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HIST 105 BACH EXAM 3 FINAL
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Question :Redeemers
CORRECT ANSWER :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
Question :Vesey Conspiracy
CORRECT ANSWER :An unsuccessful 1822 plot to
burn Charleston, South Carolina, and initiate a general slave revolt, led by a free African American, Denmark Vesey
Question :Underground Railroad
CORRECT ANSWER :A network of safe houses
organized by abolitionist (usually free blacks) to help slaves escape to the North or Canada
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Question :yeoman
CORRECT ANSWER :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.
Question :American Colonization Society
CORRECT ANSWER :Founded in 1817, the society
advocated the relocation of free blacks and freed slaves to African colony of Monrovia, present day Liberia.
Question :Second Great Awakening
CORRECT ANSWER :Evangelical Protestant revivals
that swept over America in the early nineteenth century.
Question :temperance movement
CORRECT ANSWER :Temperance - moderation or
abstention in the consumption of alcoholic beverages - attracted many advocates in the early nineteenth century
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Question :abolitionist movement
CORRECT ANSWER :Reform movement dedicated to
the immediate and unconditional end of slavery in the United States
Question :Seneca Falls Convention
CORRECT ANSWER: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
Question :Manifest Destiny
CORRECT ANSWER :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
Question :Alamo
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CORRECT ANSWER :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
Question :Mexican-American War
CORRECT ANSWER :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
Question :Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
CORRECT ANSWER :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