H. McGuffey
Timothy Dwight
Washington Irving
82
What was the second religious fervor that swept the nation and converted more than the first?
The Second Church Awakening
Second Great Awakening
The Great Revival
Second Revival
83
What began in 1811 in Cumberland Maryland and eventually stretched to Vandalia, Illinois?
Vandalia Road
Cumberland Road
National Road
Maryland and Illinois Railroad
84
What was the first coherent school of art (artists specialized in landscapes)?
Art Academy of America
Hudson River School
Hudson Art School
National School of Art
85
What was the anti-slavery party that was significant in the 1844 election?
Democratic Party
Libertarian Party
Republican Party
Liberty Party
86
What was Federalist architecture borrowed from classical Greek and Rome (US Capitol building)?
Mediterranean Revival
Greek Revival
Colonial Revival
Roman Revival
87
Who led a force to capture New Mexico and also aided in the conquest of California?
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
Stephen Kearny
88
What was established in 1860 from St Joseph Missouri to San Francisco, and was short-lived?
Pony Express
Telegraph
circuit riding
The Missouri-San Francisco Railroad
89
What was the climax and the most violent phase of Manifest Destiny?
Rio Grande River
The Louisiana Purchase
Mexican War
Texas Annexation
90
These are also known as toll roads
parkways
highways
turnpikes
charge roads
91
Who led the first group of American settlers into Texas?
Davy Crockett
Stephen Austin
Henry Clay
John Tyler
92
On what date did the US declare war on Mexico?
April 13, 1846
April 23, 1846
May 7, 1846
May 13, 1846
93
Who was the only Whig cabinet member to not resign in 1841?
Thomas Ewing
Francis Granger
John Crittenden
Daniel Webster
94
Who was the inventor of the mechanical reaper?
Robert Fulton
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
Samuel Slater
95
What was the idea that America was ordained to possess the North American continent?
Providence Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Ordained Destiny
Heavenly Destiny
96
Who was the inventor of the telegraph?
Cyrus McCormick
Alfred Vail
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
97
Who launched a newspaper, The Liberator, dedicated to attacking the moral evil of slavery?
George Caleb Bingham
DeWitt Clinton
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
98
Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
Samuel Slater
John Deere
99
Who was the slave who led a slave revolt in Southampton County Virginia?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
100
Who was the President that replaced Harrison and was referred to as "His Accidency?"
Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
James K. Polk
John Tyler
101
What was the era in American art from Washington to Jackson?
Impressionist
Expressionist
Federalist
Colonial
102
Which was the first successful railroad, and consisted of horse drawn carriages on rails?
Camden and Amboy Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
103
What were the names of the missionary couple among the Nez Perce in Idaho?
Alexander and Eliza Spalding
Henry and Emma Spalding
Henry and Eliza Spalding
Alexander and Emma Spalding
104
Who perfected the plow by putting an edge of steel over the iron blade of the plow?
Eli Whitney
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Samuel Slater
105
Who was the first American novelist to gain fame outside America?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry David Thoreu
Frederick Douglass
106
What allowed inventors to secure sole rights for new devices and processes?
prohibition
shakers
patent
pony express
107
Who specialized in realistic historical paintings?
James Earl
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
William Rush