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Which proposal stated that slavery should be banned from any land taken from Mexico?

Ireland grew plenty of food during the years of the Potato Famine, but its people were not allowed to eat it.

What was the nickname of General and President Zachary Taylor?

What year is known as the "Year of Revolutions" in Europe?

What is the name of the narrator of Moby Dick, who introduces himself in the novel's iconic first line?

1/3 of the steamships built in the United States between 1810 and 1850 ____________

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote extensively about the different energy he sensed on the north and south sides of the _______

The anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Native American Party was popularly known as the __________ Party.

Which of these modern states were part of the Mexican Cession?

Who was the author of the classic American novel Moby Dick?

Which of these terms describes a societal expectation of women in the early 19th Century?

What special responsibility did white Southern women hold in Antebellum society?

Who led the Texan army to victory in its independence war against Mexico?

Which term refers to the belief that God intended for the US to rule the North American continent?

Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention -- the founding document of US women's rights?

Who led the fight for humane mental health treatment and for the modernization of hospitals in the US?

Between 1820 and 1850, the US population _____________

Which Democratic President is most closely associated with the concept of Manifest Destiny?

How many miles of canals were built with government funding by the 1850s?

Which of these cities gained large Irish Catholic populations during the 1840s-1850s?

What leader of Mexico lost the Texan War of Independence and the Mexican-American War?

Who said in Democracy in America: “There's no country where the Christian religion has greater influence than America"?

The meeting that began the women's rights movement in America took place in ____________, NY, in 1848.

The 2nd Great Awakening inspired many people to become involved with reform movements in the United States

Who were the two primary organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention?

What early American writer achieved success with "Last of the Mohicans" and "Leatherstocking Tales"?

What is the name of the insane captain in Moby Dick, who drags his crew into his wild quest for revenge?

Who did the Free Soil Party nominate for President & Vice President in 1848?

What peace deal ended the Mexican-American War?

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were central figures in what literary movement?

Which of these religious denominations originated in upstate New York in the early 1800s?

What religious event significantly impacted American life between 1820 and 1860?

Which of these denominations saw the biggest percentage increase between 1780 and 1860?

What was the nickname of General Winfield Scott, who led the American army in the Mexican War?

Which two nationalities of immigrants overwhelmingly accounted for the immigration wave of the 1840s-1850s?

Which religious group -- after fleeing the US to Utah -- was brought back under US control by the Mexican-American War?

Which of these cities gained large German populations during the 1840s-1850s?

What composer is known as the Father of American Popular Music?

Which of these was responsible for the large wave of Irish immigration into America in the 1840s?

What Massachusetts factory town was known for hiring female employees in the textile mills?

What transcendentalist wrote the novel Little Women?

Which of these was most responsible for the spread of American popular music in the 1830s-1850s?

Who suffered a stroke and died after giving a lengthy speech against slavery & the Mexican War?

What was the only section of the country where women had some civil, social, and legal rights in the 1840s?

Who was the founder of Mormonism? He was murdered in Illinois in 1844

Who was the leading figure in the public school movement of the 1840s-1850s?

Free Soiler Senator Charles Sumner compared the 1848 election to the Battle of ____________.

The largest reform movement of the Antebellum period was ___________.

Which of these rights did the Declaration of Sentiments say women would fight for?

Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott were both members of what political party?

What school of art of the mid-1800s shared many themes in common with transcendentalist literature?

What early American writer focused on the hypocrisy of authority figures in The Scarlet Letter and other stories?

Who led the Mormons to Deseret (Utah) after the Mormon Extermination Order was issued?

According to Republican Motherhood, a woman's most important role in society was to ______________.

Who was the only black person to attend the Seneca Falls Convention?

Who sent a donation to the Irish people to help them through the Potato Famine?

What American impresario was most responsible for settling Texas in exchange for payments from the Mexican government?

Most railroads built between 1820 and 1860 connected ____________

Which of these painters were notable in the Hudson River School?

What early American writer is credited as a the Father of Mystery, Suspense, Detective, and Horror Fiction?

Who wrote "Walden" about his experiences living in a small cabin away from civilization?

What early American writer achieved success with "Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"?

Which of these were elements of Henry Clay's American System?

Frederick Douglass met with what Irish political leader during his travels to Europe in the 1840s?