Wendy Final Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers

Wendy Final Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers What was the Second Great Awakening? - answerReligious revival that brought or awakened people back to their religious beliefs or for the first time. Mostly just had revival meetings that used preaching and prayer. What was the term used for the belief that married women's activities should be limited to the home? - answerThe Cult of Domesticity What was the main goal of the temperance movement? - answerReduce the impact of alcohol on society What was the document made by Women Suffragists that quoted the Declaration of Independence when it said "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal..."? - answerThe Declaration of Sentiments What was the reform movement that worked to improve the conditions in factories? What action did they take to do this? - answerLabor reforms/workers rights - Created organizations and unions that used collective bargaining for better working conditions/pay, strikes, petitions to legislation What methods did workers use to try to get better wages and working conditions? - answerCreated organizations and unions that used collective bargaining for better working conditions/pay, went on strikes, petitions to legislation What is the goal of the abolitionist movement? - answerEnd the institution of slavery What were some of the reasons Frederick Douglass was an effective abolitionist? - answerHe himself was a former slave, and was a good speaker and writer who told about his own experiences. Definition of manifest destiny - answerThe U.S has been destined by God to extend it's borders and influence across North America What trail was used originally to convert Native Americans to Christianity but later most settlers came for fertile land for farms? - answerOregon Trail What trail was used for trade with the Mexican people? - answerSanta Fe Trail What trail was used by people escaping religious persecution? - answerMormon/Utah Trail Where was the location of the Forty-Niners (1849) gold rush? - answerCalifornia What was a concern about the annexation of Texas? - answerIt was a "slave state" that would upset the balance in Congress, it would cause a war w/ Mexico if it was annexed, the southern border of Texas was in dispute with Mexico over who own the land What was Polk's reasoning for war with Mexico? - answerSelf defense, Mexico attacked US soldiers on US land What was the Compromise of 1850? Why was this document not able to unite the country? - answer-agreement between North/South that made California a free state -ended slave trade but allowed slavery in DC -purchased the last bit of Texas -stronger fugitive slave law didn't unite b/c the North refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law What is popular sovereignty? What is an example of this from the chapter? - answerAllowing people of an area to decide on an issue. Ex: letting state voters decide to be a slave or free state What was part of the stronger Fugitive Slave Acts? How did the North respond? - answer- Slave catchers can go into any state to recapture runaway slaves -enslaved people are not allowed to testify or have a jury trial -fines and imprisonment for anyone helping a runaway slave North passing personal liberty laws, becoming conductors on the Underground Railroad, warning fugitives about slave catchers What was Uncle Tom's Cabin? Who wrote it? What was the impact of the book? - answerbook that revealed the inhumanity of slavery with a slave as the main character by Harriet Beecher Stowe. gave support to abolition, increased sectional tensions, angered south, showed how harmful slavery w