Ch. 13

Front 1

In 1860 what groups accounted for three-fourths of all foreign-born Americans?

Back 1

Irish and German

Front 2

The main reason most European immigrants came to the United States between 1815 and 1860 was __________.

Back 2

Economic advancement

Front 3

Emigrants from Europe to America encountered all of the following except ___________.

Back 3

Seperation of native countrymen

Front 4

Where did German and Irish immigrants tend to settle in the United States?

Back 4

Cities

Front 5

Which statement best describes the Germans who came to the United States before 1860?

Back 5

Different groups but spoke same language

Front 6

How did the Irish and German immigrants of the 1840s differ from each other?

Back 6

-Germans, no religion. Irish, Catholic or Protestant
-Germans, isolated, self-sufficient. Irish, poor, worked bad jobs in cities

Front 7

In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that ___________.

Back 7

Labor unions were not illegal monopolies that restrained trade

Front 8

Anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s was based on which factors?

Back 8

-Puritan biast
-Schools "Bible Riots"
-Rumors and biased

Front 9

What was the response of American workers to the economic difficulties of the 1830s and 1840s?

Back 9

Labor unions

Front 10

The fate of the Donner party best illustrates __________.

Back 10

-Americans desire to Manifest Destiny
-Hazards of pioneers

Front 11

In the 1820s and 1830s, what kind of relationship did Americans have with the people and lands of the Far West?

Back 11

-Trade
-Remote and shadowy frontier

Front 12

**Presidios were ___________.

Back 12

Forts by Spaniards in Texas

Front 13

Why were there so few Mexican immigrants in the New Mexico, California, and Texas territories by the 1830s?

Back 13

-Missions failed (secular)
-Mexican gov. encouraged American colonization to get manufactured goods and protection from Indians

Front 14

What was the cause of the increasingly tense relations between the Mexican government and the American residents in Texas after 1830?

Back 14

-Way more Americans (slaveholders)
-Mexican government restricted power of individual states

Front 15

Which one of the following was a result of the late 1840s California gold rush?

Back 15

-Economic development of California
-Immigrants
-Huge population boom

Front 16

Which statement accurately describes travel to Oregon or California on the overland trails during the 1840s?

Back 16

4 months, harsh

Front 17

Along the overland trail, how did the duties of men and women compare?

Back 17

Men-oxen. drove wagons, hunted
Women-packed, cooked, childbirths

Front 18

The Indians whom white emigrants encountered along the overland trail commonly acted in what way?

Back 18

Peaceful

Front 19

The Whig political program in 1840 included _____________.

Back 19

-National bank
-Tariff-generated revenues for internal improvements

Front 20

Why was John Tyler’s ascendancy to the presidency a disaster for the Whig party?

Back 20

-Favored Democrats states rights
-Against bank
-Erratic tariff rules

Front 21

What were the reasons why some antislavery northerners believed there was a southern conspiracy to extend slavery into the Southwest?

Back 21

-Mexico annexation would also mean Mexico, Cuba & Central America (all for slavery)
-Thought Texas would be 4-5 slave states

Front 22

**The Senate rejected the treaty annexing Texas drawn up by Secretary of State Calhoun because __________.

Back 22

It allowed slavery

Front 23

What was one of the reasons that “dark horse” James K. Polk won the presidency in 1844?

Back 23

Convinced northerners Texas would not be a slave state

Front 24

In the 1840s, which of the following groups was not likely to support territorial expansion?

Back 24

-Whigs
-Anti-slavery

Front 25

By the mid-1840s, what reason might many Americans have given to support territorial expansion?

Back 25

-Manifest Destiny
-God and nature
-Freedom for all
-Agriculture to safeguard Democracy

Front 26

For an antebellum American, “Manifest Destiny” meant that _________.

Back 26

-God and nature justified it
-Freedom for all
-Agriculture to safeguard Democracy

Front 27

What were President James K. Polk’s objectives in Oregon?

Back 27

Did not want all because he did not want to go to war against Britain

Front 28

**What were the background causes of the Mexican-American War?

Back 28

-Mexican gov. owed $2 mil
-Alamo, Goliad

Front 29

**What did President James K. Polk want from Mexico in 1845 and 1846?

Back 29

-$25 mil

Front 30

In the United States, opposition to the Mexican-American War included all of the following reasons except that _____________.

Back 30

Mexican army was way bigger (SouthWest) than Americans