HIST 105 BACH EXAM 3 FINAL REVIEW
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Redeemers - ANS A loose coalition of prewar Democrats, Confederate veterans, and Whigs
who took over southern state governments in the 1870s, supposedly "redeeming" them from
the corruption of Reconstruction. They shared a commitment to white supremacy and laissez-
faire economics
Vesey Conspiracy - ANS An unsuccessful 1822 plot to burn Charleston, South Carolina, and
initiate a general slave revolt, led by a free African American, Denmark Vesey
Underground Railroad - ANS A network of safe houses organized by abolitionist (usually free
blacks) to help slaves escape to the North or Canada
yeoman - ANS Southern small landholders who owned no slaves and who lived primarily in
the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains. They were self reliant and grew mixed
crops, although they usually did not produce a substantial amount to be sold on the market.
American Colonization Society - ANS Founded in 1817, the society advocated the relocation
of free blacks and freed slaves to African colony of Monrovia, present day Liberia.
Second Great Awakening - ANS Evangelical Protestant revivals that swept over America in
the early nineteenth century.
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, temperance movement - ANS Temperance - moderation or abstention in the consumption of
alcoholic beverages - attracted many advocates in the early nineteenth century
abolitionist movement - ANS Reform movement dedicated to the immediate and
unconditional end of slavery in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention - ANS An 1848 gathering of women's rights advocates that
culminated in the adoption of a Declaration of Sentiments demanding voting and property
rights for women
Manifest Destiny - ANS Coined in 1845, this term referred to a doctrine in support of
territorial expansion based on the belief that the United States should expand to encompass all
of North America
Alamo - ANS In 1835, Americans living in Mexican-ruled Texas fomented a revolution. Mexico
lost the resulting conflict, but not before its troops defeated and killed a group of American
rebels at the Alamo, a fortified mission in San Antonio
Mexican-American War - ANS War between the United States and Mexico after the U.S.
annexation of Texas. As victor, the United States acquired vast new territories from Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - ANS Signed in 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican-American
War. Mexico relinquished its claims to Texas and ceded an additional 500,000 square miles to
the United States for $15 million
popular sovereignty - ANS The concept that the settlers of a newly organized territory had
the right to decide (through voting) whether to accept slavery.
Fugitive Slave Law - ANS Passed in 1850, this federal law made it easier for slaveowners to
recapture runaway slaves; it also made it easier for kidnappers to take free blacks. The law
became an object of hatred in the North
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2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Redeemers - ANS A loose coalition of prewar Democrats, Confederate veterans, and Whigs
who took over southern state governments in the 1870s, supposedly "redeeming" them from
the corruption of Reconstruction. They shared a commitment to white supremacy and laissez-
faire economics
Vesey Conspiracy - ANS An unsuccessful 1822 plot to burn Charleston, South Carolina, and
initiate a general slave revolt, led by a free African American, Denmark Vesey
Underground Railroad - ANS A network of safe houses organized by abolitionist (usually free
blacks) to help slaves escape to the North or Canada
yeoman - ANS Southern small landholders who owned no slaves and who lived primarily in
the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains. They were self reliant and grew mixed
crops, although they usually did not produce a substantial amount to be sold on the market.
American Colonization Society - ANS Founded in 1817, the society advocated the relocation
of free blacks and freed slaves to African colony of Monrovia, present day Liberia.
Second Great Awakening - ANS Evangelical Protestant revivals that swept over America in
the early nineteenth century.
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, temperance movement - ANS Temperance - moderation or abstention in the consumption of
alcoholic beverages - attracted many advocates in the early nineteenth century
abolitionist movement - ANS Reform movement dedicated to the immediate and
unconditional end of slavery in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention - ANS An 1848 gathering of women's rights advocates that
culminated in the adoption of a Declaration of Sentiments demanding voting and property
rights for women
Manifest Destiny - ANS Coined in 1845, this term referred to a doctrine in support of
territorial expansion based on the belief that the United States should expand to encompass all
of North America
Alamo - ANS In 1835, Americans living in Mexican-ruled Texas fomented a revolution. Mexico
lost the resulting conflict, but not before its troops defeated and killed a group of American
rebels at the Alamo, a fortified mission in San Antonio
Mexican-American War - ANS War between the United States and Mexico after the U.S.
annexation of Texas. As victor, the United States acquired vast new territories from Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - ANS Signed in 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican-American
War. Mexico relinquished its claims to Texas and ceded an additional 500,000 square miles to
the United States for $15 million
popular sovereignty - ANS The concept that the settlers of a newly organized territory had
the right to decide (through voting) whether to accept slavery.
Fugitive Slave Law - ANS Passed in 1850, this federal law made it easier for slaveowners to
recapture runaway slaves; it also made it easier for kidnappers to take free blacks. The law
became an object of hatred in the North
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