U.S. History Chapters 11 and 13 Test Review

This test on chapter 11, pages 347-359 and all of chapter 13

Test date:  Friday, February 8

Chapter 11:

• African American response to slavery
• "social uplift"
• David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
• The Turner revolt
• The abolitionist movement
• William Lloyd Garrison; The Liberator, the American Anti-Slavery Society
• The "3-Pronged Attack" of the abolitionist movement
• The Underground Railroad
• Anti-abolitionists and their reasoning
• The Women's Movement
• Role of women in religious and social activism
• Women and the abolitionist movement
• Women and the right to vote
• The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
• Prominent women:
• Dorthea Dix
• The Grimke sisters
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• Catharine Beecher
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucrecia Mott
• Susan B. Anthony

Chapter 13:

• Expansion and Manifest Destiny
• Settlement of Texas
• Moses and Stephen Austin; relationship with Mexico
• The Peace Party, the War Party, and the Texas Revolt
• Texas independence, 1836; the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto
• Oregon "fever" and the Oregon trail
• California and the California Gold Rush
• The Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Politics:
• Presidential elections:
• The election of 1844:  James K. Polk
• The election of 1848:  Zachary Taylor/Millard Fillmore
• The election of 1852:  Franklin Pierce
• The election of 1856:  James Buchanan
• The election of 1860:  Abraham Lincoln
• The collapse of the Whig party, the fracturing of the Democratic party; the emergence of the Know Nothing and Republican parties
• The Lincoln-Douglas debates
• The relationship between politics and expansion/slavery

• Slavery: 
• The Missouri Compromise (1820)
• The four major views on slavery in 1850
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Fugitive Slave Act
• The Free Soil Movement/party
• Frederick Douglass
• Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1855)
• "Bleeding Kansas"; John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek and Harper's Ferry
• The Dred Scott Decision

Format:  15 multiple choice (3 pts each), 45 points; 2 essay questions (choose 1); 55 points.