How did the idea of Manifest Destiny help shape American society during the 1830s and 1840s?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students will note the origins of Manifest Destiny in the original Puritan view of their mission in America. Better students will also tie Manifest Destiny to the Jeffersonian ideal of yeoman farmers. Still others will see the ties between Manifest Destiny and the Second Great Awakening and see a moral imperative in westward expansion to spread American institutions across the continent. As to the concrete effects, students should be able to describe the dispute over Oregon, the Texas Revolution, Polk's 1844 campaign and the Mexican-American War as some of the more obvious results of the belief in Manifest Destiny.
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Congressional opposition to Madison's call for a war against the British in 1812 came primarily from the ________ states
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Political debates over public schools focused more on organization that what was taught
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What is meant by the term corvée?
a) the unpaid labor peasants owed their local lord b) a heavy cart employed by peasants going to market Consider This: Rural populations usually had little or no access to cash. See 1.2.2: The Price of Travel. c) a common highway toll Consider This: Rural populations usually had little or no access to cash. See 1.2.2: The Price of Travel. d) a type of grain grown exclusively in France Consider This: Rural populations usually had little or no access to cash. See 1.2.2: The Price of Travel.
Which of the following represented political divisions that divided the Democratic party in the presidential election of 1924?
a. "Wets" versus "drys" b. Immigrants versus old-stock Protestant Americans c. Northern liberals versus southern conservatives. d. Fundamentalists versus modernists e. All of these choices are correct.